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Thankfully nothing too bad happened. The Bard took a fair amount of damage and lost concentration on a spell, but the party pulled through and won the encounter!
Cat tax! His name is Monk.
nintendolunchbox
One in 400 Chance
NoCutsNoButsNoCoconuts
Screw that! TPK those murderhobos.
FleshMad
Bought a new d20, rolled 4 nat 1s in a row while still in the store. Went to ask for a different one, owner goes "Don't you dare leave that monster on my counter! But sure, grab a new one."
pastaholic74
RiP your players
MostAwesomeDan
The player on the receiving end of that roll:
AvidApostate
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Ngugi
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EltaninDracoPwc
This.
mksu
Failure, including character deaths, keeps the game interesting.
eppykaze
The DM is never at disadvantage, they can lie about roll results as needed to punish or reward players as the campaign requires.
Omnimorph2112
A DM should never fudge their rolls! I think the knowledge that your DM doesn't is important for the sense of danger and consequence... As well as just sometimes you get unlucky!
EltaninDracoPwc
Depends on a lot of things. Properly balancing the difficulty of an encounter can be really challenging, and a tpk is deceptively easy to accidentally create. There should be risk, there should be few fibbed rolls, but at the end of the day the point is to have fun, and it's the dms job to make that happen.
CitrusyGarlic
All the best DMs cheat on dice rolls just a bit, to the advantage of their players. Remember that the goal is to have fun, an encounter where just one team member barely survives is a lot more fun than a total wipe
EverNotRelevant
"to the advantage of their players" ≠ to the advantage of their player characters, imo.
CitrusyGarlic
Sure, it's not nearly as fun as a player to have a DM who lets you always easily win either