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Originally Posted by TRose
I am in total agreement that the GM should fudge at times. Otherwise what do you do when say 5 out of your 6 players are having a good night using their skills and everything and then the 6 player does something really stupid that if you played it out would result in the party getting wiped. I think we all seen fools that throw rocks at a T-Rex, insult a Troll Priestess in her fortress, Try to attack a whole Lunar regiment , etc, and one should not punish the rest of the party for the action of one person.
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What you do is killed the group off and hope that "stupid" either learns from his mistake or leaves the group. If you fudge and then cover it up so the players don't know, "stupid" is going to get the idea that throwing rocks at a T-Rex is a valid tactic ("It worked the last time!!!") and do it again the next time the situation comes up.
That is why I like Hero Points. the player learns pretty quickly that he did wrong, but the Hero Points gives him a chance to survive and learn the error of his ways. If he makes a habit of acting stupid, he will run out of points faster than he runs out of T-Rex.