Far too many good MLP Tumblrs abruptly ended far too soon back in the day. Often without explanation. Tragic, really.

total out character, trixie is will not surprise me!

Sooo…. this ask blog is dead too huh? Pity….

Cheater

@Background Pony #A4C6  

 
old man henderson won call of cthulu

Just when I thought Dexter was worst DM.

@SFaccountant  
to me it sounds like a bunch of players who don’t like a dm fudging numbers.
 
the screen is there for a reason, final encounter, the dm crti fails and the bad guy basically dies before the party gets close.
 
or
 
a string of crits kills a well stacked player on what should have been a non eventful filler fight to the end.
 
no screen means these happen, a screen means the player doesn’t die and the bad guy doesn’t die in a laughable way.
 
when the dm rolls a number that is stupid high, and anyone would call bullshit on, they have the ability to lift the screen, if they don’t, call them out on it till they do.
 
all in all, the dm isnt suppose to be against the players in a game with a screen. or even a game with a narrative.
 
if you are doing a straight home brew dungeon crawl, sure, but you can’t use a screen if you are playing against the players.

Cripes, and I thought I took my D&D seriously.  
Pretty sure it’s a joke, peeps! Cool your bits!

The answer is a nail in a horseshoe

@Vree  
Literally the first thing I thought of.
 
“You each shall lose… (rolls a 2) …20 life points! Bwahahahaha!”

As someone who has been at the mercy of this kind of GM too often, this is when you start channeling Old Man Henderson.

That’s why rolling the dice in the open feels somewhat fair.
 
Often leading to hilarious results at the same time.

Scumbag Twilight :(

@mathprofbrony  
I didn’t want to type as much as you just did, but you summed up my views on the subject perfectly. Well said.

As someone who has GMed for many years and several campaigns, I will say that dice-fudging is not only allowable but absolutely encouraged – as long as it is in the service of the kind of game that you and your players find fun. That can go in either direction – a lucky break or a well-timed critical shouldn’t short-circuit a plot that you think your players will enjoy, just as a bad one shouldn’t frustrate them.
 
It comes down to the gaming contract. Are you and your players there to try out builds, tinker with concepts, and experience risk and reward in a probability framework? Then dice-fudging is very bad. Are you there to tell a collaborative story? Dice fudging may happen so often you hardly need them.
 
Unfortunately, Twi’s approach to GMing is a classic mistake made before she even came to the table; she regards herself as competing with the players, using the rulebook as her weapon. Nobody else seems to be having fun; this is a game that people will quickly start avoiding.

@HunterSClopson  
I still swear that in The Dark Knight, it looks like the coin lands unscratched side up when he shoots Batman. :I

@OrionFOTL  
If she makes the roll, let’s say a ten or higher, then Twi will tell her the answer out of character so she can answer in character. BUUUT DM’s are always, FUCKING ALWAYS cheating assohles.

@SquiggyBomb  
So what they are doing in this comic, is a kind of “if I roll 1-5, the riddle is answered correctly, and if I roll 6-10, it’d not”?

@OrionFOTL  
That brings up the argument of roleplay vs. “roll”play. But let’s not do that here. Once you fall into that abyss you ain’t ever coming back.

Why doesn’t Scootaloo just answer the riddle, if she knows the answer, or say she can’t if she doesn’t know?

Pardon me as I flashback to when I learned my DM was a cheating asshole.  
FFFFFFUUCK YOU TWI!

the killjoys smell is strong in this pic…

Fuck no. I can see her being a mean GM, but outright cheating just to screw with the players? Nope.

I dunno if it’s it’s just coincidence, but I sometimes get the feeling that Twilight is the favorite Mane 6 for artists to demonize. She becomes much more controlling than we normally see her in the show and this comes from odd little details that probably stem from things like the animators just didn’t care. How the library is always empty in the show proper seems to give many people the impression that she shuts everypony out of it for instance.

@Wafflecannon
 
Every good DM does this so players don’t know when they are doing spot checks etc.