What happens when you think everything is a level-appropriate encounter

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You can also save the PCs by fudging a die roll. It's a rule in the books.

I've never claimed that RPGs are perfect or all have flawless rules. I've specifically said that it is well within the group's rights to change rules if they need to, so long as they do it in advance. In my subjective opinion as a fallible human being and not the God Emperor of Tabletop Roleplaying, if you don't change rules like that then you are messing up and damaging your game. I think it's very unfortunate that a bunch of early games built **** rules like that into them. I think it's even more unfortunate that **** rules like that have seeped into the hobby from there and led to people thinking that's the way gaming should work. It is especially frustrating when people take those experiences from D&D and mess up other better games with them that don't have those particular **** rules.

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