Sneaky Ways D&D Players Cheat

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  @starhalv2427 · 3 years ago

  I once made a mistake of forgetting that my kobold artificer had sunlight sensitivity, but my DM just decided "Well, I didn't describe the weather yet, so let's assume it's cloudy"

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  @CoachMelton · 10 months ago

  I run a board game club at the high school I teach at. Yesterday, I overheard a player at a different table ask another "How are you a +13? You're level 2!"

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  @emiellebloemendal1960 · 3 years ago

  A useful tool to avoid metagaming, is asking the DM: “Would my character know this?”<br>It acknowledges the player has outside knowledge to the whole table, and the DM can give guidance on how to proceed.

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  @MycoCane · 3 years ago

  As a DM, I gave my party a trick d20 with two 20s on it 😊 it was an item they won for defeating this enemy who was kind of metatextual and knew she was in a game. The party as a whole is allowed to use it once per long rest, on any roll that seems sufficiently important

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  @badsamaritan8223 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I developed bad cheating habits while playing with my first group. They treated me like crap from the beginning, despite inviting me to join. So i didn&apos;t have much respect for them, and felt no guilt for cheating, but what i hadn&apos;t considered, was that it would carry over into my next group. I felt really guilty, when i realized what i was doing.<br><br>I&apos;ve since refocused my interest in D&amp;D towards writing fun characters, and telling great stories, and my enjoyment of D&amp;D has skyrocketed.

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  @zeeeej · 3 years ago

  I never cheat deliberately, but the most tempting one for me is changing spell lists during combat. It&apos;s always because I have intended to swap out a spell but forgot when we did our last long rest. It&apos;s super frustrating to realize that when it comes up.

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  @MichaelB-jw5po · 3 years ago

  I had this one friend that I played various TTRPGs with for 3 years. I would have never in a million years thought this dude would cheat. Finally, I got a chance to start a Call of Cthulhu campaign that I had wanted to run for years, and out of nowhere this guy started blatantly fudging his dice rolls. I talked to him about it and he just kept doing it. The drama and fallout that spawned from him cheating ended up breaking up our long-running RPG group and I still get sad and angry thinking about it.

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  @justincasebro1567 · 3 years ago

  I explain to my players that &quot;There are 3 parties involved in every story. The Players, the DM and the dice.&quot; sometimes the best moments come from botched rolls. Let it happen, you never know what could come from the &quot;1&quot; you tried to change.

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  @TheLucasdms · 3 years ago

  I just noticed you guys are getting much better at recording videos. They fell less scripted and much more like a conversation. Keep improving, y&apos;all!

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  @AnnaVahtera · 3 years ago

  I did the &quot;I&apos;m so smart, I know how to solve this!&quot; with my character a few years back. The difference was, that I had absolutely NO clue about anything, and that&apos;s just how the character was. We ended up in a really tight spot because of that, but it was fun. Next time the character claimed to know &quot;everything&quot;, the group&apos;s barbarian grappled my character, and stuck her into a sack and tied it close.

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  @Tal_Maru · 3 years ago

  One of my players once said &quot;but the monster manual says this&quot;<br>To which I replied &quot;what is a monster manual, i don&apos;t see one on your character sheet? &nbsp;Did you want to pick one up in the next town?&quot;

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  @HeroicVileplume7184 · 3 years ago

  There was a really good Exp to Level 3 skit about the monster stats metagaming thing, where a player knows that their boots of speed are still active despite going into a beholder antimagic field, another player asks about it, they start explaining, catch themselves, and offer to roll an arcana check to see if they can explain the rule to offer some parity between in-game and out-of-game knowledge

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