DWilliams | 18 May 2015 7:41 p.m. PST |
Do you ever bend the rules (cheat) when gaming by yourself? (a) Sure. After all, nobody's watching anyway. (b) No. That would ruin it for me. (c) Occasionally, when it seems appropriate (feel free to offer your justification). (d) I refuse to answer. (e) I'm not into solo gaming. |
x42brown | 18 May 2015 7:49 p.m. PST |
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Oddball | 18 May 2015 8:02 p.m. PST |
No. That is only cheating yourself, why bother? |
Old Contemptibles | 18 May 2015 8:22 p.m. PST |
Your playing both sides. So why cheat? Your going to win regardless and you're going to lose regardless. Wait a minute, if I go back in time and accidentally kill my Grandfather… |
William Warner | 18 May 2015 8:25 p.m. PST |
(c) I'm not so much interested in the "game" as I am in the experience. Sometimes the story is better if it's tweaked a little to make the outcome more exciting or interesting. |
jameschill | 18 May 2015 8:35 p.m. PST |
No but I am sure my opponent does. |
John the OFM | 18 May 2015 8:59 p.m. PST |
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Moe Ronn | 18 May 2015 9:36 p.m. PST |
Nah. I always get caught. |
Mako11 | 18 May 2015 9:46 p.m. PST |
F. Is it really cheating, if you know you are doing it, consciously? |
sneakgun | 18 May 2015 10:15 p.m. PST |
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KTravlos | 18 May 2015 11:43 p.m. PST |
c) sometimes I will change a roll if I feel one side has gotten a string of bad luck. |
Mute Bystander | 19 May 2015 2:06 a.m. PST |
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Green Tiger | 19 May 2015 2:07 a.m. PST |
C – I recreate historical battles so if the result is something that I can't justify historically – I change it though I do allow my stupid handling of troops to stand on occasion on the grounds that historical generals sometimes did stupid things too |
ochoin | 19 May 2015 3:07 a.m. PST |
I caught myself cheating once. I was embarrassed to be caught & made profuse apologies but I refused to accept them & boycotted gaming with my opponent for a time even though I begged him for a game on more than one occasion & promised to never cheat again & if I caught him, I told him that would be the end of our association. |
redbanner4145 | 19 May 2015 4:28 a.m. PST |
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warwell | 19 May 2015 4:38 a.m. PST |
I'm not so much interested in the "game" as I am in the experience. Sometimes the story is better if it's tweaked a little to make the outcome more exciting or interesting. I concur with William Warner's sentiments. However, it's not really cheating in solo gaming. If I make the rules I can choose to make exceptions to the rules. Call it a random event designed to emulate the fog of war. |
Bob the Temple Builder | 19 May 2015 6:05 a.m. PST |
If I am fighting a battle solo (which is normal for me) I don't see the point of cheating. I write my own rules and allow the dice and cards to add a level of uncertainty to events. As the events on the tabletop unfold, I like to watch them as if I were a dispassionate observer as well as a participants. To get a flavour of the end results, have a look at some recent battle reports on my blog. link link link link link |
mbsparta | 19 May 2015 6:06 a.m. PST |
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PatrickWR | 19 May 2015 7:34 a.m. PST |
E. Not really into solo gaming. Would rather just set up a series of diorama scenes that tell the story *I* want to tell, take some great photos, and turn the whole thing into a blog post. Plus I'd probably cheat. |
Winston Smith | 19 May 2015 9:18 a.m. PST |
Seriously though….. The only time I did any solo gaming was back when I played the classic Avalon Hill board games by mail. I would set it up and play a few future moves to see if the move I intended to submit was optimal. Sometimes I was a little generous with my dice results. Bit that was with my planning of the future. Results were of course randomly generated. I am fortunate that I do not need to play miniatures solo, so have no need to cheat. |
Feet up now | 19 May 2015 9:40 a.m. PST |
(c) Occasionally, when it seems appropriate . On the times it has happened I acknowledged defeat or victory but wanted to carry on to see what happens to a really good game. Mage knight is to main culprit and certain wargames to finish up an evening session that ended too early. |
miniMo | 19 May 2015 10:24 a.m. PST |
G. Yes, but I put an asterisk next to the victory. |
Herkybird | 19 May 2015 11:57 a.m. PST |
I never cheat deliberately, it would make the game less satisfying. Any good solo system should be respected! |
etotheipi | 19 May 2015 12:03 p.m. PST |
F) Is it really cheating? along with mako11. If the game runs into some weird issue that short circuits it, I will usually override that to keep the game going. I'd rather do that than go back to the beginning and replay. |
Mako11 | 19 May 2015 12:26 p.m. PST |
Do you suspend yourself for four games next season, miniMo? Are appeals permitted by your "player's union"? |
Rogzombie | 19 May 2015 8:22 p.m. PST |
No, to me it defeats the purpose. Except in D&D where DMs often bend the rules anyway in favor of the story. |
Mako11 | 19 May 2015 8:46 p.m. PST |
Sounds like the movies, Rogzombie, where that adopted farmboy on a desert planet, in a galaxy, far, far away, should have died in his Tusken Raider encounter, or when the Sandtroopers came looking for their droids. Of course, the movie would have been a lot shorter, and probably would not have morphed into a large, block-buster series of dubious quality, especially after the first two movies were produced. Might not have even made a second movie, if the rebel Death Star attack was defeated by the Empire. |
sumerandakkad | 20 May 2015 10:23 a.m. PST |
Never yet done it, but I think about it when I am losing. |
Weasel | 20 May 2015 12:24 p.m. PST |
I usually am playing for the story, rather than a specific side so I tend to stick with the dice. I'll occasionally pick a result that fits instead of rolling, particularly for things like scenario stuff, but once the dice have rolled, that's what happened. (a habit from RPG's) |
DWilliams | 27 May 2015 7:02 p.m. PST |
My imaginary opponent (always a voluptuous blonde, for some reason), would never forgive me if I tried to cheat. |