"Cheating - A Hobby Problem?" Topic

Rare. However, rules confusion and disagreements over rules interpretations are common at cons and in our living rooms.

Rare. One particular example of inadvertent cheating at the DBA tournament at Historicon a couple of years back. He was playing with his Republican Roman army, and used a die with Roman numerals on it, rather than pips. I can understand why, as it fits with his army's theme. However, many times after a roll of "six" was announced, I recognized that a lot of those were probably "fours", but it could be hard to tell, depending on the way you look at it.

I have no question that my opponent was not deliberately calling out the wrong score, but it did strike me as funny.

Apparently in D&D according to the Author of "Shared Fantasy" cheating is pretty wide-spread, regular, and accepted within limits. It makes interesting reading. I wonder how much of the same type goes on I miniature games. I have seen cheating going on and some of it quite regularly but on the whole what I have seen done was quite innocuous and Unimportant. It was something that when it happened, you tolerated because the person doing the cheating was a lot of fun to have around and you didn't want to toss him out because of it… like Peter Young.

i seen a 13inch foot ruler once at a convention some clown was using

I regularly game with a fellow who rolls so badly that I have ASKED him to cheat.