A clever Dungeon Master turned the rules of Dungeons & Dragons on their head to force the cheaters in the party to out themselves.

The poster, who goes by the username LilMissDeadeyes, explained on Reddit how they started an online D&D campaign that "was meant to be fun and story-based" with their friends, but quickly realized some of the players were taking advantage of the distance to fudge their roles. The DM began quietly tracking every role and compiled the numbers into a spreadsheet. "I even had a math-happy friend work out the probability of the rolls," LilMissDeadeyes continued. "Suffice it to say, RNGesus alone couldn’t bless their dice enough, they’d need every deity of luck in existence to get those kinds of rolls."

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DM Catches D&D Players Cheating

"So I devise a plot," the OP elaborated further. "Nothing major, I just switched the rules. The team traveled to another town but were magically teleported to a mirror-verse, where everything is backwards and/or opposite. They sort of realize this during combat; the gorgon they’re fighting has AC6 and needs a 5 or lower to be hit, and a nat-1 is a crit hit and by extension a nat-20 is a crit-fail." Accordingly, once the players figured out what was going on, the cheaters began rolling incredibly low. After the party left the mirror-verse, their rolls were "all back to nat-20s and ultra high rolls."

When LilMissDeadeyes confronted the problem players, they attempted to play the victims, claiming the OP had somehow violated their privacy and caused them trauma. The post goes on to explain how the group's friendship eventually broke completely down, with most of the players refusing to admit to any fault. However, this did not stop them from reaching out to the DM months later to ask them to run a game for them again after they failed to find someone else. LilMissDeadeyes responded by sending them the list of rolls from before.

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Rightfully pointing out cheating isn't the only thing Dungeon Masters can receive pushback for; another poster on the D&D Subreddit shared their story about how their group harassed them for trying to conclude a long-running campaign. Moreover, a third Dungeon Master described their struggles with a problem player who wanted to eliminate dice rolling from D&D.

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Source: Reddit