Cheating in D&D is a SPECTRUM, actually.

M’kay, I hear a lot of mixed opinions about dungeon masters cheating. But what if cheating could actually be a tool for immersion and help engage your players? Winnifred and I duked it out in the Void.

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Music used (Youtube Audio Library & Wikimedia Commons):

Stick the Landing - Everet Almond
Wandering - Nat Keefe
Journeyman - Aakash Gandhi
Running - Nat Keefe
To Ponder - Godmode
Packed - Density & Time
Searching - Nat Keefe
Silica - Alex Hamlin
Mi Dispiace - The Mini Vandals
Spring Field - Godmode

Additional sound effects from Pixabay including work by DRAGON-STUDIO and freesound_community, and from Freesound including work by mitchanary
Embers visual effect by Joe Hackney

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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:05 Cheating is a spectrum
01:40 Cheating is a tool
02:02 An example of cheating
02:52 The nature of victory
04:08 Playing for “fun”
04:55 The slippery slope of cheating
05:17 The 3 components of cheating
05:33 Bending the rules
05:54 The Rule of Cool
06:11 Cheating for personal gain
07:05 Fudging rolls & Schrodinger
08:26 Too much cheating
08:58 Being deceitful
10:04 From cheating to house rule
11:33 How the sausage gets made
12:26 Screw easy answers