When to Avoid the Dice in D&D and TTRPGs

When should you be rolling dice in your tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons? Outside of obvious situations like combat scenarios, skill based systems in TTRPGs often become a crutch for bad game masters as a way to artificially inject drama or tension into their games. This week on the Black Lodge Games Podcast, Matt and Nick dive deep on when you should and should not be calling for players to make skill rolls, and why doing this wrong will suck the drama right out of your games. After thoroughly covering the do's and don'ts of rolling the funny dice, we explore the most loathsome action a bad dungeon master can take while running a game: fudging the dice rolls. Do you want your players to have agency and meaningful consequences in your games? Find out how in this week's episode.