Jammers has just summed up all of my feelings on dice fudging by DMs in one handy-dandy paragraph: "No, it's your story. Because you think the story you planned in your head is better than anything else that could happen.
You are imposing your will on the dice because you want to tell a story, rather than watch a story tell itself at the confluence of random chance and player agency."
Well said.
You are imposing your will on the dice because you want to tell a story, rather than watch a story tell itself at the confluence of random chance and player agency."
Well said.