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Yes, given the whole framing of the post it is flawed. If he wasn't making it to make a broader argument about other styles of play, I...

You can use "inviolate" if you prefer, but I'm with @Umbran on stuff like not really being hard-enforcable. Say rather that the...

Uh, no, not at all. There are certainly GMs who abuse their authority, but this isn't really about abuse is it? The GM has a...

And you're saying that the desire for codified rules to constrain GMs has nothing to do with trying to head off "bad" GMs?

If the game as written or as played doesn't allow for players to engage with the shared fictional space directly (ie, not through their...

Practically speaking, how often is a GM overriding any rule based on their whims really a problem? This is not a rules problem this is...

It can be. At a given table, agency ought to be about the forms of agency those players care about. Yeah, well, I haven't agreed with...

What's even the point of having a GM who is as bound to the rules as a player? One of the essential functions of a GM is to adjudicate...

I am groggy and my min didn't clear, so I don't know how well I can state this, but for me the thing that has long struck me about RPGs...

Hence my comment, perhaps they'd prefer a game like Descent, Hero Quest, or Star Fleet Battles. Something other than an RPG. I...

I don't agree. For instance in this case it is unclear to me who "de jure" would even have authority to grant the exception, if anyone...

I think you need to look at who you are talking with in conjunction of about what. Is this the first time y'all engaged in the topic? Or...

Ideally, yeah. But people can still find it irritating and go back to the well one more time. (And of course some people get offended...

Agreed. It seems to me a lot of the push for rules constraints is motivated by a (sometimes prophylactic) concern about "bad" players...

Yes, 100% It seems to me that an awful lot of the arguments in favor of more rules...not just in this particular topic, but across the...