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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9547084" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I've been in games where I was the DM, and I did not set schedule. And while yeah, if the DM can't make it, the DM doesn't run the game, that doesn't mean that the DM has to be the one to decide where and when we meet. Just that you need to make sure the DM can make it. Just like you attempt to make sure everyone can make it. Heck, I know at least one DM who won't run if ANYONE is missing. Does that mean every single player in that game has &quot;veto power&quot; over the schedule?If the DM goes &quot;well, I don't like James reading of the rule, but he's the rule guy so we will go with that.&quot; Doesn't that make James the Final Authority on the rules? Even if you in theory posit that the DM could at anytime decide not to follow those rules... if they never do, then the DM isn't the final authority on the rules, the other guy is. And if the table refuses to let the DM contradict the rules guy... then the DM can't contradict him without the group imploding.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9547084, member: 6801228"] I've been in games where I was the DM, and I did not set schedule. And while yeah, if the DM can't make it, the DM doesn't run the game, that doesn't mean that the DM has to be the one to decide where and when we meet. Just that you need to make sure the DM can make it. Just like you attempt to make sure everyone can make it. Heck, I know at least one DM who won't run if ANYONE is missing. Does that mean every single player in that game has "veto power" over the schedule? If the DM goes "well, I don't like James reading of the rule, but he's the rule guy so we will go with that." Doesn't that make James the Final Authority on the rules? Even if you in theory posit that the DM could at anytime decide not to follow those rules... if they never do, then the DM isn't the final authority on the rules, the other guy is. And if the table refuses to let the DM contradict the rules guy... then the DM can't contradict him without the group imploding. [/QUOTE]

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