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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 3730947" data-attributes="member: 2011">This is a game. It is played by more than the DM. It is played by a group of people around a table.It is the DM's world and he is the arbitrater of that world, but he is not the final arbitrater. The final arbitrater is the players: all of them, including the DM. The group ultimately decides together most of how the game procedes. The DM cannot play without the other players and the other players cannot play without a DM.The DM has a social contract with the players to be fair and consistent and to specify his house rules up front (and to specify additional house rules as they come up in the game for the first time, but then to be consistent with them). The players have a right to kick out a bad DM and start up a different game with a different DM any time they want.All players have the right to look through any book they want. It's a game.I walked out mid-game on a bad DM once. Only once, but he was a total idiot. Fortunately, most DMs are not. I have also walked out on a few games after a session or two when it became apparent that the game was not my cup of tea, but those were between sessions. Personally, I refuse to stay in an uncomfortable game.All players have the ultimate right to vote with their feet if they so desire.So, DMs beware. You are not a deity. You are one player out of several and your power can be curtailed just as quickly as it is granted. Anybody who needs special clauses in the books to tell the players that it is the DM's game though, should not be DM in the first place. JMO.</blockquote>

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