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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Micah Sweet" data-source="post: 9701883" data-attributes="member: 6747251">I think you're using a considerable amount of hyperbole in your rhetoric (a tactic I'm personally not fond of, but I digress). GMs and players in traditional games have different roles with different degrees of power over the game. A GM has less motivation to act in bad faith I think, because under the rules they can pretty much do what they want anyway. They don't gain anything in play by acting in bad faith (not to say some GMs might behave badly regardless, of course). A player, on the other hand, defines and expands their role in the setting solely through the actions and abilities of their PC (in games I play anyway). They have motivation to try to increase that role by whatever means they can get away with. This doesn't mean they're going to act in bad faith, but often they have reason to do so, for in-game advantage, so it is IMO understandable.</blockquote>