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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9709179" data-attributes="member: 6790260">"Advisor" implies courtly position. Delegated authority. No ability to defy (because, again, absolute power), but having subsidiary authority underneath. No such arrangement exists between an "absolute power" GM and her players. The players are subject to the GM's will in anything relating to the game. Whatever they think or feel is completely secondary to the GM implementing her will. Should the GM deign to listen, nothing prevents them from doing so, but nothing whatsoever requires it either. Because that's what exerting absolute power (within a particular domain) means.Think of it as the difference between a President-and-CEO with her VPs, and a mother with her children. Or the difference between a whole army's general with the officers who directly report to him, and a primary school teacher with his students. In both former cases (Pres-CEO and army-leading general), the secondary parties are still under total requirement to obey their superior, but they still hold personal authority of some kind. Children and grade-school students hold no authority within the associated structure, not even subsidiary authority. (Of course, with all of these cases, there is a higher superseding authority--the law--which could intervene, but I trust you'll allow for the sake of argument that we ignore this.)</blockquote>