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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9711744" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I do not understand why the other children would care about the first child presenting their special, personal-to-them toy. (Call the first child Sam for convenience.) If everyone already has their own comparable toy, why are they seeking out this one specific toy for interaction?More importantly, how can this be an analogy for what is going on with GMing a game? That was part of my analysis here--that you were using this as a demonstration of what is going on with GMing, where it is patently not true that every participant has a more-or-less equivalent toy. More or less, you clearly constructed this to be an analogy in order to fold back conclusions from it to the original case. But now you are introducing elements which make a sharp disanalogy; so while I might potentially grant some of these conclusions (I haven't thought about them much), such granting would be not very productive, because they're situations utterly distinct from the situation we were discussing previously.If you invent a situation where Sam isn't in any way special from any other participant, where every person has a comparable toy and thus is genuinely an equal within the space, I don't understand why the children would have any desire (let alone need) to use Sam's toy specifically, nor how they would not automatically be entered into a relationship of complete equals, because friend Alex (to invent another rnadom child's name) also has a toy, which Sam is obliged to completely respect in every fashion and neither can nor will take any action which Alex thinks would harm that toy. Such a reciprocal relationship of equals certainly isn't going to involve absolute power. It's also not going to have any bearing on the "traditional GM" concept.</blockquote>

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