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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8338063" data-attributes="member: 16814">Why is this?&nbsp; The guy being a ref at a basketball game isn't responsible for clearing up inter-personal beefs between players, nor are the responsible if one player continually plays in an aggressive manner not appreciated by the other players.&nbsp; They just enforce the rules of the game.&nbsp; Same with just about any other social engagement.&nbsp; I find it damaging to continue to put the onus on the GM to manage the social contract at the table with none of the players taking any responsibility for this.&nbsp; It makes the job unnecessarily harder, and actually acts to enable abuse of the position.&nbsp; It's time we stopped treating GMs as the leadership of the social group, and just a special role in a shared social activity. That makes me sad, that you don't see better options that having the GM control the social contract according to their interpretations.&nbsp; It's a shield for abuse of power, and an unnecessary onus on an already hard job (for D&amp;D, other systems do better).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8338063, member: 16814"] Why is this? The guy being a ref at a basketball game isn't responsible for clearing up inter-personal beefs between players, nor are the responsible if one player continually plays in an aggressive manner not appreciated by the other players. They just enforce the rules of the game. Same with just about any other social engagement. I find it damaging to continue to put the onus on the GM to manage the social contract at the table with none of the players taking any responsibility for this. It makes the job unnecessarily harder, and actually acts to enable abuse of the position. It's time we stopped treating GMs as the leadership of the social group, and just a special role in a shared social activity. That makes me sad, that you don't see better options that having the GM control the social contract according to their interpretations. It's a shield for abuse of power, and an unnecessary onus on an already hard job (for D&D, other systems do better). [/QUOTE]

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