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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9021533" data-attributes="member: 71699">To me this touches on a problem with the vagueness of the label. No one exercises Absolute GM Control: there are always additional principles and rules that limit unadorned rule zero. Up-thread I found this comment striking -Absolute GM Control appears to be being advocated, but turns out to be limited by the social contract. They may feel that they could abolish the contract, but they never would. Principles and rules aren't all equal: they're categorically weighted... some more entrenched than others.My R is expressed in austere terms to allow examination. It's not what folk typically label as rule zero. It's common to see half-a-dozen rules bundled up into one and still find that's not the end of what's included. The claims folk make about their games rest upon those additional elements: they cannot be assessed unless one first in each individual case teases out everything included under and bearing on the label.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 9021533, member: 71699"] To me this touches on a problem with the vagueness of the label. No one exercises Absolute GM Control: there are [I]always [/I]additional principles and rules that limit unadorned rule zero. Up-thread I found this comment striking - Absolute GM Control appears to be being advocated, but turns out to be limited by the social contract. They may feel that they could abolish the contract, but they never would. Principles and rules aren't all equal: they're categorically weighted... some more entrenched than others. My R is expressed in austere terms to allow examination. It's not what folk typically label as rule zero. It's common to see half-a-dozen rules bundled up into one and still find that's not the end of what's included. The claims folk make about their games rest upon those additional elements: they cannot be assessed unless one first in each individual case teases out everything included under and bearing on the label. [/QUOTE]

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