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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JacktheRabbit" data-source="post: 5390631" data-attributes="member: 525">Yes it does mean he cant. A DM is nothing without a group of willing players. Attempts to do anything you mentioned above will 99 times out of 100 result in a player revolt and 4 to 1, 5 to 1, or 6 to 1 goes in favor of the player. Remember if a DM pisses off his entire group then they can leave and if they want to chose one of their own as a new DM. The DM on the other hand has to go find a new group or form a new group will to accept him as DM.Both the players and the DM have the same amount of power to basically nuke the game, beyond that neither has any more power than the other. Both need the other to have a game. A DM may in theory have the ability to ignore rules, etc, etc, but any attempt to use that power without a damn good reason will in most cases result in any number of players leaving.I will caveat this with my opinion that a DM is not the final arbitrator of the rules. If 5 players read a rule the same way and the DM reads it a different way then the players win. End of story.</blockquote>