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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 5397919" data-attributes="member: 3192">It isn't obvious to anyone who has no conception of power.  You are choosing to believe in it, but it has no empirical reality except in your brain.  Perhaps you missed the early years of this decade when DMs were castigated as evil tyrants imposing their will over the player victims in D&D, but the belief was well vocalized at the time.  The belief hasn't gone away, but it is not socially popular either, so it is not voiced in quite the same manner.  Instead we get story authority, authorship rights in games, rather than understanding through game rule deciphering.  It's a point of view and not an absolute truth, though it is often abused against anyone who disagrees as such.There is no power relationship at the table or authority. It's simply a lens you've chosen to see the relationship through.The player improvised the cult member when they thought about one being there.  When they made the attempt to contact a member by secret hand signal to me I responded with an "Irrelevant, so yes" answer. I say yes by including the NPC signaled in the secret society.  Now there is a cult member as I am obligated to do under the rules.  The rest of what you say is more on power and authority.  Who gets to add what to the story.  This isn't storytelling, it's code deciphering: a game.  Find the underlying pattern expressed either in the rules or in a code behind a screen. Role playing is about an analytic perspective shift. Change your view to attempting to understand rather than express in D&D and there is no concept of authority existent there.</blockquote>

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