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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4140464" data-attributes="member: 32740">The foremost job of the DM is to instigate and direct the adventure and to adjudicate the rules.  SOMEBODY needs to have the final word.  That somebody is the DM.  It is what he/she is there for.  That some DM's abuse that position doesn't mean that nobody must ever BE IN that position.  Declaring the DM as "final authority" doesn't preclude players letting the DM know just how far they can reduce the practical reach of that "final authority", or from IGNORING what is otherwise the DM's rightful authority.A DM who tends toward abuse of authority will do so even if he is expressly forbidden to do so.  The DM is indeed the "final authority" but that authority is exercised only so long as players agree to submit to it.</blockquote>