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Splitting the party from session 1 (lemmy.world)
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[–] -5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Yeah. He has a lot of rules and demands for an "anarchist" lol.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Political anarchy is not inherently against rules. Anarchy does not mean that everything is on fire and everyone steals from others and do whatever they want, that's just a common misconception.

    Also it's only 3 pretty basic rules, nothing particularly crazy about them

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Anarchism means "no rulers" not "no rules". If we all consent then what's the problem?

    IRL consent is complicated by coercion - you can't disagree with your boss because if they fire you, you can't pay your bills.

    DND is an asymmetrical activity. One person, the DM, has an outsized level of effort required. If im expected to create a whole world, NPCs, plots, and respond to all your nonsense, I think its totally fair to ask the players abide by a simple code of conduct.

    Again, I've almost never had issues.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    Your rules are great, I agree you deserve some privileges when acting as DM because rod the effort you put in. My comment wasn't on that front.

    But if you are enforcing the rules, and receiving different treatment because of them, you deserve that. But if you are win control of the space, you set the rules and you enforce them. You're a 'ruler' in that context. My point is, your anarchism isn't really at play here.

    The system where the enforcement of rules is delegated to trusted person who everyone agrees on is closer to "Democracy".

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Please don't take this the wrong way, but you should read some anarchist political theory if you want to address their actual beliefs.

    This is exactly the kind of communal structure that anarchists advocate for: a voluntary collective where everyone agrees to contribute to furthering certain goals, values, and objectives.

    OP is not coercing players to be in their game or to do things their way; they're saying "this is the game that I run, take it or leave it," and the players can join if they share the same goals.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't forget to hydrate. Must be tired after all that mental gymnastics.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I could tell by your first comment that you didn't care to know about how others think.

    Ignorance is a lot easier than educating yourself, so I can see why you'd choose the easy path; I'm just disappointed that you decided to be incurious instead of learning something.

    But I'm sure your "highschool rebel" understanding of anarchism is truly accurate, thanks for the notes. Or you could explain what mental gymnastics I'm performing? This is all basic anarchist theory that you can confirm with a five minute read of a wikipedia article summary.

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