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Yeah. He has a lot of rules and demands for an "anarchist" lol.
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.
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".
Lol you have zero ground to tell me my own table isn't anarchist. I've been doing this for a long time. Go on out of here. I gave you enough of my day.
Go read the Bread Book I linked you instead of wasting our time.