thexdane wrote:rule enforcement, that's what a gamemaster does in any game. they can try and define it as something else but 30 years of role playing games have given a definition to the word that will be hard to change
as for what them punishing every player who does, no that's impossible because not all of it is reported, however when a group of players regularly break the rules and they do nothing about it, like in this case, they aren't doing their job
Except that we have seen people punished, and fairly promptly.
Most notably a certain someone mentioned not so many posts ago.
And in conventional RPing, GMing comes a distant second to narration and environment description.
The rules you're talking about aren't the 'rules of the game' they're the rules of personal interaction and, if you're going to enforce them, rely on proof.