Separating user and admin accounts safer?

Question

So currently I'm working on a web application for a game and stumbled upon the following "problem"/question: Is it actually safer to have an individual table for the players/users and administrators?

Personally I think it's not and storing them both in one table would also be easier and more efficient, since every administrator is considered a player as well, but some people tell me it's safer to separate them without a clear reason why.

As for now I have them both stored in one table and am using a role based permission system.

Answer 1

By separating them you could control permissions to the tables with more granularity, for example limiting access to the administrators table to only certain database user accounts (so that it cannot be accessed by "game" code/servers at all).

But outside of those kinds of scenarios, I can't really think of one and agree with the second comment to your question.