Any other way to say GM/DM ? I'm after something that doesn't have master in it.
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@ishara story teller is very good.
@MxFraud also seen “referee” or “facilitator” (that last especially for GM-less or distributed-GM games)
@jan "facilitator" sounds nice (referee sounds very sport-y but definitely valid)
@MxFraud Don't forget "narrator".
@JacobSKellogg that's very good too.
@MxFraud Referee was popular when I was growing up with RPGs in the 70s.
@MxFraud I still reflexively refer to the person as "ref" regardless of the game.
@Halfjack ref sounds even better (I like how GM/DM is short).
I'm very tempted by ref now.
@MxFraud It's totally reflexive for me. Has the most natural mouth feel.
@MxFraud Game moderator?
@JordiGH game moderator is also very good.
Dungeon Manager sounds a bit like my actual job.
@MxFraud Dungeon manager
So far I have been told:
- Dungeon manager
- Game moderator
- Referee / Ref
- Narrator
- Game Runner
- Facilitator
- storyteller
- world builder
- Dungeon Guide
I'm very tempted by Ref
@MxFraud I would play the hell out of a game called _Dungeon Manager_.
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Story leader
@MxFraud Dungeon Guide?
@MxFraud Exalted uses Storyteller, and I think other White Wolf/Onyx Path games do too.
@MxFraud Game monitor. Game instigator. Game overseer. The Grand High Poohbah of the Game and Its World.
@MxFraud Story leader
@MxFraud how about, like, Prophet? or Guide?
@MxFraud G O D .
more serious suggestions: storyteller, narrator, world-runner, ... I dunno, stuff like that.
@MxFraud I never wanted to say "Web master" so I always said "Web wrangler"
@MxFraud The WoD version is Storyteller or ST
@MxFraud The Lojban term is {kelgi'a}, pronounced "kell gi ha" :P
(A contraction of the words for "play" and the word for "guide")
@MxFraud Dungeon Keeper? Referee? Host?
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In Apocalypse World they use MC.
In Hebrew the most common word after Dungeon Master is מנחה, which is somewhere between Guide, Facilitator and Host. It's pretty sweet.
@MxFraud Chuubo's has a Hollyhock God; it occurs to me that if you don't like "master," "god" is going in the wrong direction, but it's a god of flowers (and by implication, small, unimportant things)
@MxFraud Narrator? Weaver of fates? Voice from the off? God of dice?
@MxFraud storyteller
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story teller?
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@MxFraud the danish term for GM is "spilleder"* which translates directly to Game Leader.
Game Director is also an option?
(* at least in LARP, danish tabletop RPGers use english terms most of the time)
@MxFraud I've not used any other terminology in my group, but a few ideas off the top of my head:
* storyteller
* world builder
* dungeon guide