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Moniker For The Nameless One Behind The Screen

Which Moniker Do You Use...
A) Dungeon Master
88%
 88%  [ 38 ]
B) Game Master
11%
 11%  [ 5 ]
C) Referee
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 0%  [ 0 ]
Total Votes : 43

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Master Greytalker

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Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:30 pm  
Moniker For The Nameless One Behind The Screen

I was simply curious as several friends have argued over the issue...

So which moniker do you use for "The Nameless One Behind The Screen"Question

Of course the eternal "Heartless Bast***" is assumed when a favourite character that you have nutured for years and seen through countless adventures dies because of three natural 20s in a row.

Not that I am bitter or anything...
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Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:56 pm  

Call me "old fashioned," or whatever, but I'm not interested in this modern day "politically correct" stuff. Dungeon Master works for me.
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Thu Oct 08, 2009 4:20 pm  

I use DM, but sometimes slip to GM, and enough of my players came to D&D later in their RPG careers that DM isn't always their first choice.
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Thu Oct 08, 2009 4:48 pm  

DM! Proudly and unashamedly DM. Happy
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Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:11 pm  
Re: Moniker For The Nameless One Behind The Screen

Crag wrote:
So which moniker do you use for "The Nameless One Behind The Screen"Question

I answered "Dungeon Master", but that's a little misleading. I use "DM" for fantasy games, "GM" for all others, and referee for blind wargaming - where you can't see your opponent's position.

Note that those are literal - DM and GM - not the full phrase.
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Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:55 pm  

Same thing for me "DM" or "GM" I'll use either.
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Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:15 am  

Games Operation Director.

It keeps the players from forgetting rule #1: All rules are subject to arbitrary change in order to make the game more fun.
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Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:04 am  
Nameless DM

Honestly ... I prefer "DM" since I started playing D&D before anything else, but when I play games other than D&D, "GM" has come into more common parlance.

My personal preference overall though ... I like "Storyteller", because it's more about the plot and storylines than being a "referee" of rules arbitration. If I'm playing a gmae that is rules heavy and is double blind, I will say "referee", but I don't like the term.
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Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:40 pm  

DM forever!!!
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Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:21 am  

Yeah, we could be playing Candyland and I would somehow manage to be called the DM.
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Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:03 pm  

chaoticprime wrote:
Yeah, we could be playing Candyland and I would somehow manage to be called the DM.


You mean everybody doesn't do that?

I always use DM myself. Thirty years of habit is hard to break. But now that I think about it, since I occasionally dabble in third-party stuff I have to admit I'm becoming more accustomed to GM.
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Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:17 pm  

I am with bubba there. I like the sound of GM too, it makes me feel like I'm the General Manager of a sports team or something.
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Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:49 am  

But "Dungeon Master" sounds like you're some type of torturer... and the players must be punished.
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Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:39 am  

Varthalon wrote:
But "Dungeon Master" sounds like you're some type of torturer... and the players must be punished.


Anyone who plays in one of my games is gonna be punished.

Sadism aside, I use DM, GM, & ST interchangeably but if I am running a D&D game I'll most often use DM.
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Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:33 pm  

Varthalon wrote:
But "Dungeon Master" sounds like you're some type of torturer... and the players must be punished.


Exactly.
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