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Immersive Terms in Games

Started by jhkim, September 30, 2013, 01:59:26 PM

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flyingmice

#30
October 01, 2013, 09:18:40 PM
Quote from: jhkim;695857Yup. It's interesting to note that all of flyingmice's terms aren't the originals. Of course, D&D used DM instead of GM, "abilities" instead of "attributes", and "proficiencies" instead of "skills".

Betamax, CPM, Laser Disks... original doesn't always become standard. :D

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Omega

#31
October 02, 2013, 03:10:53 PM
Quote from: Shauncat;695741It takes a lot of effort for me to not close a book immediately if they call the GM something other than GM or DM.

Fate Master
Storyteller
Master Director (This one is a funny transposition of the anagram)
Editor
Overlord
etc ad weirdium.

flyingmice

#32
October 02, 2013, 03:35:51 PM
I prefer Game Master/GM, but most of the early alternatives - referee, judge, etc. - don't bother me at all, because there was no standard back then, and they mean pretty much the same thing. I confess I never liked Dungeon Master, as I felt I should be wearing leathers and carrying a riding crop. Storyteller bothers me because I'm not telling a story - my dad was a real storyteller from Maine, and I know what that entails. Hollyhock God and other pretentious neologisms bug me something fierce because, Christ on a crutch! Isn't it obvious?

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Omega

#33
October 02, 2013, 08:15:48 PM
It gets kinda funny to see sometimes people bitching on forums for more new new new in their RPGs and then freaking out when someone uses new names.

-E.

#34
October 04, 2013, 10:03:56 PM
Quote from: Black Vulmea;695788Top Secret's "The Administrator" is one of the very few examples of matching form and function, in my experience.

Yes. That worked.

Traveler used referee, IIRC, which fit perfectly with its spare, technical elegance.

Keeper in Call of Cthulhu was a miss -- but not a dreadful one.

-E.
 

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#35
October 04, 2013, 10:07:14 PM
Quote from: Omega;696168It gets kinda funny to see sometimes people bitching on forums for more new new new in their RPGs and then freaking out when someone uses new names.

"new names" is not a meaningful kind of new.  Though in some cases its a radical kind of new, when the choice of names is meant to push a particular ideology.
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#36
October 04, 2013, 10:42:26 PM
I only play games that refer to the 'game master' as the proper term "Audio-Visual Server Daemon".  The AVSD Instantiates Simulations for the Client-User through the medium of their Avatar.

Any other game term is too vague and fraught with cultural assumptions.

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#37
October 05, 2013, 01:17:14 AM
The best term would probably be "God", but "Game Master" is essentially synonymous.  

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#38
October 05, 2013, 05:36:59 PM
I make my players call me ThunderCock.

Omega

#39
October 05, 2013, 07:43:28 PM
Supreme Being? Since the GM oft gets to boss around the gods too?

I should use that in my next book...

Quote from: RPGPundit;696775The best term would probably be "God", but "Game Master" is essentially synonymous.  

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