[TML] GM and other terms (was The Perfect Character Design)

[Richard Aiken]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Anthony Jackson <ajackson at iii.com> wrote:
> Ross Winn wrote:
> > The term must have greater utility and be more evocative; which is why
> > GM is better than DM, and why Storyteller is better than GM.
>
> Given the variance in gaming styles, I would say that the term should be
> as vanilla as possible. Thus, Game Master is superior to Dungeon Master
> (game is a superset of dungeon crawl), and Storyteller is inferior to GM
> (in fact, it's an actively bad term, because it implies that the GM is
> telling a story).

How about "LRI" for "Leading Reality Indicator?" :-P

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Richard Aiken

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