"Game Master" alternatives
This post is for us, brave people who insist on trying to make new TTRPGs and putting them out in the world. If you're trying to design your own game and are looking for some alternatives to the term game master, here are some alternatives, along with some systems that use them:
- Administrator (Top Secret)
- Animator (Toon)
- Bartender (Tales from the Floating Vagabond)
- Big Mack Daddy (Stuperpowers!)
- Castle Keeper (Castles & Crusades)
- Chronicler (Witchcraft)
- Control (Lacuna)
- Darkurthe Master (Darkurthe)
- Director (Buffy/Angel)
- Dispatcher (Trucker)
- Dungeon Jockey (X-Crawl)
- Editor (Heróis Modernos)
- Eminence Grise (Agone)
- Expedition Leader (Hollow Earth Expedition)
- Facilitator (Fadário)
- Fixer (Leverage)
- Game Director (Cutthroat; The Shadow Wars)
- Game Moderator (Dying Earth; Wild Talents)
- Guardian of Dreams (Rêve de Dragon)
- Guide (Artesia; Psychosis)
- Head Mistress (Catgirl Adventures)
- High Programmer (Paranoia)
- Holly (Red Dwarf)
- Hollyhock God (Nobilis)
- HoLMeister (Human Occupied Landfill)
- Host (Albedo; Ironclaw; Jadeclaw)
- Inside Chief (How We Came To Live Here)
- Journey Master (Encounter Critical)
- Judge (Judges Guild; Marvel Super Heroes)
- Keeper (Call of Cthulhu)
- Loremaster (One Ring)
- Marshall (Deadlands)
- Master of Ceremonies (Apocalypse World)
- Mayor (Kobolds Ate My Baby)
- Maze Controller (Mazes and Monsters)
- Mission Master (Space Patrol)
- Moderator (Blue Planet)
- Mutant Lord (Mutant Future)
- Nanny (Moffet Babies)
- Narrator (Faery's Tale; Houses of the Blooded; The Lord of the Rings)
- Puppetmaster (Puppetland)
- Referee (Cyberpunk 2020; Teenagers From Outer Space; Traveler)
- Ringmaster (Espanto & Comédia)
- Runner (Rune)
- Scholari (Jorune)
- Screen Monkey (Knights of the Dinner Table)
- Seneschal (Riddle of Steel)
- Story Guide (Ars Magica)
- Storyteller (Prince Valiant; White Wolf RPGs - Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf, World of Darkness)
- Superuser (Freemarket)
- War Master (Racial Holy War; Weird Wars and Necropolis)
- Watcher (Marvel Heroic RPG)
- Watchtower (Smallville)
- Zombie Master (All Flesh Must be Eaten)
A kind reminder that Dungeon Master (Dungeons & Dragons) cannot be used since it's trademarked to Wizards of the Coast.
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