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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9518477" data-attributes="member: 29398">Which isn't all that far off what I just said I prefer.Most of the non-game instances where I've encountered the word (and-or the position of) &quot;facilitator&quot; it has been used as a politically-correct euphemism for &quot;chairperson&quot; or &quot;president&quot; or &quot;organizer/leader&quot; or just plain old &quot;boss&quot;; i.e. the person who runs everything and who is also the 'face' or representative of the group/organization/club/etc. in question.This is relevant because in these situations the general membership IME look to the facilitator to provide solutions or answers to whatever issues or questions may arise - in other words, they dump the work into the facilitator's lap.&nbsp; In an RPG this maps to players expecting the GM (as &quot;facilitator&quot;) to provide the entertainment that they largely sit there and consume; and I think we might actually agree that this isn't what we want from our RPGing even if we vastly disagree on how not to get there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9518477, member: 29398"] Which isn't all that far off what I just said I prefer. Most of the non-game instances where I've encountered the word (and-or the position of) "facilitator" it has been used as a politically-correct euphemism for "chairperson" or "president" or "organizer/leader" or just plain old "boss"; i.e. the person who runs everything and who is also the 'face' or representative of the group/organization/club/etc. in question. This is relevant because in these situations the general membership IME look to the facilitator to provide solutions or answers to whatever issues or questions may arise - in other words, they dump the work into the facilitator's lap. In an RPG this maps to players expecting the GM (as "facilitator") to provide the entertainment that they largely sit there and consume; and I think we might actually agree that this isn't what we want from our RPGing even if we vastly disagree on how not to get there. :) [/QUOTE]

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