D&D General D&D may be a DELTA, not a TTRPG!

[Umbran]

I feel "Adventure Game" is too confining to a style of play.

Interestingly, I dislike "Adventure Game" because it is too broad, and doesn't differentiate what you're doing from any number of computer or board games that also represent "adventures".

 

[Desdichado]

Interestingly, I dislike "Adventure Game" because it is too broad, and doesn't differentiate what you're doing from any number of computer or board games that also represent "adventures".

I kind of tend to agree. Back in the early 80s, they were still experimenting with what label to attach to the type of game it was, but context matters, and today it sounds like a dated attempt to redefine something that's already got a well-recognized label.

 

[Autumnal]

TEETERWOMBLE, for reasons to obvious to need explanation.

 

[Reynard]

TEETERWOMBLE

 

[MichaelSomething]

I think the fact it uses Dungeon Master, the brand -specific term for game master/referee, makes it a useless bit of jargon which insists upon itself.

Using the term Dungeon Master is a bad idea?? Well if you prefer referee, then the term could become RETA (Referee Experience through Adjudication??) or maybe GECA (Game Master Experience and Creation by Adjudication?). Workshopping here folks.

*will get to other responses later

 

[Whisper-Kitten]

PETA- Pigs Eating Tasty Acorns. Wait is this not the acronym thread? begins slowly backing out

 

[Remathilis]

Using the term Dungeon Master is a bad idea?? Well if you prefer referee, then the term could become RETA (Referee Experience through Adjudication??) or maybe GECA (Game Master Experience and Creation by Adjudication?). Workshopping here folks.

*will get to other responses later

Yeah, it's circular. What's a Dungeon Master? Someone who runs a D&D game. What's D&D? A game run by a Dungeon Master. D&D defines what dungeon master means, so it cannot be used to define what D&D is.

Otherwise, we're defining a puppers as a little doggo and a doggo as a big ole puppers.

 

[Umbran]

Using the term Dungeon Master is a bad idea??

I think it fails to serve the need, so in that sense, yes.

Well if you prefer referee, then the term could become RETA (Referee Experience through Adjudication??)

Which also covers pretty much all professional sports, and wargames, so probably not.

or maybe GECA (Game Master Experience and Creation by Adjudication?). Workshopping here folks.

"Game Master" is still self-referential - you have to know what a GM is before you know what the term means.

 

[MarkB]

Using the term Dungeon Master is a bad idea?? Well if you prefer referee, then the term could become RETA (Referee Experience through Adjudication??) or maybe GECA (Game Master Experience and Creation by Adjudication?). Workshopping here folks.

*will get to other responses later

Imagine it from the perspective of someone unfamiliar with any industry terms. "Tabletop Role Playing Game" is at least somewhat comprehensible. If I know nothing of gaming and a friend asks me if I want to play one of those, I might say yes. If they ask whether I want to participate in a dungeon master's experience led through adjudication I'm going to be backing out slowly while trying to make up an excuse about needing an early night.

A term that is only useful if you already have a comprehensive understanding of the thing being described isn't useful as a term of reference, and yours goes a step further by not even being easily understood even with that level of knowledge.

 

[Desdichado]

Imagine it from the perspective of someone unfamiliar with any industry terms. "Tabletop Role Playing Game" is at least somewhat comprehensible. If I know nothing of gaming and a friend asks me if I want to play one of those, I might say yes. If they ask whether I want to participate in a dungeon master's experience led through adjudication I'm going to be backing out slowly while trying to make up an excuse about needing an early night.

Yeah, it sounds like some kind of bad HR exercise.