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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8345463" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!If I'm playing any version of &quot;D&amp;D&quot;, then I'm a Dungeon Master. Otherwise I'm a Referee/Game Master/Keeper/Fate/etc. Whatever the game refers to 'my job' as.How do I FEEL when I'm in this position? Pretty much always DM.That said...I disagree with your initial &quot;Dungeon Master doesn't have the neutral connotation...&quot;. Now, this is probably because I've been DM'ing for about 41 years now (started when I was 10, now I'm 51). DM has ALWAYS had the &quot;neutral connotation&quot; simply due to the fact that it was the DMs job to &quot;present interesting and fun stuff to the Players, but with challenges and a real risk of death to their PC's&quot;. It was always stated that the DM's job was to BE FAIR! As it said in the (1983) Basic D&amp;D DM's Book 2, &quot;The Most Important Rule&quot;, page 2:-----------------&quot;There is one rule which applies to everything you will do as a Dungeon Master. It is the most important of all the rules! It is simply this:&nbsp;&nbsp; BE FAIR.A Dungeon Master must not take sides. ... The Players are not fighting the DM!&quot;-----------------I do not see DM as 'confrontational' or 'non-neutral' in any way. YMMV, obviously! <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=":)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8345463, member: 45197"] Hiya! If I'm playing any version of "D&D", then I'm a Dungeon Master. Otherwise I'm a Referee/Game Master/Keeper/Fate/etc. Whatever the game refers to 'my job' as. How do I FEEL when I'm in this position? Pretty much always DM. That said...I disagree with your initial "Dungeon Master doesn't have the neutral connotation...". Now, this is probably because I've been DM'ing for about 41 years now (started when I was 10, now I'm 51). DM has ALWAYS had the "neutral connotation" simply due to the fact that it was the DMs job to "present interesting and fun stuff to the Players, but with challenges and a real risk of death to their PC's". It was always stated that the DM's job was to [I]BE FAIR! [/I] As it said in the (1983) Basic D&D DM's Book 2, "The Most Important Rule", page 2: ----------------- "There is one rule which applies to everything you will do as a Dungeon Master. It is the most important of [I]all [/I]the rules! It is simply this: [I] BE FAIR.[/I] A Dungeon Master must not take sides. ... The Players are [I]not [/I]fighting the DM!" ----------------- I do not see DM as 'confrontational' or 'non-neutral' in any way. YMMV, obviously! :) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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