Poll: DM, GM, or Other?

[Berandor]

So you want to be a villain in a comic by Phil Foglio?

Hell yes! I'd get slaver wasps!

 

[Maggan]

Other: spelledare (Like Thane, only in swedish instead of german.)

I sometimes use DM when playing D&D, but generally it is just spelledare, i.e. the leader (director, perhaps) of the game.

I too choose "other".

When I play D&D I'm a DM, when I play WFRP I'm sometimes a GM, but most of the times I'm an SL.

When not talking about D&D or playing D&D it's all rather random.

I never use Keeper though, even though CoC is one of my favourite games. Referee, never.

/M

 

[MoogleEmpMog]

GM.

DM to me is D&D-specific and I rarely run or play in something I would describe as D&D. Referee doesn't encapsulate the entire task of the GM. I find other titles like Castle Keeper or Storyteller silly.

 

[Aeric]

I use DM only for D&D. I use GM for most other games, although if there is a specific term for a game (Storyteller for WW, Keeper for CoC, etc.), chances are I will use it.

 

[Graybeard]

I usually use GM for gamemaster. I played many RPGs prior to playing D&D so that is the term I am more used to. I sometimes use DM but not as often as GM.

 

[sjmiller]

Since my first RPG was Traveller, I tend to use Ref first and foremost, followed by GM and finally DM. My players in my D&D game tend to be long time D&D players, so they use DM or Dungeon Master.

 

[howandwhy99]

If I'm running D&D, I prefer Referee. If I'm running something else, it really depends on what it is.

 

[Drowbane]

Dm

DM (never use the long version)

 

[Desdichado]

GM. It's the most obvious, system neutral term around, IMO, so I've had the habit for years of using it regardless of whether or not I'm talking about D&D or some other game.

Heck, at the time I developed that habit, I wouldn't have been caught dead playing D&D anyway, so I think I started using it specifically to avoid using the term DM. But the usage stuck. Even now that we're playing more D&D than anything else, I think it's the best obvious system neutral term to use.

Part of that is that I kinda get tired of dungeons, and I don't want to imply that that's what any game I run is about.

 

[iwatt]

I use GM since it covers so manny genres. But my players call me DM even when playing Storyteller, True20, Star Wars (d20 and d6), etc..

That's cause they cut their teeth on the Rules Cyclopedia, and it said DM. Since they're all spanich speakers, but the book was in english, they didn't connect it to Dungeon Master They still call any rolpelaying game D&D, as in "let's get together to play some D&D", even if we're going to run a nWoD campaign.