Poll: DM, GM, or Other?

What Title do you Use to the Person Who Runs a Roleplaying Session?

  • DM

    Votes: 90 53.9%
  • GM

    Votes: 58 34.7%
  • Referee

    Votes: 4 2.4%
  • Other (explain below)

    Votes: 15 9.0%

I think of games as being "run", like an organization, so I think of the person telling the story as the "runner" or "boss". Works for me.
 

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I don't care for "... Master". There are perfectly good pre-existing words: judge, referee, umpire, arbiter, &c. Games that feel they have to invent a new term for this always annoy me. I don't care how differently you conceive running your game from running any other. But I'm not anal about it. I use DM, GM, or a system's specific term often enough.
 

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