Ha made you look! So I'm on several roleplaying boards and within the last couple months I have heard the term
Shadowmaster
and
Admin

both meaning GM... Heh White-Wolf has Storyteller so why not

I say bring on the crazy new term for a Shadowrun GM!

I think we should start referring to them as Johnsons.

Wonder how long it would take untill that got shortened to johns?

God?

Snef!

My team calls them just GMs or DMs (Game Master/Dungeon Master), but they always refer to me as the Shadow Lord or Shadow Master.

great dragon?

I had a secret agent-y LARP that ran for a while here (rules available at RPGNow as soon as I get around to finishing the layout). The GM or GMs are called The Man.

I like 'GM' for all games. I never use the silly labels.

How about "That asshole behind the ref screens"?

HEY!

I resemble that remark!

The mean guy who won't let me be a cyberzombie/voudoun?

And to Long Johns if it's a Tall GM ?

He who dances in Long Johns
Medicineman

why?

I like the name from burn notice, "Management"

The fixer.

Personally, I like to go by GKE. This, of course, stands for "God King Emporer". If I can't get them to respect me, I may as well force them to fear me.

Or Little John...

Don't let his name fool you, though.

Thats not silly enough!





This is silly enough!

That's too KKK for me.


Fixed for you, oh terrifying one.

Psh, Neraph, maybe he was creating pores in things. You don't know.

"Are you there God? It's me, Applejack..."

The image of a troll praying up to the skies is hilarious to me, for some reason.

I cast my vote for Management. More Burn Notice in 5e!

And that's terrifying.

Yeah...thats it. Quiet you!

Does he rule an Emporium? ;D Possibly some kind of skin-care spa…

And he governs by signs and portents.

Is one of the signs, '50% Off Sale!'?

Only the porridge.

Likes this thread.

Why not The Dude?

or El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing...man.

Gimme an In N Out burger and a white russian and you can call me Shirley.

Be careful what you wish for, the In N Out is close and I keep cream, kahlua, and vodka on hand at all times.

At least there's Five Guys for all of us who aren't West-Coasties.

Om nom! They just won another Zagat Survey for Best Burger this year.

I normally just want to refer to anyone running a game as a DM, but I'm cognizant of that having a negative connotation if used for different games. So, I tend to use DM for DnD and GM for anything else.

There's a little joke at my table. Since I was reading advance copies of SR4 and DnD4 before any of us started playing either and I participate in forums for both and I had commented on certain rules during game sessions and was looked at to help give official rulings, my friends all referred to me as having wrote the book. So, whether I am running a game or playing a game, I often hear, "Ask deek, he wrote the book/rules."

Which is fine by me. When I do run a game and someone disagrees, I can easily joke it off and say, "Well, you know, I did write the rules. I just didn't get time to put out the errata." And we move on.