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名詞

game master (plural game masters, abbreviation GM)

1. A person (especially a man) conducting a game.

   Coordinate term: game mistress

   • 2007 November 4, Heidi Julavits, “Parlor Tricks”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 October 2013:

     Using only meaning-laden glances or other undetectable gestures, the Mafia members indicate to the game master which villager they’d like to off.

   • 2012, Una McGinley Sarno, “Level III Alphabetic Paraphrase: Lesson Plan Unit Two”, in Learn to Think and Write: A Paradigm for Teaching Grades 4–8, Introductory Levels, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Education, →ISBN, page 66:

     The Game Master/Mistress may lead the Magic Box Game (see Glossary).

   • 2023 December 18, Keith Stuart, “Nativity play: the 12 best board games for Christmas parties”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 December 2023:

     An interesting alternatively to Doodle Dash in which players cooperate to draw a word given to them by the game master – but one of the artists is a fake who doesn’t know the key word.

   1. (roleplaying games) A person (especially a man) conducting a role-playing game, generally responsible for controlling all beings and processes other than the players, either individually or as part of a team.

同意語

• dungeon master / Dungeon Master
• storyteller, ST
• referee

派生語

• game mastering

関連する語

アナグラム

• metagamers

動詞

gamemaster (third-person singular simple present gamemasters, present participle gamemastering, simple past and past participle gamemastered)

1. To run a roleplaying game; to act as a game master
   • 2001, Daniel Mackay, The fantasy role-playing game: a new performing art, McFarland, page 39:

     A few weeks before Wesley had asked me to gamemaster a role-playing narrative, I had purchased the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set.

名詞

gamemaster (plural gamemasters)

1. Alternative spelling of game master.

アナグラム

• metagamers