Naming idea

[Cuttlefist]

I had a funny idea and was curious if it ever came up during development or in discussions with anybody else.

So D&D has the game run by the Dungeon Master, when Paizo was releasing Pathfinder they changed this to Game Master( for legal reasons or just to set themselves further from Wizards I am not sure), so I had the idea that why don't we change the name of the role for Starfinder? Something to give the game more of it's own identity and add some more fun flavor for people switching over. It helps give other games a sense of uniqueness (like White Wolf games having a Storyteller) and I think would have been a great idea here. In my games I am going to refer to myself as the "Game Commander," although "Star Master" also sounded like fun I like the official sound of Commander.

Anybody else going to do something like this? Did it come up at all in development that anybody knows of?

[Ashanderai]

Personally, I'm an advocate for "Grand Poobah".

:)

[Owen K. C. Stephens]

Cuttlefist wrote:

Did it come up at all in development that anybody knows of?

I beehive there was a single 30-second conversation about it in development, and we all agreed GM was the right call. GameMaster has a broad history as a term for the person running a game, which both significantly predates Pathfinder and includes a lot of very different RPGs. So as much fun as having a Star Commander might be, this was a case where keeping a term that's broadly recognized and understood seemed the best way to maintain a high level of accessibility for new players.

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[Ashanderai]

Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:

Cuttlefist wrote:

Did it come up at all in development that anybody knows of?

I beehive there was a single 30-second conversation about it in development, and we all agreed GM was the right call. GameMaster has a broad history as a term for the person running a game, which both significantly predates Pathfinder and includes a lot of very different RPGs. So as much fun as having a Star Commander might be, this was a case where keeping a term that's broadly recognized and understood seemed the best way to maintain a high level of accessibility for new players.

Speaking of naming ideas, are you just the beehive as a whole entity or is that sort of like a "royal we" kind of thing? And, if so, can we now add Queen Bee to your list of prestigious titles?

:)

[Owen K. C. Stephens]

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:)

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