Gamemaster

In a game master (or a GM ) is understood in the field of playing a person with differently defined management responsibilities. These differ according to the type of game, according to the objective of playing, or methodological approach. Accordingly, there are in different areas of the game different types of game conductors with different tasks and competence requirements.

Gamemaster rolls

The role of being the conductor depends in detail on its particular order, his personal conception of the nature of the game and the expectations of the players from.

Game leader can be found, therefore, approximately in the following roles and functions:

• As organizers of playing festivals, they provide the necessary play areas and play materials as well as trouble-free customization of the game.
• As entertainers they put game impulses and initiate attractive game ideas.
• As referee in sports games, as croupiers in arcades or game manager role in computer games they have been commissioned to monitor codified rules impartially.
• As a game advisor, they help match ends in free games, game occurring problems amicably together.
• As a game Moderators serve the presentation of games and the corresponding spectators entertainment in the media.
• As play therapists they use the games as a curative measure.
• As a teacher and / or teacher they put the games methodically as a motivating learning tool in teaching processes.
• As educators game they can sense and variety of playing discover as human enrichment.

The game master role varied and modified in each of these areas of responsibility.

The leader as a game organizer

Large public game festivities, but even private game afternoons as a child's birthday or a party in need of a game master, the ideas of the design of the game events, developed by the desired space and play arrangements, provides this and accompanies the processes of game celebration and evaluates. The leader as a game organizer fulfills the functions of an initiator, designer, commentator, who takes primary responsibility for the realization and success of gaming. He has, at least at the beginning of the game, the role of the animator.

The leader as a trainer

In the tourism sector, in holiday clubs in the hotel complexes of the holiday centers, health resorts or on cruise ships has become the occupation or profession of " entertainer " or " entertainer " emerged. Animators have the task of bringing the guests to entertain with attractive game offers, contact each other and to organize appropriate activities, contests, entertainment programs. They are designed to provide a positive atmosphere, variety and socializing. The function of the animator is often operated as a summer job for students, but also exerted professional. Tour operators prepare their personnel in special courses on before, even in the multiple use to be able to be used ( in addition to activity ). This often takes place emphasis on specific target groups (children, elderly, disabled, single guests, etc.). Entertainers must bring your own much enthusiasm, teaching skills, ingenuity, flexibility, social interest, friendly manners and commitment to be successful.

The leader as a referee

As referee the game leader stands out especially in the big sports games. It has the function of a referee between the parties match. As such, he oversees the game mechanics including the time control, compliance with the rules and the principle of fair play. To ensure proper game mechanics it may impose disciplinary measures, such as a warning or issue an expulsion, suspend the game or even break. In football or handball decisions as fact decisions are final. This authoritarian powers granted to him to come in some ways that are not always accepted by spectators and players, especially since they can also be subject to perception errors and misjudgments. Linesmen have the role of assistant referees. The authoritarian powers is attributable to the rules and regulations, from the importance of optimal play processes, the strict adherence to the rules of the game, to avoid accidents, decision-making in cases of dispute.

To be used as arbitrators may, it requires a qualification in the form of a safe rule, control, faster decisiveness, a confident assertiveness. The regulations of the associations write to before a special training, regular training and acquired through tests revocable license.

The leader as a moderator

Game Moderators occur today mainly in the medial playscape. They have the task of entertainment ( Wetten, dass. ? Millionaire? Etc ). The big game broadcasts of the television stations reach an audience of millions and are without a controlling events, all activities determined gamemaster unthinkable. Without the game master no games would take place, neither of the actors nor the audience. It is the job of the moderator to announce the prepared game performances that combine to explain, discuss, beloben.

The leader as a croupier

In the casino it comes to money profit as part of a commercially -oriented business enterprise. For proper conduct of this requires a specially trained licensed game operator, which exerts its function usually professional. Called the croupier game manager is responsible for the technical implementation and play to control the regular flow of the game as at the roulette table or in card games such as poker.

The leader as a therapist

Have play therapists usually have a therapeutic and a play- educational training that is tailored to the disease finding their clientele. It can be physical, but also mental, or social-psychological problems, which they dedicate themselves professionally. Gamemaster Therapeutically active are found both in childcare and in use by juvenile delinquents. Their work usually takes place in individual work or in small groups in which patients are cared for with similar symptoms.

The leader as a teacher

The Philanthropist J.C.F. Guts Muth has the game leader among educational criteria in the customization of the game a crucial role to play. He has above all the social bond and the learning effect of playing ( = learning games ) in view. He emphasizes in the preface to his collection of games: games are floral bands, through which one inspires the youth themselves; therefore I give them rather than their educators themselves

The Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi uses the example of Gertrude the paramount importance of the game manager for the education of children about the game.

When Friedrich Froebel and Maria Montessori the selected by the GMs play material receives a primary role as stimulating creativity and trigger the self-discovery of the child.

The game educators Siegbert Warwitz and Anita Rudolf distinguish between three different types of character and behavior -oriented educational game ladders. A questionnaire and interpretation aids offer the game manager the possibility of a self-analysis of his personality profile. This reveals him if he. Better with the idea of free play, the teaching and learning ideas or a creative conveyor interest in his game master ambitions draws to a close

The game master in role play

Pen -and- paper role-playing games

The GM (short SL) controls in a role-play events, and non - player characters ( NPC ). He reacts to the actions of the players and can intervene in the game. Often the GM has the story that is being played, even developed. It can also fall back on pre- RPG adventure. From a role-play manager is expected that he knows the game and the rules to avoid a reference during the game as far as possible. A game master role-play but needs more skills than the control rules. Instinct and psychological skills are just as important as spontaneous reactions to unexpected player actions.

Other names for the game master are masters, Dungeon Master (DM, derived from the name of the role-playing game system Dungeons and Dragons ), Narrator, Storyteller or Game Master (GM).

Computer role-playing games

On some computer role-playing games attempt was made to adopt the principle of the game master, especially for multiplayer games. Examples are Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption and Neverwinter Nights. Similar to the pen -and- paper role-playing game, the game master use pre- adventure and then engage in this behavior in the environment and NSC, distribute experience and treasure, etc.

Online role-playing games

Derived from Game Master (short: GM), this is also the name of a profession that is practiced in a virtual online gaming world. Represented many cases, game director at MMORPGs. They ensure that the (usually paying ) players can play without problems. Game Masters are usually players who are stuck, for example, due to a technical problem at one point, help if the engine provides the options for it. They also ensure that players are, insult others or violate the rules, admonished or may be blocked. In some games GMs should also help new players in the game started. GM 's fix usually no error in the game world (called bugs), but forward it to technical support on. If feasible in the context of the technical possibilities, Game Master, however, can help to avoid mistakes at times, for example by lack of opponents are set for the solution of a quest through this in the world. This round-the- clock Game Master can be reached, they operate in a layer system.

Online sessions are also role playing both on forums and in chat rooms. Here the GM has usually developed the game itself and respect for the other players on adequate behavior. Sanctions in case of permanent injury to Netiquetteregeln also provide for exclusion from the game or even the forum.