For me it was “Hollyhock God” from Nobilis.
Why do game designers do this? Does anybody, anywhere, actually use these weird terms while actually playing?
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Bunnies and Burrows: ‘Warrenmaster’ but we never used it as we were going by the G.U.R.P.S. edition so we just used the generic ‘GM’.
In Paranoia the GM essentially roleplays as the Computer of Alpha Complex. Rule 1 is “The computer is infallible”
Yes, Friend Computer only has our best interests in mind. Trust Friend Computer.
What I love in Paranoia is that the players start as Troubleshooters. As in their job is to find trouble and shoot it. As an IT professional who’s usually the go-to for the hard problems, I appreciate that.
Alien uses Mother
In John Wick’s Wilderness of Mirrors, the GM is called CONTROL, if I am not misremembering.