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A [[Referee]] is the person that oversees and runs the [[RPG|Role-playing game]] experience.  
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A [[Referee]] is the person that oversees and runs the Role-playing game experience.  
* Traveller has very consistently called its gamemaster a referee over its many editions since 1977 CE. There has been a little variation.
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== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
 
== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
 
The referee guides a set of players or player characters ([[PC]]'s) through an adventure scenario, often having to improvise or make changes to an established product's setting and gameplay on the fly. They typically started with a published adventure or scenario as a game starting point and have to go from there, changing [[setting]]s, creating new non-player characters ([[NPC]]'s), and otherwise creatively writing the ongoing collaborative story that the referee and players create together.
 
The referee guides a set of players or player characters ([[PC]]'s) through an adventure scenario, often having to improvise or make changes to an established product's setting and gameplay on the fly. They typically started with a published adventure or scenario as a game starting point and have to go from there, changing [[setting]]s, creating new non-player characters ([[NPC]]'s), and otherwise creatively writing the ongoing collaborative story that the referee and players create together.
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== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
 
== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
 
What [[Traveller]] calls a referee is known by a number of other terms by other [[RPG]]'s:
 
What [[Traveller]] calls a referee is known by a number of other terms by other [[RPG]]'s:
* Dungeon Master (DM)
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* Dungeon Master
* [[Game Master]] ([[GM]])
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* Game Master
 
* Game Operations Director
 
* Game Operations Director
 
* Hollyhock God
 
* Hollyhock God
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* [[etc.]]
 
* [[etc.]]
  
== References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) ==
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== References & Contributors (Sources) ==
 
{{Intermediate}}
 
{{Intermediate}}
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{{Detail}}
 
{{Sources
 
{{Sources
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|S1= TBD
 
|S2= [[Traveller Wiki Editorial Team]]
 
|S2= [[Traveller Wiki Editorial Team]]
|S3= Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]  
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|S3= Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[User:Maksim-Smelchak|Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]  
 
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{{MET|Game Mechanic}}
 
{{MET|Game Mechanic}}

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