dustinroepsch

This is what Rocky brought home to the Eridians

If it's silly to be pedantic about it, isn't it also silly to leave a comment discussing a change to it?

In your mind what's the original connotation?

Even master / minion would be better imo, the I prefer the others already mentioned

producer / consumer

primary / replica

Orchestrator / Executor

Consider it a chance to use a term with more semantic meaning.

Guarding access? You have an allow list or a deny list. Rolling out an experiment? You have an enable list or disable list. Restricting an input? You have a filter.

I wonder how much demand there would be for a dedicated board on boardgamegeek for homebrew "rule progressions" like these

If you're looking for simple but deep games, highly recommend most things made by Oink games, especially "Startups".