Recent content by evileeyore

Luckily I've still got my old AD&D Oriental Adventures books, so this won't affect me.

Too late. There are actively political threads (see this one for instance) where only side of the politics is allowed to be openly supported.

"Human capital" is an economic term. It has a specific meaning and while many have mistaken it in a "dehumanizing" manner, that's not how it's meant or how it was used.

Any 'fan; saying that should be ignored... in the same way you'd naturally ignore someone proclaiming that the only way to play D&D is to use books X-Z and 'anyone not using those books isn't playing 'real D&D'." Nah. Now, don't get me wrong, there is some crunch, whole heaping boxes of it...

Social-Political things that we're not allowed to discuss honestly on these forums.

To be fair, LARPing has taken to it. But then, also to be fair, there is a surprising amount of Venn overlap between LARPers and BDSMers. Fair enough.

No, he's making a case that gaming and gamers aren't horrible cretins into whose midst one most tread with care and all the tools of protection at your disposal, which is the case made by CiG (and a few other sources) and that you seem to be upholding. If they are visibly upset, I don't require...

I find this entire notion very toxic. Any GM who would continue forward to set another scene absent the knowledge of what caused the emotional turbulence is deliberately setting forward into the unknown to cause more trauma. And I quote: "By using the X-Card frequently, you demystify it. You...

So, I'm guessing the quote above is all you read of what I wrote and you completely missed this: "The problem the Player finally decided they couldn't take had nothing to do with the campaign, but one of the other Players." One of the other Players behavior drove the new Player to flip out...

Good write up. I have a few (maybe even only one*) quibbles here and there, but overall the topic and it's presentation are one I agree with. However I suspect that this thread will lay largely unanswered as we are "too toxic" to be seen being politely discussed with, let alone having the...

Then why keep glossing over the very real fact that you don't know and keep acting like it's 'super easy, barely an inconvenience'? You don't know what the X Card was thrown over. Therefore, you can't know what is the cause. So to continue forward and force that player to face those traumas...

And that has been my objection to the X Card from CiG from jump. It's repeatedly hammered home in that document that you don't need to and shouldn't explain anything, not even a "this thing is upsetting to me". It's entire purpose is to shut down the social aspect of a social activity...

Since I didn't mention motivations or feelings, no. It absolutely could be something that has been present for the entire game, but the Player has simply reached the end of their rope with it. It can be anything. And absent them telling you, you have no actual way of knowing. It can even be...

My problem is with your blithely moving on. Are really saying you're fine continuing, knowing you're going to cause someone more discomfort because you actually have no idea what caused them discomfort in the first place? It might not have been you. It might not have been the scene. It might...

Move on to what? Someone is upset enough to tap out, absent any knowledge of what is upsetting them, there is nothing to move on to. I cannot in good conscience continue forward knowing something else in the next scene, or the scene after that could so easily upset them and continue causing...