Bedrockgames
Legend
Please tell me you understand the difference between saying D&D is intrinsically harmful (it isn’t) and someone running scenarios/adventures/campaigns that may be related to someone’s pre-existing phobias or traumas.
And if you understand THAT, tell me you understand that deliberately & knowingly engaging in the second without explicit permission from the player who may have an outsized reaction is intentional infliction of emotional distress.
I don’t think GMs are physiologists. Obviously we should treat our friends at the table with compassion but dealing I don’t think it is fair for the gm or the group, not do I think it is healthy fot the person experiencing or the hobby in generally to go down the road you are prescribing. I have had trauma. It is a real thing and very serious, but not something you deal with at the game table in this manner. It is something to seek treatment for. And other people shouldn’t bear the strain of you having these kinds of traumatic triggers and having yo completely their every day behavior (just because you can’t handle bats or thunder, doesn’t mean they should no longer enjoy them). Also traumatic triggers are rarely as simple or concrete as we make them out to be in these conversations. I really think the hobby has started to fetishized pop psychology around this to an extremely unhealthy degree that is also disruptive to the game itself. It is also entirely okay to take a break from gaming if you are dealing with trauma. But we really need to step back and start critiquing some of the assumptions that have become default around in this stuff in done quarters of the hobby