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If you’ve invited the friend to join you, then yeah, you change restaurants. Are you seriously suggesting you’d demand he go along with you to the seafood restaurant?

If a player comes to you and says ‘I’m sorry, the game can’t have spiders,’ civility demands that you respect the player’s boundaries and remove spiders from your game.

Sure, but the entire point of the document is to sort this out ahead of time, rather than springing it on your players mid-game.

Yes. Every player at the table gets a veto. If a group of friends are going out for dinner, and one of them says ‘I’m allergic to seafood,’ the group doesn’t then insist on going to a seafood restaurant. If one friend hates horror movies, insisting you all go to a horror movie is a dick move...

No, you are giving every player the power to veto.

No, it doesn’t. That would only be the case if one player had the right to veto something. Everyone involved in the game has the right to say they don’t want something in the game, and no one (including the GM) has the right to insist on something being included over the objections of another.

Because people want to play a ‘kill drone’ or a ‘stealbot.’ It’s not that people have disdain for healers, necessarily, it’s that they have disdain for badly designed healer classes. Healbot originated in MMOs, but quickly transferred over to RPGs, especially DnD, obviously referring to the...

Because it’s a play style, not a class. A murder hobo could be a fighter, wizard, thief, even a healbot!

No, it does not become unreasonable for it to be taken off the table if a player has a problem with it. I don’t understand why this is so hard to grasp. It seems blatantly obvious to me: if one of your players has a problem with something, you don’t include it in your game. If you came to my...

The only shrill panic is coming from those opposed to the document, who are decrying ‘SJWs’ ruining their game and attacking people with problems. The people actually supporting the document? Just saying ‘hey, not a bad idea!’ And then reacting with horrified bafflement as people on the other...

Unfortunately there very much is. There are those for whom increased inclusivity and understanding in gaming is seen as abhorrent. Hence screaming about ‘SJWs’ every time someone does something like this.

See, Consent in Gaming is about answering the questions you have hear because, as you say, most GMs don’t know anything about counseling, psychiatry etc. And the thing to take away from it is this: you’re wrong about pretty much everything above. And this is something people don’t like to hear...

The fact that things like thirst, rats or heatstroke as assumed parts of any game is one of the reasons the list is useful, because for some players that kind of thing is traumatic, yet most GMs wouldn’t think twice about including them in their games. As for allowance for debate - their...

Sure. In which case the consent form is useful because it lets you know that the player isn’t going to be happy with an element of your game, and you can let them know before play starts. The consent form is an invitation to the player to do just that. And yes, such an invitation is necessary...

Suit yourself. I think the problems would be trivial to overcome, and the failure wouldn’t lie with the players in such a situation.

Let’s say you have 5-6 people at your table with triggers. You actually think having those triggers come out in the middle of a scenario is better than knowing about them beforehand?

The purpose of the consent form is that it invites a player to bring these subjects and situations to your attention, so that you will have advance notice ahead of time and making it easier for you to accommodate them (if possible) or to suggest the player join another session if not. As...

Or you give them the consent form, and use it to inform the scenarios, monsters and dangers you throw at them.

No. 'It makes you think,' 'it's got such good intent' and 'you can house rule the document' are not defences of the document, they are additional advantages of it, above and beyond its base utility.

That rather depends on what era of ‘medieval’ you’re talking about, and what region.