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Oh, Rygar. I find your lack of faith in capitalism disturbing. You're ignoring free market solutions. For example, if Company Alpha held conventions on a "boys will be boys" basis, while Company Beta held conventions on a "zero tolerance for misbehavior" basis, then the market could sort out...

If there were a convention equally devoted to "we're here for a reason", and that reason was "let's play some high quality D&D" rather than business to business, that would suit me just fine.

Ranger. Favored Enemy: Dudes Afraid that Women will Ruin Gaming. Favored Terrain: Internet Threads. Chosen maneuver: Horde Breaker.

LEGALIZE GLAGTERY! The mission of GlagterCon isn't to obey the law as it exists; it's to work towards the day when any three consenting adults can engage in glagtery, without legal consequences, without fear, without stigma. So yeah, the con staff turn a blind eye to glagtery, and maintain...

I gather, from the cumulative points of many posts, that what you want at cons and what DannyAlcatraz wants at cons (and what I want and Morrus wants), is largely a shared goal: less harassment, and more inclusivity for more people, not just for cis het dudes. In this particular passage...

So noted. In the theoretical event that you're ever on staff for a con, would you want intrusive questions about bra size to be rare or even absent from the con? Prosfilaes went out of his way to explain to me that such questions are inappropriate. If he's speaking from the experience of...

Some people have a hard time telling red from green. Most of those people are men. People with red-green color blindness learn whether the light means GO or STOP by its location (top or bottom of the traffic signal) rather than its color. They are still responsible for stopping at red lights, if...

You already ticked someone off. "He'll live." Kitty Genovese would agree with you; so would Walter Kovacs, also known as "Rorchach". Our role includes noticing and reporting "missing stairs". If an apartment has a staircase, and one of the stairs is missing, and the landlord never gets around...

If Skynet hosted cons for Terminator fans, the incidence of sexual harassment might be remarkably low. Then again, there's a scene in "Terminator 3", in which the T-X in apparently internalizes male-gaze-driven body norms; it spots a billboard with a model wearing a bra, and shifts more of its...

Three true statements, one after the other! If you are running gaming cons, at which no man ever asks that question to a woman in a cosplay outfit: congratulations, you are running the kind of con Morrus wants to host. How did you accomplish this? Do you screen participants? Do you have them...

If a woman posted "2+2=4", and you responded with "So you're saying 2+2<4? That's not fair!", then I would just shrug, because at this point it's an established pattern. You're taking Afrodyte's politely worded request as a personal attack. You COULD answer "no, that's more than I choose to...

I see no such demand. I see a list of questions, for us to ask *ourselves*, without telling anyone else the answers, as a checklist for whether we can honestly assert that we've never harassed anyone. The list of questions is not an assertion than the answer is yes. Not for any of the questions...

I see you equating "found yourself talking to someone's cleavage" with "being distracted by someone's cleavage". That's some major distortion. Distortion can be convenient, because "I was distracted!" is a normal human *state of mind* (even for those of us who aren't into cleavage), and thus SO...

I feel silly, giving a taken-as-literal response to something said with sarcasm. That said, I want it on record that there are participants who understand and respect your concerns. There's even, for what it's worth, at least one white cis man, with a college education and a few other of life's...

You accuse EN World of allowing character assassination posts. But has a court of law ever convicted EN World of character assassination? Until a court delivers a verdict, you must presume innocence. That's how it works! In the meantime, I recommend you read and ponder J.S. Mills "On Liberty"...

Well, have you tried it? Have you tried walking into a library, and asking the librarians for their most advanced book? What happened?

Let's declare "Blades in the Dark" as the most advanced TRPG currently on the market, and call it a day. There are Youtube videos of BitD sessions, reviews, all kinds of free stuff available. Personally I consider it a game so advanced that it has the bugs typical of an advanced prototype, and...

Well, if Celebrim takes offense, I trust he'll say so. I read his passage, and I hope that you did. I'm nudging you to consider his point about means and ends, methods and goals. I'm not asserting failure. I'm asserting that I would walk away from the table. If the DM didn't *announce* the...

TLDR: There are methods, and there are goals, and it's useful to understand which is which. Furthermore, if I'm understanding Celebrim accurately (take with grain of salt), Celebrim sets goals *for the experience of the actual humans playing at his table*. Here's what would motivate *me* to...

Scrolls of cantrips are Common magic items. Learn Shocking Grasp, etc. Use scrolls when you need Mending, etc. DM to first level party: At the bottom of the treasure chest, you find your first ever magic item! Players: Yay! What is it? DM: A scroll of Blade Ward. Players: Uh... can we sell it...