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"Feel free to leave if you have a reason," is not the same as, "If you are having a problem, I have a tool to work with you on it." Not that there's a problem with having an open door policy, too. But they aren't the same, in that they accomplish different things. No, the X Card is not...

Because not having it when you do need it is kind of a miserable experience for someone at your table? Remember, the X-Card is an emergency tool. It is a fire extinguisher, an EpiPen, a car insurance policy. You should not be seeing it invoked frequently. But, that one time, it may help...

There's no hard and fast line on when and how to invoke it. If your table was okay with it, fine, I guess. But, to be honest, unless the players were being made psychologically unsafe by the module, that wasn't within the modern intent of the tool. Being "miffed" at a poorly written module...

In original, there's one card, in the middle of the table. And, really, you don't need a "card" - anything you can write a big X on will do. Paper, a solo cup, whatever. How often do you do a new Code of Conduct from scratch? Normally, when I work with such things, I take an old one, and...

Yeah. In presenting it, you're presenting yourself, as GM, as someone who wants to be thoughtful about things. That can go a long way.

Again, take that up with the other guy. I think Lin Codega recently did an interview on Rascal about it, with someone who was present at the time. https://www.rascal.news/how-the-x-card-was-created-john-stavropoulos-james-mendez-hodes-interview/

You can take that up with John Stavropulous, who all the sources I can find say invented the X card. If you can find an earlier citation, have at it.

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Yeah, well the X-card idea was first published in 2013, iirc. The breakthrough there may have been less the X-card itself, and more than we really ought to think about this stuff, and maybe have tools on hand for it.

I see the argument, but the telephone and SMS messages are also "communication tools" - this language lacks specificity. The tools do not generate safety, but they can enable communication that can help make you safer. So, I'm good with the name we currently use.

No safety tool actually prevents people from acting in bad faith. In the experiences I mentioned above, and in discussions I've had - the X-card really isn't to hold the line on basic civility. The general expectations of the table should still be laid out before play, and folks should be...

Mod Note: Oh, you thought this was something for you to play with? Wrong. YOU are hereby banned from these forums for a week, for pretending to be a moderator. Edit: Yeah, I know, "It was a joke." As if that has ever actually worked as an excuse for doing something you should have know...

Yep. In the case I mentioned, the player wound up dropping into a one-shot at a house con last minute, and there wasn't time for the discussion, or apparent need - the session wasn't titled, "Against the Spider-Volcano Horde" or anything obvious.

This indicates that you have not a fig of an idea of what safety tools are for. You are arguing against a strawman of your own making. And at this point, that makes your position... sad.

So, do you want to get really philosophical about this? If the imaginary word does not differ AT ALL from the real one, then there is no morality in that world at all - any more than there is morality in a mirror. "Morality" does not exist without choice. That imaginary world has no choice...

Ah. 1) Product and marketing are not the same thing. 2) I expect you are in error in classifying WotC adventures as being more casual.

Most recent would be Daggerheart a couple weeks back, and Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel arrived a few days ago.

Thinking about it, I really don't think so. I don't think WotC's marketing drives anyone to play. There isn't enough of it, especially in the casual, and semi-casual spaces, to be driving play. If you aren't a pretty dedicated player, you aren't frequenting places WotC advertises to see it.

Well, the GM didn't just say, "..and there's a spider." There was vivid description, focus on the size of the body, the hairy, jointed legs, the many, many shiny-but-dead eyes, the glistening fangs, drooling venom... I can't do it justice here, but in context, it got that it was a valid...

As you yourself then noted, that wouldn't be the scenario. With 5e in Creative Commons, you can have professional support even if WotC isn't making the material. I don't think casual players are driven by WotC publication or marketing. I think they are driven by their somewhat-less-casual...