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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9737691" data-attributes="member: 42856">Sure, but the open door policy has the benefit of allowing one to use it without broadcasting that they have a problem to complete strangers. You might be heavily distressed, but the people you're playing with might as well think that you've digestive issue, or your boss just sent you a text demanding that you call back immediately. They have no way to know which is which. It's an accessible tool.The X-card as you present it has a greater entry cost: if you tell people it's for emergency use only, and exclusively if you've real trouble and not just something more benign, it becomes a less accessible tool. Many people would shy from using it. Or use it when they really can't stand your description of a spider slowly digesting Bob, when they should have used it at the first mention of spider. And there is no drawback to present it as a mundane, accessible tool (players will generally be more interested to play the adventure than X-carding everything to sour the game, I hope).But if it's working well at your table, that's what important.</blockquote>