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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8259426" data-attributes="member: 86653">So since I'm prepping a game that will be set in Ravenloft and draw heavily on some more explicitly horror-based tropes and themes, I was working through the lines and veils worksheet from Consent in Gaming. I thought it would be helpful to people to see what it is and what that looks like. The Stay Alive! book has an expanded list so I used that instead.Lines and veils are basically hard lines (do not include) and soft veils (it's okay if it's not the focus and/or kept to the background). It's a really smart system and easy to use. The answers below are my lines and veils as a DM, there's no player involvement or answers yet. Blank spots or the word "blank" is a green light.Social and Cultural Issues✦ Homophobia. Line.✦ Racism. Line.✦ Real-world religion. Line.✦ Sexism. Line.✦ Specific cultural issues. Depends.For me, I have to deal with these things directly on a daily basis in my real life. I play RPGs to escape. I don't want to have these topics dragging down my real life and my gaming. So they're all lines, except "specific cultural issues"...which is, ironically, utterly non-specific, so "depends" is the best I could do.RelationshipsRomance...✦ Explicit. Line.✦ Between PCs and NPCs. Line.✦ Between PCs.Sex...✦ Explicit. Line.✦ Between PCs and NPCs. Line.✦ Between PCs. Veil.I am absolutely terrible at RPing romance, and sex scenes...forget about it. If two PCs consent to a relationship and want to RP that out, more power to them. But I'm not interested in sitting through any kind of description of their love making, so veil...aka fade to black.Horror✦ Blood.✦ Body horror.✦ Bugs.✦ Demons.✦ Eyeballs.✦ Gore. Veil.✦ Harm to animals. Domestic pets, line. Otherwise, blank.✦ Harm to children. Line.✦ Mummies.✦ Occult/witchcraft/Satanism.✦ Rats.✦ Spiders.✦ Spirit boards/Ouija boards.✦ Tumors.I'm fine with any of the blanks. But if my players want those veiled or lined, so be it. We'll be playing a horror game, so there's some gore expected, but I prefer a more gothic horror vibe, so it's a veil for me. I will not abide even the hint of child harm or endangerment, so line. Likewise with domestic animals and pets, line. But it's also D&D and a horror game so things like wolves, bats, etc will be a thing...unless the players object. In that case I'd talk through if there's any specific animals that are lines instead of veils and see how much resolution there is on that, i.e. dig into the specifics through conversation to see what's okay.Mental and Physical Health✦ Cancer. Line.✦ Claustrophobia.✦ Darkness.✦ Drugs and addiction.✦ Freezing to death.✦ Gaslighting. Line.✦ Genocide.✦ Heatstroke.✦ Mind control. Inflicted on the PCs, line. NPCs, blank.✦ Natural disasters.✦ Paralysis/physical restraint.✦ Police, police aggression.✦ Pregnancy, miscarriage, or abortion.✦ Self-harm. Line.✦ Severe weather.✦ Sexual assault. Line.✦ Slavery. Committed by the PCs, line. Otherwise, veil.✦ Starvation.✦ Terrorism.✦ Thirst.✦ Torture. Inflicted by or on the PCs, line. Otherwise, veil.I have an uncle who is currently dying of cancer, so line. PS: FY cancer. Gaslighting is evil, so line. Likewise I have to draw a line for self-harm. Pure nope. So too with sexual assault, line.As a player I despise having my character mind controlled, it's literally the only thing I get to do in the game...control my PC, so taking that away means I might as well not even be there, so big fat line. But if the PCs want to mind control NPCs, go for it. I've played in and run a lot of Dark Sun, so slavery is a weird one for me. I tend to make a point of it existing early on in Dark Sun games but let it mostly fade into the background. Then I had some PCs try to become slavers. Nope. Line, line, line. I also take a rather dim view of the players torturing NPCs for information and I will not torture PCs...it's just...line. But as something that exists in the world, absolutely. I just don't want to focus on it.So that's it.That's a basic run through of a lines and veils worksheet. If lines and veils are something you want to use, it's that easy. Just send the checklist to your players and have them fill it out. Collect 'em all. Compile the list. And pass that out to the players so they know what to expect. If anyone lines something, it's lined. If anyone veils something, it's veiled. It's really simple and easy to look out for your fellow players and make sure everyone can have a good time escaping the real world for a minute.</blockquote>

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