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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7822127" data-attributes="member: 7006">I find it amusing that people still argue about this because no one has any choice in the matter.  Those places that want to use X-cards or any other techniques to allow uncomfortable situations that come up to be moved passed with a minimum of disruption are going to use them.  Regardless of how many people come here onto ENWorld to complain about them.  As a result, each person has to decide when they either have a Session Zero or an X-card is present, or some other thing just whether or not they want to sit at the table.You know what my guess is?  At the time it occurs, very few of any of us is going to actually put up a fuss.  Even those who think they are bad ideas.  Because quite frankly people are right in that they actually get used rather infrequently because 99% of all of us actually know how to play games with other people with a modicum of respect.So at that point when we sit down at a table at a con, 99% of the time the game is going to go off without a hitch... with or without a card with an X on it sitting in the middle.  And we all know this.  So the question is... do you cut off your nose to spite your face and get up and leave that table at the con just because a note card is there?  I would be 99.9% certain that no... none of us would get up (if we really wished to play that game we signed up for.)  Because that X-card really just ends up as much a part of the table background as a DM screen or a dice tower.  You see it, you think 'Hmm'... and then you sit down and play the game.So yeah, if people want to expound on the philosophy of X-cards and the like, more power to you.  But enough people are seeing the value in them that they aren't just going to up and disappear no matter how much some people might say they should.  And all of us will just have to deal with that truth.</blockquote>

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