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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8717724" data-attributes="member: 19857">Trying to suss this out as a hypothetical is kind of pointless.  In any circumstance where someone is playing an X-card you're going to know that you crossed a line and it will probably be something where you know it's something that could make someone uncomfortable.Like if you're describing the attack of a giant spider and you're getting very lurid with your descriptions and someone plays an X-card?  it's very likely that they're an arachnophobe and you've taken things too far for their comfort.  And 99% of the time when someone plays an X-card they'll tell you why they're doing it, the point is that if they don't want to talk about it you as a GM need to not push it because if they don't want to talk about it it's very likely that you've just hit something traumatic for them that they really don't want to talk about.X-cards don't get played at random.  And when they do get played it's usually very obvious to everyone at the table why.  And any GM who is getting X-cards played on them with regularity is probably pushing boundaries far beyond what normally happens at a table, or they're springing a lurid horror game on players without their consent (which is the kind of behavior safety tools in RPGs are trying to stop).</blockquote>