Questions tagged [safety-tools]
For questions about safety tools used in role-playing games. Safety tools are a way for all participants involved to communicate and check-in before, during, and after a game to make sure everyone is still having fun and provide support when needed. Safety tools often go hand in hand with a "session 0" (see the [session-zero] tag), in which such boundaries and topics can be discussed.
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How to pitch Wraith in a responsible fashion without risking traumatizing people?
Sometime around 2000, I was introduced to Wraith in the worst fashion ever, and it destroyed any interest in me ever reading the rule portions but I learned to love the worldbuilding of it.
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How can I word an aspect that I can potentially veto being compelled without using an X-Card?
I'm trying to recreate an existing character in FATE, but she has an aspect that I'm unsure how to handle.
This aspect is something that I want to be able to bring up in play, and I mostly see myself ...
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Vampire and Safety Tools
Vampire the Masquerade has a lot of abilities to abuse other players, especially via disciplines like Dominate and Presence. Obfuscate can be used to appear as literally anyone, which might be used to ...
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How does dwarfism affect TTRPG gameplay experiences?
I noticed on this question that the Fate Accessibility Toolkit features
Discussion of specific disabilities, including... dwarfism
I was surprised to see dwarfism in the list of disabilities ...
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Practical use of the O-card, or how to measure positive consent on the fly
I'm preparing to run a game of Bluebeard's Bride with couple of players I don't know very well. This game can be quite heavy on disturbing content, so I certainly plan to have an X-card equivalent in ...
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Do consent forms genuinely contribute to safer playing environments in practice?
The new hype this year seems to be consent forms for RPG Sessions, especially in the contexts of horror games. There are many kinds of consent forms, but their function is in letting people provide a ...
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Social contract for flirting at LARPs
I have been a participant but mostly organiser of a LARP in Switzerland for a number of years. This year I have for the first time participated in a large organised LARP in Germany (Conquest of ...
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What are the benefits of using the X Card safety tool in comparison to plain communication?
I am aware that this question may come across as ignorant or as an attempt at trolling. While I cannot prove it, I hope enough people believe that this question was asked in good faith and with the ...
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What type of rule is the Red Rule, and where does it come from?
Exalted has, in its third iteration, "the Red Rule".
The Red Rule
In almost all aspects, Exalted doesn’t mechanically distinguish
between Storyteller characters and those the players
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What do the terms "lines" and "veils" mean?
I have seen the terms "lines" and "veils" used on this SE (including on the chat) a number of times, especially in terms of social contracts between players.
What do these terms mean?
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