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Safety Tools in D&D
The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
English - February 04, 2021 18:03 - 23 minutes - 44.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 101 ratingsGames Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Mike talks about safety tools in D&D including the X-card, lines and veils, script change, and others.
Youtube version of this discussion
Resources
Safety tool reference by Tomer Gurantz
Campaign Safety & Consent Checklist
Consent in Gaming
Digital RPG Consent Checklist
Optional Rule Safety Consent RPG Checklist
Script Change
Script Change Printable
Spelltheory on Safety Tools
The X card
TTRPG Safety Toolkit Resources
TTRPG Safety Toolkit
Video Contents
00:00 What are safety tools?
01:05 Why use safety tools?
03:01 The X-Card
03:39 Lines and Veils
08:11 Script Change
09:13 The Door is Open
10:20 Why do I suddenly care?
13:48 A Safety Tool Stack (rating, lines & veils, "pause")
16:27 Recognizing full-consent decisions versus majority rule
17:49 DMs using "Pause for a Second"
19:18 More on why we want safety tools
23:08 The Awesome Value of free tools