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