What we need are "that fucking rocked" cards around the table for players to hold up when they want more of that.

Quote from: EOTB;1061711What we need are "that fucking rocked" cards around the table for players to hold up when they want more of that.

Fuck it. Lock the thread. We have a winner. This plus this and a little more of this.

Quote from: EOTB;1061711What we need are "that fucking rocked" cards around the table for players to hold up when they want more of that.

It's a thing. From the X-card document:

QuoteThe O-Card is an X-Card with an X on one side and an O on the other!

The O-Card was invented by Kira Scott so that players who want more of specific content can tap the O instead of the X to tell the other players, "more of this!"

Read more about the O-Card here:
http://www.gamingaswomen.com/posts/2013/01/finding-my-o-with-the-x-card/

So an O(rgasm)-Card?! :confused:

Quote from: Alderaan Crumbs;1061717So an O(rgasm)-Card?! :confused:

Who needs an O-Card when you have an O-Face?

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1061722Who needs an O-Card when you have an O-Face?

I want you to picture Josh Macintosh's O-face...

Quote from: Alderaan Crumbs;1061728I want you to picture Josh Macintosh's O-face...

Judging from his personality, I doubt he's ever had one that wasn't self induced.

I had no idea it was this complex:

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http://www.contessa.rocks/blog/a-printable-safety-card-for-your-table

Quote from: Motorskills;1061677Beyond that, I think it is part of the series of changes that has lead to a lot of new blood in the hobby, especially the increase of women at conventions. I think that's great, YMMV.

There are a lot of women at my local game stores now. There are no signs up about harassment. The women came the same way the men came: someone invited them, or had an open game table for them to come to. It's not about policies and procedures, it's about being open, friendly and welcoming. The decline in popularity of rpgs in the 1990s was a good thing in this respect: it broke the chain of older players mentoring younger players, so a new generation could come along with no preconceptions about who was supposed to play. Gamers in their 20s today don't know the hobby is supposed to be one for fat neckbeards.

Australia has a sensible content rating system now. Rather than just PG-13 or whatever, they add, "contains cartoon violence and adult themes" or whatever. So if you are particularly sensitive about something, or you are in the mood for "sexual themes", or you have children with you watching or the like, you can adjust accordingly. At most a game session should have that kind of warning.

In my games, the players lead the way and determine the themes and style of play. I don't put much in there that the players didn't put in first. So this is the difficulty with any rating system, X-cards or whatever: the game isn't scripted, so the GM might not have put something in there, but the players do. Thus, no rating or card system can take away from the need for people to be grownups and sometimes say, "dude, come on."

ConTessa pushing X-card nonsense? How not shocking.

Quote from: Motorskills;1061677Beyond that, I think it is part of the series of changes that has lead to a lot of new blood in the hobby, especially the increase of women at conventions.

It's amazing. HOW did women ever walk out of their house before the white knights saved them???

LOL. The kind of people who would show to an event because of an "anti harassment policy" being posted are NOT the kind of people anyone needs in a healthy hobby. It's for a hobby that wants to attract freakshows.

Quote from: Warboss Squee;1061705Just remember to be positive the mothership is here before drinking the koolaid.

Fuck that. If they see a cloud shaped as their mothership, drink motherfuckers drink!

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1061741There are a lot of women at my local game stores now. There are no signs up about harassment.

Those poor Australian women just don't know how unsafe they are without a white knight to guide their every action!!

Quote from: jhkim;1061708Likewise, I think the naive interpretation of Chekhov's gun is false. If a character is walking around holding a gun and talking - that gun matters and changes how we interpret the speech, even if the gun is never fired.

Chekhov's Gun doesn't need to be held by characters. It simply has to exist in the scene, its presence looming with the expectation it will be used, thus it has its effect.

The X-card looms over the game, used or unused. Its a statement that the GM believes one or more of the adults at that table is mental basket case who can't play make believe without shitting themselves.

And that's apparently a correct assumption for games which draw certain types of players.

Quote from: Motorskills;1061677I think the rules give a structure to expected behaviour, and it gives organizers (who might not necessarily be wanting to get confrontational) a tool to point at. "You can't say you weren't warned".

Beyond that, I think it is part of the series of changes that has lead to a lot of new blood in the hobby, especially the increase of women at conventions. I think that's great, YMMV.

So women are so weak they haven't been gaming because of shit like X-cards?

Quote from: Aglondir;1061740I had no idea it was this complex:

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Those are absolutely stupid and probably created (and needed) by the same kinds of people who think coloring books and Playdough will save crying adults in college from scary President Trump.

Quote from: Alderaan Crumbs;1061755So women are so weak they haven't been gaming because of shit like X-cards?



Those are absolutely stupid and probably created (and needed) by the same kinds of people who think coloring books and Playdough will save crying adults in college from scary President Trump.

Greetings!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! I'm *speechless*. My god, the stupid train just doesn't stop with these people. Fucking "safe and inclusive?" Oh, geesus. Go grab your fucking stuffed animal, you whiny fucking crybabies!

Just too much, Alderaan. God, that shit makes me want to smoke a good cigar and laugh at their stupidity train!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: Spinachcat;1061753ConTessa pushing X-card nonsense? How not shocking.

Not just using it, but doubling down on "don't tell anyone why you used the X-card, the GM will just magically know what the problem is".

(From the posted image: "Without needing anymore clarification, the GM/Storyteller will move on.")

Quote from: Aglondir;1061740I had no idea it was this complex:

Now that I think about it, I don't think the ConTessa table I was at actually had a X-card, for whatever's that worth. (The table was covered with stuff, so it's totally possible it was there).

The X-cards I did see (elsewhere) were just big Xs. Those were mostly on freer-form tables so less paper involved.

Quote from: Alderaan Crumbs;1061473"Manly manliness"? Jumpin' Jesus on a Junebug, the Soy is strong with you.

But "psychologically fragile" and "freakshows" are just dandy with you?

Fuck that noise. I've seen many more problems at gaming over decades with socially aggressive behaviour.