Safety Tools in D&D

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