The X-Card is more or less what it sounds like; A card with an X on it.<\/p>\n
The idea is that if anyone finds something in a game uncomfortable, they can tap or gesture to or pick up and wave the X-Card, and we all move on, no questions asked.<\/p>\n
I’ve never seen it used, but I damn near ran an opening session of a game which would have had one of the players lunging wildly for said card. Fortunately, a chance remark gave me time to re-write it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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First time I had to bail on an event due to poor spoon-management.<\/p>\n
First time I’ve had a GM list their preferred pronouns on a little name card. I’d seen the occasional person who had them on a badge ribbon; No idea where the ribbons came from.<\/p>\n
First time I’ve not <\/b>been the person who traveled the furthest. I wasn’t even #2 on the list, as there was someone from sonewhere in Sweden, and someone from Rome.<\/p>\n
From NZ, it was possible <\/i>to have come from further away, if you were from Australia.<\/p>\n
From the UK, … Pretty easy.<\/p>\n
The person who traveled the furthest is almost certainly from Western Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
First time making characters at the game table; Normally it’s pre-gens all the way, but given that the two <\/b>games were Masks & QAGS, there wasn’t much chance of character Gen eating up the session.<\/p>\n
Masks uses the Apocalypse Engine, so Character Generation is mostly ‘circle the option’ + ‘fill in the blank’.<\/p>\n
QAGS is a very simple system; The hard part is the concept. Once you have THAT, the rest is pretty easy. In the game of it I ran, a player known for analysis paralysis was able to make a character, from initial concept to being ready to go, in about 15 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And because I’d like to put in an image; I never saw this guy, but I did<\/i> see a soapbox literalist ranter. Me, I prefer this approach;<\/p>\n
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