@surreality said in X-Cards:
We do already kinda have this as a 'page the GM' kind of thing, if someone wants to make a quiet exit without speaking up to all and sundry.
p GM=This is hitting an RL limit for me due to <X>. I'd like an out this round, via <Reasonably Possible Y, ex: 'hears a noise outside to investigate and will meet up with the party later', 'is knocked out and carried home by the others', 'gets an emergency call from Bob and must go', etc.> if at all possible.
So what if we standardized something like this in game. Just made it part of the culture. A Player should feel comfortable saying 'Hey, this is something I am sensitive to and would like to find a way for me and my PC to not interact it.' and the GM/ST/DM Simply smiles, understands, gives them an out, or something else to do in the meanwhile, and every opportunity to rejoin once past said impasse after. You guard the hall! Your babysitter fell through, so you gotta hunt the monster another day. With 0 stigma.
Tangent I mean some folks will have to come to grips that their yum is not everyone else's yum. And that if your yum is someone else's yuck, that there is nothing wrong with that either and you dont have to push your yum on them. But also that if their yum is your yuck, you don't get to demean them for it either. I married a Vegetarian 12.5 years ago, I promise that it's okay to still be great friends while not liking the same things. End tangent