Lol, the thread on this product over at TBP is full of gems and insightful commentary as usual. Fucking toxic cishet white males and their stranglehold on power dynamics, attacking and dogpiling on the disenfranchised PoC and marginalized LGBTQ gamers! BLOCKED!!! Session zero never ends, FACT!!!
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/monte-cooks-consent-in-gaming-hits-shelves-poop-hits-fans.852440/
It's a sad affair. Just look at the behavior of certain woke individuals in that thread. There's at least one non-offensive, intelligent counterpoint among a sea of conformers, and that person is immediately banned. I doubt they even broke any of the rpg.net rules. Power is obviously what some of them want.
I don't think these group-thinking tribalists realize that the path of censorship leads towards a single direction that is a confining space where diversity will not be allowed to flourish. Veto powers will become so intrusive that gaming will get nowhere as laying out the rules is going to become half of the hobby. Rules will only become harsher as this invasive ideology embeds itself deeper into the hobby, because some of them can't help themselves; there will always be someone who won't stop at this product. One step at a time.
Next it will be roll20, Fantasy Grounds and Cons adding consent ideology to their terms of servicerules for attendance and then it will only get worse. You'll be running games for strangers and you'll get flagged for stepping over some line you weren't made aware of without any means of recourse, and it'll be three-strikes and you're out. Everyone is going to be tip-toeing in their games that it's going to be a very limiting experience to want to go out and meet new people in the hobby to play with. And anyone who happens to be on this list of thrice-struck hobbyists won't even be able to attend any con or even have access to sites like roll20 or fantasy grounds.
It's sad, because a common argument I've seen is that you're free to have your own rules in your own gaming groups. People who agree with this sort of thing are free to use it, I personally don't care. However, people who express they would rather opt out are immediately vilified, regardless of the reason for opting out. I'll stay out of your gaming if you stay out of mine.
For now, I obviously won't be using it, or introducing it to any of my gaming groups. If someone brings it up I'll say why do we need it now? If they persist, then hopefully they won't sour as we can continue gaming. Sadly, this sort of thing only will create segregation in the long run.
As a final thought. Sure there are assholes out there, and edgy people who want to shock others, but it happens so infrequently and people like that are immediately removed from a group. Not everyone who wants to dissociate themselves with "Consent for Gaming" is that way, but a lot of people think they are... They must have something to hide, right? To be honest, I just want to run games, have fun, and not feel like I have to be careful because how draining will that be? I'm not trying to deceive anyone, or put people in situations they aren't comfortable in, but I want to run a game that speaks towards realism to some degree. I want my monsters to be horrific, I want my horrible NPCs to be prejudiced. Not because I am such a person, but because I want my players to have a reason to be heroes.