The use of X-cards (and declaring your pronouns) mandatory to run Zweihander games at GenCon 2020.  How long before it is mandatory to run anything at Gen Con.

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Whole thing smells like an attempt to force normal people to abandon the hobby leaving only another circus jerk of freaklings behind so they can then gaze around and declare "ah, inclusiveness, equality, so powerful, so brave, so stunning, i'm doing my part, look at me am I not on the right side of history, yup it feels great to be so inclusive, I feel included, hey jim don't you feel included too? oh shit jim left in disgust earlier...ah well, he was anti-inclusive anyway, it's so much better to see his former table playing fursona characters coming to terms with ever increasing anal circumference than the same old white europeans colonizing goblins of color to increase their hordes of gold, like, how can you even own gold anyway, you didn't smelt that its not yours...oh shit save vs anal circumference increase guys this dragon is hung brah!"

Quote from: Gagarth;1123738The use of X-cards (and declaring your pronouns) mandatory to run Zweihander games at GenCon 2020.  How long before it is mandatory to run anything at Gen Con.

Christ, even on his sign-up forms Daniel can't resist trying to 'get his name out'.

Considering it's Not!WarhammerFantasy you'd expect the average person who actively uses X-Cards to be flashing it just about every turn.

I question how "Warhammery" it can get at a Convention where X-cards might be played purely for status-value.

They should just make a game add-on for Cards Against Humanity - called X-Card and call it an RPG... and get it over with.

Well that is the problem. As I've been pointing out for a long time now. These SJW cultists and the storygamer cultists treat RPGs exactly like a sex fetish and set out to infiltrate and co-opt just like certain sex fetish groups do to other groups. And storygamers and Forge cultists were spearheading this well ahead of the current moral outrage brigade.

Quote from: Slipshot762;1123760Whole thing smells like an attempt to force normal people to abandon the hobby leaving only another circus jerk of freaklings

Exactly why our hobby needs to become EXCLUSIVE and UNWELCOMING to the circus jerk of freaklings.

Quote from: tenbones;1123843I question how "Warhammery" it can get at a Convention where X-cards might be played purely for status-value.

I haven't read Zweihander, but Warhammer is pretty much built on "nasty, brutish and short" life in a crapsack world of grotesques (with a big dose of black humour to lighten it, something the woke types are especially sensitive to). That doesn't work in combination with wokeness. It is an unstable combination that yields only tepid, lukewarm games.

Did I read the image correctly and that you're agreeing to always use the X-Card even if you're not at the convention?

And to clarify the X card isn't about not being a jerk - it's a very clear set of rules. A player at any time can tap it and the GM instantly has to guess at what they're doing that's upsetting that person, but they can't ask, and then stop doing it, potentially having to rewrite a planned scenario on the fly. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but it's not just "don't be a jerk".

Not sure where Zweihander is going in general. I actually love the product but their most recent touted release was a Cat People race, which seems like a pretty aggressive turn towards D&D 5e sensibilities.

Maybe we're thinking about this all wrong.  Maybe we should stop resisting the inevitable and get on the "right side" of history guys.  Time to stop whining and get with the program.  Gaming needs to be inclusive of EVERYONE'S feeling, regardless of their gender, beliefs, neuro-diversity OR social position.   I suggest we whole-heartedly adopt the  X card as a valuable tool in creating group consensus and a more inclusive gaming experience, BUT we can't leave out the GM can we?  That wouldn't be very inclusive.  

What we need therefore is a Z CARD.  The Z card is the sole possession of the GM/DM/Ref/Storyteller [sic].  It overrules all other cards, A through Y inclusive.  The Z card has text on it which states "My game, my rules."  Whenever a particularly insensitive deplorable player throws down a silly piece of paper with an "X" drawn on it, or tries to cite rules to argue with the GM, or is just being a whiny little bitch, the GM is encouraged to show him/her/zir the Z card.  It is polite to tell them to "Read Z-card" or if there is any concern they may be visually impaired to hold it up to their face while saying loudly (because they also may be hearing impaired) "SEE Z-CARD!"  The Z-card can be laminated, mounted on a metal structure, or engraved on a wooden surface, for reuse.  If the GM feels sufficiently threatened by multiple non-compling players, he/she/zir may then create a safe space by liberally swinging the Z-Card as needed.

Failure to heed Z-Card is grounds for immediate ejection from the game.

Quote from: PencilBoy99;1123934Did I read the image correctly and that you're agreeing to always use the X-Card even if you're not at the convention?

Yes always with every game you ever play. Of course this includes Stud Poker. :rolleyes:

Quote from: Gagarth;1123738The use of X-cards (and declaring your pronouns) mandatory to run Zweihander games at GenCon 2020.  How long before it is mandatory to run anything at Gen Con.

That's just for Organized Play, which I assume means these dudes will be sponsoring you, in a sense. Nothing stopping you from going the normal volunteer route to run all the Zweihander you want away from their overly sensitive clutches. Or heading over to Games on Demand or other open gaming areas to do similarly in a less structured environment. Unless they don't have those anymore, which I suppose is possible. It has been over a decade since the one time I went(Dragon Con is just so much closer and more affordable for me.)

Quote from: SHARK;1107504Greetings!

Hey Tenbones! I thought I heard Jhkim say before that he has only rarely seen the X-card ever used, then he says that he has played "a bunch of games with people who use the X-card..." Am I remembering it wrong, brother?

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

I read it to mean that the card was available but never used.

Quote from: WillInNewHaven;1123973I read it to mean that the card was available but never used.

Yup. I replied with more detail in Post #131.

Well conventions are different than my weekly normal table sessions. *

And the proliferation of silly infantile things like X-cards, and the people that require them, and the presumption that adults can't act like adults in public, absurd. Why would I want to spend my effort and time with people that arbitrarily get to decide what kind of content can exist in my game I'm more vested into? Seems silly at best. To me - if you need an X-card for anything, 1) you probably shouldn't be consuming RPG's. 2) you should work on your issues 3) find people specifically that want to play your game you want to run and spend less time playing with those that don't.

#3 is probably your best bet.

I hold myself to those same standards, because I'm a grown up and I can walk away from a game that's subjectively a waste of my time. It's *easy*.


* Differences being: I run games for adults. I don't allow children. I don't allow bystanders. I have adult content and adult situations designed for mature players that aren't infantile in their views of the world.**

** relatively.

Quote from: Brendan;1123951Maybe we're thinking about this all wrong.  Maybe we should stop resisting the inevitable and get on the "right side" of history guys.  Time to stop whining and get with the program.  Gaming needs to be inclusive of EVERYONE'S feeling, regardless of their gender, beliefs, neuro-diversity OR social position.   I suggest we whole-heartedly adopt the  X card as a valuable tool in creating group consensus and a more inclusive gaming experience, BUT we can't leave out the GM can we?  That wouldn't be very inclusive.  

What we need therefore is a Z CARD.  The Z card is the sole possession of the GM/DM/Ref/Storyteller [sic].  It overrules all other cards, A through Y inclusive.  The Z card has text on it which states "My game, my rules."  Whenever a particularly insensitive deplorable player throws down a silly piece of paper with an "X" drawn on it, or tries to cite rules to argue with the GM, or is just being a whiny little bitch, the GM is encouraged to show him/her/zir the Z card.  It is polite to tell them to "Read Z-card" or if there is any concern they may be visually impaired to hold it up to their face while saying loudly (because they also may be hearing impaired) "SEE Z-CARD!"  The Z-card can be laminated, mounted on a metal structure, or engraved on a wooden surface, for reuse.  If the GM feels sufficiently threatened by multiple non-compling players, he/she/zir may then create a safe space by liberally swinging the Z-Card as needed.

Failure to heed Z-Card is grounds for immediate ejection from the game.

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