Welcome back to the weekly D&D and Tabletop Gaming thread!  Here’s a place where we can talk about Dungeons & Dragons or any other tabletop games that you nerds might be into.  Tell us about the games you’re playing, speculate about future expansions, recruit your fellow Avocados into new groups, whatever you want.

Discussion topic: The X Card.

The idea of the X Card is a way for role-players to let everyone at the table know when something happens in-game that makes them uncomfortable. It’s usually a literal card with an X printed on it that a payer can tap or raise to signal their discomfort.

Ideally, a good RPG group is made up of people who you know and are fully comfortable with.  You’d know and respect the boundaries of everyone at the table.  Of course, that’s not always the case–there are new people invited to groups all the time, or groups that play at public game night events, or even online groups like our own.

How do you deal with a situation in which the way one players is RPing makes you or another player uncomfortable?  Have you ever been in a game where the X card was used?  How would you go about implementing this in an online environment like Roll20?

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The AvocaD&D group is currently playing through an Eberron adventure, DM’d by Josephus Brown. Our characters are all at Level 5.

[spoiler title=”Cast of Characters”]

• TheCleverGuy as Cybin Stoneswift, a Hill Dwarf Wizard who’s singularly obsessed with the study of various forms of mushrooms
• Otto (our only non-Avocado party member) as Magz, a Changeling Rogue, a native of Sharn familiar with the city’s seedy underbelly
• The Hayes Code as Cassidy Cody, a Tiefling Bard who makes a living busking in the lightning rail stations with the talent passed down to her from her Pa’s deal with the devil
• Wafflicious as Pizzazzle, a Dragonborn Druid who just wants to clean up the planet so it’s fit for consumption by the all-powerful Nexu
• Mr.ImMyOwnGrandpa as Marcus Tor, a Half-Orc Barbarian and former athlete with a rage-inducing magic spike lodged in his chest
• Anna Nomally as Annya, a Human Rogue who failed at being an assassin because she kept befriending her targets
• The Wasp as NRS-K80, a Warforged Cleric who discovered a passion for healing with the end of the Last War[/spoiler]

No game again this past week, unfortunately.