One for the Changling players in the IoD

[gold_dust84]

Evening,

Manchester is punting around the idea of a Manchester Lost game, possibly with the IoD, possibly troupe. We just have one slight niggle before we start discussing it further.

Lost has some fairly adult concepts. You know the sort of thing: abduction, murder, 'big bad scary things that invade your safe space'. Has anyone in the IoD (or

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[akonken]

Disclaimers are good, making sure players feel comfortable with each other and the ST enough so they can ask for space on issues. A (possibly anonymous) way of saying what topics/themes are bad for them.

There's probably more. And thank you for being sensitive enough to think about this in advance. Or at all. :)

[belak_krin]

While its an over-18 thing and people know 'what to expect', there are some pretty simple measures you can take to mitigate your concerns.

Safe-word is number 1. The oWoD 'ling game in Cambridge used 'fade to black', an OOC call that lets the ST/Group know you are not comfortable where this scene is going and can they skip to the end please. This lets you resolve the situation without dealing with the 'trigger' events.

The second thing you can do is give players the opportunity to contact you privately with anything they are not comfortable with in-game. In some cases this may be simple phobias to work around (scared of spiders? Fight giant scorpians instead) or it may be that you have to tell the player that the game will be dealing with those themes (like child murder) and if they aren't comfortable with it, the game probably isn't for them.

[mionassmaster]

They're adults. Warn them beforehand, get them to read some of the material and let them make the choice for themselves.

WoD players aren't children and should'nt have their hands held all the time imo.

[thevampiredave]

Whilst I agree with Watson that we're adults playing adult games (ahem), that really isn't my experience of what's happened. I still remember the player weeping and running to her car because Dr Klein asked for her liver and when she refused he said he'd take whilst she slept.

I think it helps if you know the people at the game and know who is sensitive to things.

My last comment is the most helpful...

I am tempted to play a child, who likes playing and having friends. I also have a dark edge where I steal fire engines. Deal with it!

[mathias_tanavar]

I think that people have duties as players to not play if they don't think they can handle it.

If I rock up to this adult themes games and then blame you for talking about these adult themes then I am the cock. If someone rocks up to the game and talks about inappropriate stuff then they are a cock.

In this case I would be the cock, it is that simple.