Announcing the MCDM Tabletop Safety Toolkit (Patreon)

Hey folks,

James here with a cool, free thing to enhance your tabletop RPG experiences!

You may have noticed that in ARCADIA and other products we often recommend integrating safety tools into your games, particularly when it comes to spooky content! But, we wanted to make integrating safety tools into your game even easier, so we asked Sally Tamarkin to author the MCDM Tabletop Safety Toolkit. She teamed up with awesome consultants Colette Brown, LMSW and Sarah Hays, PsyD to make it. The toolkit will exist (and get updated as needed and time allows) at this link:

https://mcdm.gg/SafetyToolkit 

This resource is entirely free, so please share it with anyone who is interested.

Safety tools—the X-Card, Lines and Veils, and others—are simply ways to formalize the process of getting everyone at the table on the same page about the topics and themes you’ll be exploring as you play.

Our toolkit isn't the first of its kind! It's influenced by amazing projects like the TTRPG Safety Toolkit from Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk and Consent in Gaming from Monte Cook Games. Both are excellent resources that you may also find helpful.

The toolkit contains a guide to introducing safety tools in a session zero, links to several free safety tools you can use in your games right now, tips for integrating them, and a checklist that you can give to your players so everyone is on the same page about what topics might make someone uncomfortable and which themes you can lean into to get the most out of your gaming experience.

If you've never used safety tools before, fear not. This guide defines terms from the ground up, makes them easy to use, and discusses the benefits of using the tools at the table.

We brought this to the MCDM community because safety tools have allowed many of us to communicate more effectively with our fellow players, take some of the anxiety out of gaming with strangers, and push our games in new directions. We hope this tool helps you get more fun out of every adventure!

—James, Hannah, and the MCDM Team