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Tagged with social-contract terminology
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What are the key features of Stars and Wishes?
Stars and Wishes are a system of positive critique that has been included in the TTRPG-Toolkit since around 2020 and got some references on the stack. It seems to be all about giving feedback to the ...
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What type of rule is the Red Rule, and where does it come from?
Exalted has, in its third iteration, "the Red Rule".
The Red Rule
In almost all aspects, Exalted doesn’t mechanically distinguish
between Storyteller characters and those the players
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What describes the portion of the social contract that describes explicitly-permitted controversial themes?
I am working on drafting the table culture guidelines for an upcoming game, and I plan to use the lines and veils methodology to lay out content boundaries. Lines and veils are a subtractive element: ...
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What do the terms "lines" and "veils" mean?
I have seen the terms "lines" and "veils" used on this SE (including on the chat) a number of times, especially in terms of social contracts between players.
What do these terms mean?
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What is a social contract?
The concept of "social contract" comes up in discussions of group dynamics and RPG theory. We even have a tag for social-contract. But there is no good, easily-found definition online anywhere. Our ...
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