Safety Cards

Safety cards allow players and gamemasters to provide feedback about sensitive situations while playing games using Shard. This feature was developed with feedback from our community and Dessica shares her description of the feature.

Hello Shard Team, Dessica here, it’s been a long time since my name has graced the contribution pages. But I’d like to talk about Shard’s new feature that was just added in. If you utilize any TTRPG safety tools then you will be happy to know that the X-Card is now here in the chat system. This system was developed to help players navigate potentially sensitive moments during a game. If you utilize consent forms, and any form of Lines and Veils with your players to help navigate violence, gore, etc. Then this system gives you and the players one more tool in the kit. As a DM who utilizes these features for my games, especially my therapy games it is important to the well-being and respect of your players to navigate sensitive topics in a supportive and safe way. With that said lets talk about how to use the new features.

As long as you are not typing in the message window, you can click on the emojis and you will see the option at the bottom of the emoji window to place the X-Card to stop what’s currently going on, the N-Card to slow down, or the O-Card to keep going when it’s around a touchy subject for your players. Now not to worry players, only the DM and the player who pressed the card know who fired it off, it will show as anonymous for everyone else. Additionally, only the DM and the player that pushed the card can click on it and delete it. I am super excited about the launch of this feature as I have been championing it with Darren for some time now. So seeing it being brought into the main features of Shard once again highlights why I love this team so much. Until next time gang!!

Dess

To learn more about using safety cards in your game here is a link to a document recommended by Dessica.