Lines, Veils, and Safety Tools

I don't expect this intro game to get particularly dark or anything, but it never hurts to be proactive about this kind of thing.

Please know that you may always contact me either by PM or on your individual ooc threads to voice an issue. You are under no obligation to explain why if you don't want to. Simply send me an X or ask to fade to black or whatever you feel comfortable with and I will immediately do so. I ask that if I do that the other players will respectfully move on as well.

If there are any particular triggers, you would like for me to be aware of so that I may pre-emptively steer us away from them, feel free to let me know here or in your individual sub-forums. I usually break these kinds of things down as "lines" (stuff that we avoid entirely in the game) and "veils" (things that can occur but happen in the background or only alluded to)

Lastly, I'm assuming we are all mature adults. If any of you prove otherwise, I will give a clear private warning once. If the offending person simply cannot take a hint, i will simply remove them from the game. If for some reason, you continue to make this an issue beyond the game, I will report you to the mods and you could be banned for failure to respect the code of conduct. I don't expect it to even get to that first step, but I want everyone to understand my expectations.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Dully noted.
Personally, aside of the obvious "big no-no", I'd simply like to avoid having the PC explicitly involved in torture, either as victims or tormentors. While I don't know most of the players here and I think that they are more experienced, I have often seen my PCs turn to that rather quickly as a DM. Not only do I find it rather disturbing, but it also should realistically take a huge mental toll on the players themselves, and it would be rather hard to consider them as "morally good" afterward.

That said, I am personally fine with the PCs having to endure pain, grave or even debilitating injuries and even death, as long as it's not gratuitous.

Noted.

Thanks ^^ !