| This honestly strikes me as a sort of motte and bailey argument At first we were talking about Session 0 as setting guidelines for what behavior is appropriate Now you are saying that Session 0 is more about setting expectations of what kind of game is being run These two topics really don't overlap much because it is equally inappropriate to shit on the floor at a frat party as it is a childs third birthday party The problem in the RPG space is that there are a lot of weirdos in the community who really want to shit on the floor every chance they get Edit: And yes of course session 0 can be for multiple things. It's where expectations are set about the sort of game being run, house rules, appropriate behavior, etc My point is more about how tedious it is to constantly have to remind people that shitting on the floor is not appropriate, because somehow many people in the RPG community have the idea that everything is allowed in these sorts of games, rather than assuming a baseline of social contract is still at play even if we are playing an imaginary game Essentially what I'm saying that players should assume most weird stuff is off limits unless explicitly allowed in the Session 0. What I see instead is often that players assume everything is allowed unless explicitly disallowed by the Session 0. I think that's the wrong attitude |
Yes, because different behaviors are appropriate for some games, and not others.
> The problem in the RPG space is that there are a lot of weirdos in the community who really want to shit on the floor every chance they get
Won't argue with you there, and definitely agree with you that some people in the space just have no concept of a social contract - or at least, their concept is so warped that they're impossible to play with.