2: Emotional Wellbeing

Even at the best of times, it's important to look out for each other while playing tabletop games; we all bring our own baggage and hurts to the table, we all need support and care, we can all get knocked off balance by something unexpected. This ain't the best of times. Respecting everyone at the table, their consent, their needs and hurts, is absolutely paramount, but our emotional needs can be really hard to talk about. The theme of emotional wellbeing will continue throughout this series. Transcript here.

In terms of content, this episode doesn't spend much time delving into specifics since it's mostly focussed on broad strokes, setting things up, and using safety tools, but does do a whistlestop tour of certain fraught subjects including sex, a brief rape mention, oppression, violence, and apocalypse.