my article on the Palette Grid (which explores my dissatisfaction with lines and veils, and which opens up new approaches to discussing safety during play) is now available for the general public:
possumcreek.medium.com/the-palette-...

A neat balanced way to roll 1d6 as a group without any dice: Have everyone hold up 0-5 fingers, and subtract 6 from the total until it's below 6, then add 1.

I don't know how you design for this, but more table games should be built around people eating/drinking at the same time.