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At the local comic/game shop I was marveling at how much better looking the D&D miniatures are.
Then I saw it.
A figure in a wheelchair.
A CLERIC in a wheelchair.
If there's any character class that shouldn't be disabled, it's a gorram cleric. Healing is their forte and they, literally, have the power of Gods at their beck and call.
If a God cannot heal their own cleric, what good is worshiping them?
I know why there's a cleric in a wheelchair.
Some stupid DEI shit so that a player in a wheelchair can have a character that looks like them.
"Here, you get to be crippled in your fantasy too!" Gee, thanks?
Better make sure there's an analog of the Klan and Nazis so that Blacks and Jews can feel included too!
For Fuck's sake! A huge selling point of table-top roleplaying is to take on the role of someone not like you in every way.
I sure don't want to have to put my bad leg on the character sheet. I want to play a character that's younger, toner and better looking than me!
D&D is supposed to be a fantasy setting.
PS: Nevermind that a wheelchair is anachronistic tech that doesn't go with the feel of such a setting.
Yeah... a wheelchair in a dungeon crawl, or in a jungle, or in a desert wasteland, or...
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FFS, has D&D fallen so far?
FuzzyGeff has had a peek at the rules and the wheelchair bound are not hindered by it at all.
DeleteIt's a pure affectation.
Then make it a magic item that basically turns it into a hover chair.
DeleteSo you can be encumbered by camping gear and armor and weapons and supplies and treasure, but a friggin wheelchair is totally mobility radical?
So glad I stopped gaming.
The last major update to GURPS was 20 years ago. "No-Legs" is still a disadvantage because it was written before this bullshit grew legs. Of course, SJGames might be slightly more resilient to it because it's in Texas, but only so much because Austin.
DeleteWOTC is out in full on liberal land Seattle. Pathfinder's Paizo Games is nearby in Redmond.
Strictly speaking, what I checked was Pathfinder, which is the same sort of game from a different company. Unlike current D&D™, you can buy perfectly legal Pathfinder PDFs. Not that it's even slightly difficult to find pirated D&D™ PDFs. Also, Pathfinder still has half-elves and half-orcs; they don't call them that anymore, but lots of things got renamed when Hasbro screwed around with the license.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, the Pathfinder equipment list has a wide range of quite affordable items that, in the real world, are partial compensation (sometimes very partial) for various physical disabilities, even crippling ones. The game effect is simple: the device perfectly compensates for the problem. Yes, perfectly. Even the wheelchair and glass eye. No, they haven't considered the implications of this technology. At all. No, I can't think of any sane reason to bother having a list, when you could simply replace it with "Some players have crippled imaginations, and can't conceive of not being trapped in that chair or whatever; we recommend that, as an act of charity, you take pity on the poor bastard and pretend not to notice the obvious problems."
I just made the mistake of doing a quick search to see if DnD™ 5e had the same bullshit. There's a free supplement, covered in praise from the woke cult. The search term "dnd combat wheelchair" will give you more details, should you want them.
There were optional rules for Warhammer FRP that allowed for players to keep their characters after, say, losing A hand or A leg. IIRC there were even stats for using prosthetics in combat.
ReplyDeleteDid they completely nullify the injury as if it had never happened?
DeleteNo. Having such things was a disadvantage, but it did not necessarily mean the character had to be retired. For example, an amputated hand could be replaced with several different prosthetic appliances, some of which would be very useful in combat (a hook, a club, things like that)
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