what rubs me the wrong way about the D&D combat wheelchair is that i think disabled people deserve better. fantasy has so many well thought out tools, mechanisms, magical solutions for a character who's disabled to be able to adventure alongside a group of able bodied people, but all they could be bothered to do in this case was give people a poorly thought out device that doesn't fit in the setting, and also doesn't even fit within the bounds of a dungeons and dragons campaign. if I'm running a D&D game and a player brings a character along who's in a combat wheelchair, am i expected to have the minions of evil carve wheelchair accessible ramps and architecture into their temple of doom so that the wheelchair-bound character can infiltrate their operation? logistically it makes no sense and doesn't work alongside the expected flow of a dungeons and dragons campaign. this character is expected to climb mountains, trawl through jungles, forests, move over a rickety bridge over the top of a chasm filled with lava and go through deep snow while seated in a wheelchair?they could have given a splatbook on mobility aids like beasts of burden the character can ride while still being able to use all of their abilities, flying platforms, mechanical spider legs, but all they could do was this lazy, pandering shit with no forethought in the slightest. and if you have a problem with it, people will point at YOU like you're in the wrong for disallowing it at your table.the moral of the story is: don't play dungeons and dragons fifth edition
>>97458744You've missed the point. The D&D combat wheelchair isnt about having convincing, interesting or realistic representation of disabilities in games, it's about facilitating self-insert characters for people who have internalized their disability but want to be treated as if they are not disabled.
>>97458744This >>97458806 It's a homebrew rule, and the person who made it has an illness where they need to use a wheelchair sometimes. The goal isn't to accurately represent the struggles of disabled people. It's to be able to treat the wheelchair as a fashion accessory. There can't be any downsides or penalties to using it, because that would imply that disabled people are less capable in some way. Likewise, using fantastical or magical contraptions also isn't the goal, because then it no longer looks like a wheelchair and is therefore no longer the fashion accessory they wanted.That's why the whole debate is stupid, because it's people getting upset over the most boring and nonsensical homebrew implementation of something possible, and then other people defending that homebrew because they see the criticism as hatred towards disabled people.
>>97458744>the moral of the story is: don't play dungeons and dragons fifth editionShould have started the post with this. In fact it should have just been the entire post.
/tg/ spend more time talking debating combat wheelchairs than actually playtime of all the characters who've ever used a combat wheelchair combined. I bet 99% of you have never seen them at the table and don't know anyone who has
>>97458744I think only shitposters on here remember this thing anymore
