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Dirtnapninja said:
You can see how unimaginative these faggots are. It would be much cooler to have your crippled wizard carried around by a flesh golem, or harnessed into a 6 legged spider walker that can also climb walls, or even something like Doctor Octopus from Spiderman.
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Or ride an especially large drider around.
 
My issue with the combat wheelchair is as written, it's magic that gives you none of the drawbacks of being in a wheelchair. You can't just handwave away the disadvantages of something like that in a RPG.

At my table, I'll allow wheelchairs, but not combat wheelchairs. It will be a normal wheelchair that could have been built in a medieval time. With everything that goes with it. I'll make sure the player understands this before they start playing a character like that.

I played with a few wheelchair bound people for some campaigns. The last thing any of them want is to be represented and be made a token like this.
 
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Atypical Dog said:
Run the 5e Way of the Astral Self Monk and houserule that instead of just being arms they get whole limbs. Boom, limbs for like... an hour per day.

Now that I think about it, an amputee war veteran who uses Astral Self to work through phantom pain sounds pretty cool - if a bit grim for a lighthearted table.
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A Call of Cthulhu character I played with was an old Royal Army Medical Corp officer who lost his leg during the Somme Offensive when the wound from arty shrapnel went foul. It was my explanation for the character's bad DEX; he was a fair shot and a solid medic and doctor, but he didn't expect to do well in a brawl or on the chase. The fake leg also meant that he was reasonably memorable due to his gait.

Came in clutch since he got stabbed at by a ghost; it thankfully aimed for the bad leg and the prosthetic tanked the hit instead of him. His DEX also was more than made up by his absolutely insane Power stat; motherfucker was damn near unflappable when facing with the ooga booga.

Again, it can be fun to play with injury or disability. But only if it had effects in game.
 
Adamska said:
A Call of Cthulhu character I played with was an old Royal Army Medical Corp officer who lost his leg during the Somme Offensive when the wound from arty shrapnel went foul. It was my explanation for the character's bad DEX; he was a fair shot and a solid medic and doctor, but he didn't expect to do well in a brawl or on the chase. The fake leg also meant that he was reasonably memorable due to his gait.

Came in clutch since he got stabbed at by a ghost; it thankfully aimed for the bad leg and the prosthetic tanked the hit instead of him. His DEX also was more than made up by his absolutely insane Power stat; motherfucker was damn near unflappable when facing with the ooga booga.

Again, it can be fun to play with injury or disability. But only if it had effects in game.
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See? This is what I'm talking about when I say that crippled characters can work... if it makes sense.

CoC makes sense (ignoring some sort of eldritch frankenstein experiment that could I dunno, regrow the leg but whatever) and you made what sounds like a wicked character with great background that involves a disability that fits in the game and no one rolls their eyes at. We all fucking know that this Dr Manhattan-tier cyclical conversation about fat black trannies with vitiligo in wheelchairs has nothing to do with inclusivity, it's about asspats and point scoring on the net.

There's zero fucking reason for cripples to exist in D&D unless you've set it up properly (remote village with no healers/mages, necrotic injury that prevents mundane healing etc be creative for crissakes).
 
Capsaicin Addict said:
There was an interesting spell in Dragon Magazine called Arnvid's Unseen Limb, which conjured up a temporary, invisible limb (hand, arm, foot, or leg). The unseen limb had no HP but couldn't actually be attacked, but it could be dispelled. The recipient could also turn it partially immaterial (clever Kiwis can already see some uses here).
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jet to japan and ride trains?
 
Loose Goose said:
Tenser's Floating Disk (or a more powerful variant, whatever) already does wheelchair wizard in D&D, and for higher levels, you could presumably summon a genie to carry you around on adventures (instead of just paying for Restoration like a normal person). Of course, that doesn't allow you to virtue signal that hard on Twitter.
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Nah bruh. Unseen servant. Just have it carry you.
 
MISTER-CREEPMAN00 said:
A Question for those who GM, has anyone here ever used an X-Card or any other of these so-called "safety tools" for their game?
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I did a pick up game at Gencon years ago and the woman running it put it in the middle of the table. The people playing it were all my bros so it was kind of pointless.

That being said I think the X-Card thing is specifically good for women playing games at conventions. Gaming with randos in a large setting means you're going to end up with the lowest form of dirt nerds out there. There are autistic freaks who have no qualms about looking at some girl playing the game and saying, "my wolf man is going to rape you now". I've sat down at enough random games to know those exact motherfuckers are out there. So if some SJW invention can stop a fat slobbering neckbeard who hasn't left the house in weeks from bothering the 15 year old girl who just wants to fight monsters and have a fun adventure like on her podcast than so be it.

Anyone who has to implement it in their regular group needs to learn to gatekeep or get out of the hobby though.
 
I've always found the combat wheelchair thing so completely outside how tabletop games operate, I have to assume it's some weird attempt to introduce retarded shit by people who only listen to DnD podcasts. People have been making characters with physical abnormalities for decades (blind swordsmen, soldiers with cybernetic limbs, lame characters with mounts, deaf/mute characters that communicate via writing, etc.) and nobody who actually has these disabilities wants to be "represented" by making it so that it has no downsides and you can't escape it even if you magically transform into a different animal.
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MISTER-CREEPMAN00 said:
A Question for those who GM, has anyone here ever used an X-Card or any other of these so-called "safety tools" for their game?
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There are one or two times I think it can have uses, even though I think most of the issues are dealt with by talking with the players during a session zero on do's and don'ts when you're finetuning the campaign. I used to scorn it, but there are actual use cases for it, particularly if you've not gamed with a group before.

For example, there was a time that it could've been useful for my long-time gaming group. See, we had a session where we found out, including the player who would've used it, that they could not stand and was squicked out when our Barbarian, who was a different character, got EATEN ALIVE BY A MONSTER. It wasn't the action that got them; a player death or two by that mechanism has happened before. It was specifically how the character's near death and their fucking metal exit out of the beast via chopping that got them, since our GM's description was pretty vivid. GM was shooting for grand and grim, but it hit several fight or flight responses in the process for the player who would've used the card.

So while I do think they're silly, and they sure as shit are for their original reason to be made; there are a few solid use-cases for them in a game. Especially if you are new with a group.

Also the magic wheelchair doesn't work by any actual mechanism of magic out there for DnD. Mainly because the retarded activist that wrote it did not understand how to construct a magical item. If it was actually with the specs it had; it'd be one of the more expensive wondrous items out there due to it being able to polymorph, fit self, have massive enhancements, and resist sundering attempts as it did. Hell, some of the things it had as properties were genuinely undoable mechanically.

It's a testament to uncreativity, and inventing a solution that is worse and more idiotic than the things the game already had for that shit for decades.
 
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anti SJW said:
My issue with the combat wheelchair is as written, it's magic that gives you none of the drawbacks of being in a wheelchair.
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If it gave you those, it wouldn't let people larp their masturbatory fantasies of oppression tho.

MISTER-CREEPMAN00 said:
A Question for those who GM, has anyone here ever used an X-Card or any other of these so-called "safety tools" for their game?
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No. I am not a faggot so the X card or any of that queermo shit has never been near any table I've run.
If you lack the spine and self-presence to either at the table, after, or in email say something was making you uncomfortable, we are going to mutually have a bad time so better those soyfags self-select.

Granted I'm not exactly running grindhouse games.

Adamska said:
So while I do think they're silly, and they sure as shit are for their original reason to be made; there are a few solid use-cases for them in a game. Especially if you are new with a group.
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Maybe for spineless faggots.
If you're uncomfortable, speak up.

The only case for any X card faggotry is you are playing a convention game and need some way to make sure tards and spergs are forced to keep thier worst urges under wraps without tarding out.
But I guess
A) I don't run any games at cons. RPG open house at FLGS is the closest I've come.
B) I really want the worst rapefan mutants to self identify so I can boot them & never let them near my wife's my table again.
 
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Has anyone ever used the 3.5e savage species book to roll a monster PC? It’s always been something I knew existed but have never actually looked into it. Can I expect the same kind of weirdo faggotry from 5e or is there potential for a decent PC?
 
Brain Problems said:
There's zero fucking reason for cripples to exist in D&D unless you've set it up properly (remote village with no healers/mages, necrotic injury that prevents mundane healing etc be creative for crissakes).
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I'd say most people couldn't afford really high level clerical intervention. That wouldn't be a problem for adventurers, generally. If you instituted some kind of GURPS-like thing where you could trade afflictions or disabilities for perks, it might make sense, especially if you made up some backstory about it. For instance, you were a wizard's apprentice and backstabbed him to steal some powerful magical item, and as his dying curse he crippled you and locked it in so no restoration for you, you swine.

So you'd have some powerful item normally out of your league but also be gimped somehow.

The only time I had some disabled character outside of a stationary NPC (like a really old dying wizard who gave you fetch quests) was one of those escort missions where you literally had to carry some guy (an NPC) to where he had to be, and it was intentionally a difficulty for the party to have to carry (often literally) the gimp.
tiefling said:
Has anyone ever used the 3.5e savage species book to roll a monster PC? It’s always been something I knew existed but have never actually looked into it. Can I expect the same kind of weirdo faggotry from 5e or is there potential for a decent PC?
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I never used that book but I had a couple monster PCs in my games. Generally you'd have to give a good pitch to justify it. Also had a PC in CoC who was a Great Race of Yith who had time traveled forward to be in the body of a human in order to help humans wipe out a future evil that itself was going to go back in time and wreck the Great Race of Yith before they got their chance to travel forward in time and take over some insect species that replaced humanity.

The party didn't really know this backstory at the time and only got vague clues about what was going on and eventually the Yith dude returned to his time and the human returned to his own body. But because he was such a darn good sport about it all they would occasionally intervene in ugly situations. This is the campaign that ended up shrekt by the IRS after being found to be an evil cult despite having saved the world numerous times.
 
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I think the concept within reason could be interesting like a zombie PC or something, but it would definitely need to be something that you’d have to run by the DM.
 
Ghostse said:
Maybe for spineless faggots.
If you're uncomfortable, speak up.
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The player did when the Barbarian was vividly described in detail about how he was experiencing the agony of dissolving in the gastric acid and cleaving into the walls of the stomach to rip his way out. It was specifically the injuries faced as this happened that procced the squick-out. They did not just sit there and take it and told the GM as soon as that happened.

I was just using an example where that card could've been used, since literally no one, including the player, realized that they'd react so poorly to that event. X Cards are still mostly idiotic, since I have been blunt about just being open about what shit you don't want to see or doesn't fly. That solves a lot of the problems right then and there.

But every now and again a thing will happen that will come out of nowhere and needs to get nipped or mentioned. You could just mention it right then and there and thus negate the purpose of it, but it is an option. Much moreso for new players who you don't know well.
tiefling said:
Has anyone ever used the 3.5e savage species book to roll a monster PC? It’s always been something I knew existed but have never actually looked into it. Can I expect the same kind of weirdo faggotry from 5e or is there potential for a decent PC?
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Yes for the 3.5 book, since it was how I got my weird exotic mount once when I played a paladin to be able to use weapons. I have also played a monster once, a Formian worker, for a one-shot where the party were all monsters made to guard a dungeon and our goal was to bust out. It was a weird one, but a fun shitpost. It can be potentially fun.

But also, yes, expect weirdness and lame gay shit for 5e. Also in general for monster PCs, since you really need to know your group before doing that, since there are a lot of types that would use them for the exact type of garbage you dread.
 
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