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Fighting in a wheelchair should be (more) disadvantageous than being on your feet. There's too many drawbacks especially in a combat scenario ...
Dude! I know right?
I don't see why fighting in a wheelchair should give disadvantage. Nothing stops you from swinging a maul or a rapier. ...
You have obviously never done any kind of fencing.
Someone in a wheelchair's compromised mobility is a dead man. It's inevitable.
I think the design would probably evolve though to meet some of these challenges. And there is magic to make something more resilient against things like orcs attacking the wheels.
Yes, like a level 1 heal spell. Then the PC can walk.
Or if the player insists it is a 'condition' of some type, then the group springs for a level 5 greater restoration spell ASAP. Then the PC can walk.
If the player insist that they have no legs, then the party springs for a level 7 regenerate spell ASAP. Then the PC can walk.
was thinking about this as well, there are SO many ways a fantasy world could solve the problem.
Like healing spells.
The willful suspension of disbelief required for people to treat the "combat wheelchair" as a viable and serious thing in high-magic D&D is truly next-level.