What book was this? The only WotC book I can recall having a wheelchaired character has been Van Richten's?When the D&D wheelchair came out, there was some adventure book that required wheelchair ramps in dungeons, publushed by WotC.
So forced representation of wheelchairs was included by the makers of D&D, because 1 person demanded it for everyone else. Even though it made no sense as her wheelchair can scale sheer cliffs and does not need ramps.
Was this in the adventure? Great pyramids did this, but the ramps were removed.
Candlekeep Ministries?
. . . and how was that forcing you to have your character in a wheelchair in game?When the D&D wheelchair came out, there was some adventure book that required wheelchair ramps in dungeons, publushed by WotC.
So forced representation of wheelchairs was included by the makers of D&D, because 1 person demanded it for everyone else. Even though it made no sense as her wheelchair can scale sheer cliffs and does not need ramps.
Sometimes D&D is a sanctuary from your demons. Sometimes it is an arena where you can fight your demons in a way that you can't in real life.
Assuming you're talking about this: And I suppose that is escapism of a type; an escape to where the world's greatest injustices can be confronted and solved. But that's not the same thing as pretending the issues of the real world simply don't exist at all.
"Hey we have Candlekeep, it has wheelchair ramps so you would fit in. Want to play?"
They will make a word for anything just to sell more dictionaries I guess.
That is the whole point of this thread is it not?
Or because it's inhabited by people without legs, like yuan-ti.
Candlekeep. I seem to recall there was an NPC in a wheelchair, and some people on reddit were throwing fits. A lot more were saying that, with magic, it would have been cooler and more logical if the chair floated or had spider legs instead of wheels (I agree, but I understand why using an actual wheelchair is important). And other people were saying it was stupid because of magical prosthetics and even just magical regeneration.
Maybe I'm not being clear. I don't see any reason personally why society's ills need to be any easier to overcome in a fantasy world than they are in the real world (not not necessarily harder either), especially if the underlying conditions that lead to those ills still exist in the fantasy world.
