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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4563303" data-attributes="member: 177">My brother had cerebral palsy, and was confined to a wheelchair.  Sharp as a tack (he held two graduate degrees) and a brilliant roleplayer, specializing in martial characters.  Unfortunately, he couldn't walk, and barely had the coordination to drive a car, much less successfully swing a weapon.  Requiring that he engage in live combat would have completely and utterly eliminated any immersion he might have had.If it is better for you, but not better for my brother, then it is not flat out objectively better.  And his is only one example.  I can spew them out all day.  Sorry, but your claim to absolute knowledge does not bear up under scrutiny.  No.  One of the Grand Axioms of life is that with 6 billion people on the planet, there are needs other than your own.  When you accept that, you'll find some applicable wisdom. No.   There'd be no cross pollination, no hybrid vigor.  Healthy ecologies and communities are based as much on differences as on similarities.  Imagine, if you will, that every work of fiction were written by one author, in that one person's style.  Boring!  Diversity and variation are the spice of life, sir.  Vive la difference!I am (in fits and starts) a practitioner of the martial arts.  I do not, in the middle of practice, wander off into pretending to be Chuck Norris.  I am rather busy concentrating on getting the form my roundhouse kick perfect.  Concerning myself with who I am at that moment is not only irrelevant, but actually a barrier to doing well.  I am reasonably sure the same is true for other athletics.And, have you failed to notice that adults and children are not the same, psychologically?  Should this not suggest that maybe they have different needs?  But, really, if you are big on how the activity is part of the immersion, you should look into Scandinavian larp, where they often employ the "two week rule" - any injury to another player that heals in less than two weeks is considered fair game.These people would scoff at your padded weapon as needlessly gamist and anti-immersionist.  Beating the crap out of someone is simulated by actually beating them up.  Giving you a black eye is simulated by actually bare-knuckle punching you in the face, and so forth.  The actual pain and need for medical attention gives verisimilitude far beyond anything you can get with latex.  By your logic, there, sir, is your real immersion.  I leave you to it.By the way, I am a regular larper - I simply recognize that different players have different wants and needs, where you do not seem to do so.</blockquote>

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