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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1728155" data-attributes="member: 707">Well, I for one have never said such a character was impossible.  Again, it's not impossible, just improbable.  The illness and disease you mention ordinary children suffering does not change this fact, because while full-bodied individuals had to deal with malnourishment and disease, the PC in question would have to deal with malnourishment, disease, and not having arms.  It's not either/or.  In the case of the person without arms, he would suffer all the bad conditions any other person in the period would, and the lack of arms, which is a severe difficulty.But I've already made my points about the armless character himself before.  What I really wanted to respond to was your above comment, regarding a lack of compassion.Keep in mind that adventuring is a very dangerous profession.  Sure, an armless character might function as well as any other (given the right class choices etc. etc.) but I, as another PC, will never give him that chance.  Because if he doesn't function as well as an able-bodied man, I die. My life is worth more to me than an armless man feeling bad because I wouldn't accept him into my adventuring group.I tend to think of it this way:  would they let an armless man join the Navy Seals, or any other military commando group?  My guess is No.  For the same reasons that PCs I play would balk at adventuring with a man without arms.It's not a matter of compassion.  It's a matter of life and death.</blockquote>

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