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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9420062" data-attributes="member: 7035894">No.If it is important for a player to play a character with an IRL disability, then you should let them. Not if they are doing it for laughs, obviously, but for serious reasons. In the situation I described, my student has IRL physical challenges and wanted to play a character who shared those challenges and is a hero anyway.Because there is no magical cure for my student, and she wants the fantasy of a character who is like her in this regard but able to overcome in the same way that other characters overcome challenges that would be beyond the capacities of all of us. In other words, she wanted to feel that people like her could be represented in the game.Telling her, "no, a cleric just casts remove paralysis on your character," would be brutal and heartless, and miss the point entirely. Please don't ever do that. She is well aware that these spells exist in the game.</blockquote>