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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 9147833" data-attributes="member: 15700">One of life's lessons I've learned that took probably longer than it should have was that acceptance of the status quo is being discriminatory in many way because the status quo is discriminatory (i.e, privilege). What I mean by acceptance is that you don't have to actively support the status quo, you just have to not make an active effort to change it. Which is too many of us. Tacit approval and all that.In this context for this situation, I think it impacts it as thus. Exclusion of minis that represent disabled PCs is the status quo. So when someone says, "I don't see why we need these." or "That doesn't make sense because that's gonna cause all kinds of problems in a dungeon" or "why doesn't the cleric just heal themselves", those are statements in support of the status quo--why would these minis even need to exist? They aren't overtly anti-inclusionary, but because they support a status quo that is exclusionary, it is in fact an anti-inclusionary position.Will it cause issues exploring a dungeon? Sure. But so do a million other things. One of the whole points of a dungeon is to come up with ways to overcome challenges. (edit I'll note the blind swordsman/martial artist has been a trope in fantasy since the start of D&D. We even have a trait for it (blindsense) that PCs can choose. Seems arbitrarily to be against other disabilities.)Why wouldn't a cleric heal themselves? I dunno, I can think of a lot of reasons. Maybe they don't have the ability to? Maybe they don't want to? Maybe it's against their religious ethos to do so? Who cares? That's up to the player. Taking a blanket statement to exclude them isn't the way to go, IMO.I've seen a lot of posts from people on X and other sites along the lines of "Just because I think this is silly makes me a bad person according to people I guess."  A bad person? probably not. doesn't really matter. A person supporting an exclusionary status quo? Absolutely. It's being against something that makes others feel welcome while having zero impact to your game or your experience. Bad intention or not, the result is making others feel unwelcome by mocking something that is part of their identity.TL,DR version: It's up to us who have had a seat at the table the entire time make an effort to make others feel like they have a seat at the table too. Actively. And intentionally.</blockquote>

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