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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 7821564" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>Awesome man, for being thoughtful towards your blind player.</p><p></p><p>However, consider this . . . avoiding including characters or situations in our stories that mirror real life issues can have the opposite effect than intended, it can create a fantasy world where there are no blind people, or folks with limited mobility (crutches, paralyzed, etc), or folks who fit into other categories (cultural, racial, religious, gender/preference). Your blind player might not have been offended in the least with a pirate captain blind in one eye. In fact, he might have been tickled that there are folks in your fantasy world like him to some degree! If I had a blind AL player in one of my games, I wouldn't skip past issues of blindness in the game, but I probably would check in with him afterwards to see how he felt about things. I'd definitely want to have that conversation with a regular player, and hopefully include normal, everyday NPC's who are blind, in addition to some blind villains and heroes too!</p><p></p><p><em>EDIT: The word I'm looking for is "representation". If I were blind, I might want to have people like me represented in our shared fantasy world, blind commoners, blind heroes, blind villains. Overdo it and I'll think you're pandering to me, but a reminder every now and then would be awesome.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 7821564, member: 18182"] Awesome man, for being thoughtful towards your blind player. However, consider this . . . avoiding including characters or situations in our stories that mirror real life issues can have the opposite effect than intended, it can create a fantasy world where there are no blind people, or folks with limited mobility (crutches, paralyzed, etc), or folks who fit into other categories (cultural, racial, religious, gender/preference). Your blind player might not have been offended in the least with a pirate captain blind in one eye. In fact, he might have been tickled that there are folks in your fantasy world like him to some degree! If I had a blind AL player in one of my games, I wouldn't skip past issues of blindness in the game, but I probably would check in with him afterwards to see how he felt about things. I'd definitely want to have that conversation with a regular player, and hopefully include normal, everyday NPC's who are blind, in addition to some blind villains and heroes too! [I]EDIT: The word I'm looking for is "representation". If I were blind, I might want to have people like me represented in our shared fantasy world, blind commoners, blind heroes, blind villains. Overdo it and I'll think you're pandering to me, but a reminder every now and then would be awesome.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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