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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 9822123" data-attributes="member: 6750908">This is true, and people say it a lot, but it's not true in the sense that people say it.Character flaws make characters interesting. Foibles, blindspots. Things that cause characters to make mistakes and errors in judgement, things that make them imperfect human beings. The sort of thing, in short, that bad authors and many roleplayers-- without judgment-- are unwilling to let their characters do.Being weak, or clumsy, or sickly aren't interesting. They're the flaws that authors and players give their characters when they don't understand the assignment.I'm disabled in real life. Physically, mentally, socially... kinda like the dungeon wheelchair thing, I respect that some disabled people want to play "someone like them" in a fantasy setting, and some people want to explore those limitations in a safe, nurturing environment.I have no such desire, I have never had any such desire, and I wish they would show me the same basic courtesy without lecturing me about the "immaturity" of my preferences. When I play D&D, I want to play the characters that D&D uses to explain its classes, and the NPCs from the novels-- Conan, Jiriel, Geralt, and Drizzt Do'Urden don't have dump stats, and they are flawed, fascinating characters.So, yeah. I'm not going to play a character with a 3 in any ability score. That's not fun for me; thinking about it's not fun for me. I like semi-random chargen to give characters a more "organic" feeling than pure point buy... but my games have high floors by design unless a player wants to play a handicapped concept.</blockquote>

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