"RPG Scholar, University Lecturer, 40+ years playing, running, and dreaming TTRPGs. Wrote my last master's thesis on race and gender in early TTRPGS. He/him." being upset by a Hugo Award nominated artist - Kotaku In Action 2

"RPG Scholar, University Lecturer, 40+ years playing, running, and dreaming TTRPGs. Wrote my last master's thesis on race and gender in early TTRPGS. He/him." being upset by a Hugo Award nominated artist (twitter.com)

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– yamez 36 points 2 years ago +36 / -0

In this world, lost limbs can be regrown, the dead can be resurrected (if you have a diamond and a high level cleric) and the spirits of the ancients can be channelled and interrogated. But a severed spinal cord is totally not healable yet.

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– FrozeInFear 34 points 2 years ago +34 / -0

Evidently the victimhood is so powerful that they even refuse healing.

I had a deaf character in one game. I made sure the DM knew that nothing short of a regeneration spell would heal the damage she had taken to [her] eardrums that caused her to be deaf (backstory). Even though the party tried (against her wishes twice) to restore her hearing I said “no effect” to the spells and thankfully the DM backed me up. She was still deaf, and she got pissed at them for doing something to ‘help’ her that she hadn’t asked for or even wanted.