'Dungeons & Dragons' Upcoming 'The Deck Of Many Things' Expansion To Introduce Franchise's "First Prominently Featured Autistic ...
'Dungeons & Dragons' next release, The Deck of Many Things, is set to introduce the franchise's first canonically autistic character.
You already had one, the player.
Also Tiax in BG1.
Was he? He never struck me as autistic, just kind of unhinged and opinionated.
Sounds accurate
Why do they need to put this stuff in? On its face is nothing much but autistic is a modern day diagnostic and it seems so forced to include it in a medieval setting. And if you read the description of the character, this people have no idea what being autistic means.
At this point do we even consider forgotten realms a medieval setting?
I am still trying to figure out where the vitiligo craze originated from.
It's "exotic" and thus "neat". These liberals literally treat these endeavors like a zoo where the goal is to collect everything.
Vitiligo??
Yea, been craze to have it in char creators as sliders and such see e.g balders gate 3.
Yeah, sounds like it is just "I don't want to comply with societal expectations" and thus is being called autistic to have special snowflake diagnosis.
Plus, even though 70-80% of autistic people are male, of course it's an autistic chick.
Forgotten Realms is just the modern world with a coat of medieval paint.
Who do the Zents and the Thayvians represent then?
huwite people and wyt ppl respectively
(Obviously. Because they are the "bad guys" of the Realms. Why didn't you know that?)
Wagner group and Russia.
Unlikely.
You know how trans people go into women's sports because they often failed at men's sports?
That's what "female autism" is. They claim all their symptoms are "masked" and that they're just as disabled as all the men who are committing suicide before 40, all the men ostracized for "being creepy", etc. They're ADHD girls that largely don't want to take their meds and want to suck up benefits from autistic men. Pretending to have official diagnosis, and parroting tiktok that gives them autistic stereotypes to lie about having. Just like the socially contagious trend of having Tourette's syndrome. Just like being "non-binary" is exploding amongst girls, but not boys, despite boys having higher rates of gender dysphoria before it became stunning and brave to be transgender.
I really resent it all because I am autistic. Diagnosed. With life long social and economic difficulties despite my best efforts to get careers I could do solo... but it's all moot if you can't fit in and suck the right dicks, grease the right palms... unless you're an insanely lucky maverick like Elon musk snagging the digital patent for online shopping carts, or Notch catching the wind of "let's play" youtubers to propel minecraft into a spectator hobby.
Suddenly a disease that was 10 to 1 or 4 to 1 male is overwhelmed with space-invading femcels.
With their activism, they've gotten aspergers retired as an official diagnosis world wide, and including in the united states, and turned all autism into a "spectrum" to make the money easier to move around by non-profits.
They've taken over most of the autism online spaces, and shut down autistic men as sexist, rude, creepy and unfeeling...... for having a mental condition that makes us more logic based, and less emotional.
It's not all that much different from how they're taking over every other male space, comics and tabletop or video games and anime in the west. They have to come in, gut us, suck up the money, and kick us out... and if we dare try to have our own thing, they get us blacklisted.
Autistic people are very well adapted to hunting. Being in nature is literally healing to them. The autistic attention to detail makes hunting more successful. Deer don't care about your social skills and your tribe will love you anyway if you can feed them.
I dunno dude...maybe the light/functional autists who can still communicate with people about what they want and learn the skills, nobody in preindustrial era had time to deal with the severe autists who won't even respond to normal conversations, at best they'll be given minimum sustenance and left alone as the village idiots. nobody's going to wave various tools around just to see if there's something that interested them, you take on the jobs your father/family was already doing, chances are it's not going to be something the autists wanted to do
Well yeah, pre-industrial society committed a lot of infantcide on the weak.
Autism isn't even real.
We need to virtue signal harder! Let's screw up depicting autism in a world where you're one spell away from curing it.
It hits all the buttons. We can claim it doesn't need a cure to the people suffering with it. We can get a bunch of terrible people pretend they have the wrong symptoms instead of allowing an autistic person represent themselves. And the end result is we created a lawful stupid blond girl-aladin. You know, because women are stupid, just like SJWs!
"It was great, man. I played 'screech' and rolled a natural 20, it blew the fucking eardrums out of every enemy in the dungeon."
Then the noise caused rocks to fall and everyone died.
Everyone loves a happy ending.
Or called much nastier beasties up from the depths who aren't affected by sonic attacks ...
Or both, because why the hell not.
I remember an Earthdawn game crashing and burning like this because a contrary idiot insisted on pounding in pitons when we were trying to be quiet ...
Let me guess, nobody was asking for this. I don’t thing the people in charge understand the concept of role play
You often see leftists self-diagnosed with autism, ocd or being bi-polar. For them it is another badge to wear and not a medical condition. If you ever visit a center for autistic people you would be terrified of how bad extreme versions of autism are.
Now the same people put a meaningless badge on a character and say she is autistic. Is as meaningless as their twitter bio.
From the game perspective it is even dumber. This is medieval, who diagnosed her as autistic? What does that even mean? I would guess a lot of wizards are autistic by the nature of the profession. Why would it be important for this one, it is empty virtue-signaling and "modern" pandering, again, in a medieval setting.
Exactly and in role play you can make whatever character. Yea having a disability gives them oppression points
For autism is worse, almost any character can be autistic. Most "autistic" people are "functional" autists that you couldn't tell if you don't interact daily. You can make an argument for Drizzt to be autistic and it can fit.
It bothers me more then it should. I don't like modern terms in medieval games stuff like "cool", "far out", "f**k", "bigot", "racist". Autistic is up there with modern fantasy that is no longer medieval.
Agreed. People call me a nerd for being such a stickler but I think our hobbies have been hurting because there weren’t enough sticklers
Of course Drizzt is autistic. He has an objective moral code and didn't go along with his culture.
Hearing characters swear in BG3 really pissed me off. Why can't they just make Fantasy swear words?
Retards are the human version of "excess population", the ones who'd be caught by predators when everyone else ran away. The original "sacrifices", in that sense. Humanity first went wrong when they forgot that.
So. Arrow-bait, nothing more.
Retarded Paladin
Man, I thought it would be LEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEEENKIIIIIIIIIIIIIINS
Yeah because adding card based mechanics worked out so well for Gamma World.
What? I know who the real enemy is. Anything for a game that lends itself to random packed boosters.
The deck of many things is a good test to see if the person just gets excited about the last meme they saw. It completely fucks any long form campaign.
Can't wait for the inevitable posts shouting 'My DM let me use the DOMT and I had to fight Death. This is so unfair'
Their most recent adventure had bad decisions turning a player into a Mind Flayer. WotC wrote that the DM needs player consent to do this, and the player can just say "nah, I don't wanna" to avoid it.
The deck of many things is not new. I remember people hating it.
I kinda liked the way the original Deadlands used a deck of cards, dice AND poker chips for initiative, attacking and modifying attack bonuses. It was fun.
OG Deadlands was different and creative.
The mutations and tech cards for Gamma World were a brazen cash grab because they came in random packs.
You have no idea how much I need a Chrischan edit of her. God I need it bad.
All of you saying autism isn't real are fucking idiots. There is brain differences that can be confirmed via autopsy. What are ordered and synchronized pairs of neuron arrangements in normal people are instead alternating pairs resembling a zipper in autistic people as the most basic of starts on these differences.
The trouble is that you have feminists/SJWs once again invading a male space and pushing the men out. They've turned autism inside out and deleted the aspergers diagnosis all so that they can capture the money meant for autism, to waste in their NGOs, to pay themselves out the same way BLM leaders do. I hate autism speaks myself, but I prefer they get the money over these bitches. One single new york autism organization is one of the top 10 funded nationwide autism groups. It is mostly just paying out living expenses to "autistic" women who are children of government workers. It's also mostly staffed by "autistic" women... who'd definitely kick autistic men out of the organization for making them "uncomfortable."
No different from how comics, vidya, tabletop or atheism got taken over. It's just autistic men are the least socially skilled to combat this or sound the alarm about it happening. This is why autism has become a catch-all bucket for not fitting in. Now they're trying to roll ODD, BPD and BP disorders into autism, because of course, the best care possible is assured by having one big mentally ill label instead of... you know, specifics. (and also, claim autism is communist. Check out the evilautism subreddit sometime.)
As an autistic person myself, it's fucking disgusting. Autistic men almost never get married. The life expectancy is 40. They get shot more by police than any ethnic group. They are the most homeless, too. And yet these "I'm the daughter of the witch you couldn't burn!" bitches are horning in on it going "I'm autistic 😿😢😭" while they have pan/polysexual partners coming out of every direction, are often sex workers, and still have some simp boyfriend on the side willing to put up with it all and house them like a human pet.
If someone wants you to be their human pet with no responsibilities, you're not autistic. You're a thot with perfectly normal whoring skills.
I don't think anyone is saying that autism is not real. I was making a point that the character is not autistic, she is made to be similar to the "self-diagnosed" autistic girls on tik-tok or twitter. They just slap a label on the character to give themselves affirmation in their autistic larping. I'm actually pissed off because actual autists are downgraded along side this trend seekers.
If you go through some of the replies, more than a few people are saying autism isn't real.
Honestly just burn Wizards of the Coast to the ground at this point. It contributes nothing.
Isn't it up to, like, the players to create their own characters who may or may not be autistic, quadriplegic, blind, transgender, etc;
That was the whole point of the game in the beginning - not these spoon fed stories. And D&D never split "race" stats based on color of skin... you had humans and orcs and dragons and elves and dwarves, etc;
Kids these days...
Isn't that just Artificer with a strength dump?
better than that, it's a fucking paladin
Lawful stupid.