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Why do you want real life conditions in a fantasy
That's a fantastic question.
It's effectively an anti-fantastic question.
I read a fanfic once that posited in fantasy worlds of common healing miracles, conditions like diabetes would struggle to be recognized. If everything else can be cured with a simple wave of a wand, who's gonna waste time studying mundane methods to solve something that's either constantly patched up magically, or "clearly beyond magical repair?"
It's possible to include the mundane into the fantastic. But you have to actually let the fantastic BE FANTASTIC, and not just ignored when convenient.
Ha
So it's realistic then?
Because they're so stupid they fail the breakfast test. They literally cannot imagine things. They are completely trapped within their own existence.
This is what happens when we remove THAC0. You need to gatekeep for intelligence.
But DEX and CHA are so much more useful!
Dex was everyone's core stat in 1e. That sweet, sweet, AC-3.
I hate how they removed math from all our math games.
Dang I miss THAC0 kept things from the prolls
They have to insert themselves into everything.
They want to have an idealized version of themselves where they keep what they think is "quirky" and will gain them social status, but remove the parts they won't find value in.
They want to be able to fly, see in complete darkness, and cast fire-balls, but not lose the social points of being "nuerodivergent" around other Leftists.
Not to mention they don't want to actually portray autism as a way to provide drama for the character, because that might be seen as offensive. It might be an interesting story for an adventurer to try and do their job despite their mental condition, but they would rather have a story where it makes them stand out in a positive way rather than show the actual issues it might cause. It's very similar to the wheelchair friendly dungeon thing, because they would get upset if their character had actual drama over not being able to walk or their wheelchair getting destroyed all the time.
As someone else actually pointed out someone with Autism could be just as easily represented with high intelligence and low wisdom & charisma. This innately causes drama; but it would be almost definitionally offensive.
Just the imagine DM saying: "You can try to seduce the guard, but remember you have a -2 to all charisma rolls because you're autistic. ... Oh, looks like you rolled a 1. You walk up to the guard, do some weird retard thing with your hands and say, 'GNNEEAGHH KHNNAAFFF'. He is disturbed and alarmed. Roll for initiative."
Or, for your wheel chair example: "The enemy mage casts a magic spell to the ground. It makes the surface around you slippery. You begin slowly rolling backwards away from the fight. You will now roll backwards 5 feet at the beginning of every turn. The Orc laughs at you and calls you a "stupid wheel slag".
They don't play with those sorts of DMs. Only ones that are approved by the cult and know their place.
Yep
But especially children.
I thought the autistic ones in D&D were the DMs /s
Why not both?
We already have that, D&D is an autism battle where the one autistic player trying to break the game like with the small elephant being used to crush enemies and the DM tring to stop that.
Meanwhile the rest of the party is just sort of there, pulled along in the wake of the autistic player.
I really don't enjoy being at a table that has someone who's min/maxing. Do not give me the wizard who's speccing out his meta magic feats to trivialize the whole encounter with a single spell, give me the Naked Action Wizard who wants to shoot things with his crossbow and makes the DM facepalm every session.
There are two types of DMs, the autistic ones who need to spec out everything and the gamblers who want to see what happens as well while making it up. I roll dice just to see how close enemies are just for fun. It also scares my players.
Of course it'll be a quirky chungus female type autist, which just means "doesn't care about social conventions like being polite" and "has an obsessive hobby."
It'll skip all the not-fun autist conditions of course, like the ones men have. You know, completely skipping hygiene due to that social convention disregard, eating the same thing for every single meal, hulk out retard strength, and needing to be compressed to calm down.
Like, a low functional autist would be a really unique character for any world. But they wouldn't dare accurately portray that, whether its the Chris-chan type mid-low ones or the "basically a feral animal" extremely low ones. Its always the version girls on tiktok claim to have.
I actually played a 3 INT/ YES STR half ogre in my early d&d games. I pretty much treated the roleplaying as a cross between zany fantasy surrealism and the average COPS episode.
A good friend of mine played an all-in grappler with retardism (literally a caveman) in a campaign that I ran. It sparked so many ridiculous moments that I still smile fondly remembering it years later. A favorite was still him trying a jump check to leap from their moving aircraft that was in the middle of a dogfight to try and tackle the enemy aircraft all because he was too stupid to understand physics, and then he rolls a nat 20 on the check, passes the grab check to get hold of the other craft once he's there, and then proceeds to rip the door off, go inside, and beat the enemy crew to death.
"This jail wall?"
"Yes, but there's no door."
"Me go through wall."
"There's no door..."
"Me go through wall."
"Roll strength check."
There is a reason why "Special Person" is one of the most popular backgrounds in Arcanum. There is a lot of fun to be had in playing a literal retard in these settings.
The problem always being, the line between offensive and not is far too dangerous to do it in any official setting and that line gets more vague by the day over what will piss somebody off.
Its like what Cards Against Humanity once was versus now.
They really don't make them like they used to. I need to play through that game again.
This was a while ago, and it's still retarded. A Paladin is a Charisma-based class, making it a terrible fit for someone of low social intelligence.
I think they got rid of minimum stat requirements in 3rd edition.
Wouldn't a Wizard be more fitting?
What are the stats on this character, Int 16, Wis 9, Cha 7?
"I took Short. And Mute. 8 extra skill points."
R2D2's player (and notorious minmaxer), Darths and Droids
Mechanics don’t matter only RP matters.
“First autistic character”
Code for “Self insert with a self-diagnosis of autism.”
Well that is retarded in multiple ways.
They're all ," coded" with some shit or you're a bigot anyway.
Aren’t Dwarves already pretty autistic?
Can this character wield the n-word? How about giving female characters the ick, or triggering cluster b's with rational questions?
Those are pretty powerful abilities you gotta admit.
I am Autistic, and I am not WotC's fucking shield! I don't play DnD just so it can be a goddamn mirror to my narcissism, I want to play as cool characters who aren't anything like me.