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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Player: "I do something to Eric's character against his will."

A good DM: "No, you don't."

End of discussion.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Eric just needed a better backstory for his wheelchair-bound character. And really in most high fantasy settings the only way it makes sense to have a permanent disability like that would be from a curse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You're assuming there are enough >2nd level casters around to cast Lesser Restoration (or whatever the equivalent is in your campaign). As far as I'm concerned, magic should be extraordinarily rare. Does every preacher get cleric powers? Does everyone with draconic ancestry get sorcerer powers? Can anyone with an instrument kill a commoner with an insult?

In my campaigns, very few NPCs are even 1st level in a class. Maybe one in every 20 villages has a 1st level cleric in their church. It takes a 130 IQ to even start learning to be a wizard. Basically everyone can trace some line back to a dragon in their family tree, but maybe 0.001% ever get strong enough powers to even cast a Light cantrip

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In Pathfinder, magic is common enough that either your village or the next will have a healer capable of that powerful of a heal spell. The only catch is that the casting costs about a year's worth of wages for a peasant

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where do the casting costs come from? Are they reagents for the spell?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

Someone that's good at voice acting still gets paid for their time and expertise, even if no physical resources were spent doing their work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The levels in D&D represent adventuring levels, so your average person wouldn't have any adventuring abilities unless they've done something to earn experience. And magic will be as rare as the deities in your setting want it to be since they can basically just give magic to anyone. Hell, some powerful beings even grant magic and powers to their subjects against their wills.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Your words are poorly chosen. This is a very low effort response.

First of all its just inaccurate. Many heros in many fantasy settings have some kind of limitation/disability

Not usually MC but sometimes even MC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

First of all its just inaccurate. Many heros in many fantasy settings have some kind of limitation/disability

Name 3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So you couldn't list any off the top of your head and had to rely on a list made by someone else. You're really just proving my point here

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago
  1. I wasn't the person you asked to name 3.
  2. Heaven forbid I contribute to the conversation by providing a relevant list to a discussion.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Toph from avatar: eyes

Conan the Barbarians from Discworld: teeth

Gimli from Lord of the Rings: height

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Cohen the barbarian. And he gets by just fine eating his schoup before he gets dentures made from diamond.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You go do the work, and enjoy some books while you do it.

Go read a few ravenloft, forgotten realms, dragonlance, or other dnd series

Go read some raymond e feist riftwar/magician books.

Go read a dozen palladium Rifts worldbooks

Just read any large fantasy franchise and you find any number of disabled characters

Damn near every healing spell in a fantasy ttrp will have a ruling on not being able to heal natural conditions such as blindness or simply that it straight up wont restore lost limbs

Im sure catti bri and drizzt ran into a few pirates and sailors with missing limbs

Or are you going to tell me theres no peg legs in fantasy?

No old heroes who cant fight anymore because they lost a limb

Ita inaccurate because most fantasy worlds that ive read dont have mid to high level healers in every square km of their worlds

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You go do the work, and enjoy some books while you do it.

You clearly don't understand how things work.

You made the claim. Therefore you have to provide sources to back up your claim

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Only if i care to convince you, i dont

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

So fucking true. There are so many insufferable people on the internet that view any form of communication as a formal debate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Trying to think of some in dragonlance. Nope. None. Unless you count one page wonders that don't even matter.