[quote=FlightofIcarus]
As someone who has Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy and is an avid roleplayer, I was wondering how other people felt about this topic.

Basically, what do you think of using disability as a character element? 

I only tried it once, didn't get to see it through though. The GM lost interest with that RP and it died. 
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It [i]can[/i] work depending on the style of the RP and the severity of the disability. All I can recommend about it is to do one's own research about it and pick something appropriate for the setting. For example: An adventurer in a fantasy setting who can't use his legs, whilst perhaps either amusing or interesting, is not going to facilitate adventuring all that well unless they have something to make up for the disability.

That being said, I've done it before, and it's intriguing. Especially if you take away or dull a sensory input, it suddenly changes every single line you have to write from that character. (For instance: I played a mute character once, someone who was born with badly damaged and infected vocal cords which had to be removed to save their life. That character then had to go about the RP using a notepad, sign language, and hand signals to communicate. Even that change was significant enough to throw me for a loop multiple times writing their lines: Because you can't yell to a person who is about to be backstabbed, so all you can do is watch it happen. In horror. Sheer, unbridled horror, or think outside of the box and try to save their life.)