Lady Seraphina

Genesis Ex Machina

@Bell@Hellion@Wrathhog At some point this is probably going to become obnoxious. I hope we haven't reached that point yet.

On the other side of the wall

I asked about playing a disabled character and your mind instantly went to "SJW-ism". That's slightly worrying but moving past that.

For clarification, there is a general attitude among able bodied people (not all able bodied people but I run into this regularly on any kind of open forum) that disabled people should be presented as "less" instead of what is more accurate which is "different". When I tried to play a blind character in D&D, I ran into a lot of players who were perfectly alright with the penalties my character would accrue in normal situations but got increasingly angry any time being blind gave me an advantage in a situation. For instance, their character's suffered penalties in the dark. My character who effectively lived in the dark suffered no such penalties and suddenly that was unfair whereas when the roles were reversed they felt it was perfectly justified.

Growing up deprived of one sense means you adapt in ways that hearing people don't have to. It means you often have a skill set that they don't. It is a sentiment I have come across very often that able bodied people don't like the idea that a disabled person can do certain things better than they can. If that's not going to be a problem here that's great. But I'd rather know up front rather than get a few posts in after I've written a character I care about only to have people start yelling at me because my character can read body language better than they can or can eavesdrop on a conversation out of earshot by lip reading despite the fact that by the same token they can't understand a conversation half a foot away if anything is blocking their vision.

On the other side of the wall

@Lady Seraphina Why would that be a problem? You'd be deaf not dumb, I would assume you either read lips or know sign language.

@Dark Cloud

Because lots of people are ablist and I'd rather know up front.

On the other side of the wall

Would anyone have problems with me playing a deaf character?

Genesis Ex Machina

@Bell@SylvanAny chance for revitalizing it? Seems like two of your four dropped off the earth before anything started but there were a couple people interested in joining while it was full. And of course, me. Maybe we can pull everyone back in?

I'll just go an obnoxiously tag the interested parties and see what happens. @Hellion@Wrathhog

On the other side of the wall

I'm tentatively interested.

Genesis Ex Machina

@Bell@Sierra@Sylvan Is this sill open and/or alive?

Genesis Ex Machina

@Bell@Sierra@Sylvan Is this sill open and/or alive?

Reality's Champions

@Dr Lovecraft Would that necessarily be a bad thing? I'm fairly certain most people are here for the world hoping of characters across gaming environments. I don't think anyone is here because they desperately wanted to specifically play through the plot of the first Legend of Zelda game. Even if you want to keep Hyrule as an environment, you could build the plot out of the logical extrapolations of the results of creatures and items crashing into it while having the environments of the worlds being kept seperate by portals or warp points or something.

Reality's Champions

@Prince of Seraphs
I... actually never even considered that. I guess I could just go the Metroid route and take all your power ups away at the beginning of each adventure, but that doesn't really sound too fun. I could also increase the base strength of everything at the beginning of the next adventure, but that comes with it's own complications... hmm... I'll have to think on it. Fortunately, getting through Hyrule the first time will likely take long enough to give me time to figure it out, even with my plans to streamline it.

@Dr Lovecraft

You could do more of a world's collide type deal, assembling your own plot from the natural consequences of a thousand game worlds smashing together but I suppose it depends on how much work you want to put into writing a complex narrative.