Basements & Beards- Analogue Gaming Thread

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Daggerheat, aka Critical Role's second attempt at making their own tabletop RPG, is out - and it comes with a SRD.
That has two pages about combat wheelchairs.

GMs should avoid breaking a character's wheelchair or
otherwise removing it from play as a consequence, unless
everyone at the table, especially the wheelchair user’s player,
gives their approval.

[wulfenlord]

These wheelchairs have frames that are attuned to your character and their magic, allowing them to channel their spells through the chair.

No need to break their tools of cripple fetishpride, just use it as a crutch (heh) for an electric chair when they fail a skill check :3

edit: damn, just saw that they come in three flavors, and that was the arcane model.

And WTF?

Light Frame Models
Though tough, these wheelchairs have light frames that allow the chair to move with your character in more acrobatic ways.
These models are best suited to adventurers who rely on speed and flexibility

Does it come with all-wheel drive and jumping mechanics from Mario Kart? Otherwise I can't see this shit fly for even a scout's trip, let alone a dungeon raid, or is the GM not allowed to have stairs because that's a hatecrime?

Sometimes a player might want their character to act against
another PC in the scene. Before jumping to rolling dice,
discuss the situation with both players to decide how to
resolve the conflict. A roll might not be necessary to reach
an outcome—but if rolling will be fun for everyone involved,
come to a consensus on the terms of the roll, then facilitate
the scene according to the results.

Remember, a bar room brawl is only fun when everyone is having a good time

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I guess he light frame lets you do ollies and shit.

The combat wheelchair serves as your "primary weapon", so they had to offer one type for each of the major combat style (agility, strength, magic).
None of these wheelchair rules ever acknowledge how fucking inconvenient a wheelchair truly is for dungeon-crawling, either because they don't want the cripple PCs to be actually penalized for being cripples, or because the wheelchairs are sufficiently magic that they just float up or down stairs and shit.

And then there's this:

All wheelchairs can be maneuvered using one or two hands
outside of combat. However, when being used as a weapon,
the chair is restricted to requiring one or two hands to
perform attacks, depending on the model you’ve chosen. If
you’re playing a character who has limited to no mobility in
their arms, their wheelchair can be attuned to them by magical
means. For example, your character might use a psychic link
to guide the chair around like a pseudo-electric wheelchair. All
the rules presented here can be tailored and adapted to any
character's needs.

You too can play as Stephen Hawking!

[wulfenlord]

If
you’re playing a character who has limited to no mobility in
their arms, their wheelchair can be attuned to them by magical
means. For example, your character might use a psychic link
to guide the chair around like a pseudo-electric wheelchair.

Sure beats psychically controlling combat prosthetics, not!

But let's fix the rules real quick to be realistic:

If
you’re playing a character who has limited to no mobility in
their arms, don't, you fucking weirdo

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

What if I have limited to no mobility in my arms, but can otherwise walk just fine? Where are my weapon options then, HMMMMMM?

EDIT: What's also fun is that gear comes in four tiers. So you get the same weapon table four times with ever-increasing prices and damage bonuses. Especially the latter is just +3 per tier. Could've just put everything into a single table but no, gotta waste space with tables.

[Kugelfisch]

Because when you're paralysed from the waist down and have to deal with all the bullshit all day every day, you really want to cement yourself as "that wheelchair guy" into everyone's mind by also being a fucking criple in your role playing.

Here's a question: Doest changing the colostomy bag count as a combat action? What dice does one roll for that and what does a critical failure cause?

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Because when you're paralysed from the waist down and have to deal with all the bullshit all day every day, you really want to cement yourself as "that wheelchair guy" into everyone's mind by also being a fucking criple in your role playing.

It's just virtue-signaling and/or disability fetish.
I doubt a non-pozzed cripple would really care about being "properly represented" in a game.
I reckon most of these implementations would feel pretty tasteless, anyways, seeing how they go out of their way to erase any and all drawbacks of being crippled.

Here's a question: Doest changing the colostomy bag count as a combat action? What dice does one roll for that and what does a critical failure cause?

You just poop into a tiny Gelatinous Cube sitting right under you.

[Kugelfisch]

>representation
The dumbest concept anyway. For quadriplegic people even more so. The vast majority aren't born like that.
I need to wear glasses because I'm myopic. But that only started when I was 21. Despite that being a long time ago and being something I deal with every day, I still don't think of myself as "that guy with the glasses", just like I don't think of myself as a "longhaired guy".

Despite having had long hair for five years now, despite having to wear glasses for over 15 years and despite there being plenty of people that dont know me any other way, it doesn't register in my mind as a defining character trait of mine to me.

Surely being wheelchair-bound is a much more severe thing but I'm pretty sure some dude that got crippled by some accident five years ago at 32 doesn't think of himself as "the wheelchair guy" as an inherent character trait either.
I'm sure he still knows himself as a skater or climber or a car dude or whatever and identifies more as that for a personality thing.

It's especially dumb for a RPG. There you're thinking of yourself as a barbarian or mage player or something. Not as Scott from Internal Revenue with Norwood 5 that lost his leg in a car accident.

It just misses the mark so badly. If it's a fetish, are you allowed to make a crippled character despite not having that condition IRL when a person with it is present?
It's so thoroughly retarded, man.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

It just misses the mark so badly. If it's a fetish, are you allowed to make a crippled character despite not having that condition IRL when a person with it is present?

That's something these combat wheelchair books tend to be silent about

I can think of at least one race-related equivalent with the various ways Coyote & Crow slaps you if you dare to be non-Native, but I can't think of a single instance of "Please don't play a cripple if you're able-bodied".

Though I guess being a blind or crippled character in Call of Cthulhu will probably increase your chance of survival, since you'll likely stay in Miskatonic University or some gentleman's club

[Kugelfisch]

Meta gaming the system resulting with everyone ending up being a blind, deaf-mute cripple nigger for min-maxing purposes would be the ultimate troll move if those games weren't absolute shit that nobody plays to begin with.