(08-12-2015, 12:08 PM)Caspar Wrote: That's kind of moot then. I mean, if your character is blind, you cannot unblind them for a scene to avoid hurting others feelings. If your weakness doesn't carry that much weight, would you even worry about it as much as Sasha did in the first post?
I think you're mistaking "having influence on how you play a situation" for "using something to hijack scenes you're in because you think they're not enough about what you want"
At no point have I said flaws can't have impact/influance, just that you shouldn't use them as an emotional blackmail club to bludgeon people into doing what you want to do. Â Playing SERIOUS flaws? Is complicated. Â You have to respect the disability/handicap/condition and make sure you're not playing it as a one off whenever you want attention thing. Â (OW, MY LEG. Â STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND PAY ATTENTION TO MY LEG)
Plenty of ways to play a blind (Or disabled, or ill) person who can operate on their own or with some assistance It's final fantasy. There's a million and one reasons you can be disabled and not require constant attention seeking aid. Magitec. Magic. A Fucking Wizard did it. Â
It's another to demand the group you're RPing with center every action around aiding you, as a blind person, all the time, in things that center solely around attention to your blind char.
Any flaw that removes independent action from other people to cater to (solely) your  char is pretty much a shitty flaw and how I define "underpowered".  AKA: It's disruptive and makes the game unfun to play with you, the owner of the char, for reasons I have no power to influence or at least play within.
Edit: And that's a reason NOT TO PLAY people with serious disabilities. Because the kind of care required for that sort of thing IS all consuming. Hell, I can pull studies about the mental health toll on careworkers about what full time attention and attentiveness/care can do to the careworker, or even to people with enough independence to do some of their own care. There's no reason to drag that kind of crushing realism into RP, to any degree. Do not use a chronic condition as a way to shackle people to your char and paying attention to you, it's tacky, crude, and disrespectful
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