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Player: "I do something to Eric's character against his will."
A good DM: "No, you don't."
End of discussion.
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.
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
Name 3
Toph from avatar: eyes
Conan the Barbarians from Discworld: teeth
Gimli from Lord of the Rings: height
Cohen the barbarian. And he gets by just fine eating his schoup before he gets dentures made from diamond.
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
Trying to think of some in dragonlance. Nope. None. Unless you count one page wonders that don't even matter.
You clearly don't understand how things work.
You made the claim. Therefore you have to provide sources to back up your claim
Only if i care to convince you, i dont
So fucking true. There are so many insufferable people on the internet that view any form of communication as a formal debate.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/97005.Fantasy_Books_with_Disabled_Protagonists
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