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>fantasy setting has magic and flying creatures
>still using horses as main transportation

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>setting has nuclear energy
>still using coal as main energy source

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 19 points 7 months ago (19 children)

Makes me wanna link the thread where people were making the argument that wheelchair users and deaf people wouldn't exist in fantasy settings.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago (9 children)

They can totally exist in fantasy settings, but there has to be a reason why magic "doesn't work" to heal that. "It's a curse" or "there's a powerful magical will" or whatever.

If it's DnD, it can easily escalate into whether Reincarnation "fixes" that, since the person is getting a new body of a possibly different race.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Nope. Stop with the fucking ableist erasure of differently abled individuals. It's just a fun little game to play with friends. It doesn't need fucking massive essays of world building.

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Imagine walking into a lemmy board on the internet and trying to tell people something doesn't need fucking massive essays of worldbuilding...

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm saying you don't need that to explain the existence of differently abled individuals in a fantasy setting when there are curable conditions people have in the real world that go uncured.

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

That's a v fair point.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Essays of world building are basically the bread and butter of D&D.

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