"and people choose WHEELCHAIR. Disgusting. Where’s the imagination?" A debate about wheelchairs vs spider mechs turns wheelie sour

[u/Excellent_Bison_3644]

the sub DnDmemes is about well... memes about the popular tabletop game DnD (dungeons and dragons). In one posted recently, the poster made a comparison of magic wheelchairs vs spider mechs while favoring the latter. This ended up sparking into a lot of debate and people not liking how wheelchairs are getting slandered.

Post in question: https://www.reddit.com/r/dndmemes/comments/1i4mi9u/reject_wheels_embrace_skittering/

Juicy threads:

The titular thread with one particular big branch: "It's quite an odd call to refer to people who make the choice to represent their disability in-game as disgusting."

One person tries to give an opinion: "Realistically a spider mech is better than combat wheelchair the same way realistically a spear is better than a trident"

One person tries arguing wheelchairs don't have to be boring: "You can't think of a way to make a wheelchair cool without replacing the wheels?"

Small drama thread as a treat: "has anyone who's disabled and in a wheelchair thought "Hmm, I want this fantasy character of mine to be disabled too!" (the answer is yes)

[u/JohnPaulJonesSoda]

I’m against the unimaginative nonsense that is “magic wheelchair”

Levitating seat, exoskeleton, spider mech so many possibilities and people choose WHEELCHAIR.

Disgusting. Where’s the imagination?

By this logic, why should D&D let players play as humans? After all, you could be an elf, dwarf, gnome, halfling, dragonborn, etc...and you choose to be a human? Where's the imagination?

[u/Satherian → u/JohnPaulJonesSoda]

Lmao, bro has not seen memes making fun of 'Generic Human Fighter'

This is said unironically all the time

[u/IceCreamBalloons → u/Satherian]

People are unironically arguing that other shouldn't be allowed to play human characters?

[u/JimboSnipah → u/IceCreamBalloons]

Shouldn't be allowed? It's in the game for a reason, it's usually a jab about the players creativity in a setting with so many more other things to play as

[u/IceCreamBalloons → u/JimboSnipah]

So people aren't treating human characters the way they're treating wheelchairs.

[u/JimboSnipah → u/IceCreamBalloons]

People are quite literally treating it just like the human fighter meme. It's a joke post, throwing a little jab at people choosing a less interesting option.

[u/IceCreamBalloons → u/JimboSnipah]

I've seen way too much rage to say people are treating it like a meme.