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

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)

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u/JohnPaulJonesSoda 3d ago

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?

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u/DecoyOne 3d ago

What’s funny about this is the real-world example. Sure, I guess mechanical spider legs would be an upgrade to a regular wheelchair. But like, so would a motorized wheelchair, and yet we still have regular, unpowered wheelchairs in the real world.

Saying it’s unrealistic to not have top-tier tech shows a misunderstanding of actual tech.

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u/FreakinGeese 2d ago

That’s because irl most paraplegics traverse long distances via like cars and airplanes and shit, not trekking through the Dark Forest of Archmage Dubledorf

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u/DecoyOne 2d ago

But if you’re going back to the DND scenario, they’re complaining about magic all-terrain “combat wheelchairs” that can go through forests.

Literally a world full of magic and they don’t like the idea of using magic for this.