It’s expensive for sure, but that’s mostly because powered chairs are made by medical companies and in comparatively low numbers.
A mobility scooter has almost all components a powered chair has, and these can be had for as little as €1000.
The technology behind a powered chair isn’t hard.
And even if we use the high price of a power scooter: How much does it cost to make a paraplegic person walk?
Another thing to consider here: the player characters are absolute heroes in most campaigns, not just the average rando peasant. So the stuff they have access to (magic skills, potions, money, …) is not at all an indication of what the average person has access to. Maybe that bias causes some players to lose touch with ingame reality.
In most magic systems (RPG and books/films) using magic costs the magic user something (decades of studying, exhaustion, life force, mana potions/crystals, …). So it would be natural that they want to be compensated for their work.
So depending on how difficult regrowing an eye is for the magic user that could be quite pricey.
Some magic systems also require the magic user to exactly picture what they want to cast. Not sure if anyone can actually picture all the connections of an optical nerve.
In our world we do have the magic to push a wheelchair around, and it’s not even hard to do this. Tinkerers can cast the spell of self-propelling wheelchair in their garages.
But magicing someone’s legs to work is still a far way off.
(Remember, when magic is well explained and documented, and people get used to it, they tend to call it technology.)
I thought the last one was going to be “…so I can talk with my boss.”
“I thought I was your old friend!”
Mini6: You rolled 18d6. Your result looks kinda high. You punch through the darkness and hit the wall you couldn’t see behind it.
Dread: You toppled the Jenga tower. You are dead now.
The word “dwarf” derives from the Old German word “dwurf” which has evolved in German to “Wurf” and is equivalent to the English word “throw”.
If you design your testing set well enough and then don’t care about the accuracy of the output, then it’s not hard to get that kind of accuracy even without a brain scanner.
Turns out the charmless brute really likes killing people.
How would you know in this situation that the big guy is a gentle giant and not a murderous giant? Not every big guy is automatically a nice guy.
Charm is necessary when the threat that you are using to intimidate isn’t real or the victim doesn’t think you’d pull through.
If you are tied to a wall and some uncharismatic weakling threatens you with a knife, the threat is very real after that guy starts punching holes in your arms.
Tbh, if a big guy pins someone to a wall and chokes them, the situation is not anymore about how intimidating the big guy is, but about whether the victim is prepared to die for the cause.
On the other hand, charisma-based intimidation makes a lot of sense in e.g. blackmail situations.
So I’d say, strength-based intimidation doesn’t require a dice-roll since it only depends on the victim.
And charisma-based intimidation only applies for situation, where the victim doesn’t know whether the threat is real.
You are confusing a few things.
The “mods” you are taking about are actually the developers. They develop the software and run one instance, but they aren’t the ones running this instance and this community.
This instance is ttrpg.network. It’s run by the admins of this instance, which are in no way affiliated with the developers.
And this community (RPGmemes) is run by the mods of this community, who got chosen by being the first ones to open this community.
The admins can remove moderators, but most of the time the moderators do their own thing unless they do something to damage the instance.
The mods in many communites are new and/or not used to run a community with a lot of members, so rules and punishments aren’t always consistent. You are not on a commercial site with long-standing moderation.
That’s a good idea, thanks!
I really want to use the Alchemy Jar in a game. But I never found a way to fit it into the story.
Oh easy, just draw what the players see and let them discover the rest as they go.
Then throw the right player a trigger line and you have half an hour to draw the next 5 lines.
It’s Oedipus with a single parent playing both roles.
I had a very similar situation once.
The players where in a clockwork-themed dungeon and kept killing the clockwork golems there. Then they encountered the boss, the maker, who was a clockwork-enhanced human who built all these golems.
The boss was wailing over his destroyed children and when the players entered the room, he was like “Was it you who killed my children?”.
And instead of fighting, the players managed to convince the maker, that it wasn’t them, but instead the other group of players who where also playing in the same world.
So the maker and his remaining clockwork golems move out to hunt down the other group, and the players just ransacked the dungeon.
It was a quite funny opening scene for the next session of the other group, when they where just minding their business and the maker, whom the players have never heard of, and his remaining army of clockwork golems attacked the players, shouting that they will kill the players for killing his children.
When the second group figured out what happened, they hired an assassin to take out the first group.
Fun times :)
It depends a lot on the type of game that dude is running.
It’s certainly not the type I’d be running, but I can see the appeal to some, to run a tough campaign with lots of dice and close calls/dead characters.
But it really needs to be aligned that all people in the party like that.
For example, I did run a few games of Dread, and it’s really fun precisely because the characters can die quite easily and in very dramatic ways.
But of course, if you prefer to build and develop your characters over a long time, then this is not the style of game that fits you.
(Though I’d really recommend giving Dread a try. It’s amazing for thrilling, immersive one-off sessions)
Players: The GM is always trying to kill us.
GM: If I wanted you dead, you would have died a long time ago.
Jackpot if the person with Lawful Chaotic alignment is a lawmaker.
That does make sense. But still, making a powered chair is not at all technologically difficult. You need the chair, two motors and an input system that works for the user.
Sure, if there’s a lot of bespoke parts and manual labour, coupled with basically no economy of scale, it’s going to be expensive. But it’s not difficult.