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Dungeons & Dragons introduces its first canonically autistic character

Started by BadApple, October 27, 2023, 09:13:13 AM

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zer0th

#15
October 27, 2023, 11:44:15 PM
I don't get it. Does the character know she is autistic? How she was diagnosed? Is there a Detect Autism cleric spell?

GeekyBugle

#16
October 28, 2023, 12:17:59 AM
Quote from: zer0th on October 27, 2023, 11:44:15 PM
I don't get it. Does the character know she is autistic? How she was diagnosed? Is there a Detect Autism cleric spell?

D&D's current implied setting is Current Year Seattle.
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Kyle Aaron

#17
October 28, 2023, 02:27:21 AM
As usual, I'll try to take a pointless meta-culture-war thread and make it relevant to gaming.

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on October 27, 2023, 03:11:51 PM
This article makes her sound more interesting than the blurb I saw on X/Twitter:
This site is a bit better for coming up with random characters.

https://www.rangen.co.uk/chars/quickchargen.php

It'd actually work well with the End of the World series of games, which is a fairly thespy system where you're supposed to play yourself. If you didn't want to do that, then the above random character generator could supply most of what you need to get playing.

https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/141786/The-End-Of-The-World-Zombie-Apocalypse

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Omega

#18
October 28, 2023, 07:08:57 AM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on October 27, 2023, 06:20:55 PM
Do they think everyone with autism is like, "Look!  This game is garbage.  But it has a character with autism.  I have autism, so I'll just blindly buy it anyway!"

Yes.

GamerforHire

#19
October 28, 2023, 09:13:04 AM
As an aside, I have never understood any of the hoopla over The Deck of Many Things, and the release of this product has been ballyhooed by various WOTC-focused YouTubers as though it is incredibly important. I don't get it. It is another piece of high magic nonsense that I never enjoyed in my games anyway.

Skullking

#20
October 28, 2023, 01:34:46 PM
"De Armas herself is autistic, and was able to incorporate a lot of her own experiences into the character."

So basically a self insert a la I Am Not Starfire.

Koltar

#21
October 28, 2023, 02:41:18 PM
Definitely was Not necessary.
Ever

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WnjVUBDbs

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Krazz

#22
October 28, 2023, 04:18:42 PM
Also from that article:

"Today's D&D is more welcoming to everyone"

If they make the claim enough times, do they think people will believe it? Despite modern D&D saying unwelcoming things such as "guys like me can't leave soon enough".
"The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king."

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BadApple

#23
October 28, 2023, 04:49:19 PM
Quote from: Krazz on October 28, 2023, 04:18:42 PM
Also from that article:

"Today's D&D is more welcoming to everyone"

If they make the claim enough times, do they think people will believe it? Despite modern D&D saying unwelcoming things such as "guys like me can't leave soon enough".

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honeydipperdavid

#24
October 28, 2023, 05:45:23 PM
Can someone twitter bully WotC into creating their first Hamas based character in the forgotten realms?  Just have them talking about freeing Israelia'kah from the evil Jewkibacka Settlers.  I just want to see WotC go full leftard now so their investors either pull out or they change their board.

Almost_Useless

#26
October 29, 2023, 10:54:13 AM
Anybody else think it's a little weird that a game centered around pretending you're someone else is being taken over by people who absolutely have to see people exactly like them?

Armchair Gamer

#28
October 29, 2023, 01:34:16 PM
Quote from: Almost_Useless on October 29, 2023, 10:54:13 AM
Anybody else think it's a little weird that a game centered around pretending you're someone else is being taken over by people who absolutely have to see people exactly like them?

There was an article in Kotaku over a year ago (https://kotaku.com/dnd-movie-honor-among-thieves-trailer-marvel-1849345237) that had the subtitle: "D&D is hot right now, largely because queer roleplayers have made it shine" and the statement:
QuoteFor roleplayers of queer identities, D&D is often the "action movie," we'll never get: a place where all the main characters can look and sound and dress like us. And it's not merely the singular escape of one person, but rather the collective escape that we share with others. We can process our feelings about a world that wants us to not exist, yet we persevere. We can learn to form friendships and bonds with people after a lifetime of not having the best versions of ourselves put forward. That is a sense of "found family" that an Avengers movie can only provide by drowning it in headcanon—and even then, we'll be accused of making everything about us when so little is. D&D is when it can be about us.

  Make of it what you will.

GeekyBugle

#29
October 29, 2023, 02:16:37 PM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer on October 29, 2023, 01:34:16 PM
Quote from: Almost_Useless on October 29, 2023, 10:54:13 AM
Anybody else think it's a little weird that a game centered around pretending you're someone else is being taken over by people who absolutely have to see people exactly like them?

There was an article in Kotaku over a year ago (https://kotaku.com/dnd-movie-honor-among-thieves-trailer-marvel-1849345237) that had the subtitle: "D&D is hot right now, largely because queer roleplayers have made it shine" and the statement:
QuoteFor roleplayers of queer identities, D&D is often the "action movie," we'll never get: a place where all the main characters can look and sound and dress like us. And it's not merely the singular escape of one person, but rather the collective escape that we share with others. We can process our feelings about a world that wants us to not exist, yet we persevere. We can learn to form friendships and bonds with people after a lifetime of not having the best versions of ourselves put forward. That is a sense of "found family" that an Avengers movie can only provide by drowning it in headcanon—and even then, we'll be accused of making everything about us when so little is. D&D is when it can be about us.

  Make of it what you will.

Exactly when and where in ANY RPG was the rule preventing them from making it about them at their table?

But that's not enough for the narcicist, EVERYBODY must be made to worship them or at least submit.
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

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