Comment on Anon casts a healing spell

• Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your words are poorly chosen. This is a very low effort reaponse.

  First of all its just inaccurate. Many heros in many fantasy settings have some kind of limitation/disability

  Not usually MC but sometimes even MC

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    First of all its just inaccurate. Many heros in many fantasy settings have some kind of limitation/disability

    Name 3

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You go do the work, and enjoy some books while you do it.

      Go read a few ravenloft, forgotten realms, dragonlance, or other dnd series

      Go read some raymond e feist riftwar/magician books.

      Go read a dozen palladium Rifts worldbooks

      Just read any large fantasy franchise and you find any number of disabled characters

      Damn near every healing spell in a fantasy ttrp will have a ruling on not being able to heal natural conditions such as blindness or simply that it straight up wont restore lost limbs

      Im sure catti bri and drizzt ran into a few pirates and sailors with missing limbs

      Or are you going to tell me theres no peg legs in fantasy?

      No old heroes who cant fight anymore because they lost a limb

      Ita inaccurate because most fantasy worlds that ive read dont have mid to high level healers in every square km of their worlds

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      • Disgracefulone@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Trying to think of some in dragonlance. Nope. None. Unless you count one page wonders that don’t even matter.

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      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You go do the work, and enjoy some books while you do it.

        You clearly don’t understand h9w things work.

        You made the claim. Therefore you have to provide sources to back up your claim

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      goodreads.com/…/97005.Fantasy_Books_with_Disabled…

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      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So you couldn’t list any off the top of your head and had to rely on a list made by someone else. You’re really just proving my point here

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Toph from avatar: eyes

      Conan the Barbarians from Discworld: teeth

      Gimli from Lord of the Rings: height

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      • Apollo42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Cohen the barbarian. And he gets by just fine eating his schoup before he gets dentures made from diamond.

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re assuming there are enough >2nd level casters around to cast Lesser Restoration (or whatever the equivalent is in your campaign). As far as I’m concerned, magic should be extraordinarily rare. Does every preacher get cleric powers? Does everyone with draconic ancestry get sorcerer powers? Can anyone with an instrument kill a commoner with an insult?

  In my campaigns, very few NPCs are even 1st level in a class. Maybe one in every 20 villages has a 1st level cleric in their church. It takes a 130 IQ to even start learning to be a wizard. Basically everyone can trace some line back to a dragon in their family tree, but maybe 0.001% ever get strong enough powers to even cast a Light cantrip

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In Pathfinder, magic is common enough that either your village or the next will have a healer capable of that powerful of a heal spell. The only catch is that the casting costs about a year’s worth of wages for a peasant

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    • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Where do the casting costs come from? Are they reagents for the spell?

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      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you’re good at something, never do it for free.

        Someone that’s good at voice acting still gets paid for their time and expertise, even if no physical resources were spent doing their work

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  • Zess@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The levels in D&D represent adventuring levels, so your average person wouldn’t have any adventuring abilities unless they’ve done something to earn experience. And magic will be as rare as the deities in your setting want it to be since they can basically just give magic to anyone. Hell, some powerful beings even grant magic and powers to their subjects against their wills.

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