I thought I’d bring this up in a whole post (hope @011ey doesn’t mind!) but short answer… yes and no? I’m fairly new to dnd BUT I have been thinking about this a lot for my next character who uses a cane like me! So as a whole post, maybe some DM/GMs and mobility aid users can add to it! This is based on my own experience with mobility aids (I haven’t ever used crutches) and what I see missed in media.
So it’s important to note if/how long your character can go without using their aids or using them wrong in situations like combat or chasing someone down. In media this is usually just “their bionic arm is too powerful for them to struggle with anything ever”. Which is just… not accurate? I’d suggest coming up with a table so you *can* do that if you need to but including a consequence for later, maybe it works like meta magic for sorcerers? Something like:
Movement is 20ft (or roll athletics with disadvantage, roll 1d4 daily and subtract that from certain abilities, slight of hand checks or stealth with disadvantage etc) BUT have a trade off
to ‘dash’ roll 1d4 damage
or to change speed to 30ft per second, take I pt exhaustion
Or either of those but only for x amount of time (2 per day)
To go without mobility aid take 1pt exhaustion/day
Use mobility aid improperly, take 1d4 damage (ac 10, HP 20) needs 1 gold piece to repair or 1 day repairing with tinkers tools
Having actual drawbacks for this was important to me because it’s what I experience, mobility aids allow me to do a lot but doesn’t ‘undo’ the all effects of my disability. Also, I do have to make trade offs, I don’t use my cane in the lab because I need both my hands and it gets in the way, or if I’m around my house I don’t because I can sit anywhere and move at my own pace. It might be worthwhile to look into some curses and how those mechanics work as well.
Beyond the sucky parts, there’s a lot of cool stuff you could do with mobility aids! I get tired easily of characters portrayed as just Sad and seeing their mobility aids as a hateful manifestation of their disability 24/7. Using my cane for the first time was amazing! I love having it when I do fieldwork to poke around for snakes (and have seen giant a giant rat snake while doing so). A lot of disabled folks love to make them their own, one of my favorite things I’ve seen is faux flowers winding up canes. If you have access to magic they could be tricked out! Crutches could be a spell casting focus, or a magical item with some cool mechanics. In dungeons they could be used to press pressure plates without being in range for damage (reach property?). They could even be boosted improvised weapons!
I hope this helps with some ideas, let me know if you come up with anything cool!
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Monochrome painting is so relaxing. Here’s a wip of a dnd character I made for a mini campaign, I also have a ref sheet for her done, her names Arcana and she’s a pact of the tome level 5 Great Old One Warlock. The campaign is set in the 1800’s.
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drawings from the past few days of a new dnd character i made ^_^ he’s a harengon bard!
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I sat down to prep for dnd like a normal DM, but I somehow ended up learning how to do more excel formulas to track rolls at the table for a campaign I’m not even DMing.
Anyway please enjoy my ttrpg nerdism reaching new levels:
[ID: An excel sheet showing redacted names in rows. The columns are Nat twenties, Nat ones, and Luck Score. Below the data are the redacted name and score for each of the following: Most Nat twenties, Most Nat ones, Luckiest, and Unluckiest. End ID.]
The Luck Score is total Nat20s minus total Nat1s. This sheet is automatically linked to the per-session rolls sheets, shown below. So I never have to do math, and I love that for me.
[ID: An excel sheet with rows reading Session 1 through Session 10. The columns are redacted names and a total of the type of roll (Nat twenties) per session. End ID.]
Now we have have DnD Wrapped, essentially! I love this sort of analysis and this was really easy - the hardest part for me will be remembering to track the rolls while we play!
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References for the PC and DMPC for the small solo campaign my husband has been running for me! I’ve been playing Pollux, and Valeryn is her companion. They may be slowly falling in love, but they’re also running from bounty hunters and a sun god!
Extra cute doodle from our recent session where Pollux caught her falling off a rickety bookshelf.
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Ondra Stasya Ref (DND)
My DND character for an upcoming campaign.
She is a Hollow Tiefling (because I wanted to play a zombie sort of character)
This is my first time playing with the Wildemount stuff, I’m very excited.
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Three Sorcerous Origins I Made Today
feedback 100% welcome!! Currently side eyeing A Tempest in a Tea Pot myself but I've already reworked it a little and I certainly want something like it.
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Dnd character - a criminal tiefling rogue named Arameia who actually just wants to go to university and give her parents money
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