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kossaivarious character flaw suggestions in changeling certainly do display ... 90s-ness .
disabilities and facial or body differences make show as flaws , and members of sidhe house dougal must choose one . word choices can certainly alienate : mute , lame , disfigured - and very fact that game categorise these as flaws .
feel like ultimately this design choice encourage creation of disabled character not for sake of represent - especially to represent self - but to earn back freebie points for use on cool traits .
know this is not really exclusive to changeling , or world of darkness in general , but just . bah .
in some ways , yes this is better than not allow opportunity at all , better than shoot down idea that disabled characters even could exist in these places . in other ways , these words and frames do hurt - and encourage world to continue see people as broken , rather than confront cruel realities of systems which serve to break , that each person must have something extremely worthy to contribute despite flaw .
disabilities and facial or body differences make show as flaws , and members of sidhe house dougal must choose one . word choices can certainly alienate : mute , lame , disfigured - and very fact that game categorise these as flaws .
feel like ultimately this design choice encourage creation of disabled character not for sake of represent - especially to represent self - but to earn back freebie points for use on cool traits .
know this is not really exclusive to changeling , or world of darkness in general , but just . bah .
in some ways , yes this is better than not allow opportunity at all , better than shoot down idea that disabled characters even could exist in these places . in other ways , these words and frames do hurt - and encourage world to continue see people as broken , rather than confront cruel realities of systems which serve to break , that each person must have something extremely worthy to contribute despite flaw .
