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️ @IO@helvede.netHi fediverse
Please hook me up with disabled people who play live roleplay.
I used to play ages ago before being disabled.
Now my kid (8yo) wants to play and I feel like maybe I want to join him. But I normally get around using my electric 3 wheeled scooter and my brain can't seem to make that fit into a classic fantasy roleplay setting.
Which is ofc internalised ableism, I know. So I would love to see how other people use their mobility aids in LARP
Good on ya. People remember not what you say or even do. People remember how you make them feel. Choosing joy is a superpower.
I've boosted your request, and here's one result of a search on wheelchair cosplay.
https://www.halloweencostumes.com/blog/p-810-20-wheelchair-halloween-costumes.aspx
@IO it might not be of much help tbh but there's Wilde Realms in the UK. I've never been, I've never LARPed even but I've chatted with one of the organisers about accessibility and they were fairly forward thinking on it and had had people using some kind of mobility aids in the past.
@IO There was a post by @billiglarper recently, that is a propos.
If I'm not mistaken, that's @afelia in the picture.
Yes, that's her. I like that throne-like wheelchair because it's so fancy and imho shows the camp cares, but imho it's not a general solution, nor a standard in larp.
As a non-disabled person, my advice would be:
- Check if the location actually supports mobility aids at all. A lot of outside locations, but also historic buildings, might simply not work with a scooter or wheelchair. (Seriously, the #EpicEmpires has a great location. But it's so not wheelchair compatible imho)
- Don't overthink it. If you need the scooter, then you need the scooter. If you manage to drape a blanket over it to make it less eye-catching, that's great. But at the end of the day, larpers are quite used to ignoring modern things on site.
- Talk to the organizers. Also about what roles might suit you, and how much offroad activity they have actually planned.
@billiglarper @kamerakata @IO Actually, there was someone in a wheelchair this year at the #EmpicEmpires.
@thyme You mean *another* one? @billiglarper @IO
Just to avoid confusion: I really like #EpicEmpires, but it might be one of the worst options for @IO .
Children are not allowed. The terrain is punishing (Quite hilly. Concrete roads with grit are slippery. The meadows have holes and trenches.) Toilet containers have stairs, shower containers are not wheelchair compatible.
You can kinda make it work if you got friends with you and mostly stick to your camp. We had players with crutches that did ok. But it's suboptimal.
For starting out (again), I would really recommend an event that takes place at a youth hostel.
Most facilities tend to work for mobility impaired persons. There's normally not that much outdoor activity planned, most of the plot and activity happens in and around the building. And you save an the extra logistics needed for tent and camping.
For 
, there's the widely used LarpKalender, which also shows accomodation type:
https://www.larpkalender.de
Not sure about 
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@kamerakata @billiglarper @IO I don't know, I just saw one person.
@thyme It's just that this (part of the) conversation started with a photo of a wheelchair on #EpicEmpires 
@billiglarper @IO
@kamerakata @IO @billiglarper oh yeah, that's me, and I wasn't aware of the pic, thanks!
@IO have boosted your toot.
I don't know one directly who uses mobility aids and is playing live roleplay, but on my last con (Conquest of Mythodea) I have seen a hand full of people using mobility aids like wheelchais and crutches.
@IO Could use some simple props to turn it into a magical chariot, horse or other mount? Or a cloud that you fly in on
You don't have a scooter, you have a Combat Scooter!
https://screenrant.com/dungeons-dragons-combat-wheelchair-disabled-representation-tabletop-rpg/
@IO This “Accessibility in Gaming Resource Guide” assembled by @dreamwisp might be useful: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZFSXz-Yva1KZAsP7NblCdkoiQ6RcjxSV2gj98eXusJs/mobilebasic
You're a knight on their Trusty Steed?
@IO there is no reason why mobility aids shouldn't work in a fantasy setting, sure magic can cure whatever but can't fix everything and shouldn't have to. You could be using a wooden 3 wheel cart, either mechanical or horse drawn, might even be able to do some automation if you play an artificer class or have one in the party. I'm in a couple of fb groups, dnd mostly that are very inclusive, i can point you there and you can post a lfg, might have good chances to find something good in your area
Today is my day to tag @wyrmworksdale because he has several books about this created with people with disabilities.
@IO I've met a dutch LARP band, where one member needed a mobility aid, but could still walk short distances. They built a simple wooden wheelchair-chariot and the members of the group took turns pulling. Sometimes even others we're allowed to help pulling, I did too. But I also think it is okay to use necessary mobility aids without totally disguising it. Sometimes this might even be better, because people might think it is only a cool gadget and play around with it and break it doing so.
@IO it's weird, isn't it? if you can imagine that I am throwing fireballs from my hands, why can't I imagine you are in a wheelchair, or flying, or even just walking if you wanted that
good luck finding what you're looking for
@IO
I've only experienced this as a fellow player, rather than a challenge for my own characters. There's been some amazing solutions that made the setting more engaging and fed into worldbuilding.
One game just totally normalised it, a world where buildings etc. were designed to suit, even dungeons. It's fantasy, you can just do that, it's great!
@IO not physically disabled, mentally -- maybe you're a king or some form of royalty that had his peasants build a magical chair so you don't have to walk? idk
@IO But consider that the very idea of a flying carpet must have been conceived up as a magical mobility aid. A walking person would invent seven-league boots instead.
@MostlyBlindGamer @IO
Hey Ivy-Oak :)
Where are you based? The only LARP group I know intimately is Seaxe and Sorcery, who are based in Essex, UK. The main part of their site is relatively scooter friendly (a lower field & an upper area with a slight slope between). You likely wouldn't be able to go into the wooded areas, but the people who run it are extremely accomodating & I imagine they would taylor things to work for you! It is also supremely child-friendly. Let me know if you need contact.
@IO
Spider Queen: a fur-blanket over the mobility scooter, and then 8 legs added to that.
Djinn: scooting around on a cloud
Depending on your scooter maybe "historyfying" may work?
Or simply dress up, and then the scooter just is your legs. Most can overlook that, like glasses.
@IO fantasy has magic. A three wheeled vehicle that moved of its own accord is magic. Now, to make things interesting, you have to role for how reliable your magic is. Wait, do you still role dice in LARPs? Regardless, marvelous magical mobility machines fit into fantasy.
@IO @rainbow_phoenix Hi Ivy! I’m disabled and do ttrpgs, not larp yet but I’ve been curious.
Personally I love canes as casting staves, and wheelchairs as mounts, where instead of ignoring them they’re incorporated, but I’ve also had a DM offer in 5e to just 1:1 my movement into a magically controlled wheelchair.
Fantasy is often about adventuring, and it makes sense people would both be born with disabilities and get them on adventures. If there’s magic, why can’t there be mobility aids?
@IO And now I want to see a mobility scooter disguised as a dragon… Couldn’t find one online, though, but I guess a chariot is pretty bad-ass as well! (Looks like somebody spent some serious effort on the one pictured!)
@IO A couple other potential analogues: long ago (late 90s) my partner had a high-level caster tabletop PC who (stat-wise anyway) was physically weak, and rode a magic carpet almost everywhere.
For an SF setting, there are all kinds of tech used to accommodate people outside their environments of origin. The first one that came to mind was the anti-grav chair used by Rygel in Farscape, but the concept far predates that.
@IO Video games? But now the games and the gaming owners got too regulating. I recommend black desert though