Disabilities, Prosthetics, and Guide Animals

People roleplay to see a new world in a new light. These rules are here to add more lights to shine that world. They help to build characters that don’t often get to star in fantasy adventures.

You can create characters who face challenges that make their victories and accomplishments so much greater. These options can also be implemented into existing adventures to create obstacles for characters that, in some ways, are more persistent than death.

Updates for v1.5:

1. Reformatted and changed the “Challenges & Rewards” segment into “Challenges and Management” to better reflect what earned features are meant to represent.

2. Added an alternative time requirement for the progression of features: 4 weeks with the disability or 1,000 experience points earned, and 52 weeks with it or 50,000 Experience points earned.

3. Created a separate set of features for characters who are both blind and deaf.

4. Blind characters no longer gain blindsight after 50,000 experience points. They instead gain the ability to hear through walls and to target creatures behind total cover.

5. Characters with both arms amputated now only gain a doubled jump distance instead of a tripled jump distance as their final earned feature.

6. Characters with both legs amputated now only gain 25 foot normal and climbing speed after they gain 50,000 experience points.

7. Characters with two basic prosthetic legs have had their speed reduced  from 20 feet to 15 feet. Upgraded prosthetic legs now give a speed of 20 feet.

8. Added the Slingshot, Swimming Fins, and Tools upgrades to Prosthetics.

9. The Weapon upgrade now allows you to affix any weapon with the light property to your prosthetic, but you no longer automatically gain proficiency with it.

10.  Added the Extendable Arm, Extendable Leg, Multi-Arm, and Propelled Hand magic upgrades to prosthetics.

11.  The Magic Weapon upgrade no longer gives you automatic proficiency with the affixed weapon, and the cost has been reduced from 500 gp to 100 gp.

12.  Removed the persuasion check from the Guide Animal’s “Get Help” action. The creature they seek must simply be willing to follow the Guide Animal.

13.  The Crossbow Mount upgrade for Moving chairs now adds 1d4 to the attack roll instead of a flat +1 bonus.

14.  Added the Paraglider upgrade to Moving Chairs.

15.  The Coat of Warding upgrade for Moving Chairs now gives 60 temporary hit points to the Chair at dawn instead of 30 temporary hit points.

16. The Flatten spell has been given the ritual tag.