Oracle ablism
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beccaelizabethI'm looking at the Pathfinder class Oracle again, because Time seems a good Mystery for stories, and again I am annoyed about the curses.
It seems to me that most of them are horribly ablist, in two directions at once. Because most of them are plainmold disabilities, but with a compensatory superpower that kicks in if they survive long enough.
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/oracle/oracle-curses
That's a longer list than in the Advanced Player's Guide. From the guide I'd say Haunted and Tongues are the closest to not ablist in the whole thing, and Tongues reminds me enough of my own word fried stress responses I'm not even sure of that.
Haunted and Pranked are things that happen to them. Wrecker too, more or less. Powerless Prophecy doesn't have an exact disability equivalent, though it reminds me of hypervigilance meeting trauma freezing. Legalistic is kind of neat cause it's voluntary binding to contracts, with some enforcement. Most of the others are just, blind, deaf, 'lame' or burnt, but with weird. And then there's the moral model set which are disability as corruption, and ugh.
I know rpg stuff accumulates and builds on many rather messy ideas, but I am not a fan of how Oracle is set up.
A lot of RPG rules can be (mis)read as ablist and or compensatory superpowers, but this set definitely goes there, and it's annoying.
It seems to me that most of them are horribly ablist, in two directions at once. Because most of them are plainmold disabilities, but with a compensatory superpower that kicks in if they survive long enough.
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/oracle/oracle-curses
That's a longer list than in the Advanced Player's Guide. From the guide I'd say Haunted and Tongues are the closest to not ablist in the whole thing, and Tongues reminds me enough of my own word fried stress responses I'm not even sure of that.
Haunted and Pranked are things that happen to them. Wrecker too, more or less. Powerless Prophecy doesn't have an exact disability equivalent, though it reminds me of hypervigilance meeting trauma freezing. Legalistic is kind of neat cause it's voluntary binding to contracts, with some enforcement. Most of the others are just, blind, deaf, 'lame' or burnt, but with weird. And then there's the moral model set which are disability as corruption, and ugh.
I know rpg stuff accumulates and builds on many rather messy ideas, but I am not a fan of how Oracle is set up.
A lot of RPG rules can be (mis)read as ablist and or compensatory superpowers, but this set definitely goes there, and it's annoying.
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