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Post by Forresst on Mar 7, 2014 1:59:43 GMT -8
Ok! I thought the background noise might be more disruptive than it seems to be from your explanation. tHe only thing I can think of right now (and it's like 2 in the morning for me so I might hit on something else tomorrow) is to maybe include other sensory info in your descriptions. This guy smells like sweat. That guy has a pretty distinctive footfall because he has a cane. You're at the docks. You hear seagulls and smell fish. Et cetera.
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Post by Kainguru on Mar 7, 2014 2:49:25 GMT -8
Close your eyes and imagine the scene in the dark! Describe that. Aaron
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Post by D.T. Pints on Mar 7, 2014 7:59:56 GMT -8
I mentioned this to the crew during the "after show" portion of the episode I was on...I would love to find an organization that seeks to make RPGs more accessible to visually, auditory, physically impaired people. Growing up a very close friend had muscular dystrophy and as his condition worsened and eventually killed him by age 32 he was able to do less and less but he certainly loved to game. One of his favorite characters was the guy in the wheelchair in the old Guardians of the Flame books that could walk when he they got transported to the fantasy world and actually became their characters. So anyone know of an organization that encourages gaming for the disabled ?
My various google searches have turned up zilch...thoughts (to build off of the above posts).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 7:11:38 GMT -8
How about a show where the Happy Jacks crew interviews me? How did I get into gaming? What are my favorite systems and settings? And, most importantly, where do I get my ideas? The fans deserve this much.
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Post by sbloyd on Apr 1, 2014 16:02:04 GMT -8
Wow. Blindness. That's one of my biggest fears (as a person who is in the visual arts) - particularly as I get older and now my vision's not as sharp as it once was.
There are braille label makers - you can get them on Amazon for about twenty bucks or so. Boy - or encourage your blind player to buy - dice large enough to label with braille. There was a kickstarter for a set of braille dice, but it failed to fund (only made a third of his goal, IIRC). There's also some makerbot designs for braille polyhedral dice:
(Drat, it won't let me link the image. Suffice it to say, it looks sweet.)
I can easily envision a battlemat modified with some bas relief style work to present a tactile experience for a blind player, as well... though I'd tend away from games that lean on such accoutrements in favour of a more narrative experience.
To be honest, I think having a blind player would be an easier time of things than a deaf player, simply because I can't do ASL to save my life. I imagine you could train a speech to text application the nuances of gamerspeak, though... I wonder how it would interpret the word "aboleth"?
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Post by tolazytologin on May 9, 2014 9:26:46 GMT -8
What would it take to get an actually useable RPG rulebook for ebook readers? Could it be done? What would publishers have to do? Fate & Dungeonworld got epubs, but they don´t work that well imo.
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Post by sbloyd on May 11, 2014 11:21:59 GMT -8
I guess that largely depends on what you consider "usable" for an RPG rulebook.
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