A wheelchair has been used to help tell some great stories IMHO. Brandon Stark. Xavier. Probably a few others. ...
There is a difference between stories, and a game where you have to sit down with three other people to play that a lot of "Combat wheelchair advocates" are missing.
Brandon Stark, Xavier, are fine in their media. But at a gaming table?
Nobody liked old school netrunning mechanics back in the day when everyone else was put on pause, and the hacker ran his little side quest for 20 minutes defeating the ICE in the buildings security.
The latest editions of any cyberpunk game have all taken steps to eliminate that mode of play in their game mechanics.
Specifically because
nobody liked it. Characters with astral projection abilities fall into the same category. Not a common feature in games because it invariably runs into the same old school netrunning issues at the table during play.
RPGs are derivative of wargames. And they work best when the PC group (which are all variants of a Spec Ops team, no matter the genre), are able to seamlessly work
together during the action.
Worse, it becomes affectation. The appearance of disability as a fashion statement.
It is also a way of making all the other players in the group continually conform their PCs actions around the specific limitations one character brings to the party.
What's hilarious is that the "combat wheelchair" is being heavily pushed within the D&D sphere as a 'viable' thing.
Yet in all the 'combat wheelchair' art I have seen, the 'PC' still has both legs... WTF!? Do these people not realize that in 5e D&D RAW that the PC will be able to walk the first time they get hit with any kind of magical healing?
Its rather interesting how their
power gaming 'combat wheelchair' fantasy art seems to depict lots of paraplegics, but no amputee's...
To bring it back on topic:
"How do we stop the D&D SJWs now"We Don't. We play the long game, and go around them.
We set up parallel institutions and games, then deny the SJWs entry as they inevitably run everything they control into the ground.
Let them eat cake. It's the only way.