No, all we do is tune musical instruments and make baskets.
xD

Of course the blind community of people who are visually impaired, we of course interact with other communities.

I host and play DnD and will be going to to my first LARP event this summer (maybe not if COVID).

But it's a fair question, I hope this helps :)

I figure blind community is like every other.

gym rat halperts, music slinging singers, writer types, and dice roll players.

Kinda hard to stereotype a whole group of people.. any group really.

My wife is blind and we've been playing D&D (and other RPGs) together for about 30 years. We go to conventions and she regularly wins table awards for roleplaying (informal votes at the end of a session to win a little prize). She doesn't really engage in the online community other than the games we play through Discord. Most games don't really require a lot of adaptation other than describing to the blind player what the layout of the scene is if you play with minis.

There was a podcast called "Going In Blind" which was a blind DM running a D&D game. He mostly explained D&D, though, he didn't really delve into what it was like being blind and playing D&D. Because.. well, it's like being anybody else playing D&D, really.

There are dice and everything

I am visually impaired and RP. A person with no sight can definitely RP. If you mean table-top, theater of the mind is the way to go, no sight needed. There are definitely braille dice, tactile maps, dice rolling apps. Bottom line, table-top RP is definitely accessible.

As far as LARPing, it is a matter of getting creative with the experience. I personally don't LARP (mainly because never had the opportunity) but can think of a ton of ways to make this accessible. The most simple answer is if you are all pretending anyway, just pretend the person walking around with a cane is not blind and RP as normal. Or, weave their blindness into the expereince. Getting creative and thinking either real simplistic or real outside the box is the name of the game here.

Lol here's a fun fact: I am lead coder for a MUD where RP is pretty important, Starmourn, so I guess that would make the answer a proper yes :)

Played before my vision issues developed, will continue to play even if my vision goes dark completely.

Textual, paper and die, live-action.

Not one of those has any reason to deny me accessability.

Definitely! I’ve been playing D&D for years. My friends and I actually play online, so we barely need to make any adjustments at all for my vision.

Yes, some of us do.

I've been roleplaying since I was eleven.

I've been playing (and occasionally DMing) role playing games for 25 years.

heh, is it just me, or did anyone else think of something totally different than D&D in regards to role playing?

Just pointing out that so many people play d and d because it is the most popular rpg system, not necessarily the most accessible. Because most *people* asked this question will also answer d and d, most *blind* people, as a smaller but representative subset, will have the same answer. There is a discord server called knights of the braille where people host, discuss, and play a range of systems, including but certainly far from limited to, d and d.

There’s a group of individuals with vision loss that play DND over Roll20.

The best thing I read on this topic is this RPG StackExchange Q&A by a visually impaired user: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/86707/can-i-begin-roleplaying-if-im-visually-impaired

I rp. I do text based though.

I once was one of two players for a Star Trek RPG at GenCon last century, the other fellow was blind. He was instrumental in resolving the crisis we faced in the game. The game master didn’t have brain character sheets, of course, but it was mostly problem solving rather than rolling dice, and we had a great time.

Ooh!! I do a lot of rp!! I have both discord servers, CHERP and mxrp.chat!! ^_^ Those are my top 3 favs. (Last two are adult only tho!)