I noticed a certain character with a missing arm, which certainly had to be DM-assisted, so I started wondering.
Is it possible to apply for a character with a permanent negative status effect? For instance, if I made an extremely old character, would the team be able to give him a permanent 20% movement speed penalty? Or, if I made a blind character, could the team put a permanent blindness effect on him? Could a leper (or some similar type of outcast) be given some kind of filth effect and a permanent charisma penalty?
I've had a few ideas kicking around in my head, and several of them center around characters with some kind of major disability or ailment. I can role-play this stuff just fine, but I'm wondering if I shouldn't just go ahead and submit an application when the time comes to create one of these characters. It would be much easier to role-play a blind man if I actually couldn't see anything.