Another player who was at the table during the incident sent me this meme after the problem player in question (they had a history) left the group chat.
Felt like sharing it here because I’m sure more people should keep this kind of thing in mind.
Another thing to consider here: the player characters are absolute heroes in most campaigns, not just the average rando peasant. So the stuff they have access to (magic skills, potions, money, …) is not at all an indication of what the average person has access to. Maybe that bias causes some players to lose touch with ingame reality.
In 5e, even poor people still get 2sp a day. It’s not clear how much it costs to hire someone to cast spells, but it’s either something they could reasonably pay for to cure blindness, or it’s so much that players can make enough money casting spells that money becomes a non-issue even at fairly low levels. Also, that’s not going to work if you want an NPC that is blind instead of was blind until they met a PC who had a spare second-level spell slot.
