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If the caster doesnt know how Tieflings are naturally supposed to look, are they going to then heal them of their "deformities" and remove their horns? I'd very much argue the caster's intent is irrelevent. And as others have noted, there is lore of how cure wores operates to accelerate natural healing, not just reality warp into a perfect body. Splint a break and heal it, done. Cure wounds on a fresh cut, done. Cure wounds on a 10 year old scar? Thats not a wound. No effect. Otherwise no one in DnD would have any scars, even cool ones.
You are searching hard for reasons to argue against this. Just wanting to be how you are is not being a prick.
By this logic, no character in DnD should ever have scars, or exist with anything but a pristine body. And yet, some of the most famous characters out there have scars and missing fingers. How odd.
Usually no. A few hundred gold in most settings is actually quite a large amount for a non-adventurer.
Because the disabled are without worth if they inconvenience the party even slightly? Nevermind that all your ranting aboht how magic could affect the body could much more cheaply and immediately apply to objects like a wheelchair, and thus make sense for them to have worked around their disability than to have afforded some of the most expensive healing that exists to treat it.
Yea I don't think that most see "curing my disabled friend by force" as something that session 0 would even need to touch on. Most of these spells have "willing creature" as an assumed condition.
This whole paragraph again is some hateful ableist shit with 0 imagination. I'm not even going to bother listing the dozens of simple creative solutions to "omg stairs!" that escape you, and simply point out that, again, cure wounds is a low level healing spell not even a greater restoration. And long-term scars and illnesses canonically exist in DnD. So get over yourself. If the player doesnt want "cure my legs" to be their whole fucking quest, then let them have their magical wheelchair with equivalent mobility and move the fuck on.
Jesus its not even hard. "The wheels of my contraption have a minor strength buff so i can push it easily, and some years later a kind enchanter cast a permanent low grade spider climb on the wheels so i can go up stairs and uneven terrain fairly easily now. It's not strong enough to climb walls, unfortunately. But I appreciated it immensely all the same. I get around as well as most now, I suppose. Still can't see over countertops all the time though."