Gaining Advantage 005: Disabilities in the Future with Elsa Sjunneson

Gaining Advantage: Making Lives Better through tabletop role-playing games; Wyrmworks Publishing Logo; Disability symbol with wheelchair wheel replaced by d20; Brain with embedded d20; Cover image of Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson. From the letter “I” in “BEING,” the color of Elsa’s cataract refracts in a rainbow-colored prismatic effect over a dark background. “Deafblind” is emphasized with light.

How can TTRPGs give us perspective on our own world and the people in our lives? We welcome Hugo, Aurora, and BFA award winner, Elsa Sjunneson, an expert in perspective.

In our “Playing the Other” segment, we welcome IdenTTRPG, an endogenic plural system.

Content Warning: Endogenic Plurality, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Multiple Personalities Disorder

  • 0:00 Introduction
  • 3:17 Elsa Sjunneson
  • 17:24 Playing the Other with IdenTTRPG
  • 42:07 Wrap-up

Manually captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing. Transcript available at our website.

Elsa Sjunneson links

IdenTTRPG links

Wyrmworks Publishing

Other resources: 

Learn more about Endogenic Plurality: https://pluralpedia.org/w/Endogenic




Accessible Adventure of the Week: The Dour Dowry

Tall grass by water, dark clouds in the sky, a tree branch top left. In the foreground, A male centaur. The horse body, tail, and short straight human hair are black. He has horse ears coming out of the top of his head. His skin is pale. He wears a silver necklace with a medallion consisting of a + in a circle.

Wild Horses Couldn’t Drag Him Away

A centaur must complete an impossible quest to gain his bride, but is he really the dark horse that can succeed?

This one-shot sidequest adventure is designed for 3-5 characters, level 2-3, with a total of 8-10 levels.

4K Battle Maps available free to subscribers or for purchase at DriveThruRPG.

Available at the Dungeon Masters Guild
Get it free now!

Make Lives Better through Role-Playing Games

This adventure is one piece of a movement within the D&D community to invite, encourage, and include those who have not been, both in the RPG community and nearly everywhere in real life. Wyrmworks Publishing is dedicated to using RPGs to help you make lives better, to provide tools, training, and a community to this end. We believe that this will extend far beyond the ever-growing RPG community as more and more people learn, grow, and give and receive acceptance.

To that end, this adventure includes disabled NPCs just like in real life, including a centaur with chronic fatigue syndrome.

This free adventure is formatted for the blind and visually impaired.

Content Trigger Warnings

This adventure includes death and violence, family ableism, traits of pain and fatigue, and spiders.




Disabled NPC of the Week: Jeralion the Centaur

A male centaur. The horse body, tail, and short straight human hair are black. He has horse ears coming out of the top of his head. His skin is pale. He wears a silver necklace with a medallion consisting of a + in a circle.

Jeralion the Centaur from this week’s Accessible Adventure of the Week: The Dour Dowry. Jeralion was born with a form of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome known in centaurs as Slough (/slo͞o/) Hoof, which causes fatigue and pain.

Available at the Dungeon Masters Guild
Download for free!

Disabled NPC of the Week

At Wyrmworks Publishing (wyrmworkspublishing.com), we believe that the more people have chances to interact with disabled people, the more normal it will become in their lives, the more comfortable they will be around disabled people, and the more inclusive our world will become. To this end, we release a free disabled character to use in your game every week to help your players grow accustomed to disabled people in an RPG setting, allowing them to get used to interacting with disabled people.

Make Lives Better through Role-Playing Games

This character is one piece of a movement within the D&D community to invite, encourage, and include those who have not been, both in the RPG community and nearly everywhere in real life. Wyrmworks Publishing is dedicated to using RPGs to help you make lives better, to provide tools, training, and a community to this end. We believe that this will extend far beyond the ever-growing RPG community as more and more people learn, grow, and give and receive acceptance. Join the movement by signing up for announcements!




Accessible Adventure of the Week: Casts with Wolves

A light skinned young woman seen from the hips up with black hair and a lacy black sleeveless shirt. She's holding an apple, which is glowing. Two wolves stand by her, their heads at her waist. Behind her, a snowy wooded shoreline and a lake with hills on the other side of the lake.

Keep the Wolves at Bay

Sheep have been dying from wolf attacks. Now, the wolves have you surrounded, but have you been thrown to the wolves, or is someone crying wolf?

This one-shot sidequest adventure is designed for 4-5 characters, level 2-3.

Background & Synopsis

The party encounters a woman who shape-shifts between human and wolf form, but she’s not a werewolf. That doesn’t mean a werewolf isn’t lurking nearby.

Tikaani was abandoned by her mother and raised by wolves and now leads her pack. While resting for the night, the party is surrounded by the pack. Tikaani steps in and suspects that the PCs are hunters. She doesn’t trust humans, as they’ve been hunting the pack. Her birth mother is a shepherd who has been hiring hunters to hunt wolves, suspecting that they’ve been attacking her sheep, when in reality, it’s a werewolf, which has also killed two of the hunters she hired. The party must find out the truth, and if they discover that the two women were related, they must decide what to do with that information.

Help a Homeless Person by Buying This Adventure!

PoC In TTRPGs is all about supporting and uplifting PoC in the tabletop space. That work includes hyping up the various creatives in the space, while also helping the non-creatives that they belong in the space. They are unemployed, currently homeless and disabled. A stable housing situation would aid them immensely in working on their other issues, while giving them more space to support other PoC. 100% of royalties from this adventure will be donated to PoC In TTRPGs, or donate directly.

Content Trigger Warnings

This adventure includes death and violence, loss of family, loss of a baby, a baby’s failure to thrive, abandonment by a parent, adoption, and betrayal.

This adventure is designed for a party of characters around the third through fifth level with a combined total of about 20 levels.

4K Battle Maps available free to subscribers or for purchase at DriveThruRPG.

Available at the Dungeon Masters Guild
Get it free now!

Make Lives Better through Role-Playing Games

This adventure is one piece of a movement within the D&D community to invite, encourage, and include those who have not been, both in the RPG community and nearly everywhere in real life. Wyrmworks Publishing is dedicated to using RPGs to help you make lives better, to provide tools, training, and a community to this end. We believe that this will extend far beyond the ever-growing RPG community as more and more people learn, grow, and give and receive acceptance.

To that end, this adventure includes disabled NPCs just like in real life, including a druid with intrusive thoughts and vertigo.

This free adventure is formatted for the blind and visually impaired.




Disabled NPC of the Week: Tikaani 🐺

A light skinned young woman seen from the hips up with black hair and a lacy black sleeveless shirt. She's holding an apple, which is glowing. Two wolves stand by her, their heads at her waist. Behind her, a snowy wooded shoreline and a lake with hills on the other side of the lake.

From this week’s Accessible Adventure of the Week, Casts with Wolves, we bring you Tikaani, a 3rd level Circle of the Moon Druid.

Tikaani was abandoned by her mother and raised by wolves and now leads her pack. She is challenged by intrusive thoughts and vertigo.

Available at the Dungeon Masters Guild
Download for free!

Disabled NPC of the Week

At Wyrmworks Publishing (wyrmworkspublishing.com), we believe that the more people have chances to interact with disabled people, the more normal it will become in their lives, the more comfortable they will be around disabled people, and the more inclusive our world will become. To this end, we release a free disabled character to use in your game every week to help your players grow accustomed to disabled people in an RPG setting, allowing them to get used to interacting with disabled people.

Make Lives Better through Role-Playing Games

This character is one piece of a movement within the D&D community to invite, encourage, and include those who have not been, both in the RPG community and nearly everywhere in real life. Wyrmworks Publishing is dedicated to using RPGs to help you make lives better, to provide tools, training, and a community to this end. We believe that this will extend far beyond the ever-growing RPG community as more and more people learn, grow, and give and receive acceptance. Join the movement by signing up for announcements!




Gaining Advantage 004: Blind Role in TTRPGs (DOTS RPG Project)

Gaining Advantage: Making Lives Better through tabletop role-playing games; Wyrmworks Publishing Logo; DOTS RPG logo; Disability symbol with wheelchair wheel replaced by d20; Brain with embedded d20

Everyone should be able to play TTRPGs, right? But what if you can’t see the dice you’re rolling? We welcome Tyler Palermo from the DOTS RPG Project to talk about RPGs for the blind & visually impaired.

In our “Playing the Other” segment, we welcome Casse Redus to talk about spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury and D&D.

Content Warning: Anxiety/Depression

0:14 Introduction
4:00 Tyler Polermo & the DOTS RPG Project
34:25 Casse Redus on Spinal Cord Injury & Traumatic Brain Injury
46:29 Wrap-up

Manually captioned. Transcript available at our website.

DOTS RPG links

Casse Redus links

Wyrmworks Publishing

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Accessible Adventure of the Week: The Dark Watchman

The Dark Watchman Cover: A 500 foot tall statue of a man in a hooded cloak carrying a staff that extends another 100 feet above its head and holding out a shining lantern that casts a yellow glow on the surroundings. Below the statue is a wetland with a river winding through it. On the river just below the statue is a galleon, and in the distance, another smaller ship. Rolling hills give shape to the horizon.

As the river carves its way through the marsh, the Watchman, a 500 foot tall lighthouse, overlooks the passing ships, lighting their way and alerting them to dangers that would lurk in the shadows. But what happens when the shadows extinguish the light, and what purpose do they have?

This adventure is designed for a party of characters around the third through fifth level with a combined total of about 20 levels.

4K Battle Maps available free to subscribers or for purchase at DriveThruRPG.

Available at the Dungeon Masters Guild
Get it free now!

Make Lives Better through Role-Playing Games

This adventure is one piece of a movement within the D&D community to invite, encourage, and include those who have not been, both in the RPG community and nearly everywhere in real life. Wyrmworks Publishing is dedicated to using RPGs to help you make lives better, to provide tools, training, and a community to this end. We believe that this will extend far beyond the ever-growing RPG community as more and more people learn, grow, and give and receive acceptance.

To that end, this adventure includes disabled NPCs just like in real life, including an archer with back and neck stiffness.

This free adventure is formatted for the blind and visually impaired.

Content Trigger Warnings

This adventure includes topics of violence, death, and spiders.




Disabled NPC of the Week: Wynford Teague

A light skinned human male with a receding dark hairline wearing a pale green shirt with the sleeves rolled up and a quiver and cloth bag across his shoulder. He's kneeling on 1 knee with a bow drawn. He has a tattoo on his left arm of a flying bird with 2 ribbons flowing behind it.

Wynford Teague, from the adventure, The Dark Watchman, is a human lighthouse keeper and archer with back and neck stiffness.

Available at the Dungeon Masters Guild
Download for free!

Disabled NPC of the Week

At Wyrmworks Publishing (wyrmworkspublishing.com), we believe that the more people have chances to interact with disabled people, the more normal it will become in their lives, the more comfortable they will be around disabled people, and the more inclusive our world will become. To this end, we release a free disabled character to use in your game every week to help your players grow accustomed to disabled people in an RPG setting, allowing them to get used to interacting with disabled people.

Make Lives Better through Role-Playing Games

This character is one piece of a movement within the D&D community to invite, encourage, and include those who have not been, both in the RPG community and nearly everywhere in real life. Wyrmworks Publishing is dedicated to using RPGs to help you make lives better, to provide tools, training, and a community to this end. We believe that this will extend far beyond the ever-growing RPG community as more and more people learn, grow, and give and receive acceptance. Join the movement by signing up for announcements!




Disabled NPC of the Week: Keyrie Hazelgrove

under a low canopy of trees in a forest, a light-skinned blond female elf wearing a green corset and tan pants, necklace and headband, caresses a pseudodragon on her lap. The pseudodragon is looking back at a small tyrannosaurus that is walking toward them

Keyrie Hazelgrove, from the adventure, Save the Queen!, is a high elf druid with a pseudodragon sidekick. Keyrie also has Sensory Processing Disorder.

Available at the Dungeon Masters Guild
Download for free!

Disabled NPC of the Week

At Wyrmworks Publishing (wyrmworkspublishing.com), we believe that the more people have chances to interact with disabled people, the more normal it will become in their lives, the more comfortable they will be around disabled people, and the more inclusive our world will become. To this end, we release a free disabled character to use in your game every week to help your players grow accustomed to disabled people in an RPG setting, allowing them to get used to interacting with disabled people.

Make Lives Better through Role-Playing Games

This character is one piece of a movement within the D&D community to invite, encourage, and include those who have not been, both in the RPG community and nearly everywhere in real life. Wyrmworks Publishing is dedicated to using RPGs to help you make lives better, to provide tools, training, and a community to this end. We believe that this will extend far beyond the ever-growing RPG community as more and more people learn, grow, and give and receive acceptance. Join the movement by signing up for announcements!




Accessible Adventure of the Week: Save the Queen!

SAVE THE QUEEN! Accessible Adventure of the Week: A mostly coniferous forest with a tyrannosaurus rex standing in the middle, facing the camera, roaring

The queen needs protection, but first, can you avoid being eaten by her?

This adventure is written for a party level 8–9, but the number of enemies can be adjusted for a lower level party, as low as level 4–5.

4K Battle Maps available free to subscribers or for purchase at DriveThruRPG

Available at the Dungeon Masters Guild
Get it free at DMs Guild

Make Lives Better through Role-Playing Games

This adventure is one piece of a movement within the D&D community to invite, encourage, and include those who have not been, both in the RPG community and nearly everywhere in real life. Wyrmworks Publishing is dedicated to using RPGs to help you make lives better, to provide tools, training, and a community to this end. We believe that this will extend far beyond the ever-growing RPG community as more and more people learn, grow, and give and receive acceptance.

To that end, this adventure includes disabled NPCs just like in real life, including a druid with Sensory Processing Disorder.

This free adventure is formatted for the blind and visually impaired.

Content Trigger Warnings

This adventure includes topics of violence, death, and pets in peril.