Horror of the Shade

January 10, 2023
Horror of the Shade cover with wraith against purple background

The witch queen’s power is growing!

“Horror of the Shade” is an action-packed one-shot for 4-6 level 5/6 characters who guard a diverse caravan. Along the way, they’ll encounter charming satyr Kassios, plant-savvy dragonborn priest Ssauri’yanik, and sound-sensitive dragonborn librarian Tessaria.

Camping amid ancient ruins activates a magical defense, transporting the caravan to a prison dimension. To escape, the characters must defeat undead witch-queen Wrot’idauth or help her defeat immortal stone guardians. This exciting adventure boasts disability representation and a vivid fantasy setting.

For maximum accessibility, “Horror of the Shade” includes adventure text in an accessible PDF, screen reader-friendly format, dyslexia-friendly format, plain text, ePub, and HTML/Audio version. Our goal is to make our products as accessible as possible.

Also included: 4K combat maps in gridless, hex, and square formats.

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Make Lives Better through Role-Playing Games

“Horror of the Shade” is part of a larger movement to include those who have been excluded from the RPG and real-life communities. Wyrmworks Publishing uses RPGs to improve lives and provide tools, training, and a supportive community.

With this goal in mind, the adventure features disabled NPCs, reflecting the diversity of real life. By learning and growing, we aim to promote acceptance both within the RPG community and beyond.

This product uses disability mechanics from Limitless Heroics – Including Characters with Disabilities, Mental Illness, and Neurodivergence in Fifth Edition and is included with the full version of that book.

Content Trigger Warnings

This adventure includes death and violence, and undead.



Community Copies

January 10, 2023
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We want our work to make people’s lives better, but we know that not everyone can afford our products (The Disability Tax is real, among many other factors.), so we’re partnering with you to improve even more lives by making free electronic community copies available for those who can’t afford to buy them.

If none are currently available, you can also use the preview flipbook on each product page until you get your own copy.

We add more copies monthly. Sign up for the Dragon’s Hoard emails to get notified when more come available.



Purchase Community Copies

January 10, 2023
3 tablets showing book covers

We want our work to make people’s lives better, but we know that not everyone can afford our products (The Disability Tax is real, among many other factors.), so we’re partnering with you to improve even more lives by making free community copies available for those who can’t afford to buy them.

For every Community Copy you purchase, we will match your donation, giving away an additional copy for every 1 purchased. We will add the purchased copies monthly.

We will also add more copies of Limitless Heroics every month based on Patreon support:

Tier Dragon Egg Wyrmling Young Dragon Adult Dragon Ancient Dragon Dracolich
Limitless Heroics Coloring Book 1 1 1 2 5
Limitless Champions 1 1 2 3
Limitless Heroics Full Edition 1 3 5 10
Limitless Heroics Players Edition 1 1 2 3
Wyrm’s Workshop Credits 1 2 4 7 10

Currently, all community copies are digital-only.

Note: Donations are not tax-deductible. We are not currently a 501(c)3 organization.



Limitless Heroics: Including Characters with Disabilities, Mental Illness, and Neurodivergence in Fifth Edition

January 10, 2023
Book & Kindle displaying cover: As our heroes fight the hydra, we see just some of the variety of symptoms represented in this book. The paladin has a prosthetic arm to assist with their amputation. The barbarian rages from their wheelchair, providing mobility for their paralyzed legs. The ranger, whose body is more accustomed to an aquatic environment just as someone in the real world may be more comfortable in a quieter or darker sensory environment, finds ways to compensate and keep fighting. The wizard’s vitiligo may not be thought of as a disability, nor should it be, yet many in the real world experience severe discrimination due to unusual skin pigment — how many celebrities, corporate executives, or politicians do you know with visibly irregular skin?

When you play a tabletop role-playing game like 5e, you want to be the hero. The world is different for you having been there, better. What if you could make the real world better by playing an RPG?! That’s what Limitless Heroics is all about. Limitless Heroics is the most comprehensive disability compendium ever created for a Tabletop Role-Playing Game. For Fifth Edition, it provides:

  •  450+ Traits: Game mechanics for nearly every condition or trait in existence (plus some fantasy traits, because that’s what you should expect in a world with magic) with 4 Impact Extents, and 6 Frequencies. With 1–6 traits per character (or more), that’s 64,800+ combinations with the option to add more.
  •  78 Random tables to choose or generate the traits, their Impact Extent, and their frequency
  •  200+ New Magic Items and an online random generator for thousands more! Nearly every trait includes mundane and magic assistive options.
  •  4 New Monster Stat Blocks because sometimes, the disability or assistive device is a creature.
  •  6 New Spells because sometimes, assistance comes from a spellbook
  • Service animals designed as classes (similar to sidekicks)
  • 50 Example NPCs, fully illustrated, ready to use
  • A one-shot adventure
  •  Thousands of real world examples so players can learn more and better represent the traits
  •  Tutorials: Opening articles discuss how and why to implement these options, how to discuss it with your players, and common tropes to avoid. You have all the tools here to run an inclusive campaign.

Our website will have a free random generator to simplify determining character traits, but you’ll need the book for the descriptions and mechanics, or you can use the included tables to choose or roll manually.

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We talked to dozens of people with diverse conditions to make sure our game mechanics represented their experiences before writing it, and over 900 people looked at the manuscript draft, and we got 90 pages of feedback from their experiences!

All writers, editors, and artists hired for this book are disabled, neurodivergent, and/or have mental or chronic illness.

Book Accessibility

  • Dyslexia-friendly layout
  • PDF, ePub, and plain text versions
  • Fully screen reader accessible
  • Indexed audio version included with every digital purchase

About the Players Edition

The Players Edition of Limitless Heroics includes everything in the full book except the adventure, magic items, and NPCs, reducing the size and associated costs by 346 pages. If you plan to use these resources in settings where you need multiple copies (e.g. schools, clinics, community organizations, etc.), this will save you some money.

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Limitless Heroics: The Coloring Book (PDF)

January 10, 2023
Limitless Heroics: The Coloring Book. As our heroes fight the hydra, we see just some of the variety of symptoms represented in this book. The paladin has a prosthetic arm to assist with their amputation. The barbarian rages from their wheelchair, providing mobility for their paralyzed legs. The ranger, whose body is more accustomed to an aquatic environment just as someone in the real world may be more comfortable in a quieter or darker sensory environment, finds ways to compensate and keep fighting. The wizard’s vitiligo may not be thought of as a disability, nor should it be, yet many in the real world experience severe discrimination due to unusual skin pigment — how many celebrities, corporate executives, or politicians do you know with visibly irregular skin?

Tabletop Roleplaying Games like Dungeons & Dragons are great equalizers: people of all ages and abilities can play together, cooperatively. What else can do that? Coloring books! So we used the amazing art from Limitless Heroics to create a coloring book for all ages!

48 images include fantasy characters, assistive devices, and service animals.

How does a coloring book make lives better?

  • People like me with ADHD may benefit from coloring to help keep focused during games and other times, and D&D-related coloring books are rare.
  • Put this in a child’s hands, and you instantly normalize disabled heroes in their lives.
  • D&D is for everyone, and so is artistic expression!
  • The pages include quotes from disabled, neurodiverse, and mentally & chronically ill people to teach about their experiences and accessibility.
  • 🎒Service Owlbears🦉 are adorable.

The book also includes a local site license for copying, so schools, clinics, local game groups, and FLGSs can print or copy coloring pages for their local events, clients, and fellow players.

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Limitless Heroics: The Coloring Book

January 10, 2023

Tabletop Roleplaying Games like Dungeons & Dragons are great equalizers: people of all ages and abilities can play together, cooperatively. What else can do that? Coloring books! So we used the amazing art from Limitless Heroics to create a coloring book for all ages!

48 images include fantasy characters, assistive devices, and service animals.

How does a coloring book make lives better?

* People like me with ADHD may benefit from coloring to help keep focused during games and other times, and D&D-related coloring books are rare.
* Put this in a child’s hands, and you instantly normalize disabled heroes in their lives.
D&D is for everyone, and so is artistic expression!
* The pages include quotes from disabled, neurodiverse, and mentally & chronically ill people to teach about their experiences and accessibility.
* 🎒Service Owlbears🦉 are adorable.

The book also includes a local site license for copying, so schools, clinics, local game groups, and FLGSs can print or copy coloring pages for their local events, clients, and fellow players.