Gaining Advantage 009: Variety is the Spice of Second Breakfast (with @TBHalflings)
November 5, 2021
More often than not, variety makes things better. We welcome Jasper William Cartwright and Jeremy Cobb, 2/3 of the podcast Three Black Halflings to talk about diversity in the gaming space.
0:00 Introduction
2:39 2/3 Black Halflings
55:48 Wrap-up
Manually captioned. Transcript available at our website.
Gaining Advantage 008: Pretending to Do Good (Roleplay 4 Charity)
November 5, 2021
It’s October! It’s all about dressing up and pretending!That’s what role-players do best! And now, you can do that for charity! We welcome Oneuppington with Roleplay4Charity.
Gaining Advantage 007: Advantage against Psychic Damage (Jasper’s Game Day)
November 5, 2021
Life is tough, and sometimes, it seems like today’s CR is a bit too high. So what do you do? Get more people in the party! We welcome Josh Simons of Jasper’s Game Day to talk about mental health and suicide prevention through TTRPGs.
In our “Playing the Other” segment, we welcome Matt Weber with a great discussion about his physical disabilities and his decades of gaming experience.
Content Warning: Suicide, Body shape discussion, Mental Illness, Phobias
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.
This free adventure is formatted for the blind and visually impaired.
Content Trigger Warnings
This adventure includes death, violence, ableism, and the undead.
Disabled NPC of the Week: Natasja
November 5, 2021
Natasja is a female human experiencing menopause and hypertension (high blood pressure). She can be used in any campaign setting, or her traits can be adapted to your PC. She appears in our Accessible Adventure of the Week: The Greater of Two Evils
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: The Price of Success
November 5, 2021
My Students Are My Treasures
A rural school is haunted by two banshees: former teachers who cared more about how their students made them look than the well being of the students themselves. Can you free the countryside from this threat?
This side adventure is designed for four to six characters with an average party level of 3, totaling roughly 16 levels.
“Our lives serve as either a warning or an example to others.” — Tony Robbins
This week’s adventure, designed as Halloween approaches, explores abuse and trauma. Being a horror adventure, it plays out the effects of trauma and the concealment of trauma on a community in a visceral and memorable way. It serves as a warning—not only about the need for open communication with the people in our lives who may be experiencing trauma, but also our willingness to be available to them for help. I hope your players will experience this adventure with empathy and a resulting drive to be open to potential victims looking to them for help.
Content Trigger Warning
This adventure includes death, violence, the undead, death of family, children in peril, psychological abuse of children, parents who disbelieve reports of abuse, and undead children. Because it explores realistic expressions of trauma, the Dungeon Master (DM) should discuss this adventure with players before deciding to use it. Success could be cathartic for some but tear open traumatic wounds for others.
To talk to your players about this adventure’s sensitive content without spoiling the plot, you can ask them how they feel about a horror adventure involving child abuse, death, and zombies in various combinations. If any players are even slightly uncomfortable with the topic, skip this adventure.
If you choose to use this adventure, please make use of safety tools.
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.
This free adventure is formatted for the blind and visually impaired.
Disabled NPC of the Week: Lolbimirt
November 5, 2021
Lolbimirt is a forest gnome guard with abnormal growth and a rash on 40% of his body.
Is this character actually disabled?
While “taller than usual” and a skin rash don’t seem like disabilities, and by most official definitions, they’re not, this character emphasizes that disabilities are not binary — they’re a spectrum. Most people have multiple physical and/or mental challenges, and there’s no hard and fast line that separates people with or without disabilities. We’re more alike than you think. At the same time, Lolbimirt has difficulty navigating the burrows of his gnomish family, and his rash leaves him in danger of infection, an important condition in a world without antibiotics or, in the real world, to those without proper access to medicine or medical insurance.
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: Fey & Fortune 🧚
November 5, 2021
Better to burn out than allay the fey!
The forest is thick with fey creatures. Why? And can they stop the influx of fey magic?
This side adventure is designed for four to six characters with an average party level of 4, totaling roughly 20 levels.
An aperture to the Feywild has opened, and magical energy and fey creatures are sneaking through the portal. The party first discovers something amiss when they find that all of their rations or other packed food have been replaced with acorns or pine cones, depending on the type of forest they’re in. Regardless of whether they discover the culprits, a collection of quicklings, they soon learn that this is more than a random fey prank.
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.
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: The Weight of Glory
November 5, 2021
I’m so sorry. I was just trying to help!
Dad was a hero but died without the glory he desired and deserved. Can you help bring reconciliation to his grieving child?
This one-shot sidequest adventure is designed for 4-5 characters, level 5-7, with a total of 20-22 levels.
Maledos, a tiefling sorcerer, is looking for help. Their father died in the battle, and they wish to give him a proper burial, but the battlefield is haunted by sword wraiths who prevent the battlefield from being disturbed. What the players don’t know is that Maledos was the one who ended the battle with a fireball that also killed their father, who is one of the sword wraiths.
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.
