Gaining Advantage 006: Dungeons and Dragons and Autism (Level Up Gaming with Daniel Kwan & Naomi Hazlett)

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How can TTRPGs help people on the autism spectrum? We welcome Daniel Kwan & Naomi Hazlett from Level Up Gaming, where they’re doing great work in that area.

In our “Playing the Other” segment, we welcome Nico Meyering with a discussion on breathing difficulties and other disabilities in gaming.

Content Warning: Breathing Difficulties

  • 0:00 Introduction
  • 1:50 Daniel Kwan & Naomi Hazlett from Level Up Gaming
  • 44:48 Playing the Other with Nico Meyering
  • 1:05:33 Wrap-up

Manually captioned. Transcript available at our website.

Level Up Gaming Links

Daniel Kwan’s Links

Naomi Hazlett’s Links

Nico Meyering links

Wyrmworks Publishing




Accessible Adventure of the Week: Fey & Fortune 🧚

In a forest, a man with light skin, black upright hair, and a red robe with a sword hanging at his waist from a shoulder strap. He is looking up and has his hand raised in the same direction. Beside him stands a copper-skinned elf with light brown hair, a headband with feathers hanging from it, and a brown and green caped outfit. She holds a dagger and has another strapped to her left leg. Two tiny blue humanoid creatures, one on the man's shoulder, and another reaching for the woman's dagger. Two more of the creatures are in the background on the right.

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.

A blue woman with arms casually outstretched wearing a short dress. He hair is short and straight, and her eyes are larger than normal.

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.

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

Available at the Dungeon Masters Guild
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Make Lives Better through Role-Playing Games

A blue woman wearing indigo clothing, standing on one foot, reaching upwards.

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 character with Hypermobility Syndrome.

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

Content Trigger Warnings

A blue woman crouching on both knees and one hand down. She has short dark blue hair and green eyes. She wears a dark multicolor dress.

This adventure includes death and violence and may possibly include snakes or wasps.




Disabled NPC of the Week: Zentha Beijor

In a forest, a blond light skinned female elf wearing a tattered green hooded cape and matching clothing. She's holding a longbow with a crossbow-like center. A glowing yellow string powers a fiery yellow arrow shooting from it.

Zentha Beijor is a high elf Artificer (Artillerist) with Hypermobility Syndrome from this week’s Accessible Adventure of the Week: Fey & Fortune.

Available at the Dungeon Masters Guild
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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 Weight of Glory

A skeleton wearing a crown, dressed in full platemail, carrying a longsword and shield standing in a dark forest, mists covring the ground to roughly waist height, but 2 skeletons lay on the ground, one with a sword stuck in it and the other with a skull banner impaling it. The whole image is grayscale with a teal hue.

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.

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 tiefling sorcerer with muscle cramps.

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

Content Trigger Warnings

This adventure includes death and violence, undead, disapproval by parents, and death of parents.




Disabled NPC of the Week: Maledos

a gender-ambiguous brown-skinned tiefling in a muted olive leather longcoat and thigh-high boots. They hold a staff glowing blue behind them. They stand in an archway with an open arched door behind them. A hawk flies in the forest behind the open door.

Maledos is a 5th level tiefling sorcerer who also experiences severe muscle cramps as featured in our Accessible Adventure of the Week: The Weight of Glory.

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 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!