Accessible Adventure of the Week: The Greater of Two Evils

October 4, 2021

A skeleton with glowing red eyes in chainmail armor, a red tint over the top half. Its left hand is raised holding an empty sword hilt. A longsword is sheathed in its belt. In the background, a composite of a door, stone castle wall, and book with a yellow light shining from the upper right.

Evil is coming. Or is it already here?

The baron hires you to stop an undead creature that’s sure to bring evil to the community, but is the evil already there?

This side adventure is designed for four to six characters with an average party level of 4, totaling roughly 20 levels.

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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 human woman going through menopause with hypertension (high blood pressure).

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

Content Trigger Warnings

This adventure includes death, violence, ableism, and the undead.

Accessible Adventure of the Week: The Price of Success

October 4, 2021

In a dark building with rows of benches and light coming in a few arched windows, a white woman with darkened eyes and dark red-brown hair covering most of her face.

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.

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

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.

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

Accessible Adventure of the Week: The Weight of Glory

October 4, 2021

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.

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.

The Inevitable 💀 (Accessible Adventure of the Week)

October 4, 2021

The Inevitable cover: an undead warlock holding a blue glowing magic staff

A one-shot side-quest for characters level 4-6.

Can Peace Be Maintained Indefinitely?

The town is perfectly peaceful. Perfectly. Everyone gets along. Always. How can that be bad?

The village that makes its subsistence on spiced melon and red rye holds a dark secret, and the shoemaker and his wife will upset the perfect peace.

This adventure includes stat blocks for the following, which may be used in other adventures:

Avery Penn (Disabled NPC of the Week)
Deathlok (Lich Patron)
Undead Wolves
Artifact: Crystal of Peace

4K Maps are free for all subscribers or can be purchased from DriveThruRPG

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 unique prosthetic arm, a character with chronic pain, and more.

This free adventure includes a simplified version for screen readers for the blind and visually impaired, stat blocks and information for two monsters, a new artifact, a village map, and multiple NPCs, plus illustrations of each NPC for your players.

Content Trigger Warnings

This adventure includes topics of violence, death of both people and animals, ableism, and undead people and animals.

This adventure was created as part of the Summer 2021 Storytelling Collective.

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