Hi {name}!

In this update:

• New Accessible Character Sheets
• Wondrous 5e Bundle: Last Chance!
• Free Stuff and my Evil Plan 😈
• A Solid Ethereal 5e Supplement!

“Dad, I used my Wild Shape to transform into a weasel and trip the bad girl!”

Last night, I picked up my daughter from her weekly after-school D&D session. Driving her home afterward is always so fun. The car bounces with her excitement as she regales me with her stories of their latest escapades. I love those car rides. I love her creative solutions.  I love her excitement.

That daughter has cognitive disabilities that make her work a lot harder than most people to learn academic skills like reading. She encounters bullying that makes her uncomfortable around her neurotypical peers. But when her school launched a D&D group, nothing could keep her away.

But text-heavy TTRPGs have inherent obstacles for those who have difficulty reading. So I developed a character sheet for her that has emojis beside each text label. A paraprofessional helps her, but the images allow her to handle most of it herself.

D&D is a great equalizer, allowing people of all different abilities to play together. Each person contributes their unique abilities and perspectives. She experiences acceptance from her peers, and they get used to interacting with people with different abilities and lived experiences.

I want everyone to have that opportunity, so that character sheet is now available in both PDF and DOCX so you can use it as is or adapt it to your needs, and it has a Creative Commons license, so you can share the modified versions you create.

Download it free from DriveThruRPG or go to the post below for more information.

This bundle goes away this Friday, so if you didn't grab it yet, this is your last chance!

My friend Trekiros just launched a playtesting website for TTRPGs, and it’s fantastic. If you like helping to test new TTRPG resources and get free copies or even payment for your work, check out Quest Check! I posted three adventures there yesterday, and all have filled up. I plan to post more there soon. This will help creators like us to improve our products, expose players to more creators, and give bonuses to those who want to improve the quality of the TTRPG products available.

And as the video notes, we want all kinds of experience levels for testers!

And here's my evil plan to overthrow the industry:

1. You sign up and playtest lots of cool upcoming products.
2. You give honest helpful feedback to lots of publishers to help them make their products even better. (And tell them what you love, too!)
3. In that feedback, you also suggest accessibility improvements, like, "Make sure you use alt text on your images," or, "My blind friends would love this. I hope you make a braille conversion available (which is free)," or, "One of our players has dyslexia, and when I showed this to them, they had trouble reading it. Here's their suggestions…."

OK, the plan isn't technically evil. A bit subversive, perhaps. But I'm going to cackle menacingly anyway. "Mwahahaha!"

Check out the video for more details:

One of the most unsettling movies I’ve seen is Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. It’s like a zombie apocalypse movie but with ghosts, so they move quicker, are intangible, and can kill you with a touch. Now take that concept, add ways to interact with, fight, and control the spirits, put it in a D&D setting, and you get Book of Spirits. This absolutely beautiful supplement by our friends at Beyond the Screen launched and funded today on Kickstarter. It has an amazing collection of monsters, subclasses, and an emotion-driven system for fighting spirits.

And the art! Oh, wow, the art! 😍 You have to go look at the art.

Do yourself a solid, and back this campaign before it vanishes!

Thanks for your support!

Dale