Limitless Champions: Fantasy 3D Miniatures with Disabilities
Ian C. Langtree - Writer/Editor for Disabled World (DW)
Published: 2023/05/05 - Updated: 2023/10/05
Publication Type: Announcement / Notification
Topic: Accessible Games and Gaming - Publications List
Page Content: Synopsis - Introduction - Main
Synopsis: Wyrmworks Publishing announces Limitless Champions, the largest, most diverse line of disabled fantasy miniatures ever made. Limitless Champions features a range of disabilities, including Alopecia Areata, Amputation, Anxiety & Panic Disorder, Arthritis, Blindness, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Dwarfism, Ectrodactyly, Face Differences, Service Animals, and Wheelchair Users.
Introduction
Wyrmworks Publishing announces Limitless Champions, the largest, most diverse line of disabled fantasy miniatures ever made. This is the first time in history that experiences like Down syndrome and cerebral palsy have had representation as heroic fantasy characters. We think it's about time.
Main Item
Wyrmworks Publishing is excited to announce the launch of Limitless Champions, the largest and most diverse collection of disability-themed fantasy miniatures ever created.
Requested by fans of 2022's successful Limitless Heroics - Including Characters with Disabilities, Mental Illness, and Neurodivergence in Fifth Edition, which includes fifty illustrated fifth edition characters with a wide variety of traits, Limitless Champions includes some favorites from Limitless Heroics and adds new exclusive characters, represented through visible physical traits, assistive items, and service animals. The collection also includes condition marker bases accessible to blind gamers with recognizable shapes and braille labels. In addition to full-color tarot-size cards and a full-color electronic book of character descriptions in multiple accessible formats, backers can choose STL files for 3D printing or resin miniatures. The campaign also offers a padded wooden chest with a choice of cover art.
Primary author of Limitless Heroics, Dale Critchley is the owner, lead writer, and chief tea drinker at Wyrmworks Publishing. He's been playing tabletop role-playing games since 1982 and launched Wyrmworks Publishing as a hobby in 2000 to share his homebrew resources with the world. In 2021, after seeing the power that a TTRPG group can have to change the lives of the participants for the better, he rededicated Wyrmworks Publishing to focus on using TTRPGs to intentionally improve the lives of others and turned a hobby into a full time pursuit.
While working on the book, Dale noticed that, while miniatures of the characters are a big part of many D&D games, aside from a small collection of characters in wheelchairs and the standard tropes (pirates & blind martial artists), disability representation in character minis doesn't exist. So they're running a Kickstarter campaign to change that, creating heroic characters with a wide variety of disabilities (and guidelines for accessibility and avoiding harmful tropes) to help normalize disabled people in fantasy worlds, which will have repercussions on the real world.
Stretch goals include digital planner stickers and tokens for use in virtual tabletops and additional miniatures representing fantasy service animals. Besides developing the characters in consultation with people whose real-world experiences reflect the characters' traits, Naomi Hazlett, Bsc., MScOT, OT Reg. (Ont.), reprises her role in sensitivity consultation as she did for Limitless Heroics.
Limitless Champions features a range of disabilities, including Alopecia Areata, Amputation, Anxiety & Panic Disorder, Arthritis, Blindness, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Dwarfism, Ectrodactyly, Face Differences, Service Animals, and Wheelchair Users. Each character is designed to reflect the experiences of real-world people and includes a digital book and tarot-size cards with 5e Stat Block, background and personality, plot hooks, full-color character art, and miniature (available as STL or pre-printed mini). Additionally, miniatures include condition markers designed to help visually impaired gamers keep track of different character conditions. The campaign also offers a padded wooden chest with a choice of cover art.
Wyrmworks Publishing is committed to promoting diversity and inclusivity in all of its projects. That's why they prioritize hiring disabled, neurodiverse, and mentally ill creators and consultants, ensuring that the project is informed by real-world experiences and perspectives. Their goal is to provide a platform for marginalized voices and to promote active representation in the gaming community.
This campaign is a unique opportunity for TTRPG publishers to access a valuable and diverse collection of fantasy stock art featuring disability representation at an affordable price. The inclusion of disability representation in TTRPGs is long overdue, and with your support, we can help make it the norm.
Wyrmworks Publishing is dedicated to helping you make others' lives better through tabletop role-playing games publishing resources to build an inclusive society in the real world by making imaginary worlds more inclusive.
Author Credentials: Ian was born and grew up in Australia. Since then, he has traveled and lived in numerous locations and currently resides in Montreal, Canada. Ian is the founder, a writer, and editor in chief for Disabled World. Ian believes in the Social Model of Disability, a belief developed by disabled people in the 1970s. The social model changes the focus away from people's impairments and towards removing barriers that disabled people face daily. To learn more about Ian's background, expertise, and achievements, check out his bio.