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Ways for the D&D Community to Help Kids Through Extra Life at DMs Guild

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The cute little green creature won our hearts with their expressive oversized ears and adorable attitude in the world of scum of villainy all around. And the clever way Emi Tanji, along with Adam Lee and Chris Lindsay packaged them up with fun children’s activities plus a fantastic way to introduce fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons to kids is, like it says on the tin, design genius. I’m talking of course about Adventure with Muk. The 44-page PDF over at the Dungeon Masters Guild caught my attention with the cover featuring Muk the goblin. Like many DMs Guild products from Wizards of the Coast all monies received from sales of this Adventure with Muk are donated to Extra Life. It makes me proud to be part of the D&D community and see these and other creators providing us opportunities like this to give. For the record, I’m just as smitten with baby Yoda as you.

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Help the D&D community help kids

Wizards of the Coast does a lot with Extra Life, a charity that unites thousands of gamers around the world to play games in support of their local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Since its inception in 2008, Extra Life has raised more than $30 million for sick and injured kids. You can learn more about D&D and Extra life on the WotC website here. There’s information about how to join the team and help raise money for kids, how to donate directly and more. It’s pretty awesome.

The various DMs Guild products are another fantastic way to donate to Extra Life and get great content for D&D to create memorable experiences with your friends at the gaming table. I’ve got all these titles on my digital bookshelf and they’ve all come in handy one way or another. Here’s a list of DMs Guild titles from WotC with opportunities for the D&D community to help kids through Extra Life. And these are just the ones I have myself. I’m certain there’s many creators with products that help raise money for kids and all sorts of other charity organizations. Also worth noting is a comment I discovered while looking through titles on DMs Guild. WotC employees cannot derive any income from the sale of products there, but they can donate their portion of sales to Extra Life. I can’t say with 100% certainty that’s accurate, but if so there’s a lot of money being raised for kids. Something the D&D community can be proud of.

Like Adventure with Muk, all monies that Wizards of the Coast receives from sales of these PDFs are donated to Extra Life.

  • Adventure with Muk. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think the kids portion of this PDF is fun for me too. Creator Emi Tanji illustrates the book wonderfully. I am a sucker for this kind whimsical style. Not just the art but the tone of the book, imagining a band of silly goblins living in a dark forest sounds fun. It does a great job of capturing D&D tropes like crazy wizards and mashed up animal monsters. But the real genius — DM training! There’s writing exercises, puzzles and activities that build and develop skills to serve kids well at the game table. And also life in general, right? Critical and creative thinking isn’t just for D&D! The back of the PDF includes a kid friendly D&D scenario with goblin characters to play and adventure hooks. Full disclosure: these adventure hooks are as complex as what I often run with. Check this out here.

“A lost otter. (Was its memory erased by an evil hag’s spell?)” — Adventure hook from Adventure with Muk

  • Infernal Machine Rebuild. This adventure for characters 5th-10th level explores the lost Temple of Moloch and the construction site of the legendary Tomb of Horrors for parts to assemble the Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad. Check it out here.
  • Infernal Font. DMs Guild creators will love this, plus anyone who likes making player handouts. The official D&D infernal font maybe not as universally useful as some other stuff but if you’re a design nerd and want to make some hellishly stylish stuff and raise money for kids at the same time, you hit the jackpot. Check it out here.
  • Locathah Rising. An adventure for 9th level characters. Specifically, locathah characters. You’ll notice there’s several anthropomorphic animal adventures as this list continues. This most recent one is a story about what happens when a normally peaceful species is pushed to the point of open conflict. Check it out here.
  • The Lost Kenku. Find the lost kenku inside the odd community of Weirding in these fully illustrated adventure notes by Shawn Wood. While this adventure is currently optimized for level 4 characters, it is possible for the Dungeon Master to adjust to a party of nearly any level. Check it out here.
  • Lost Laboratory of Kwalish. Characters 5th-10th level explore an alternate expedition into the Barrier Peaks, and this PDF includes new monsters, magic items and spells plus sci-fi trinkets, random encounters and rumors of the area submitted by the D&D community. Check it out here.
  • One Grung Above. Details characters from the Stream of Annihilation event and traits for playing grung characters (unofficial). If you have never run a grung game, I sincerely encourage you to go for it. My friends and I have tremendous fun! It’s one of the games we talk about the most. Protip: pass out bottle caps like Snapple caps to players for audio aids during the game. Those pops are what we imagine the Grung language sounds like, anyway. Check it out here.

Have you created any DMs Guild products that help raise money for Extra Life or any other charities? Do you know any creators in the D&D community who share opportunities to give? Let me know in the comments!

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Doug Vehovec

Nerditor-in-Chief Doug Vehovec is a proud native of Cleveland, Ohio, with D&D in his blood since the early 80s. Fast forward to today and he’s still rolling those polyhedral dice. When he’s not DMing, worldbuilding or working on endeavors for Nerdarchy he enjoys cryptozoology trips and eating awesome food.

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