OtG at PAX Unplugged!
OtG is partnering with DOTS RPG this year to run the Access Forward Gaming Lounge, a space dedicated to providing access for as many people as possible in as many ways as possible!
We'll be hosting over 40 games with a wide variety of systems and formats. You can find the AFGL in Room 125 (near the Broad Street entrance to the Philadelphia Convention Center), and you can click this handy link here to find maps of the con.
Below you'll find the full AFGL schedule as well as a few extra events featuring OtG folks: two Magic: The Gathering Draft Cube sessions, two D&D 5e games hosted in the PAX Together Intersections Gaming Library, and the panel "Diverse Parties Slay: Inclusion in TTRPGs."
If you have questions about any of the access notes or need additional support, please speak with an AFGL Staff Member or email afgl@dotsrpg.org. To access a screen-reader-friendly version of the schedule, please click on this link here.
Friday, November 21st
Access Forward Presents: A Construct's Nature Part 1
11:00 am to 12:30 pm
GM: Steph from TTRPGkids
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Journaling TTRPG, 1-8 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Follow the path of a newly awakened construct in an overgrown world sparked with magic and left untended by the previous inhabitants. Choose your path, roll to check your outcomes and allocate resources, and see what characters you encounter and bond with on your adventure!
Access Notes: screen-reader friendly digital versions, slideshow version of game (includes spoken text), multiple ways to engage (verbal, written, drawing), limited math
Access Forward Presents: The Harvest Helpers
11:00 am to 2:00 pm
GM: Ali from Spilled Coffee Creatives
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Drawing / Pumpkin building game, 3-6 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
"The Harvest Helpers" is a family-friendly roleplaying game where players take on the role of pumpkin spirits hosting a fall festival. You will draw a Jack O Lantern face over the course of the game, as your choices shape the features of your face and the success of the festival!
Access Notes: Screen reader friendly game documents, tactile components, limited/no math, autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience with Elizabeth from Open the Gates Gaming
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
GM: Elizabeth McLain from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: PbtA - Pasion de las Pasiones: La Rosa Querida
11:00 am to 3:00 pm
GM: Frank Fonseca Jr. from DOTS RPG Project
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Journaling TTRPG, 1-8 Players, Masks Optional, Ages 17+
The kind owner of La Rosa Querida hotel has been declared missing along with a sizable fortune. The hotel must retain its finery and grave, even as it teeters upon financial ruin.
Access Notes: screen-reader friendly digital versions, slideshow version of game (includes spoken text), multiple ways to engage (verbal, written, drawing), limited math.
Access Forward Presents: D&D 5e - The Riddle of Many Things
11:00 am to 2:00 pm
GM: Atlas from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition system with pregenerated characters, 2-6 Players, Masks Optional, Ages 13+
A peaceful day exploring your special interests is interrupted by a friend in need. Erasen Nimblemind’s partner disappeared in the middle of date night, but the minotaur is a scholar, not an adventurer. They need you to brave a raucous tavern, solve riddles, and unravel the mystery of their missing beloved! Written by the autistic founder of Open the Gates Gaming and led by a neurodivergent storyteller, this adventure was developed with the Book of Many Things in celebration of the first canonically autistic NPC in D&D 5e.
Access Notes: autocaptions, large print high contrast dice. Autistic & Neurodivergent players encouraged! Open the Gates is providing specially designed pregenerated character sheets and spell cards to provide for better cognitive access. autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
GM: Dakota Vaughan from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
GM: Isabelle from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: Build a D&D Character
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
GM: Elizabeth McLain from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition (2024), 1-4 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Build your own custom Dungeons & Dragons Character using the 2024 Player's Handbook with Open the Gates Gaming. We will help you bring your concept to life using our open access tools. You will leave the experience with a full-color character sheet, as well as cards for spells and traits for a level 3 character for your next D&D 5e (2024) adventure.
Access Notes: no math, storyteller support with all visual materials (but final character sheet is written down/no braille), autocaptions on a tablet, magnification; spoken, written, spelled, or typed communication.
Access Forward Presents: D&D 5e - Tosca
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
GM: Dakota Vaughan from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition system, 2-6 Players, Masks Requested, Ages 17+
The characters have received a missive from a rebel leader in the city-state of Emor. This band of rebels along with their mysterious leader need the characters' help with a mission to remove the evil Baron Scarpia from power. The famous singer Floria Tosca who uses her performing career as cover for her covert activities is the rebels' secret weapon. The characters will need to infiltrate Scarpia's headquarters located in the Esenraf Palace during a concert where Tosca will perform. Tosca then plans to confront the Baron and remove him from power before the revolution begins, by any means necessary. Based on the opera of the same name, this adaptation has been created for opera lovers, D&D players, as well as people who are new to either.
Access Notes: pregenerated character sheets and spell cards designed to provide for better cognitive access, variety of dice (high contrast, large print, braille), autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: A Perfect Rock - Pax Unplugged Stellar Edition
1:30 pm to 5:30 pm
GM: Blerdy Disposition
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, A Perfect Rock system, 3-5 Players, Masks Requested, Ages 17+
You are aboard the last Generation Ship with the sole survivors of your people. You must find a perfect rock: a new planet to call home.
Access Notes: Screen reader friendly game documentation, tactile components, and autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
GM: Isabelle from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: Stormlight Roleplaying Game - First Steps!
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
GM: Cam from DOTS RPG Project
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, Cosmere RPG system, 4-6 Players, Masks Optional, Ages 17+
The Stormlight Roleplaying Game is the first entry into the Cosmere RPG's new series of adventures in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere. Using a unique but streamlined d20 System, Stormlight RPG explores the world of Roshar. The First Steps adventure starts with an empty character sheet, and takes new players through the process of creating a new character from scratch, through a narrative - Choose Your Own Adventure process.
Access Notes: screen reader-friendly digital versions, limited math, braille dice, input assistance, autocaptions on a tablet.
The Intersection Games Library Presents: D&D 5E- Florencia en la Selva
2:30 pm to 6:00 PM
GM: Chris Campo-Bowen from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: The Intersection (Rm 201)
Storyteller Led TTRPG, D&D 5E game, 3-6 players, Ages 13+
Bilingual English/Spanish GM and Game, Players do NOT need to be bilingual to join and enjoy
After many years away, the celebrated diva Florencia Grimaldi is returning incognito to her native city to star in the opening gala for a new opera house. A group of adventurers have been hired by Riolobo, a sailor from the ship she’s traveling on, to ensure nothing happens during the voyage up the river, deep into the jungle. No one knows what awaits the ship and its passengers, but all can sense the air of mystery and melancholy that surrounds Florencia…
Access Notes: pregenerated character sheets and spell cards designed to provide for better cognitive access, variety of dice (high contrast, large print, braille), autocaptions on a tablet.
Inclusive Vintage Cube Draft
2:30 pm to 7:00 pm
GM: Scott & Caitlin from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: Tourney - PAX Events (Rm 115)
Come play a welcoming, inclusive game of Magic the Gathering. Women, femme, LGBTQ, and disabled players encouraged! We will be drafting a singleton vintage cube*—a high-power-level, high-complexity format. Previous experience is recommended. Cards will be provided, but we'll need them back at the end of the event. Maximum eight players.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
GM: Isabelle from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: PbtA - Zombie World: Shopping Maul
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
GM: Frank Fonseca Jr. from DOTS RPG Project
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Journaling TTRPG, 1-8 Players, Masks Optional, Ages 17+
A temple to capitalism and a fortress against the dead. Maybe this place will help keep you alive, so long as you don't mind living off the food court for a while.
Access Notes: Limited math, card holders for low manual dexterity and magnifying aids for low vision. Autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Duality - Grimsby's Woes
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
GM: Matt from MimicsNMisfits
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, Duality system, 1-5 Players, Masks Requested, Ages 13+
Rubble rolls down the roads under its own power as a stone fin splits the street in two. A creature has been unleashed on the town of Grimsby, and the town has turned to you to unravel the mystery.
Access Notes: Screen-reader friendly character sheets and supplements, automated roll result calculation, 2d6 rated probability tiles (5 sets), tactile sectioned play board, theater of the mind gameplay, limited/low math for players, facial visibility storyteller mask for lip reading, autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
GM: Isabelle from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: PbtA - Zombie World: Shopping Maul
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
GM: Frank Fonseca Jr. from DOTS RPG Project
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Journaling TTRPG, 1-8 Players, Masks Optional, Ages 17+
A temple to capitalism and a fortress against the dead. Maybe this place will help keep you alive, so long as you don't mind living off the food court for a while.
Access Notes: Limited math, card holders for low manual dexterity and magnifying aids for low vision. Autocaptions on a tablet.
Saturday, November 22nd
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
10:30 am to 11:30 am
GM: Isabelle from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: A Construct's Nature Part 1
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
GM: Steph from TTRPGkids
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Journaling TTRPG, 1-8 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Follow the path of a newly awakened construct in an overgrown world sparked with magic and left untended by the previous inhabitants. Choose your path, roll to check your outcomes and allocate resources, and see what characters you encounter and bond with on your adventure!
Access Notes: screen-reader friendly digital versions, slideshow version of game (includes spoken text), multiple ways to engage (verbal, written, drawing), limited math
Access Forward Presents: The Harvest Helpers
11:00 am to 2:00 pm
GM: Nell from Spilled Coffee Creatives
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Drawing / Pumpkin building game, 3-6 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
"The Harvest Helpers" is a family-friendly roleplaying game where players take on the role of pumpkin spirits hosting a fall festival. You will draw a Jack O Lantern face over the course of the game, as your choices shape the features of your face and the success of the festival!
Access Notes: Screen reader friendly game documents, tactile components, limited/no math, autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
GM: Michael from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: Build a D&D Character
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
GM: Elizabeth McLain from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition (2024), 1-4 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Build your own custom Dungeons & Dragons Character using the 2024 Player's Handbook with Open the Gates Gaming. We will help you bring your concept to life using our open access tools. You will leave the experience with a full-color character sheet, as well as cards for spells and traits for a level 3 character for your next D&D 5e (2024) adventure.
Access Notes: no math, storyteller support with all visual materials (but final character sheet is written down/no braille), autocaptions on a tablet, magnification; spoken, written, spelled, or typed communication.
Access Forward Presents: Honey Heist - Operation Sweet Tooth
11:30 am to 3:00 pm
GM: Vixie Bell from The Pocket Dragon Pub
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, Honey Heist system, 4-6 Players, Masks Requested, 13+
At Honey Con 2025, the elite of the apian world gather to celebrate all things sweet. Beneath the buzz, a crew of criminal bears is ready to make their move. You’ve got one chance and one irresistible target: the legendary “Queen’s Reserve.” Get in, get the honey, and get out before everything goes to fur. What could possibly go wrong?
Access Notes: some tactile components, no math, autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: D&D 5e - The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
GM: Gustavo from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition system, 3-6 Players, Masks Requested, Ages 13+
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh (For 3 to 6 seventh-level adventurers) Your party has been summoned by the druid Fevroniya, who guards the forests that surround the great city of Kitezh. A vast undead army, led by a group of shadow elves called the Ratars, is marching on the city and threatens to lay waste to everything in its path. The characters must uncover the legends of Kitezh and find a way to help Fevroniya, vanquish the advancing army, and save the city!
Access Notes: pregen character sheets and spell cards designed to provide for better cognitive access, variety of dice (high contrast, large print, braille), autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
GM: Isabelle from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: PbtA - Zombie World: Shopping Maul
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
GM: Frank Fonseca Jr. from DOTS RPG Project
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Journaling TTRPG, 1-8 Players, Masks Optional, Ages 17+
A temple to capitalism and a fortress against the dead. Maybe this place will help keep you alive, so long as you don't mind living off the food court for a while.
Access Notes: Limited math, card holders for low manual dexterity and magnifying aids for low vision. Autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
GM: Michael from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: A Construct's Nature Part 2
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
GM: Steph from TTRPGkids
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Journaling TTRPG, 1-8 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Follow the path of a newly awakened construct in an overgrown world sparked with magic and left untended by the previous inhabitants. Choose your path, roll to check your outcomes and allocate resources, and see what characters you encounter and bond with on your adventure! You do not need to play part 1 to play part 2 (we will get you caught up).
Access Notes: screen-reader friendly digital versions, slideshow version of game (includes spoken text), multiple ways to engage (verbal, written, drawing), limited math
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
GM: Michael from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: A Construct's Nature Part 2
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
GM: Steph from TTRPGkids
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Journaling TTRPG, 1-8 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Follow the path of a newly awakened construct in an overgrown world sparked with magic and left untended by the previous inhabitants. Choose your path, roll to check your outcomes and allocate resources, and see what characters you encounter and bond with on your adventure! You do not need to play part 1 to play part 2 (we will get you caught up).
Access Notes: screen-reader friendly digital versions, slideshow version of game (includes spoken text), multiple ways to engage (verbal, written, drawing), limited math
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
GM: Michael from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
PAX Together Pick: Diverse Parties Slay - Inclusion in TTRPGs Panel
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Room: Crab God Theatre (Lvl 1, 1113C)
TTRPGs are better when your table is inclusive. Our panel brings experience playing and GMing a wide variety of tabletop roleplaying games and systems including D&D 5e FFG Star Wars World of Darkness (Vampire Masquerade) Powered by the Apolocalypse (Avatar Legends Masks Thirsty Sword Lesbians) Daggerheart Pathfinder 2e and more. Together we will explore what is gained when players and storytellers create a supportive gaming experience”and what we all lose when we exclude people. GMs developers players educators and anyone interested in joining the TTRPG gaming community will learn practical strategies for including everyone at the table.
Access Forward Presents: Duality - Grimsby's Woes
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
GM: Matt from MimicsNMisfits
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, Duality system, 1-5 Players, Masks Requested, Ages 13+
Rubble rolls down the roads under its own power as a stone fin splits the street in two. A creature has been unleashed on the town of Grimsby, and the town has turned to you to unravel the mystery.
Access Notes: Screen-reader friendly character sheets and supplements, automated roll result calculation, 2d6 rated probability tiles (5 sets), tactile sectioned play board, theater of the mind gameplay, limited/low math for players, facial visibility storyteller mask for lip reading, autocaptions on a tablet.
Sunday, November 23rd
Access Forward Presents: StoryGuider - Will the Wizard Meets the Loc YES Monster
10:30 am to 11:30 am
GM: Steph from TTRPGkids
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led roleplaying adventure, 1-12 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Help guide Will the Wizard in finding the magic ingredient needed to help The Great Spelldini... but watch out for the Loc YES Monster! This creature can only answer 'yes' but it's not always going to be what you expect! See if you can outsmart or win over this technically compliant creature!
Access Notes: multiple ways to engage (verbal, drawing, coloring), no math.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
10:30 am to 11:30 am
GM: Dakota Vaughan from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: The Harvest Helpers
11:00 am to 2:00 pm
GM: Nell from Spilled Coffee Creatives
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Drawing / Pumpkin building game, 3-6 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
"The Harvest Helpers" is a family-friendly roleplaying game where players take on the role of pumpkin spirits hosting a fall festival. You will draw a Jack O Lantern face over the course of the game, as your choices shape the features of your face and the success of the festival!
Access Notes: Screen reader friendly game documents, tactile components, limited/no math, autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
GM: Atlas from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: PbtA - Zombie World: Shopping Maul
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
GM: Frank Fonseca Jr. from DOTS RPG Project
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Journaling TTRPG, 1-8 Players, Masks Optional, Ages 17+
A temple to capitalism and a fortress against the dead. Maybe this place will help keep you alive, so long as you don't mind living off the food court for a while.
Access Notes: Limited math, card holders for low manual dexterity and magnifying aids for low vision. Autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Build a D&D Character
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
GM: Elizabeth McLain from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition (2024), 1-4 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Build your own custom Dungeons & Dragons Character using the 2024 Player's Handbook with Open the Gates Gaming. We will help you bring your concept to life using our open access tools. You will leave the experience with a full-color character sheet, as well as cards for spells and traits for a level 3 character for your next D&D 5e (2024) adventure.
Access Notes: no math, storyteller support with all visual materials (but final character sheet is written down/no braille), autocaptions on a tablet, magnification; spoken, written, spelled, or typed communication.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
GM: Isabelle from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: D&D 5e - The Riddle of Many Things
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
GM: Dakota Vaughan from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition system with pregenerated characters, 2-6 Players, Masks Optional, Ages 13+
A peaceful day exploring your special interests is interrupted by a friend in need. Erasen Nimblemind’s partner disappeared in the middle of date night, but the minotaur is a scholar, not an adventurer. They need you to brave a raucous tavern, solve riddles, and unravel the mystery of their missing beloved! Written by the autistic founder of Open the Gates Gaming and led by a neurodivergent storyteller, this adventure was developed with the Book of Many Things in celebration of the first canonically autistic NPC in D&D 5e.
Access Notes: autocaptions, large print high contrast dice. Autistic & Neurodivergent players encouraged! Open the Gates is providing specially designed pregenerated character sheets and spell cards to provide for better cognitive access. autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Stormlight Roleplaying Game - First Steps!
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
GM: Cam from DOTS RPG Project
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, Cosmere RPG system, 4-6 Players, Masks Optional, Ages 17+
The Stormlight Roleplaying Game is the first entry into the Cosmere RPG's new series of adventures in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere. Using a unique but streamlined d20 System, Stormlight RPG explores the world of Roshar. The First Steps adventure starts with an empty character sheet, and takes new players through the process of creating a new character from scratch, through a narrative - Choose Your Own Adventure process.
Access Notes: screen reader-friendly digital versions, limited math, braille dice, input assistance, autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: PbtA - Pasion de las Pasiones: La Rosa Querida
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
GM: Frank Fonseca Jr. from DOTS RPG Project
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led Journaling TTRPG, 1-8 Players, Masks Optional, Ages 17+
The kind owner of La Rosa Querida hotel has been declared missing along with a sizable fortune. The hotel must retain its finery and grave, even as it teeters upon financial ruin.
Access Notes: screen-reader friendly digital versions, slideshow version of game (includes spoken text), multiple ways to engage (verbal, written, drawing), limited math.
Access Forward Presents: D&D 5e - Tosca
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
GM: Gustavo from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition system, 2-6 Players, Masks Requested, Ages 17+
The city of Emor is consumed by rebellion, and the tyrant Scarpia has one last chance to cling to power: at dawn, he plans to extinguish the revolution's fervor by executing its leader. The characters play freedom-fighters who must swiftly navigate the darkened streets of Emor, infiltrate Scarpia's stronghold, and confront the villain in order to save their ally and the city.
Access Notes: pregenerated character sheets and spell cards designed to provide for better cognitive access, variety of dice (high contrast, large print, braille), autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
GM: Elizabeth from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
The Intersection Games Library Presents: D&D 5E- La Llorona
2:00 pm to 5:30 PM
GM: Chris Campo-Bowen from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: The Intersection (Rm 201)
Storyteller Led TTRPG, D&D 5E game, 3-6 players, Ages 17+
Bilingual English/Spanish GM and Game, Players do NOT need to be bilingual to join and enjoy
A series of unsolved disappearances has paralyzed the town of Izalco with fear and people whisper that La Llorona stalks the streets at night luring villagers to their doom. Can your party of adventurers solve the mystery before it's too late? Is La Llorona an evil spirit intent on killing innocents or is there something else going on here?
Access Notes: pregenerated character sheets and spell cards designed to provide for better cognitive access, variety of dice (high contrast, large print, braille), autocaptions on a tablet.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
2:00 pm to 3:00 PM
GM: Isabelle from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: Pokemon TCG - Learn to Play Experience
3:30 pm to 4:30 PM
GM: Isabelle from Open the Gates Gaming
Room: AFGL 125
Pokemon Trading Card Game, 1-2 Players, Masks Optional, All Ages
Learn to play the Pokemon Trading Card game in a supportive environment! We will coach you step-by-step through the rules of the game and provide you with the tools you need to start your Pokemon journey. Everyone is welcome, including kids and teens with disabilities.
Access Notes: card holders, magnification, support for fine motor skills, player guides to support memory and cognition, support with the limited math using tokens. Support people are welcome, as are AAC users.
Access Forward Presents: Duality - Grimsby's Woes
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
GM: Matt from MimicsNMisfits
Room: AFGL 125
Storyteller-Led TTRPG, Duality system, 1-5 Players, Masks Requested, Ages 13+
Rubble rolls down the roads under its own power as a stone fin splits the street in two. A creature has been unleashed on the town of Grimsby, and the town has turned to you to unravel the mystery.
Access Notes: Screen-reader friendly character sheets and supplements, automated roll result calculation, 2d6 rated probability tiles (5 sets), tactile sectioned play board, theater of the mind gameplay, limited/low math for players, facial visibility storyteller mask for lip reading, autocaptions on a tablet.