I’m thrilled that so many judges and players in the DCC community continue to find great value in the free tools. Whether it's the character generators (45,000,000+ peasants created, from over 60 community-driven campaign occupation sources!), The Crawler's Companion dice-rolling and reference app, The Sorcerer's Grimoire, our custom spellbook utility, or one of the easy to use demon, dragon, or magic sword generators, each tool has been built with the simple purpose of making it easier for everyone to enjoy the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role-Playing Game!
Why We Have a Yearly Fundraiser
The tools are free, and will always be free. But there are a number of expenses associated with creating, maintaining, testing, publishing, and hosting the free tools, including server costs, development fees, the need for new hardware, mobile devices for testing, and various software expenses. These would be challenging for me to cover, but the incredible generosity that the DCC community demonstrates during our annual drives continues to meet all these needs, and more!
The Current Situation
This year we’re operating under troubling circumstances as we’re currently displaced by the terrible fires in Spokane Washington. We're rattled, but all of us are safe. Miraculously, our house continues to stand despite most of the neighborhoods around us being reduced to ash. We can’t return to our home because of continuing fire risks in the area, so we basically only have what we could grab on our way out the door as the flames approached and thick ash began drifting down from above…
Wonderful friends took us in short term, and now we’re arranging hotel accommodations for at least the next week. Any funds brought in this year will first cover the normal tools expenses, but extra donations will also will help defer some of the surprisingly expensive costs of re-establishing a base away from home. I apologize for this, especially considering how so many of my neighbors have suffered much more, but despite having good insurance, the financial realities, such as deductables -- especially in the short term -- are daunting. Kicking off the drive now is a surprisingly welcome distraction from doom-scrolling the latest fire reports... 🥺
Prizes
If you would like to offer a random prize to the prize pool like years past, just send me an email at info@purplesorcerer.com during the week. I’m not sure how quickly I will be able to update the list below, but all prizes will be distributed randomly at the end of the drive. Usual drive prizes are still in place: donate any amount and receive a PDF of Perils of the Sunken City; if you donate $10 or more you’ll be able to select an additional free Purple Sorcerer adventure PDF; $40 or more you’ll get PDF codes for all our adventures (for you or a friend if you already have them).
Thanks so much for your continuing support of the free tools, and please pray for the people of Spokane: this situation is unreal.
Time Remaining in the 2026 Drive
Giving
To participate in this year's drive, just click on the PayPal button below, and give in any amount you can. You can receive cool rewards! (To get your prizes just provide your preferences in the form at the bottom of the page. To streamline things, I'll send out the PDF adventure codes at the end of the drive in one rush. Thank you!)
Prizes and Pledge Form!
- If you donate any amount you'll receive a PDF of our inaugural adventure Perils of the Sunken City!
- If you donate $10 or more you'll receive a second adventure PDF of your choice!
- If you donate $40 or more you'll receive the entire Purple Sorcerer library of PDFs! (If you already have one or more of the adventures, I'm happy to send the codes to a friend!)
We're keeping things intentionally simple this year for additional prizes. Each of the following will be randomly distributed at the end of the drive:
- Special GenCon Gongfarmers Almanac Edition! (Provided by Steve Getman)
- From Charles at Death Guaranteed Games:
- Any donation of any size gets my adventure The Cult That Never Was on PDF
- Any $10 donation also gets a PDF of the The Great Pyramid of Atum-Isfet
- Any donation of $25 or more will get all 4 of our current publications in PDF
- Softcover copy of the 5e version of Crypt of the Devil Lich! (Provided by David B)
Your Info
Thank You
The incredible support of the DCC community makes this all possible. Thanks to each and every one of you who supports the free Purple Sorcerer Games tools!
Note: Since the DCC community is so dispersed nowadays, please share the drive in your favorite online haunts to get the word out, and if you’d like to donate something to the prize pool, please let me know: it would be most gratefully welcomed.
If you want a blurb, here you go:
Do you play Dungeon Crawl Classics, Mutant Crawl Classics, or X-Crawl and use the free Purple Sorcerer tools to streamline your session prep? For the next seven days you can help support server, development, and hardware expenses, and get cool adventures, and possibly some fun additional prizes. Please support the 2026 Free Tools Pledge Drive! Https://purplesorcerer.com/pledge
The Tools in Action
It's always a thrill to see the tools at a table where everyone is having a great time. A few years back I whipped together a quick slideshow of images posted in the previous month to the DCC Rocks Facebook group, showing off the tools in action!
(If anyone needs an image removed, just let me know!)
