Purple Sorcerer Games News

As is tradition, I’ve used the Crawler’s Companion batch die roller to roll up the extra prize winners for this year’s Free Tools Pledge Drive. (And discovered a minor layout bug in the version of Safari on my new iPhone 17!)

The winners are:
XCrawl Classics Rulebook PDF and Aventure Bundle from Goodman Games
Jason Mizzell
Jonathan Jones
Hunter Harwood
Jesse Smith
John Replogle

The Cyclopedia of Common Animals PDF’s from Daniel Bishop
Patrick Young
Francois Chiasson
Edward Stanek
Bryan Spellman
Robert Woehrle

Digital Catalogs of Weird Frontiers from David Baity
Eric Sullivan
James Pyne
David Harvison
Brandon Cox
Stephen Mitsch

BIG SWORD: Graves and Groves zine from Gage Berry
Christopher Ochs
James Dalton
Jack Derricourt
Tyler Stroud
Szymon Kobalczyk

Thanks to our wonderful prize providers and everyone who participated: You keep the Free Tools going!

I’ll be sending the DriveThruRPG email addresses along to those distributing the prizes shortly, so expect to hear back in the next week with links to your prizes!

(Finally, just as a head’s up, I’m about to break down my computer for our move. I’ll just be communicating with my iPad and Phone for the next number of days, and this might impact how quickly I can turn around various things related to the tools and our servers).

Thanks to everyone who supported the Free Tools Pledge Drive this year!

With your generous support, we raised almost $3700! The first round of adventure codes went out yesterday for everyone who filled out the form on the page. (If you did, and don’t see them, check your spam folder. If still not there, let me know at info@purplesorcerer.com)

I sent out a follow up email for those I don’t have form responses for, and will be sending out the second round of codes tomorrow night after I receive more responses. From that point on, if you haven’t received codes, just contact me at any time and we’ll get them figured out!

I’ll also be randomly determining the extra prize winners tomorrow evening. 🙂

I’m waiting for the release of the new iPad Pros later this month before making a decision on whether I’ll get the latest and greatest, or take advantage of sale prices on the m4 variety. I did make my first purchase from the funds yesterday: a new Keychron K10 HE Hall Effect Keyboard. This is a new variety of mechanical keyboard that lets you individually adjust how much pressure is required to trigger each key, from very hard presses to feather touches. Because of the issues with my hands, this has me unreasonably excited. I’m trying to do all I can to stay in the game producing these tools, and this keyboard, along with the more ergonomically correct office space that awaits in our new home will hopefully result in more productive coding and writing hours! (Yes, we’re moving this weekend: aye caramba!)

Again thanks to everyone for your amazing support. 🙂

The 2025 Purple Sorcerer Games Free Tools Pledge Drive is now live, and will run through Sunday evening! For those new to the drives, they are used to raise funds to help support the creation and maintenance of the many free Dungeon Crawl Classics tools found on the Purple Sorcerer website. Details about rewards and prizes on the pledge page!

I so appreciate your continuing support!

Jon (The Purple Sorcerer)
HTTPS://purplesorcerer.com/pledge

(Sharing that the drive is in progress is much appreciated: if you need a blurb for your neck of the interwebs, something like this could work:)

Do you play Dungeon Crawl Classics and use the free Purple Sorcerer tools to streamline your session prep? For the next three days you can help support the server, development, and hardware expenses that make them possible, get cool adventures, and possibly win a prize. Support the 2025 Free Tools Pledge Drive now! Https://purplesorcerer.com/pledge