In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we want to shout out Hispanic and Latine TTRPG creators across Roll20, DriveThruRPG, DMsGuild, and DriveThruComics. Their contributions allow players and GMs to experience and learn from the intersection between their rich culture and heritage, vibrant storytelling, and tabletop roleplaying and gaming.
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The award-winning Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel D&D book is packed with multicultural, high fantasy adventures that involved over 50 people of color, of which included Mario Ortegón and Alastor Guzman.
Mario wrote the “Fiend of Hollow Mine,” an adventure for level 4 adventurers based around the Mexican festival Dia de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead. Alastor brought in Aztec culture in their level 8 adventure called “Trail of Destruction.” Along with Aztec culture, Alastor brings in natural aspects of Mexico City with volcanoes, tremors, and earthquakes.
If you want to dive more into the cultures and lore of Radiant Citadel, Journeys Beyond the Radiant Citadel and Encounters in the Radiant Citadel on DMsGuild will provide you and your players with even more vibrant adventures.
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Eugenio Vargas, who is a podcaster, streamer, and game designer, contributed to Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, a D&D supplement that brings alternative ways to look at dragons including their personalities, life cycles, lore, and more. He specifically created the lore around the Sapphire and Moonstone Dragon.
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Marcello De Velazquez, a writer, designer, and event organizer, has written for many D&D Adventurers League and DMsGuild titles including Big Problems, which is Part One of the Red Seeds series of adventures, Through the Veil: Treasures of the Feywild, and the deliciously flavored Spelljammer’s Cookbook (v2.0).
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The Tenacious Bard vs Orcus is a 2-4 hour heavy metal bardic D&D adventure for one DM and one player designed by Anthony Joyce-Rivera. Anthony is also a freelance project lead, game designer and consultant when he’s not rocking out in the multiverse.
Speaking of bards, check out the D&D bard College of the Mariachi, designed by Hispanic twin sister design duo Bianca Bickford and Kelly Knox. Bring in parts of Mexican culture including the mariachi and the charro into your games with energizing harmonies and rodeo skills.
Carlos Cisco, TV writer and TTRPG designer, wrote for ARCADIA Issue 05 from MCDM Productions. He introduces three D&D “Goldmonger Subclasses” that include the Avarice Domain cleric, the Circle of the Gilded druid, and the Oath of Acquisitions paladin – all of which lean into the love of treasures and trinkets.
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In a world under the constant threat of chaos magic, only one faction stands between order and destruction: You are the Emerald Templars. In this indie system, brave souls from all walks of life are sworn to use your might and magic against unimaginable dangers. A team of talented writers and artists lead by DeAngelo Murillo poured their heart and soul into this game to help ensure that you and your fellow Templars will have a wonderful experience unlike any other!
Family Album: A Solo Journaling Game by Taylor Navarro is a solo journaling game allowing players to take on the role of a parent searching through their photo album for an elusive photograph of themselves with their child. Play with a standard deck of 54 playing cards, your journal, and a coin to reflect on parent-child relationships, parenthood, childhood, emotional labour and community.
If you’re looking for Spelljammer at your table, look no further than Galactic Gigglefit by Aaron Saucedo! This Adventurers League module is written for a group of level 3 – 4 players who are exploring the Rock of Bral. Merchants on the Rock have been burglarized and the thieves taunt their would-be captors — can the adventurers catch the thieves and recover a precious anniversary gift?
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Looking for new creatures or items to add to your D&D game? Look no further with Tzinacantli Ancestry and Aztec Magic Items from Jaime Reyes-Mondragón. These supplements are inspired by Mexican culture. And if you’re left wanting more, check out the short adventure Yaax Kaan’s Pyramid, which will bring you face to face with the feathered serpent!
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A one-page D&D dungeon that will provide 2 hours of storytelling fun, The Fallen Star by writer and designer Tomas Gimenez Rioja and is available in both English and Spanish. This adventure for level 3-4 will have your players exploring a mysterious meteorite that has crashed into our world – a perfect way to start your new campaign or a fun one-shot to transition your players from one act into another.
Don’t worry Pathfinder fans, we didn’t forget about you! Creative director and award-winning writer and game designer Luis Loza gives us a new city to explore and deities to worship with Arcadia Files: Altameda. This Pathfinder Infinite supplement lets GMs and players discover the history, people, and land of the haven of Altameda, an oasis settlement of sorts located in the harsh western deserts of Arcadia.
Last but not least, here’s a graphic novel filled with Latinx fantasy called Helm Greycastle by Henry Barajas, who you may know from the critically acclaimed La Voz De M.A.Y.O.: Tata Rambo. Follow the story of our heroes on a quest to save the dragon prince and jump into the setting to tell your own epic adventures with the included TTRPGs that are 5e compatible.