Story of Galder

About a year ago, a young guy named Laurence made a post on reddit . Laurence had gone to the doctor complaining of internal pain. After a series of tests, the doctors assured him that nothing was wrong, he was young and healthy and not to worry.



But something was wrong, and by the time they found the tumor, it was too late.

On his post he shared that he had a rare form of cancer and only had weeks to live. He wanted something to be remembered by, and asked if there was any way his character could be officially added to the game’s lore.

With kindness, Wizards did eventually honor his request, and in the Lost Laboratory of Kwalish you’ll find the spells Galder's tower, Galder’s speedy courier, and the magic item Galder’s pipe, all named after him.

Before Wizard's responded, a whole group of the community got together and, while they couldn’t make it “official”, they said they would be honored to include his character as a NPC in their home games, to exist in their worlds. To keep living in their stories.

But I want to go a step further.



I got in contact with his friends and family, and I want to publish an entire book, Galder’s Gazetteer, that describes his journeys through all those worlds in all those home campaigns. It’ll be an expansion to 5e, similar to Xanathar’s, framed as Galder’s notes on how things are done differently across the multiverse with new archetypes, races, variant rules and more.