It wasn’t until I watched the 2024 Netflix movie The Remarkable Life of Ibelin that I felt so moved to see how role-playing games can empower people with disabilities like they did for Mats Steen.

Holly Longdale (left), executive producer of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, stands in front of the company’s iconic Orc Wolfrider statue at its Irvine headquarters along with Hawken and his parents, ...