Jun. 6th, 2020 05:12 pm
Fuck Yeah Saturday
Hi friends! I'm having a really bad brain day so I'm going to tell you all about a new thing (okay maybe a couple of things) I love in the hopes that it lifts my spirits some and brings a little joy to you.
For those of you who don't know, I've played Dungeons & Dragons regularly for about 11 years now, and it's a pastime that remains very dear to my heart. As such, I'm a huge fan of liveplay media and recently got around to checking out Dimension 20, the team over at DROPOUT.TV (previously CollegeHumor? still CollegeHumor but also DROPOUT.TV? something like that) who do liveplay shows and y'all?
They're fucking amazing.
First of all, the cast is a tremendous group of very charismatic and funny people, who all have comedy backgrounds and most of whom came up through UCB. I'll admit that Emily's my favorite—probably because she's the player with the style most similar to my own—but every single one of them is a delight to watch. Secondly, watching Brennan Lee Mulligan run games is like taking a master class in the art of game mastery. He's so good at crafting narratives and servicing plot points while at the same time creating believable and deeply funny characters. He's also got an incredible touch for managing heart wrenching emotional moments with these characters, even when they're built on an entirely silly premise, it's an honest delight to see.
Here's a clip of Emily in action during one of the more absurdist moments of season one of Fantasy High, Dimension 20's "let's explore a D&D high school" story arc:
I'm pretty sure the first season at least of Fantasy High is available on the Dimension 20 Youtube channel along with a bunch of other first episodes, demos, and possibly whole seasons of liveplay shows, if it seems like the sort of thing you might be into.
In addition to the delights of Dimension 20, two of the players—Emily Axford and Brian Murphy—are a married couple who wrote a very funny satirical book on relationships that I just bought and am excited to read and also wrote and star in a very funny sketch comedy show about relationships, wherein they play almost every character. It's very good, if you're interested in sketch comedy and also the inherent ridiculousness of romantic partnerships. I will warn that there are some very potent moments of secondhand embarrassment wherein I had to look away from the screen, but that didn't stop me from binge-watching the entire first season yesterday on Netflix.
Here is the trailer:
Anyway, I hope some of y'all find something interesting here, or have something interesting of your own that you're currently enjoying. If so, feel free to tell me about it—I can't promise I will have heard of it but I will happily flail with you anyway.
For those of you who don't know, I've played Dungeons & Dragons regularly for about 11 years now, and it's a pastime that remains very dear to my heart. As such, I'm a huge fan of liveplay media and recently got around to checking out Dimension 20, the team over at DROPOUT.TV (previously CollegeHumor? still CollegeHumor but also DROPOUT.TV? something like that) who do liveplay shows and y'all?
They're fucking amazing.
First of all, the cast is a tremendous group of very charismatic and funny people, who all have comedy backgrounds and most of whom came up through UCB. I'll admit that Emily's my favorite—probably because she's the player with the style most similar to my own—but every single one of them is a delight to watch. Secondly, watching Brennan Lee Mulligan run games is like taking a master class in the art of game mastery. He's so good at crafting narratives and servicing plot points while at the same time creating believable and deeply funny characters. He's also got an incredible touch for managing heart wrenching emotional moments with these characters, even when they're built on an entirely silly premise, it's an honest delight to see.
Here's a clip of Emily in action during one of the more absurdist moments of season one of Fantasy High, Dimension 20's "let's explore a D&D high school" story arc:
I'm pretty sure the first season at least of Fantasy High is available on the Dimension 20 Youtube channel along with a bunch of other first episodes, demos, and possibly whole seasons of liveplay shows, if it seems like the sort of thing you might be into.
In addition to the delights of Dimension 20, two of the players—Emily Axford and Brian Murphy—are a married couple who wrote a very funny satirical book on relationships that I just bought and am excited to read and also wrote and star in a very funny sketch comedy show about relationships, wherein they play almost every character. It's very good, if you're interested in sketch comedy and also the inherent ridiculousness of romantic partnerships. I will warn that there are some very potent moments of secondhand embarrassment wherein I had to look away from the screen, but that didn't stop me from binge-watching the entire first season yesterday on Netflix.
Here is the trailer:
Anyway, I hope some of y'all find something interesting here, or have something interesting of your own that you're currently enjoying. If so, feel free to tell me about it—I can't promise I will have heard of it but I will happily flail with you anyway.
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