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writingonthemoon · 2 months

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What I wouldn't give to have a romance like the ones we write before we sleep, as we just barely pull ourselves into waking, while we walk through a thunderstorm alone for just the joy and thrill of it, when we grocery shop with a list written on a scrap of paper found in your desk, while our minds are filled with the gentle haze of comfort and safety.

What I wouldn't give for a romance like that...

#cof talks #i'm back baybee #and I've been going through ut with media consumption!!#dimension 20 is still my lord and saviour #lou wilson zac oyama aabria iyengar my loves #but also we've read if we were villains five times and we're writing an unoffixial sequel that happens 25-30 years (i think) after the book #thise kids are doing great the narrative is treating them okay not great but okay (elaine and elliot our shining twins with such talent)#and also i've taken to coping with having a single idea about a narrative as the indication i need ti write another fic so i've Several more #Cari Dolly and my seven Elaines are all doing wonderfully and have healthy relationships (mothers and daughters and daughters and mothers)#but we're back and my weekly poetics about math and food are going here!#also we'll probably change the tag to pdf.talks because that's where most of my visible socials are pivoting to (url stays mine)

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idoobeg · 1 year

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Please note that this will be all I talk about from now on

#The ravening war #dimension 20 #matt mercer #brennan lee mulligan #aabria iyengar #lou wilson #zac oyama #anjali bhimani #God I'm so excited for this #May 10th can't come soon enough #A Crown of candy isn't even one of my favourite D20 campaigns #I just can't wait to see Matt Dm this #Can't wait to see I'm interact with lou and zac #And anjali is at the table too!!#I've only seen her in Exu but I loved her in that #God I can't wait #Idoobeg speaks

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big-moon-little-moon · 1 month

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i'm watching the ravening war (for the plot)

#i am actually watching it for the plot to be fair xd #matt is doing a great job and all players are fantastic #but yea the ladies are FREAKING KILLING IT with threir characters and roleplay and on the top of it the looks! the looks!!!#gods i love women #to be fair to him lou's dashing with his outfits too #i want to steal the mushroom shirt look #i love the world of calorum #my only problem is i am also listening to fellowship of the ring soundtrack #and thanks to calorum when i hear the name 'Bree' my brain changes it to 'brie'#so now the hobbits are entering the town of brie and here i am imagining cheese lands #the narrator says 'the Bree-folk' and i go ah yes. from the dairy islands surely.#dimension 20 #matt mercer #the ravening war #calorum #aabria iyengar #anjali bhimani #brennan lee mulligan #zac oyama #lou wilson #d20 acoc #d20 trw

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masterkeynobi · 1 year

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trw e1 brain dump incoming im obsessed w how 0 people predicted some of the pc classes. BARD/ROGUE bulbian bishop? satanist (hungry one-ist?) shapeshifting BARD/WARLOCK teenage spymaster?? (karna is perfect btw i will never not love an ethically dubious aabria pc aabria i'm your biggest fucking fan but i was like 100% sure she’d be a rogue...)

anjali is sooooo fucking fun too ive never seen her play before but i love her already it’s real hot girl shit in there!!! she said somebody in here has to serve CUNT and she DELIVERED!!! jessica rabbit as a mango Do You Like Women. she has the most consistent accent(s) i’ve seen in the dome ever. like i wasn’t sure she Wasn’t irl british until she spoke ooc and sounded american. when she went french-accented british to speak fructerano... beautiful. love it. love to see it. (also was fun when matt went from french-accented to american-accented to indicate the switch to fructerano but that only lasted a few lines, rip)

feels characteristic (affectionate) of lou and zac to play very like. straightforward/Not Great At Politics pcs, given their past pcs within calorum (see: acoc ap ep 5, lou talking abt playing amethar so he doesn't have to be good at politics + zac talking about how playing lapin was hard bc he doesnt think/talk like that; by the time cumulous was in the picture there wasnt really Politics to deal with) vs iyengar + mulligan getting spicy with it and playing devious untrustworthy bitches w big ol secrets.

1. i think colin should kiss either deli or his mom, sorry, and 2. OBSESSED, truly, w the lady amangeaux-raphaniel-karna dynamics. brennans patented cute lil old man voice + a pc who's apparently so optimized to lie that he cannot get a sub-20 deception roll? i watched battle for beyond im gearing the fuck up for another mulligan minmax build that shit rules. lady a loving+trusting both of them implicitly but raphaniel maybe having killed...? her husband...? and karna def going out there and talking shit for fun and profit... yum. delicious. excited for it to get worse

#sree.txt #the ravening war #the ravening war spoilers #other thoughts:#gasped and flapped my hands super super hard when citrinabeth showed up #my house of rocks.........#deli sweet boy i love you i love that youre getting your kisses in but you cannot be fucking someone being weird abt your mom. cmon dude #in general i love that theres the Schemes half of the party and then theres the Goofs half (this post is very schemes heavy. thats on me #i'm just a big big schemes and intrigue enjoyer)#i dont uh. love the cult plotline thus far i think proper politics are more up my alley its why acoc e3-5 fuck so severely #but i'm a big fan of the party being incidental to the breakout of the ravening war! feels more realistic and i'm :eyes: about the timeskip #aabria iyengar #brennan lee mulligan #zac oyama #lou wilson #anjali bhimani #karna solara #raphaniel charlock #amangeaux epicée du peche #delissandro katzon #colin provolone

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musicalcastingideas · 1 month

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Internet Personalities Do The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals

The rules I am setting for myself:

No one who has already been in a musical set in the Hatchetfield universe

The actors will be portraying the same characters the actors did in the original (so the person cast as Zoey would also play Alice, etc)

This is not like "influencer" internet personalities, I'm pulling more from like, Dropout people, ex-buzzfeed, internet comedians, etc.

Also if you don't see a name of a side character, assume I just forgot their name, I'm writing this as I think of it so I don't forget my ideas.

Paul: Shane Madej

The famous skeptic, playing a man forced to believe AND think of the implications? Plus, we know he can sing, thanks to Puppet History.

Emma: Jen (from Fundie Fridays)

I love Jen, and their vibes are just absolutely perfect for Emma. They have that "I've worked customer service jobs long enough that I have lost the ability to feel anything but contempt for mankind" vibe that Emma has.

Charlotte/Nora/Deb: Aabria Iyengar

She's such a talented performer, I could see her absolutely nailing Charlotte's sweet naivete, and then fucking annihilating Join Us (And Die)

Ted Spankoffski/Homeless Man/ (he is) Dan Reynolds: Grant O'Brien

The Heel of Dropout, Grant excels at playing the asshole, so who better to fill the role of everyone's favourite douchebag?

Mr Davidson/Sam/ Man In A Hurry/Sargent MacNamara: Zac Oyama

I'm not factoring in the ability to hit Jeff Blim's ungodly high notes, but acting wise, Zac is absolutely perfect. For Sargent MacNamara, we have Zac being amazing as the Skipper in A Starstruck Odessey, and the rest of the characters are weird little guys with something in their brains so... I won't say more so as to not spoil Starstruck but, those who know, know. Basically, make Zac Oyama all the weird little guys 2026.

Professor Hidgens/Hot Chocolate Boy: Keith Habersburger

He would absolutely DEVOUR Show Stopping Number. You cannot convince me otherwise.

Alice/Zoe/ Greenpeace Girl: Emily Axford

She's incredibly charming, versatile, snarky and thanks to Dimension 20 Fantasy High, we know she's excellent at playing a rebellious teen.

Bill: Brennan Lee Mulligan

I want to see Brennan and Emily do the scene with Bill and Alice in the school. It will make me sob my eyeballs out but they would destroy it.

Backup choices/Hard cuts:

Ally Beardsley as Paul

Reason they were cut: They are too cool.

Lou Wilson as Ted:

While he would kill this part, he's too hot

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utilitycaster · 11 months

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From all the TTRPG shows you've watched so far, do you have any favourite player character builds, or builds that you think were especially well suited to the campaign/setting that the character was in?

You'd have to narrow this down - there's a lot (I stopped keeping my massive spreadsheet of character races and classes in actual play updated bc it was getting ridiculous but it's at over 100) so I'm just going to call out a few players who consistently hit this mark in everything they do.

Surprising no one, Emily Axford. Truly one of the biggest reasons why I get annoyed at the "haha Emily will DESTROY this DM" is that Emily has an incredibly good eye towards party composition and collaboration with DMs while also pulling off some wild multiclasses. This serves her in NADDPod especially, since they're a small party and everyone needs to be versatile. I will say that while I love Callie's build and think it mechanically works very well and made sense for her background in Mothership, it feels like it needs more in-story explanation that we haven't quite gotten to, but I also trust that we will.

Surprising no one with taste, Travis Willingham. Even in cases where we know it was off-the-cuff (Grog) he did a lot of work establishing why Grog was the class he was and how he felt about it; and in cases where it was pre-planned, the amount of backstory and mechanics work he does before and during the story is admirable to the point of ridiculousness (updating Chet's backstory to accommodate what Matt said in a flashback sequence? bananas). His multiclass choices always fit both the base build and the story admirably, and always fit a niche within the party that is very much needed, and the choice to play someone like Cerrit in Calamity or Fjord in general would put him here on their strength alone.

Again surprising no one, Aabria Iyengar; DMs make the best players. Capable of some great optimization (Deanna, Laerryn, whatever the hell Antiope had going on) or just playing a character with a simple build but with a strong understanding of the setting (Myrtle the Bitch; Suvi). Really, Suvi alone puts her here in that Aabria maybe more than anyone (though she might be tied with Emily Axford) understands wizards and understands that your character is a part of the DM's worldbuilding and needs to reflect that, while also serving as your contribution to that world.

And finally, Lou Wilson. He often does fairly simple builds - Nydas and late-game Fabian are the only ones with significant multiclassing beyond barbarian/fighter level dips - but he always knows precisely what his character is here to do from the start and why, can adapt on a dime, and he has a fantastic eye for subclass choice.

Honorable mentions:

Zac Oyama tends not to go for incredibly complex mechanics, but he has a great understanding of building a character who fits into the world in a way that both reflects and expands upon it, and has a great sense of subtlety, restraint, negative space, and comedic timing. (I've been meaning to make a negative space/comedic timing post but honestly just watch Zac and Travis.)

Grouping Taliesin Jaffe and Siobhan Thompson together because they are both very strong mechanically and not afraid of a wild min-maxed triple multiclass on occasion, but more specifically because they've both made at least one character I really did not vibe with and also absolutely could not fault in any way other than "not my thing, personally." Related to that, both of them bring an "I'm a generous and skilled player and I don't really give a fuck what the audience thinks" vibe that I (the audience) respects the hell out of.

Jake Hurwitz is the rare player who 100% knows his wheelhouse and embraces it whole-heartedly, and he puts in the character and setting work to keep it interesting.

Justin McElroy is mechanically competent but nothing impressive, but he absolutely thinks about his characters and the setting and how they fit together in a deep and interesting way and which sets him apart in TAZ. Kind of with Jake in that he 100% writes what he knows; I think this kind of player is underrated and having played with some, they shouldn't be.

And on the rare chances Brennan Lee Mulligan gets to play, not only is he min-maxed to the hilt but he always is working with the DM in a truly admirable way, even as he builds a little guy who cannot roll below a 25 deception or who has somehow managed to get sneak attack twice per round or something wild like that.

#answered #Anonymous #long post #actual play

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thisisnotthenerd · 8 months

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got a little too bored today and started tallying up d20 cast appearances for the intrepid heroes (and brennan). this is only off of the top of my head so if i forget something don't get on me about it.

Intrepid Heroes D20 Cast Appearances, including sidequests (and BLeeM), ranked from highest to lowest:

Brennan Lee Mulligan with a total of 17/19 seasons that he has appeared in; dm/gming for 14 of those seasons. 7 of those are main cast/intrepid heroes, so assume they each have a baseline of seven.

next up is mister Lou Wilson, with a total of 10 seasons; 3 sidequests, all with guest gms. the man is a combination of dnd knowledge and commit to the bit. great with any season, but has always sidequested with brennan.

tied at nine, we have zac oyama and ally beardsley; ally featured heavily in 2021 sidequests while zac has been more recent in '22 and '23.

tied at eight we have the lovely ladies emily axford and siobhan thompson! i'm so glad siobhan has joined the ranks of intrepid heroes in sidequests, it feels like they just have a lot of fun on the shorter runs.

and in last place, mr brian 'murph' murphy. i know he's busy with naddpod but only intrepid heroes seasons? 7/19? please come on a sidequest my guy. i promise it's fun.

halfway through this process i've decided that guests are also being included now.

Guest Cast D20 Appearances, ranked from highest to lowest:

at the top of the guest list, the effervescent aabria iyengar, with 5/12 sidequest seasons! 2 seasons of gming, 3 seasons as a player, all 3 of which are in established d20 worlds e.g. spyre and calorum. assuming we have an intrepid heroes season coming up at some point in the future, murph can get a bit of a lead, but if aabria's coming on to guest more there's a very real potential that she will outcompete him. i look forward to the day.

next up: erika ishii with 4 seasons. they came on in the first sidequest and have had a steady stream of appearances since. always some kind of mage--tends towards druids/nature magic. 2/3 of her dnd appearances have been druids with an eye for creepy crawlies and the darker side of nature. he's got an aesthetic that he sticks to, and i admire that. real commitment, and not just to the bit.

tied with three we have rekha shankar and matthew mercer. ooh four-syllable names. sorry i got distracted. anyway. very excited to see rekha in desiquest, though she's a fantastic player on d20. big swings, fun character choices, a good balance of support for narrative and spotlight. and then we have matt--one season gming, but for the seasons he's played? some truly cringefail guys who learn to believe in themselves and break out of their personal depression to deliver an asskicking in their finale episode. man likes his themes.

now for the team of two (not the 2 crew) in chronological order of first appearance: mike trapp, ify nwadiwe, lily du, carlos luna, danielle radford, and izzy roland. just enough to make an average d20 table! i'm getting my fill of trapp and danielle in the current season, but seeing a table of these players together? it has potential.

and for the full list of one time appearances on d20 in chronological order of first appearance (only full seasons, not including oneshots atm):

amy vorpahl

justin mcelroy

clint mcelroy

jessica ross

griffin mcelroy

travis mcelroy

marisha ray

krystina arielle

b. dave walters

katie marovitch

sam reich

raphael chestang

grant o'brien

becca scott

persephone valentine

gabe hicks (gm!)

dani fernandez

jasmine bhullar (gm!)

omar najam

oscar montoya

surena marie

anjali bhimani

monét x change

alaska thunderfuck

bob the drag queen

jujubee

alex song-xia

freddie wong

hank green

i've devoted entirely too much thought to this. and i still have more thoughts. too many thoughts and not enough time. can't wait to see who comes on in the future! don't know if i'll edit this or make a new one. probably just edit this.

#dimension 20 #dimension 20 meta #this is mostly for personal record #and is based on my memorization of the seasons #having now seen all of them #(mentopolis ongoing of course)#no referencing the wiki or dropout at any point #thisisnotthenerd's d20 stats #long post #dimension 20 statistics

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dimensional-agent42 · 3 years

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magic and misfits was really good and so was the trailer

I’ve already made my post complaining about “a magical school” being the first words shown to a fandom thirsty for a certain season 3, BUT other than that it is probably the best trailer for a season.

REVEAL #1

Panning in on the dome we hear Erika Ishii’s voice so despite the text that I will never forgive, we immediately know that it isn’t a season with the main cast, this is important for a few reasons:

1. It immediately tells us this isn’t a normal season, things are happening out of order and things are different

2. Now we are trying to guess the theme of the cast which really throws us off later on

The b-roll from the laptop to the dice is just good, with lines from the show over it starting to establish what this season is.

REVEAL #2

Bam, Lou Wilson. Ally being in one of the side quest seasons wasn’t a one-off thing, anyone can be in any season.

Then we go to the cast and it sets the very lighthearted tone with the WandaVision and streaming jokes, as well as showing us the line that made me laugh the most in the whole show. This just establishes more of the characters and cast and then suddenly:

REVEAL #3

BRENNAN IS A PLAYER. FULLY OUT OF LEFT FIELD. Huge reveal which immediately causes the question of WHO IS DMING IF HES PLAYING? The easy answer would be Zac Oyama or Murph, but then

REVEAL #4

Aabria Iyengar is dming, suddenly anything for d20 is possible (including a oops, all Zac season with Zac DMing). This also serves to show that there are only 4 cast members, and as mentioned before, things are very different this season.

It then goes into classic trailer stuff, the fantastic Harry Potter bit and then

REVEAL #5

a FOUR EPISODE EVENT. This is a risky season for dimension 20, they are for the first time having a non-brennan dm, so it makes sense why there are only four episodes (as much as we all wanted more). They put this front and center to make sure that fans knew, this is four episodes and, upon first watch of the trailer this was relieving to me personally, I wasn’t sure about a non brennan-dm-season (im completely sold now, and was 10 minutes into the first episode) but its a new and risky whole season, and establishing the “only four episodes” early was amazing placement.

REVEAL #6

The wands are really dope and I love that they didn’t show post-transformation in the trailer

REVEAL #7

The Box of Doom

It’s back in the dome, and the Box of Doom is back

Overall its just a really good trailer and arguably their best one yet

#misfits and magic #dimension 20 #d20 #pleasealliwantisjunioryear

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