Hi, Intrepid Heroes! For those looking to check out Dimension 20 for the very first time, here's the ultimate thread explaining where and how to start!
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✨Here's the thread for you!✨
I am *beyond* ecstatic to get to share this story with you all! It was an honor and a joy to sit at this table with 6 geniuses and live in one of the most heartbreaking parts of Matt’s beautiful lore and cosmology. The Wheel of Ages turns once more. Prepare for Calamity!
Step into the past with a new set of heroes as they race towards a world-altering finish line with Exandria Unlimited: Calamity. Catch the premiere of this epic four-part mini-series Thursday, May 26th at 7pm Pacific on Twitch and YouTube!
⚔️ LEARN MORE:
Beyond excited to join
@quiddie
,
@erikaishii
and Lou Wilson in
#WorldsBeyondNumber
! Games shall be played, stories told, and pods casted! To adventure, in this world and all the many yet to come! ❤️🔥🌌
I will forever be indebted to
@linzraeallen
,
@daphnemwrites
and
@lnmuir
for organizing this incredible day on the picket line. Day 121, and I can tell you this for a fact - the studios have *woefully* underestimated us, our resolve, and the strength of our unions.
You all made this event so spectacular, I can't believe how emotional I am about it. From your amazing donations, to a 500+ person turnout, you all showed up with joy for the game, and support for unions fighting for fair wages. The deepest love and thanks to every one of you.
@samreich
@PoutineDragon
@GameChangerSam
Sam, I need you to know that in real life I have just purchased a board game, linked below, with over 170 bird cards, and will be playing it while doing pushups for the next 10 months until I am strong enough to come back and defeat you. COUNT YOUR DAYS!!
Know this: If you come to my post-apocalyptic settlement looking to push me and my friends around and take our stuff, you'd better be ready to EASILY destroy every last one of us in seconds as I gaze on utterly powerless to stop you!
When a mysterious warrior enters your settlement to passively take a few resources,
@BrennanLM
will stand up and fight. When you have the option to endure the warrior’s trial,
@BrennanLM
will choose to battle head on. When your entire crew is slaughtered,
@BrennanLM
will regret.
"A Defendant Stupidly Interrupting His Lawyer's Closing Remarks"
@ZacOyama
, master of restraint
@BrennanLM
, master of coming up with a wildly convincing-sounding closing argument for the defense on the spot
⚖
#NoiseBoys
In a perfect world, every DM would have a player like
@quiddie
at their table. She is the living embodiment of understanding the assignment, and I wanna tell stories with her FOR THE REST OF MY DANG LIFE!! ❤️
#TeamLaerryn
Tonight at the stroke of midnight, eastern time,
@WorldsBeyondPod
, the new adventure actual-play storytelling podcast from
@quiddie
,
@erikaishii
, Lou and me, kicks off with our first Fireside Chat and a sneak preview of our debut campaign, The Wizard, The Witch, & The Wild One.
The grand finale of
#ExUCalamity
starts in about an hour. Join us TONIGHT over on
#CriticalRole
as the Ring of Brass bears witness to the dawning of a new and terrible age where the fate of Exandria itself hangs in the balance. See y'all there!
16) DM now needs to do twice as much prep work per week, but running sessions is twice as easy. Gets a text on their phone from Steve. "Hey, gig fell through, moving back!... Did we take a photo of my character sheet? I don't remember ANY of my stats, lol."
Hey gang! I early-voted today, and I wanted to talk about who I voted for and why, in case that's at all interesting to anybody who's having a hard time making up their mind!
Like many of you, every morning I travel to the top of a nearby mountain and shout "AABRIA IYENGAR!" directly into the rising sun, that the day might be blessed with more of her peerless talent and unparalleled storycraft. Today is no different. Please join me in voting for her!!
Hey friends!
It’s a pretty wild turn of events, but I’m a finalist for TTRPG Campaign of the Year…three times!
Being a player in Into the Mother Lands and the GM of both Misfits & Magic and Exandria Unlimited has been reward enough, but uhhhh…a vote would be dope too! ✌🏾
3) Steve is clearly a touring musician IRL, because Gandalf is constantly dipping out of sessions for extremely weak in-game reasons. Steve also keeps writing original songs for the campaign world, which is why there's a goddamn new elf-song on every other page.
Today, over 100 people were laid off from CollegeHumor. The entire staff, across the company, are the best, most talented, hardest working, funniest and kindest people I have ever had the honor of working with. Please follow them, hire them and rec them for jobs! Thread:
15) Kevin asks if he can roll up an ACTUALLY evil character this time. DM is not really into it, offers to let Kevin play the NPC Gollum, thinking he'll turn it down. Kevin is BEYOND stoked, enthusiastically agrees. DM is STUNNED. Fuckin' Kevin.
Playing with
@monetxchange
,
@Alaska5000
,
@thatonequeen
&
@jujuboston
was a DREAM! COME! TRUE! Fearless, hilarious, brilliant, heartfelt - These absolute icons dove straight into the deep end of improvised storytelling and CRUSHED it - You simply cannot miss this adventure unfold!
BIG AND EXCITING NEWS!! Come join us for our Dungeons & Dragons themed picket day at Universal for mini-adventures, boons, an incredible raffle, and the legendary DM skills of BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN (
@BrennanLM
) for our final boss battle at Citywalk!!!
4) Word gets out that a fun campaign is going on. DM agrees to let Rachel play a badass ranger, she's so amped that she immediately writes 40 pages of backstory. DM reads it and thinks "This is honestly more compelling than what I had planned. Is this the campaign now?"
1) Starts with a long, low-level adventure of just getting out of The Shire and getting the ring to Rivendell. DM originally prepped a low-level hobbit campaign for their roommates who had never played before.
--absolutely feral watching the final battle of Campaign One, before I had ever even dreamed of playing D&D in front of a camera. I don't know how many years this faithful bag has left in him, but it meant & means the world to me that I got a chance to bring him to that table. ❤️
2) DM lets their friend Steve play an OP wizard character from a previous campaign because Steve is super busy IRL and only found out he could play at the last minute, but everyone is into it because Steve rules.
3 & 1/2 years ago, I was on my couch going berserk with joy, sorrow & wonder at the conclusion of Vox Machina's story, and it is a testament to the impossible talent of these storytellers that I am once again filled with joy, sorrow & wonder as we bid farewell to the Mighty Nein.
Tonight’s
#CriticalRole
begins in about an hour!
We come to the conclusion of Campaign 2, as the Mighty Nein return to process how they’ve changed each others lives, where those lives go from here... sit tight for a 7-hour, home game length finale!
8) DM plans the MOST badass dungeon, ends up railroading the party a bit to get there. ("Uh, you can't go over Caradhras... It's, uh... It's an evil mountain." "What? What the hell is an Evil Mountain?" "Look, just GO TO MORIA, okay!?!?)
9) Dungeon is awesome. Great encounters. Pippin rolls a Nat 1 on Stealth. Drums in the Deep. And right before the final Boss Battle... Steve books a gig in another city that's gonna take him out of town indefinitely. Everyone SUPER BUMMED!
Cannot WAIT to share the brilliance of the incredible
@quiddie
and her world along with the hilarious and heart-breaking archfey portrayed by the unstoppable
@OmarNajam
,
@eaxford
,
@ozzymo
,
@SurenaXMarie
and Lou Wilson! Let the Bloom begin!
🧚🌷💌
11) Steve's death ends up being a great turning point, snaps everyone into character, RP heightens dramatically. Gimli's player Jess makes a WILD choice to fall in love with Galadriel?? Totally out of left field, but everyone is VERY INTO IT.
An unparalleled creative powerhouse, a storytelling superhero, and golden-hearted beyond words: I will be throwing elbows for the rest of my life to claim the Number One Fan spot for everything Orion D Black ever does, and cheering on all their amazing endeavors yet to come!
6) DM responds to overwhelmingly large 9 person party by completely shifting the tone of the campaign and giving a wild, over-the-top plot hook. "The ONLY WAY to SAVE the WORLD is to take this SPECIFIC RING to a SPECIFIC VOLCANO! Got it!?!?"
12) IRL, Summer is drawing to a close, people's class/work schedules are not lining up. Tensions manifest in weird character choices. Kevin has Boromir go full-blown evil, tries to steal the ring. (Fuckin' Kevin)
And, if I might be forgiven a dorky & sincere moment: This is my first and only bag of dice that I've had since I was 10 years old. The drawstrings went years ago, and it is threadbare and careworn. This was right by my side in Oct 2017 when like every other Critter I was going--
10) DM and Steve work out an awesome death scene, other PCs escape. Very sad, ends up making a great plot moment. Steve ceremonially burns Gandalf's character sheet. Lots of hugs and tears at the end of the session.
True Story: We wrote our names down on our little chalkboards and I wrote mine way too small and also too far to the left so the art department asked me to draw something on the other side so it didn't look so weird so that's how come there's a dragon there! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also: For everyone who missed our delirious IG live last night
- We already owe you the Cram Daniel one-shot.
- If we hit 20k patrons by EOD, the system we use will just be straight-up Basketball. I will have to play a game of basketball IN-CHARACTER as a man named "Cram Daniel"
Utterly and completely blown away by the overwhelming support for
@WorldsBeyondPod
. Our gratitude is eternally yours. 10k folks by the Fireside in under 12 hours!?!? That's whatcha call a BIG OL' campfire!!! From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU!!!
13) However, right afterwards intense combat breaks out, and Kevin makes an awesome character choice. For the 1st time since Weathertop a PC is making death saves. DM lets Boromir retain consciousness to run an awesome scene with Aragorn. Kevin rolls 3rd failure. Boromir is dead.
Beyond excited for
@CarlosCrits
to join the team at
@dimension20show
. Hilarious, brilliant, golden-hearted and a true polymath, we are so lucky to have him! 🥳❤️🔥
14) Game has gotten SO INTENSE. Group agrees that 8 PCs is too hard to schedule during the school year, so Thursday nights will be a side quest in Rohan, while the main plot will continue just with the DM, their roommates, + Kevin.
Hey gang! Join us in about a half an hour over at
#CriticalRole
for the premiere of ExU: Calamity, a tragic tale of ruin and woe amidst the ending of one age and the beginning of another! Should be fun!
See y’all there!
TONIGHT! Join us if you dare for an adventure that shaped the history of Exandria forever… The Calamity🔥
Tune into the PREMIERE of Exandria Unlimited: Calamity at 7pm Pacific on Twitch & YouTube 🎉
🧵Here's a handy thread on how to participate with us tonight:
@quiddie
@matthewmercer
TPK stands for Tris, Pecs, and Keeping Yourself From Vomiting As Every One Of Your Friends Is Brutally Slaughtered Due To Your Inability To Not Only Double-Down But Frankly Quadruple And Later Octuple Down.
Hey gang! Tomorrow is a Primary Election in ID, MI, MS, MO, ND and WA! Of those states, Idaho, Michigan, and Washington have same day registration, so if you’re not registered, you can still walk right into your local polling place, register and immediately vote!
Words cannot express how THRILLED and EXCITED I am to finally share this amazing adventure from the brilliant minds of GM
@quiddie
and Creative Director
@OrionDBlack
! An unreal joy to sit on the big side of the screen with
@erikaishii
,
@danielleradford
and Lou Wilson!!
🏰🧹✨
Today is the day! The DesiQuest Kickstarter is live. I've poured my heart into this with and am endlessly grateful to
@sandeepparikh
,
@rekhalshankar
and
@sweeetanj
for going on this journey with me. I hope you'll join us on this quest!
Tonight at the stroke of midnight, eastern time,
@WorldsBeyondPod
, the new adventure actual-play storytelling podcast from
@quiddie
,
@erikaishii
, Lou and me, kicks off with our first Fireside Chat and a sneak preview of our debut campaign, The Wizard, The Witch, & The Wild One.
So incredibly excited for
@StarWars
: The High Republic Show, hosted by the brilliant and extraordinary
@KrystinaArielle
. It goes without saying that
#IStandWithKrystinaArielle
, but like most things that go without saying, it's important to say it too.
Hey gang! Come join us as Calamity continues in an hour over on
#CriticalRole
! TONIGHT, the Ring of Brass scrambles for answers amidst debauchery, decadence and decay, finding that in the City of Crowns, the devil’s always in the details! 😈
Huge, enormous, profound gratitude to Denise Valentine, our head of HMU and Day-One
@dimension20show
original, and to
@Jennernugen
for costume and accessory design and styling!
To give you an idea of how terrifyingly fast this fever dream is sprinting into our reality, this character was created as a bit *last night* and there's already a *theme song* courtesy of
@audihoe
.
Also: For everyone who missed our delirious IG live last night
- We already owe you the Cram Daniel one-shot.
- If we hit 20k patrons by EOD, the system we use will just be straight-up Basketball. I will have to play a game of basketball IN-CHARACTER as a man named "Cram Daniel"
Chapter One of The Wizard, The Witch, and the Wild One, the first campaign of
@WorldsBeyondPod
, is now concluded! Go binge the whole first arc wherever fine pods are casted, and we'll see you October 24th for the beginning of Chapter Two! 🧹🔮🐻🦊
The thing that's so appealing about Greek mythology is that their gods are just like us. They bicker, they argue, they chain up their cousins to be devoured by birds as punishment for stealing the divine fire. Stuff we all do.
True Story: I asked
@ThatBronzeGirl
what kind of character I should play, and in a *stunning* act of generosity she said "A rude dude with a bad 'tude," and thus Nikhil was born. Cannot WAIT for you to meet this Tiefling Hexadin with 20 Charisma and a *whopping* 6 Wisdom!
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Have you heard the good news!? An absolutely unreal honor to sit at this table with the incredible Erika, Marisha & Taliesin under the masterful storytelling of Jason Carl. A new day is dawning in the
@worldofdarkness
, folks!
#vamily
#labynight
#blessed
🔥😇🩸
Hey gang!
#ExUCalamity
continues in just about an hour over on
#CriticalRole
. Join us TONIGHT as Avalir begins its descent, beset on all sides by treachery, conspiracy, and the grasping shadows of a nameless dread. Should be fun! Seeya in an hour!
I’m enthusiastically and proudly voting for Bernie Sanders. He is a profoundly compassionate, moral and dedicated champion for the working class, and has demonstrated a staggering level of leadership. A one-man Overton window demolisher. We have no choice but to stan!
Running this game for the incredible McElroys was, without exaggeration, a dream come true. And like many dreams, this one was full of violent imagery and dad stuff! BON APPETIT, YOU BAD DADS!!!
We developed a one-page RPG titled Dadlands, a post-apocalyptic dad-based survival sim. In July, we convinced Dimension 20 DM
@BrennanLM
to run a game for us. This episode of
#TheZoneCast
is the impossibly rowdy result of that experiment.
100 episodes of the most heartfelt, hilarious, incredible storytelling from four stone-cold geniuses. Bahumia and its Band of Boobs have brought so much light and joy into the world, feeling very grateful for
@chmurph
@eaxford
,
@JakeHurwitz
&
@caldy
+ all the stories to come! ❤️
And thus ends Campaign One! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all SO so much for listening. Seeing all your tweets and kind words about the finale has been incredibly humbling. It's been an honor sharing Bahumia with you all, and we can't wait to show you what's next!
So *incredibly* stoked to announce this!! Orion is beyond brilliant, both as a creator & collaborator, has a mind & heart made to tell stories, and is an absolute genius when it comes to both ttrpg as a hobby and actual play as a medium. Future's looking bright, gang! ☀️😎✨
In what the scientific community is calling “a recklessly irresponsible amount of fun,” me, Jess Ross,
@LilyD
and the
@McElroyFamily
recorded a
#Dimension20
SideQuest together, and if you don’t believe me, then how do you explain this awesome trailer??
Please donate to the orgs in this thread if you can.
#StopAsianHate
#StopAAPIHate
#StopAsianHateCrimes
"This donation page was created to help the victims and their families impacted by the violent acts that took place on Tuesday, March 16, 2021."
@chrislhayes
It’s certainly been a hot summer worldwide and it should give us all pause. I don’t deny man is affecting our changing climate. But I don’t want to see a policy response that harms our economy.