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Hi! What do you like watching on Dropout and why? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sem@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/dropout@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Hi! I made this post because of seeing the other post on asklemmy.

I exclusively have watched Dimension 20 (D20) because I started out listening to all of Not Another DND Podcast (NADDPod) and couldn't get enough. I don't really get the On A Bus variant except it is somebody DMing who is taking the piss out of Brennan and the other DMs? But who is the elf lady and how do they know her?

Also I heard that the latest Critical Roll has Brennan as the DM, is that approachable if you've never watched Critical Roll? I tried to get into it years ago but couldn't deal with the huge cast.

If you've never seen D20, this 6 minute overview is super entertaining and is also a great overview of the energy and talent Brennan brings to every episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZzsB0VBsY

Is there a video like this to help people get into the rest of Dropout?

What do you watch, and why?

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[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

About critical role season 4, it's a completely new world, new lore, new characters, new everything. They have plenty introductory videos if you want to get the gist of the world, but honestly going blind into the first chapter might be great too.

It's a westmarches campaign, meaning it's 12 players, sometimes intermingling, sometimes separated in 3 different tables.

The way they seem to have structured it is having 4 chapters with everyone (kinda crazy), then a separate arc with 3 4 people tables where stuff some characters see is relevant for others, and we as audience know about it but they as performers don't metagame. It's great. It feels like having several short D20 campaigns in the same world one after another or in parallel. For me it has all the good things of D20, but with more continuity.

The separate tables thing feels like having separate characters that are followed in game of thrones, where some character might learn about something happening somewhere that is going to heavily affect another character, but has no way of acting upon it.

Now apparently they are doing another joined table chapter where characters will probably swap tables. I really really recommend watching it, iirc it's free on youtube.

... About your title question, I watch not all but most D20 and their adventure tables, dirty laundry, Um Actually, smartypants, Game Changer and Make Some Noise. Not every chapter but most.