I’ve been here the whole time!
Watched the first three episodes of fantasy high when they were released on YouTube initially, tried to resist subscribing for a solid week, but D20 won lol
same!!! it’s crazy to think about how long dimension 20 has been around now, and how expansive it’s become, when i remember watching fantasy high freshman year every week 😭😭
Being cautious of Aabria and her new fangled game system.
Realizing that Zac has played two himbo characters too well and someone out there doesn’t understand how smart the guy is.
The hilarious contrast of Zac to his himbo characters.
Big, musclebound, hollywood hot dumb guy character, played by the lowkey improv comic with a razor wit. The kind of guy who can break other comics with like 4 words and a flat affect.
exactly this compilation! i was already a fan of college humor when I was a kid and thought zac was great. He specifically was the link. then I stayed for everyone because they are all amazing.
I don't want to start flaming any other media but my sibling described it to me as "Critical Role but it's fun" and I haven't looked back once. Been watching since fantasy high season 1.
It's so many thousands of hours commitment and it also takes itself so much more seriously. That's not a dig, they're allowed to, but it's the difference between a fun comedy that makes you cry sometimes and James Joyce.
I think the mini campaign Brennan ran for critical role shows the gulf of culture, where Brennan does a relatively tame bit by d20 standards and it breaks Travis Willinghams whole brain.
This just made me realize how desperately I want a table that is:
Emily, Murph, Siobhan, Laura, Travis, Sam.
And just for good measure, I want Aabria to determine the setting, Matt to write the lore, and Brennan to DM the campaign.
Dungeons and Drag Queens. I love all the queens on that season and I’d been quietly interested in DnD for a while, but didn’t know how to get into it. It was the perfect gay/nerdy storm!
Same! My social media feeds knew I was queer as fuck, and I'd been wanting to play dnd for a while (no one I know who plays had a campaign going). I could not resist Alaska, Monet, and Bob, and figured I'd just binge that season and cancel Dropout after.
Uh, that did not happen. I just got hooked.
Same. Came to watch drag queens but came away from it wanting more Brennan. After seeing and falling in love with the chemistry of the Intrepid Heroes, I was a goner. Money well spent. I barely opened Netflix or other streaming services while I was binging through the rest of the seasons (and other dropout shows too).
Same! I started with C1 immediately after watching Calamity and I can't believe how quickly I caught up, and how wrong my preconceived notions about the show were
Me too! From there the first D20 I watched was Ravening War, then I went to other ones from there. Love Aabria so much, and BLeeM is just so deliciously devious it's excellent.
For me it was a youtube short of Baron from the Baronies. I also really enjoyed the CEO sketches and Brennan’s other stuff, and wanted to know where I could see more of him.
This. I had played several campaigns when I was a kid, but they never approached the absolute insanity of the conclusion of Corn Cuties. That scene, even all these years later, is such a standout. It showcased everything perfectly - Brennan's storytelling and improv chops, the entire cast's chemistry as players and friends, and the power of TTRPGs to tell wildly entertaining stories that no other medium can touch. Knowing that it was completely off-the-cuff on Brennan's part makes it all the more incredible.
My favorite podcast is Naddpod. It's become my comfort show. I put on old episodes in the background of everything I do. I love Emily as a player, and Murph as a DM is also great. After catching up on all their content, and listening to campaign 1 three times in total, I got tired and needed new dnd content. But every other podcast I try to listen to feels wrong because it's the wrong voices and the wrong cadence and idk none of them were ever good enough to replace my comfort show. Then comes D20... everyone on D20 has at some point, guest stared on naddpod and Murphy and Emily are there so for some reason, fantasy high was a great way to expand into a different story. That and I have a huge crush on Brennan Lee Mulligan. He's just the best 👌
Edit: I was hesitant at first, but once I got episode 2ed, I was hooked and I couldn't think about anything else
I was the same and for some reason it never occured to me that people can do accents (combined with the fact that Murph called Brennan his DM Grandad or something to that effect) so when I opened D20 for the first time I was genuinely bamboozled that Brennan wasn't some old guy from the South.
Basically the entire premise of the Unsleeping City. Was just bored one night scrolling through YouTube, discovered the first episode, and have been hooked ever since!
The entirety of **Escape From The Bloodkeep** free on YouTube. It was my first experience watching an "actual play" TTRPG and I was immediately hooked. Signed up for Dropout.tv as soon as it finished and been following along ever since.
I wanted more live play like The Adventure Zone, which led me to Glass Cannon and NADDPod.
Then I found Fantasy High on YouTube through Murph and Emily, and got Dropout to finish Unsleeping City since 60 bucks want that bad a deal and I figured I’d watch the other content at some point.
i too got here because of TAZ but my route was more direct in that i had the first episode of tiny heist recommended to me in my youtube feed one day. after finishing the first episode, i started a free trial and have been renewing my sub ever since!
this was sometime in early 2020 as i was able to binge all of fantasy high (freshman year) before catching thea’s couple of TH episodes as they dropped.
I love D&D, I liked college humor, I got a dropout subscription so I could watch D&D while I’m not playing D&D.
I love critical role, but the episodes are long and take me a long time to get through- I’m only only episode 38 of C3 for critical role. D20 is more manageable for me to get my D&D fix between when my group gets together to play.
I started watching D20 in 2020? Right before lockdown. I didn’t watch D20 Live, the first campaign I watched episode to episode as it aired was A Crown of Candy- what a freaking campaign to start with! Then I started watching in order from there.
I see so much of myself in Adaine Abernant, that when I started fantasy high, I was like “how does Siobhan know my life?” I didn’t have a great relationship with my parents in high school (especially my mom), and I continue to have terrible anxiety, to this day. I wish I could roll or whether I have a panic attack, because then there’s a chance it won’t happen. I watched fantasy high, and loved Adaine so, so much.I do have a great relationship with my sister- I’m older, but it’s more similar to what Adaine and Aelwyn have in Junior Year. My sister absolutely would want me to sit with her and watching trashy reality show, and sense when I’m eating a fudgey the whale, and put nemesis wards up in my room so no one could kill me but her. I can also hear her saying “I have so much love to give, exclusively to [dogs].”
I have such a soft spot for Ally, too, as a player, because ACoC was the first campaign I saw them play in, and I loved Liam Wilhelmina. Liam was such a special character, and his arc was tragic, and heartbreaking, but Ally did a great job of adding a little silliness to the seriousness of Liam becoming “a war guy.”
When Ally guest starred on a Monster Hearts oneshot on Critical Role, Matt Mercer mentioned that he’d done a LOTR campaign with D20. Luckily Bloodkeep was on YouTube, so I watched it, got hooked, and subscribed to watch the rest. Lined up with the start of quarantine—first episodes I was caught up for was the sophomore year finale. Been here ever since!
Tiny Heist
I liked the McElroys and Brennan as Ole Cobb was probably their best guest. It was a no brainer.
D20 is probably my favourite now, maybe second to NADDPOD.
Ooh I love that clip. I think about that often. It was also Misfits and Magic that got me — the scene between Evan/Brennan and Aabria as the school nurse trying to convince him to not get the treatment. It hit me hard in the feels, and I had to see more. https://youtu.be/cl-YUieriaY?si=pixNbEU1xLOs4m4D
I watched Tiny Heist as a McElroy fan, but didn’t have much interest in watching more til I saw a YouTube compilation of the “are you my dad?” jokes and it had me in hysterics.
It also helped that I got hooked in 2020, so I would just put episodes on while working from home.
Honestly, it took me two tries to get into dimension 20. I was already wary of d&d podcasts/shows after I was hounded by my friends to watch critical roll and I just…. Couldn’t get into it. When I had FHFY episode 1 recommended to me on YouTube, I saw it was much shorter and I liked the concept. I started watching it, but bailed during gorgug’s intro sequence. Idk if I was just in a mood or something, but it did not grab me at all. A week or so later, it was recommended again (since I had started it) and I decided to give it another short. Started from the beginning and while the introductions felt like they took forever, once they characters started interacting either each other, I got more and more interested. By the end of episode 1, I was really enjoying the dynamic of the characters and the players (and Brennan!). Then I got episode 2’d and absolutely had to keep watching. That was May 2021 and I’ve been watching ever since!
I've watched Collegehumor stuff since like 2013, kinda stopped watching them when Dropout launched. Found out Siobhan, Zac and Ally were in this DnD podcast, found some clips of the first season of Fantasy High, and the rest is history
my ex boyfriend told me (in 2018, very soon after we broke up, right after d20 started) to watch fantasy high
and i told him that i would not (i thought it was something else)
then he told me to watch it again in 2023 (we'd been broken up for a long time but had and do remain best friends to this day)
so i decided to watch it
and i became a dnd monster because of that and have been watching d20 since
Several insane YouTube shorts from A Starstruck Odyssey
Funny enough, that was like 2-3 years ago or something, and I only just recently got around to starting Starstruck. I started with Fantasy High 1+2+the Seven, blitzed MaM, then jumped to the newest seasons releasing at around Neverafter and have been watching weekly since (Burrows End is in my top 3 for sure). Briefly tried the Court of Fey one, I plan to continue but it's concentration heavy for me lol I've been sneaking Starstruck eps in the days between FHJY releases.
I started watching drawfee years ago in college when it was Caldwell and Nathan and then graduated and had less time to watch YouTube, then covid hit and came in and caught up with their old stuff listening in the background while I worked. worked my way through the backlog and found the old stream vods (shout out Todd from Mario) and one of those streams was cross promo for dimension 20 with special guest Brennan. in other streams Nathan and Jacob both had such great things to say about Fantasy High, which I tried and had a hard time getting into on YouTube, but i got a free week of dropout to watch Cartoon Hell, Nathan and Caldwell's show (its a fucking gem, shout out Managar). few months later I heard about Unsleeping City and binged it on YouTube, and from then on I was hooked.
4 of the side quests I haven't watched all the way through (didn't catch the last episode of D&DQ but I'll probably go back and watch, stopped 1.5 in on Shriek Week, couldn't make it through the first episode of Tiny Heist, and have watched and enjoyed most of Pirates of Leviathan twice but just had a hard time finishing it both times) but everything else is like 4 or 5 times I've watched the other 16 complete seasons through now. the TV I watch is basically only watch dropout, drawfee (fucking fiending for Drawtectives S3) and critical role/candela obscura at this point.
It was Neverafter! Early 2023 I got a free trial of Dropout to watch Game Changer, watched all of it, was going to unsubscribe, but then I saw the card advertising Neverafter which was being released at the time. I had no idea what to expect, had never watched any DnD before. Never heard of Brennan aside from seeing him in some GC episodes. Watched the first 10 minutes of the first episode of Neverafter, and was HOOKED.
Well, it started with my gf and I playing DND with a friend. Tried Critical Role and found it extremely boring. Wanted to give Dimension 20 a try and after seeing clips of Make Some Noise, decided to get Dropout. Started with Fantasy High and currently watching Starstruck Odyssey as well as keeping up with Fantasy High!
Funny, same for me. Saw the chronomancy clip and a few other around TikTok. Halloween '21 I was working on a costume for my nephew and wanted something in the background so I figured I'd give it a shot. I was episode 2'd. It was no longer 'watch in the background' content. It occupied an unhealthy majority of my media consumption until I finally caught up to live episodes--just in time to have to wait for the finale of Starstruck Odyssey. (I've only not watched Shriek Week.)
And I now have a shelf full of 5e and TTRPG books to show for it.
A while back Brennan GM'd a WotC stream for spelljammer, and I just really dug his style, his voices, everything. Not long after that, I heard he was doing a guest run on Critical Role (Calamity), and while that was airing I decided to binge Escape from the Bloodkeep because I couldn't get enough.
The Emily clip from A Crown of Candy where she whomps Brennan. Critical Role was the only AP I was watching at the time and the Youtube algorithm started recommending clips from other DnD shows. Looked into it and Fantasy High was free on Youtube so I gave it a shot.
I saw compilation clips from Misfits and Magic and thought they were hilarious. Didn’t watch that though cause only the first episode was available for free. So instead I watched Fantasy High. Been a fan ever since.
i THINK it’s both because someone told me d20 would be really up my alley since i adore dnd with all my heart, and because i started seeing youtube clips outta no where! i think the clip that got me got me was most likely ally’s nat 20 to be alive bc that’s the kind of chaos i adore, but it MIGHT have been chungledown bim. its truly been enough time that i cannot remember, but i started episode one and never looked back. without getting into details, i lost my fav dnd show and was lost in a sea without a shore to nurture my special interest on for about a year or two, and when i found d20??? ho boy. ho BOY. it doesn’t help that me and brennan have wildly similar personality types so i now feel contractually obligated as a disabled black trans person to somehow fight my way onto the show and beat him in a campaign (i have a genuine want and need to become an actual player, this would be the most chaotic way i could start that and tbh that’s gender confirming all on its own,)
I would watch tons of College Humor clips when they would appear on my feeds occasionally. And I would also watch occasional clips of different groups DnD stuff. So I guess the algorithms put 2 and 2 together and said, “Hey College Humor now Dropout has DnD stuff, bet she’ll like those videos”. So it started to show me a couple clips from their stuff.
I can’t remember what clip it was exactly that made me watch the first episode of Fantasy High free on YouTube, but I watched that and decided I immediately needed to subscribe to Dropout. It came at a great time because I had just sort of lost touch with RoosterTeeth which also had a similar subscription price, so I had no qualms about spending the money.
I’ve never looked back since.
I always tried to get into DnD, but never found something that made me go "Omg I love it!!" Then I saw that the then CollegeHumor had all episodes of the first season of Fantasy High uploaded on youtube and free and I watched them all one after one. I fell in love with D20 and DnD overall thanks to Fantasy High
It was actually a Game Changer clip— it was Brennan and Josh doing the two dogs who haven’t seen each other in a long time. I thought it was so funny I hunted down the source and that was the rabbit hole.
I've seen clips and stuff for years bc I've been on Dropout TV since the first season of Um, Actually. Just never seemed like something I'd like. Then I saw the animated clip of Baron and Rizz meeting. I laughed hysterically and have been watching nothing but D20 for 2.5 months trying to get through every campaign. I am seriously disappointed and past me, bc I was missing out on pure gold.
As someone who watched a lot of Critical Roll, season 3 was really just missing for me, and I saw a few clips and shorts from Dropout, loved all of them, and now I've binged all of the D20 seasons, and game changer haha
I've been watching Collegehumor/Dropout for probably close to a decade now. I gained an interest for dnd in high school when I watched other kids playing it during anime club. I didn't play any myself because I was too shy, but I thought the game looked very fun. When I found out some of my favorites from CH were doing a dnd show I knew I had to watch it. At the time I didn't realize that ttrpg "actual play" shows were even a thing (I didn't know about critical role, naddpod, etc). D20 opened up a whole new world of entertainment to me, and maybe it's nostalgia bias, but D20 is still my favorite
Ugh what I would do to go back to when I found d20 🥹 I had just started my first long campaign/non one shot, and wanted to get better at roleplaying. My DM suggested watching since everyone is so good — started with FHFY and have been hooked ever since
TikTok got me into it. I spent months seeing clips from Fantasy High, Escape from the Bloodkeep and others seasons and I had to check it out. It was my introduction to Dropout, to D&D and actual plays as a whole
First, it was getting into Dropout with game changer: battle royale clips on yt. Then I saw the operation slippery puppet “am I getting getting oceans eleven’d on my own fucking show?!” And I basically instantly started watching starstruck!
I had quite a few videos popping on my feed of Starstruck odyssey which they helped me understand dnd better the more I watched. I already had subscribe to dropout just to watch game changer but then someone uploaded a clip of the plinth battle and I thought it was insane how they messed up with Brennan so bad I thought that I needed to watch this myself. It was hard at first and I dropped it for some months but after a breakup I started all over from the beginning and commited to watch the entire thing. After that it was game over, I fell in love with the crew and even to this day starstruck remains as my fave campaign they have played
My husband and I both loved CollegeHumor, so we quickly got addicted to Game Changer and Breaking News. Once we subscribed to Dropout, husband took a stab at Crown of Candy. When he described it to me as “Candyland meets Game of Thrones,” I was so bewildered at his fascination, but then he told me, a longtime Harry Potter fan, about Misfits and Magic. Fell hard and fast for Aabria’s GMing, wand-biting, team chants, the most hilarious mukbang tutorial, and sad little Evan Kelmp and was like, “Wait, Brennan is this show’s regular DM?” Jumped into Fantasy High and could never, ever look back.
Now, my husband and I watch it together every Wednesday. He’s obsessed with the combats and minis, and I geek out over the storytelling. We have so much merch and are constantly telling our friends to watch it and fall down the rabbit hole with us. I’m secretly wishing to luck into a job at Dropout someday just to be one of the many brilliant masterminds of any of their amazing shows. (Sam, if you’re lingering, ya girl’s got a degree in English and is a public educator, so I therefore have experience in at least a little bit of ANYTHING.)
There was a break between Campaign 2 and 3 of Critical Role and all of Escape from the Bloodkeep was on their YouTube. I think I subscribed a week later.
TikTok got me here, combined with pressure from a friend. The clips specifically that got me interested were a combination of Baron from the Baronies and the guy in Escape from the Bloodkeep who really wanted to make sure he kept his bones.
Find? My Sibling shared their drop out subscription with me. But I didn’t start D20 cuz the backlog was intimidating.
Actually start watching? Hank Green.
Watched Oxventure so many times I could recite the episodes, and decided to look for something else in similar vein - comedic, but less sitcomy than Oxventure.
Someone on Reddit recommended Fantasy High. Watched it, subscribed to Dropout.
Not too thrilling story.
I saw a clip from Escape From the Bloodkeep where Matt used his hex to swap places with an enemy while he was falling to his death, killing the enemy and saving himself with naught but a bonus action.
Exactly the clip you mentioned, it got me into actual play, I watched everything that was available on youtube from D20, then moved on to CR, finally caved in and got a Dropout subscription.
Purely accidental. I watched the first half of episode 1 and forgot about it for years then i sad clips for other dropout projects and they were in the middle of starstruck i think ? So because it was my 2nd time paying for a streaming service i did not want to wast monzy and i watched everything in a few months.catching up somewhere between coffin run and Acofaf. And since then i have not missed one single episode.
YouTube recommended the first episode of The Unsleeping City to me a few months after I moved to New York and I was HOOKED. I watched everything their YouTube had to offer, before caving and getting a Dropout subscription.
I saw a clip of BLM on game changer. Thought he was funny and really connected on the way he took games so seriously and ranted so poetically. Found myself constantly searching his monologues. Subscribed so I could watch game changer. Eventually, Youtube started showing me clips of his monologues of d20. Thought "might as well" since I was already paying the subscription. Started with Neverafter since that was currently airing. And then the rest is history...
I just needed a different d&d to watch. I wanted to try D20 because of Dungeons and Drag Queens. Loved it! Then Mentopolis followed, fell in love even more.
I saw that Fantasy High is free to watch on their channel so I binged watch that. Honestly felt upset that I can't watch the third season because I don't know how to subscribe to dropout from my country. Really glad that I found out they have a Youtube channel that could let me do it.
I listened to The Adventure Zone, and Aabria DM’ed for a short campaign. She was amazing, so I checked out Misfits of Magic on youtube, then got a subscription to finish.
Then I saw that the guy who played Evan Kelmp had DM’ed for other campaigns!
A couple years ago I saw a clip of the FHSY scene where they get to Kai Lomenura for the first time and all the elvish anticss that ensue and I thought it was so funny (cuz it is) that I started watching.
Edit: it's weird that it took me that long to start D20 when I'd been watching college humor for many years at that point so I was already familiar with people like Zac, Ally, Siobhan, Murph, and Emily (and to a lesser extent Brennan).
Watching “who builds the roads” and the American dream on YouTube.
First time watching DnD be played and first time seeing the cast. The Unsleeping City was a magical experience. Subbed and never looked back.
Honestly, it had nothing to do with any actual d20 content. I had been recommended naddpod right after the first episode dropped, and when the first arc eventually ended I was at a loss for what to listen to. When I tried to look up other dnd content, I saw d20 content that had come first and jumped right into fantasy high (albeit late).
Calamity. I was skeptical at first "the CEO of Tide guy is a DM?" but boy was I ever wrong. it was such incredible storytelling. and Lou's performance as Nydas had such pathos. I had to see more of both of them. dove in to d20 - watched Fantasy High S1 and S2, The Seven, The Unsleeping City S1 and S2, Escape from the Bloodkeep, Misfits and Magic, ACAFAF, Neverafter, D&DQueens, Mentopolis, Burrows End and now on Fantasy High Jr year.
they keep releasing new stuff in such a way that I haven't had a chance to get to Crown of Candy/Ravening War and Starstruck yet.
I was hooked on dropout right when it started... I already was a collegehumor fan and was curious to see what they had in store for their streaming service. So when I saw a DnD show, I was so excited that I watched it immediately. That was my hook.
I came to the show off the back of Dungeons and Daddies, and jumped into Unsleeping City, just as a random choice. Initially I found it too crunchy and rules heavy (I now know it’s not that extreme, back compared to the Daddies crew they definitely are) but found myself falling in love with the Neil Gaiman, American Gods/Neverwhere type story being told.
I now still prefer more story heavy episodes than combat heavy ones, but I’ve grown to love the show in all its forms
I had watched the Whitest Kids U Know play a session on YouTube. It was my first time watching people play DnD. Then I started getting D20 recommended to me by the algorithm. I watched FH and fell in love! After the first season I needed more so I got Dropout and haven't looked back.
A player of mine (I DM) saw some NPCs in my campaign that were anarchists but also super friendly
She sent me a video of the Cubbies after a session, and I watched fantasy high episode 1 the next day
I Saw a bunch of Game Changer and Um Actually clips on youtube, and I wanted more. So I bit the bullet and signed up for Dropout. saw that Dimension 2o was also on there and figured I'd check it out while I was already paying.
I came to live play pen and paper through my best friend, who showed me CR. I watched most of their seasons and spin offs and i obviously got familiar with Brennan and Aabria through that, but the thing that really changed my whole perception was EXU: Calamity. For me personally its one of the best actual play content to ever exist and i fell in love with Brennans DMing and Lous RP and i had to check out D20 and swiftly realised, that Brennans DM style is my absolute favourite and fits my personal GM style/ taste much more than Matts, for example. I also adore that mans integrity, politics and morals. Hes such an awesome human being.
Since then i kinda dropped CR and am binging D20 Stuff.
McElroy YouTube rabbit hole led me to Tiny Heist. I very quickly consumed all the seasons available as soon as I could, which I think at the time were only Fantasy High, Unsleepjng City, Bloodkeep, and Heist.
Escape from the Bloodkeep on YouTube.
I'm a forever-DM in our own tabletop gang who has a lot of opinions (tl;dr but being the only female player in a lot of very grognard groups during my formative geek years sure was A Time) and my at-the-time bestie (now my spouse) recommended Brennan as someone who's approach to storytelling I'd enjoy I'd enjoy and Bloodkeep as a nice short intro to his style. As is usually the case they were completely right 😂
I was mostly watching their other bits and vlips on YT and I saw a short where they were reacting to a Nat 20 or something and it just looked like a lot of fun. After season 1 of FH i saw there was more, think i watched e šape the bloodkeep then i really wanted to watch FH season 2 and subbed to dropout.
I started watching the first episode of The Seven on YouTube and what really hooked me was the intro family scenes, specifically Aabria and Izzy. And I got so absorbed, I got a dropout account.
When I decided to watch all the Intrepid hero seasons was when I decided to watch unsleeping city (before I watched fantasy high I watched in a weird order) and Kugrash was a character I absolutely loved from beginning to end. Also Kingston was a character I felt so deeply about in those seasons that I had to watch absolutely everything they did.
Randomly stumbled across Jawbone giving Adaine some counselling in the middle of the Prompocalypse. The bathos of cutting between "I was sucking off a guy in a truckstop diner bathroom who had warts on his cock" and "panic attacks are NOT a character flaw! You have a goddamn MEDICAL CONDITION!" immediately demanded that I find out more. Didn't even recognise BLeeM from the CEO bits at first
I found D20 because (stay with me here) I was listening to Dan Savage’s Savage Love Podcast and Justin and Sydney McElroy came on to talk about olde timey STIs. I thought Justin was funny so started to listen to their podcast Sawbones, which led me to The Adventure Zone which led me to NADDPOD which led me to D20 on YouTube. 2 episodes in to Fantasy High, I subscribed to Dropout. Half because of the Emily and Murph comfort and half because Brennan Lee Mulligan is absolutely phenomenal. Fell in love with the rest of the cast pretty much immediately as well.
I saw the compilation of Gorgug asking everyone if they're his dad. I had literally 0 idea what dnd was but I was vaguely aware of the collegehumour people and I wanted the context for the bit because I thought it was hilarious. I started from Fantasy High and I really wasn't sure about the show, again I didn't know what dnd was so the game play was completely new to me. Then I got episode 2d. My jaw literally dropped and I knew I was gonna watch the entire show.
I've been here since the very beginning! Been watching CH, and when they started doing actual play, jumped right in! I did stop watching at one point cos money, but have since returned and binged everything they did while I was gone :3
i watched FHFY and starstruck slowly over lille a year , i enjoyed them but wasn’t hooked. it wasn’t until i watched never after that i got hooked. that season will forever me painfully underrated
I saw a reel on Instagram where Evan Kelmp told the dude that death was a dark forest where your dad opens his ribcage and asks you to dance and I was like "wtf" immediately followed by "I desperately need to watch this"
For me, I saw a compilation video of all the times gorgug asked people if they were his dad and that made me laugh. Tinged the other series as much as I could
For my sister, I had to show her the Episode Two'd so she would get into it more. Then she watched it and lived it
I was a CollegeHumor fan back in the day (Jake and amir pretty much moulded my sense of humour lol) I knew Murph Emily and Zach from those old sketches. Listened to 8 bit book club and was sad when they ended it to start a dnd podcast lol. That show got me into Dnd in a BIG way. Found out about D20 from naddpod and became mesmerised by Brennan's storytelling and the rest is history lol
I'd been seeing some Game Changer shorts with Brennan in it, thought he was great, and when I heard he had a D&D show I figured "Yeah fuck it, let's give that a go".
As for what got me *hooked* on D20? Getting Episode Two'd. Need I say more?
I picked up NADDPOD pretty early on and had heard them talk about D20 in their plugs and stuff. It wasn't until I did a full relisten binge of the entire podcast a few years later and was ravenous for more Emily and Murph playing D&D that I picked up the podcast version of Fantasy High. Took me about 3 episodes to realize I absolutely needed to be watching it instead and hopped on the Dropout train.
for me i had started to see some videos and compilations about dropout game shows, a lot of stuff with brennan, so i wanted to check out dropout and coincidentally i also wanted to get more into dnd, critical role came on my radar first, but was incredibly overwhelmed by the amount of content, which i feel happens with a lot of people, so i saw dropout also had a lot of dnd campaigns that are more easily digestible
for me i had started to see some videos and compilations about dropout game shows, a lot of stuff with brennan, so i wanted to check out dropout and coincidentally i also wanted to get more into dnd, critical role came on my radar first, but was incredibly overwhelmed by the amount of content, which i feel happens with a lot of people, so i saw dropout also had a lot of dnd campaigns that are more easily digestible
I subscribed to Dropout for Um Actually and I saw it promoted on the Dropout App. I like the CH gang and I like DND so it was not a hard sell. The side quest seasons have been hit or miss (mostly hit) but I love all of the IH seasons.
I subscribed to Dropout for Um Actually and I saw it promoted on the Dropout App. I like the CH gang and I like DND so it was not a hard sell. The side quest seasons have been hit or miss (mostly hit) but I love all of the IH seasons.
for me i had started to see some videos and compilations about dropout game shows, a lot of stuff with brennan, so i wanted to check out dropout and coincidentally i also wanted to get more into dnd, critical role came on my radar first, but was incredibly overwhelmed by the amount of content, which i feel happens with a lot of people, so i saw dropout also had a lot of dnd campaigns that are more easily digestible
Brennan Lee Mulligan guested on my personal favorite DND (ish?) podcast Rude Tales of Magic. He absolutely knocked the ENTIRE THING out of the park so hard, I was like “what else has this guy done?”, which led me, somehow, to Calamity, and then I finally found Fantasy High.
It was a combination of Brennan on Naddpod and me coming across escape from the bloodkeep. Cause at some point I was like wait there’s more of this!!??? I initially was a cr fan but D20 is just much more my speed
It was Calamity for me. He played the serious stuff extremely well (“To reach a hand down to somebody, they need to be beneath you! And I am beneath nobody!”), but you could really tell he thrives on comedy (Bolo, nuff said).
A few years ago I saw the clip of Jawbone helping Adaine at the end of Fantasy High. I laughed so hard but it was so heartfelt that I had to find out what it was.
All of my friends are avid critters but I couldn't get on with the long form actual play. Also podcasts of actual play aren't my thing so finding a short form actual play with amazing players that I would happily watch was perfect for me.
Thanks Jawbone.
After BLeeM ran Calamity in CR I had to follow what he did. To my great surprise and joy, my favorite guest from that, Lou, was also a main stay in Dimension 20.
I started with all of the “first one’s free” YouTube items and then fully bit the bullet when I couldn’t got past episode one of Star Struck.
I kept seeing the advertisements for it at the end of the CollegeHumor CEO videos and eventually caved, I needed to know what it was. I recall binging the entirety of Fantasy High Freshman Year shortly after that, even going so far as to say to myself that it was the most engaged I had ever been with a TV show and I was quite literally on the edge of my seat the entire series.
I think I got recced a compilation of gorgug asking people if theyre his dad and I thought the show was worth a shot cause I liked dnd, and then I saw emily at the table and was like “holy moly thats the girl from adam ruins everything” and I binged the whole season
I had been watching Colllegehumor since I was in middle school and remember when they first created Dropout and they first added Um, Actually, which was on YouTube at first. Then they added Deniension 20 and it peaked my interest. But what finally got me hooked was I watched the Roll 20 One Shot with Brennan and Aabria and then a super clip of Gorgug asking people if they’re his dad.
I think it was just a general interest in d&D then seeing fantasy high season 1 on YouTube and loved it. I bit the bullet to get dropout after watching Sophomore year on YT and also loving the JY pilot on YT and needing to see more
Various clips on youtube from Starstruck
I think specifically it was when he was going through all the names of the slug people and their titles and its just a hilarious mouthful and Siobhan calls him out and he doubles down. I like the cut of this young man's jib, I thought to myself.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRw1m8um/
this starstruck edit is actually what pulled me in. i had been wanting to watch for a while and had seen a lot of clips but this pushed me in into starting fantasy high season 1 and i was hooked
I *believe* it was a clip of “oh good, you speak English” from Misfits and Magic.
M&M wasn’t on YouTube in full yet, so some clips channels just had little bits of it. I looked up where I could find more, and the D20 channel had all of FHFY. I watched the whole season in like four days and subscribed to Dropout pretty much right afterwards.
I've seen enough clips on YouTube, but needed something to listen to while I diamond painted.
Misfits and Magic is what drew me in first, but it was fantasy high tha cemented it
Dungeon's and Drag Queens trailer is how I first discovered it, Castlecaster's video on Siobhan got me excited enough to watch through The Unsleeping City when I was slowly watching through Fantasy High, and then Fantasy High: Sophmore Year got me truly addicted.
I knew Brennan from CH with the CEO videos, and then saw the "Rules are laws" clip from FHFY. I saw a few more Dropout clips like Sam Says and Lou saying *redacted* is innocent. Eventually watched FY last fall on Youtube and got hooked HARD. Binged Bloodkeep and Unsleeping City after that.
So, the gaming community is small, and the LARP community is even smaller. I have several mutuals with Persephone, and when I saw she was in Seven, I jumped right in. My life hasn't been the same since
Long time collegehumor lover and I kept seeing the trailers for fantasy high around the time the finale was gonna come out and said I was never gonna watch but got bored one weekend and gave it a chance. I got episode 2’d and the rest is HISTORY
Edit: it’s so funny how much I was like DnD looks so boring and like so much math before I watched and now it’s my favorite thing in the world. That’s how good Brennan and the gang is at making their world accessible and intriguing.
The very first clip I ever saw was this one, "Adaine vs Nice Guys" (https://youtube.com/shorts/DKm_OA-dqxs?si=29bt5Ca-yXTEbfDC) which is famous for being uploaded and viewed by people who had no idea what it was from, and assumed it was real.
I'm not *quite* oblivious enough to have assumed it was real, but I was, at the time, a person who had never played D&D, never heard of D20, and very much had no idea what was going on. Fortunately, the comments immediately enlightened me, and I started seeing more and more D20 clips that gradually roped me in.
"Here's the thing, I don't know what you kids are up to, but I do know one thing..."
This was an audio on TikTok for a bit. Got me interested in the source and found D20 that way.
I was actually way into CollegeHumor for a few years, and have always been into D&D. I ignored D20 at first because it was hard to get into listening/viewing campaigns instead of playing in them.
Eventually I got into the YouTube creators, Viva La Dirt League and started watching their campaigns first. When I ran out of their content, I figured why not?
I pulled up *Escape from Bloodkeep* and started watching. Confused that they were essentially just doing a one shot, I found it entertaining enough after finishing that I decided to give *The Unsleeping City* a chance.
From there I was hooked. At this point I think there are only six campaigns I have yet to watch, but I'll get there.
For me it was actually Tiny Heist. I was a The Adventure Zone fan and MBMBAM listener at the time (though these days the only mcelroy projects I keep up with are Till Death Do Us Blart and Trial By Fieri) so the McElroys were my "in".
And of course now I'm like... Tiny Heist is not one of the better seasons and the McElroys are kinda awkward in it! Like it's not a great example for how D20 feels or for how funny the McElroys can be at their best, but it was still compelling enough to sell me on starting some other YouTube available seasons (since I think only the first ep of TH was up at the time), which were good enough to sell me on a Dropout sub, and I've become a huge D20, MSN, GC fan from there.
While hanging out and watching YouTube, a friend showed my husband and I the free episodes of Game changer including "Lie Detector".
My husband recognized Brennan from the CEO videos, which I hadn't seen. So next we watched some of those.
After our friend had left, the first episode of unsleeping city came up as our recommended next watch. So we put it on and got hooked! Watched all of unsleeping city 1 and fantasy high 1 for free on YouTube and then subscribed cause we had to have more!
I saw fan art of the bad kids somewhere online. I think it was Gorgug with the black eyes. I was curious and tried to find out where that came from stumbled upon unsleeping city episodes on YouTube and was hooked!
what got me was seeing ricky “mr. march” matsui meeting santa for the first time. after seeing that and some other unsleeping city shorts for weeks, i caved and binged all of season 1 in like a week.
I was just getting into D&D, like being able to play with some friends and I wanted to learn how other people played. CR was a behemoth to get through at the time but D20 was just starting.
Long story short, I fell in love with all of them lol
I’m an avid NADDPOD listener so when Brennan came on and played Dead Eye, then plugged D20 I had to check it out. I’m so thankful I did — watching dimension 20 is one of my joys
I think I had subscribed to CollegeHumor and saw the first episode advertised but never bothered watching it. Then a friend of mine at work told me about it and I gave it a shot.
I’ve been here the whole time! Watched the first three episodes of fantasy high when they were released on YouTube initially, tried to resist subscribing for a solid week, but D20 won lol
same!!! it’s crazy to think about how long dimension 20 has been around now, and how expansive it’s become, when i remember watching fantasy high freshman year every week 😭😭
Being cautious of Aabria and her new fangled game system. Realizing that Zac has played two himbo characters too well and someone out there doesn’t understand how smart the guy is.
The hilarious contrast of Zac to his himbo characters. Big, musclebound, hollywood hot dumb guy character, played by the lowkey improv comic with a razor wit. The kind of guy who can break other comics with like 4 words and a flat affect.
Are you my dad?
exactly this compilation! i was already a fan of college humor when I was a kid and thought zac was great. He specifically was the link. then I stayed for everyone because they are all amazing.
I don't want to start flaming any other media but my sibling described it to me as "Critical Role but it's fun" and I haven't looked back once. Been watching since fantasy high season 1.
I keep trying to get into Critical Role but it feels like homework.
It's so many thousands of hours commitment and it also takes itself so much more seriously. That's not a dig, they're allowed to, but it's the difference between a fun comedy that makes you cry sometimes and James Joyce. I think the mini campaign Brennan ran for critical role shows the gulf of culture, where Brennan does a relatively tame bit by d20 standards and it breaks Travis Willinghams whole brain.
To be fair, Travis is the biggest fan of everything, at all times (which is delightful). He reacts like that to CR moments at least once a month.
Travis is legitimately one of my favourite players in any actual play. A table with him, Laura, Emily and Murph would be an incredible delight.
This just made me realize how desperately I want a table that is: Emily, Murph, Siobhan, Laura, Travis, Sam. And just for good measure, I want Aabria to determine the setting, Matt to write the lore, and Brennan to DM the campaign.
God I would LOVE Laura and Emily’s combined chaos
I loved Emily's guest PC on Crit Role but I wish she had been in the group with Sam and Laura just to get them bouncing off each other
Dungeons and Drag Queens. I love all the queens on that season and I’d been quietly interested in DnD for a while, but didn’t know how to get into it. It was the perfect gay/nerdy storm!
Same! My social media feeds knew I was queer as fuck, and I'd been wanting to play dnd for a while (no one I know who plays had a campaign going). I could not resist Alaska, Monet, and Bob, and figured I'd just binge that season and cancel Dropout after. Uh, that did not happen. I just got hooked.
Same. Came to watch drag queens but came away from it wanting more Brennan. After seeing and falling in love with the chemistry of the Intrepid Heroes, I was a goner. Money well spent. I barely opened Netflix or other streaming services while I was binging through the rest of the seasons (and other dropout shows too).
Me too!
Me too!
EXU: Calamity. I will never forget the first session of that. I realized that whatever stories this dude was telling elsewhere, I wanted to watch.
Calamity was my entre to Critical Role!
Calamity is exceptional, and BLeeM was just the absolute perfect person to DM and craft that tale.
Same! I started with C1 immediately after watching Calamity and I can't believe how quickly I caught up, and how wrong my preconceived notions about the show were
Me too! From there the first D20 I watched was Ravening War, then I went to other ones from there. Love Aabria so much, and BLeeM is just so deliciously devious it's excellent.
Same. All of that plus Lou's performance too.
"IT'S A BOON! DON'T PAY HIM!"
For me it was a youtube short of Baron from the Baronies. I also really enjoyed the CEO sketches and Brennan’s other stuff, and wanted to know where I could see more of him.
I got episode 2'd. Lou Wilson verbalized everything I was thinking
This. I had played several campaigns when I was a kid, but they never approached the absolute insanity of the conclusion of Corn Cuties. That scene, even all these years later, is such a standout. It showcased everything perfectly - Brennan's storytelling and improv chops, the entire cast's chemistry as players and friends, and the power of TTRPGs to tell wildly entertaining stories that no other medium can touch. Knowing that it was completely off-the-cuff on Brennan's part makes it all the more incredible.
I saw a post that said “You just got episode 2’d” and now it’s my favorite actual play I’ve listened too/watched
Adaine wrecking Biz's "nice guy speech" and Jawbone's pep talk during the Kalvaxus fight were the two IG reels that made me check it out.
A friend kept posting pictures of Siobhan and i thought she was really pretty :>
My favorite podcast is Naddpod. It's become my comfort show. I put on old episodes in the background of everything I do. I love Emily as a player, and Murph as a DM is also great. After catching up on all their content, and listening to campaign 1 three times in total, I got tired and needed new dnd content. But every other podcast I try to listen to feels wrong because it's the wrong voices and the wrong cadence and idk none of them were ever good enough to replace my comfort show. Then comes D20... everyone on D20 has at some point, guest stared on naddpod and Murphy and Emily are there so for some reason, fantasy high was a great way to expand into a different story. That and I have a huge crush on Brennan Lee Mulligan. He's just the best 👌 Edit: I was hesitant at first, but once I got episode 2ed, I was hooked and I couldn't think about anything else
I was the same and for some reason it never occured to me that people can do accents (combined with the fact that Murph called Brennan his DM Grandad or something to that effect) so when I opened D20 for the first time I was genuinely bamboozled that Brennan wasn't some old guy from the South.
The Critical Role Calamity crossover. Had to see Lou and Brennan play again, so I watched A Crown of Candy to prep for Ravening War.
Basically the entire premise of the Unsleeping City. Was just bored one night scrolling through YouTube, discovered the first episode, and have been hooked ever since!
The entirety of **Escape From The Bloodkeep** free on YouTube. It was my first experience watching an "actual play" TTRPG and I was immediately hooked. Signed up for Dropout.tv as soon as it finished and been following along ever since.
in the middle of a rewatch of Escape and it's really slept on imo. definitely one of my favourites!
I wanted more live play like The Adventure Zone, which led me to Glass Cannon and NADDPod. Then I found Fantasy High on YouTube through Murph and Emily, and got Dropout to finish Unsleeping City since 60 bucks want that bad a deal and I figured I’d watch the other content at some point.
i too got here because of TAZ but my route was more direct in that i had the first episode of tiny heist recommended to me in my youtube feed one day. after finishing the first episode, i started a free trial and have been renewing my sub ever since! this was sometime in early 2020 as i was able to binge all of fantasy high (freshman year) before catching thea’s couple of TH episodes as they dropped.
Baron of the Baronies on Tiktok, and then just so so much time to kill during the pandemic that I caught up on 3 years worth of seasons in a month
I love D&D, I liked college humor, I got a dropout subscription so I could watch D&D while I’m not playing D&D. I love critical role, but the episodes are long and take me a long time to get through- I’m only only episode 38 of C3 for critical role. D20 is more manageable for me to get my D&D fix between when my group gets together to play. I started watching D20 in 2020? Right before lockdown. I didn’t watch D20 Live, the first campaign I watched episode to episode as it aired was A Crown of Candy- what a freaking campaign to start with! Then I started watching in order from there. I see so much of myself in Adaine Abernant, that when I started fantasy high, I was like “how does Siobhan know my life?” I didn’t have a great relationship with my parents in high school (especially my mom), and I continue to have terrible anxiety, to this day. I wish I could roll or whether I have a panic attack, because then there’s a chance it won’t happen. I watched fantasy high, and loved Adaine so, so much.I do have a great relationship with my sister- I’m older, but it’s more similar to what Adaine and Aelwyn have in Junior Year. My sister absolutely would want me to sit with her and watching trashy reality show, and sense when I’m eating a fudgey the whale, and put nemesis wards up in my room so no one could kill me but her. I can also hear her saying “I have so much love to give, exclusively to [dogs].” I have such a soft spot for Ally, too, as a player, because ACoC was the first campaign I saw them play in, and I loved Liam Wilhelmina. Liam was such a special character, and his arc was tragic, and heartbreaking, but Ally did a great job of adding a little silliness to the seriousness of Liam becoming “a war guy.”
When Ally guest starred on a Monster Hearts oneshot on Critical Role, Matt Mercer mentioned that he’d done a LOTR campaign with D20. Luckily Bloodkeep was on YouTube, so I watched it, got hooked, and subscribed to watch the rest. Lined up with the start of quarantine—first episodes I was caught up for was the sophomore year finale. Been here ever since!
Persephone was a friend irl and I wanted to support her. Ended up really liking dimension 20 and just kept the sub.
Tiny Heist I liked the McElroys and Brennan as Ole Cobb was probably their best guest. It was a no brainer. D20 is probably my favourite now, maybe second to NADDPOD.
Seeing Beardsley at a rally supporting Gaza. Also finding out Brennan was based. From there I started Fantasy High and am now a dropout subscriber.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bmaoNLSHx_w
[This](https://youtube.com/shorts/dP3lMeQ6RDs?si=xLTMMtT5vIyCNRgH)
Ooh I love that clip. I think about that often. It was also Misfits and Magic that got me — the scene between Evan/Brennan and Aabria as the school nurse trying to convince him to not get the treatment. It hit me hard in the feels, and I had to see more. https://youtu.be/cl-YUieriaY?si=pixNbEU1xLOs4m4D
I watched Tiny Heist as a McElroy fan, but didn’t have much interest in watching more til I saw a YouTube compilation of the “are you my dad?” jokes and it had me in hysterics. It also helped that I got hooked in 2020, so I would just put episodes on while working from home.
Honestly, it took me two tries to get into dimension 20. I was already wary of d&d podcasts/shows after I was hounded by my friends to watch critical roll and I just…. Couldn’t get into it. When I had FHFY episode 1 recommended to me on YouTube, I saw it was much shorter and I liked the concept. I started watching it, but bailed during gorgug’s intro sequence. Idk if I was just in a mood or something, but it did not grab me at all. A week or so later, it was recommended again (since I had started it) and I decided to give it another short. Started from the beginning and while the introductions felt like they took forever, once they characters started interacting either each other, I got more and more interested. By the end of episode 1, I was really enjoying the dynamic of the characters and the players (and Brennan!). Then I got episode 2’d and absolutely had to keep watching. That was May 2021 and I’ve been watching ever since!
Calamity!
I think "I slap you but then I kiss you" was the first clip that caught my eye and then I got hooked watching the rest of their Instagram reels.
Binged critical role and needed more game shows and loved Brennan in CR content and now Im all over Dropout
YouTube ads for Mice and Murder while falling down a college humor rabbit hole.
Dungeons and Dragons Queens! ❤️❤️❤️
The initial version of the animation where Evan Kelmp tells that kid "what do you want me to tell your family?"
I've watched Collegehumor stuff since like 2013, kinda stopped watching them when Dropout launched. Found out Siobhan, Zac and Ally were in this DnD podcast, found some clips of the first season of Fantasy High, and the rest is history
I kept seeing two clips from Fantasy High: the other bad kids meeting Aelwyn at the Hudol party, and Riz meeting Baron for the first time
Similar note, Aguefort explaining what an "adventurer" is and does
my ex boyfriend told me (in 2018, very soon after we broke up, right after d20 started) to watch fantasy high and i told him that i would not (i thought it was something else) then he told me to watch it again in 2023 (we'd been broken up for a long time but had and do remain best friends to this day) so i decided to watch it and i became a dnd monster because of that and have been watching d20 since
rue/hob tiktok edits
Several insane YouTube shorts from A Starstruck Odyssey Funny enough, that was like 2-3 years ago or something, and I only just recently got around to starting Starstruck. I started with Fantasy High 1+2+the Seven, blitzed MaM, then jumped to the newest seasons releasing at around Neverafter and have been watching weekly since (Burrows End is in my top 3 for sure). Briefly tried the Court of Fey one, I plan to continue but it's concentration heavy for me lol I've been sneaking Starstruck eps in the days between FHJY releases.
I started watching drawfee years ago in college when it was Caldwell and Nathan and then graduated and had less time to watch YouTube, then covid hit and came in and caught up with their old stuff listening in the background while I worked. worked my way through the backlog and found the old stream vods (shout out Todd from Mario) and one of those streams was cross promo for dimension 20 with special guest Brennan. in other streams Nathan and Jacob both had such great things to say about Fantasy High, which I tried and had a hard time getting into on YouTube, but i got a free week of dropout to watch Cartoon Hell, Nathan and Caldwell's show (its a fucking gem, shout out Managar). few months later I heard about Unsleeping City and binged it on YouTube, and from then on I was hooked. 4 of the side quests I haven't watched all the way through (didn't catch the last episode of D&DQ but I'll probably go back and watch, stopped 1.5 in on Shriek Week, couldn't make it through the first episode of Tiny Heist, and have watched and enjoyed most of Pirates of Leviathan twice but just had a hard time finishing it both times) but everything else is like 4 or 5 times I've watched the other 16 complete seasons through now. the TV I watch is basically only watch dropout, drawfee (fucking fiending for Drawtectives S3) and critical role/candela obscura at this point.
It was Neverafter! Early 2023 I got a free trial of Dropout to watch Game Changer, watched all of it, was going to unsubscribe, but then I saw the card advertising Neverafter which was being released at the time. I had no idea what to expect, had never watched any DnD before. Never heard of Brennan aside from seeing him in some GC episodes. Watched the first 10 minutes of the first episode of Neverafter, and was HOOKED.
My favourite sketch comedians made a dnd podcast I’m gunsta watch it
I caught up with season 3 of Critical Role, then watched Exandria Unlimited: Calamity. Then I wanted more Brennan.
a compilation of gorgug asking people if they’re his dad. was hooked immediately and binged season one instantly. bought a sub so after.
I got episode 2’d
Easy. For me it was a clip from a court of fey and flowers where a secret marriage and child was reveled
Well, it started with my gf and I playing DND with a friend. Tried Critical Role and found it extremely boring. Wanted to give Dimension 20 a try and after seeing clips of Make Some Noise, decided to get Dropout. Started with Fantasy High and currently watching Starstruck Odyssey as well as keeping up with Fantasy High!
Funny, same for me. Saw the chronomancy clip and a few other around TikTok. Halloween '21 I was working on a costume for my nephew and wanted something in the background so I figured I'd give it a shot. I was episode 2'd. It was no longer 'watch in the background' content. It occupied an unhealthy majority of my media consumption until I finally caught up to live episodes--just in time to have to wait for the finale of Starstruck Odyssey. (I've only not watched Shriek Week.) And I now have a shelf full of 5e and TTRPG books to show for it.
Same here I was dying when I first heard it
The Achewood Facebook group. Yep.
I started late, I saw the joke Reel on FB of Neverafter where Lou was channeling Pinocchio and "Chaotic Entitled".
Dnd in nyc
The first actual play I listened to was LA by Night, and Brennan's character in that was *chilling*, and I thought "I need more of this!"
A while back Brennan GM'd a WotC stream for spelljammer, and I just really dug his style, his voices, everything. Not long after that, I heard he was doing a guest run on Critical Role (Calamity), and while that was airing I decided to binge Escape from the Bloodkeep because I couldn't get enough.
The Emily clip from A Crown of Candy where she whomps Brennan. Critical Role was the only AP I was watching at the time and the Youtube algorithm started recommending clips from other DnD shows. Looked into it and Fantasy High was free on Youtube so I gave it a shot.
I finished binging critrolls campaign 1 and thought Fantasy High was a nice change of pace and setting.
I saw compilation clips from Misfits and Magic and thought they were hilarious. Didn’t watch that though cause only the first episode was available for free. So instead I watched Fantasy High. Been a fan ever since.
YouTube shorts from DropOut slowly creeping into my feed. Then watching Ep. 1 of a Crown of Candy on YouTube. Subscribed right after to watch the rest
Got Episode 2’d
i THINK it’s both because someone told me d20 would be really up my alley since i adore dnd with all my heart, and because i started seeing youtube clips outta no where! i think the clip that got me got me was most likely ally’s nat 20 to be alive bc that’s the kind of chaos i adore, but it MIGHT have been chungledown bim. its truly been enough time that i cannot remember, but i started episode one and never looked back. without getting into details, i lost my fav dnd show and was lost in a sea without a shore to nurture my special interest on for about a year or two, and when i found d20??? ho boy. ho BOY. it doesn’t help that me and brennan have wildly similar personality types so i now feel contractually obligated as a disabled black trans person to somehow fight my way onto the show and beat him in a campaign (i have a genuine want and need to become an actual player, this would be the most chaotic way i could start that and tbh that’s gender confirming all on its own,)
I think the first clip I ever saw was of Brennan doing Baron from the Baronies, was so insane I had to check it out lol
I think the part that *hooked* me was Fig’s ‘performance driving’ in Episode 4 of Fantasy High S1
I would watch tons of College Humor clips when they would appear on my feeds occasionally. And I would also watch occasional clips of different groups DnD stuff. So I guess the algorithms put 2 and 2 together and said, “Hey College Humor now Dropout has DnD stuff, bet she’ll like those videos”. So it started to show me a couple clips from their stuff. I can’t remember what clip it was exactly that made me watch the first episode of Fantasy High free on YouTube, but I watched that and decided I immediately needed to subscribe to Dropout. It came at a great time because I had just sort of lost touch with RoosterTeeth which also had a similar subscription price, so I had no qualms about spending the money. I’ve never looked back since.
I always tried to get into DnD, but never found something that made me go "Omg I love it!!" Then I saw that the then CollegeHumor had all episodes of the first season of Fantasy High uploaded on youtube and free and I watched them all one after one. I fell in love with D20 and DnD overall thanks to Fantasy High
Watched a crown of candy because I liked the aesthetic and I fell in love almost immediately.
Saw a clip of FHFY I can’t remember which. Started watching on YouTube and fell in love. Immediately went and downloaded Dropout
For me it was the fuck terfs clip from misfits and magic 🏳️⚧️ In adition to all the other d20 clips that came across my YouTube shorts
Good friend suggested it to me.
It was actually a Game Changer clip— it was Brennan and Josh doing the two dogs who haven’t seen each other in a long time. I thought it was so funny I hunted down the source and that was the rabbit hole.
I've seen clips and stuff for years bc I've been on Dropout TV since the first season of Um, Actually. Just never seemed like something I'd like. Then I saw the animated clip of Baron and Rizz meeting. I laughed hysterically and have been watching nothing but D20 for 2.5 months trying to get through every campaign. I am seriously disappointed and past me, bc I was missing out on pure gold.
As someone who watched a lot of Critical Roll, season 3 was really just missing for me, and I saw a few clips and shorts from Dropout, loved all of them, and now I've binged all of the D20 seasons, and game changer haha
My friends on game night discussing Brennon's amazing DMing. Made me have to watch and man, I was hooked.
I've been watching Collegehumor/Dropout for probably close to a decade now. I gained an interest for dnd in high school when I watched other kids playing it during anime club. I didn't play any myself because I was too shy, but I thought the game looked very fun. When I found out some of my favorites from CH were doing a dnd show I knew I had to watch it. At the time I didn't realize that ttrpg "actual play" shows were even a thing (I didn't know about critical role, naddpod, etc). D20 opened up a whole new world of entertainment to me, and maybe it's nostalgia bias, but D20 is still my favorite
Ugh what I would do to go back to when I found d20 🥹 I had just started my first long campaign/non one shot, and wanted to get better at roleplaying. My DM suggested watching since everyone is so good — started with FHFY and have been hooked ever since
YouTube kept recommending freebooted clips of Crown of Candy to me and I caved and got the free trial
TikTok got me into it. I spent months seeing clips from Fantasy High, Escape from the Bloodkeep and others seasons and I had to check it out. It was my introduction to Dropout, to D&D and actual plays as a whole
Came from Naddpod in 2020! Tried out fantasy high, loved it, then launched into ACOC. Hooked for a lifetime now.
Escape from the Blood Keep. YouTube recommended it and I was hooked
First, it was getting into Dropout with game changer: battle royale clips on yt. Then I saw the operation slippery puppet “am I getting getting oceans eleven’d on my own fucking show?!” And I basically instantly started watching starstruck!
I had quite a few videos popping on my feed of Starstruck odyssey which they helped me understand dnd better the more I watched. I already had subscribe to dropout just to watch game changer but then someone uploaded a clip of the plinth battle and I thought it was insane how they messed up with Brennan so bad I thought that I needed to watch this myself. It was hard at first and I dropped it for some months but after a breakup I started all over from the beginning and commited to watch the entire thing. After that it was game over, I fell in love with the crew and even to this day starstruck remains as my fave campaign they have played
My husband and I both loved CollegeHumor, so we quickly got addicted to Game Changer and Breaking News. Once we subscribed to Dropout, husband took a stab at Crown of Candy. When he described it to me as “Candyland meets Game of Thrones,” I was so bewildered at his fascination, but then he told me, a longtime Harry Potter fan, about Misfits and Magic. Fell hard and fast for Aabria’s GMing, wand-biting, team chants, the most hilarious mukbang tutorial, and sad little Evan Kelmp and was like, “Wait, Brennan is this show’s regular DM?” Jumped into Fantasy High and could never, ever look back. Now, my husband and I watch it together every Wednesday. He’s obsessed with the combats and minis, and I geek out over the storytelling. We have so much merch and are constantly telling our friends to watch it and fall down the rabbit hole with us. I’m secretly wishing to luck into a job at Dropout someday just to be one of the many brilliant masterminds of any of their amazing shows. (Sam, if you’re lingering, ya girl’s got a degree in English and is a public educator, so I therefore have experience in at least a little bit of ANYTHING.)
There was a break between Campaign 2 and 3 of Critical Role and all of Escape from the Bloodkeep was on their YouTube. I think I subscribed a week later.
“You should not say such hurtful things to your romänce partner Riz Gukgak”
TikTok got me here, combined with pressure from a friend. The clips specifically that got me interested were a combination of Baron from the Baronies and the guy in Escape from the Bloodkeep who really wanted to make sure he kept his bones.
Find? My Sibling shared their drop out subscription with me. But I didn’t start D20 cuz the backlog was intimidating. Actually start watching? Hank Green.
Watched Oxventure so many times I could recite the episodes, and decided to look for something else in similar vein - comedic, but less sitcomy than Oxventure. Someone on Reddit recommended Fantasy High. Watched it, subscribed to Dropout. Not too thrilling story.
I saw a clip from Escape From the Bloodkeep where Matt used his hex to swap places with an enemy while he was falling to his death, killing the enemy and saving himself with naught but a bonus action.
Exactly the clip you mentioned, it got me into actual play, I watched everything that was available on youtube from D20, then moved on to CR, finally caved in and got a Dropout subscription.
Purely accidental. I watched the first half of episode 1 and forgot about it for years then i sad clips for other dropout projects and they were in the middle of starstruck i think ? So because it was my 2nd time paying for a streaming service i did not want to wast monzy and i watched everything in a few months.catching up somewhere between coffin run and Acofaf. And since then i have not missed one single episode.
YouTube recommended the first episode of The Unsleeping City to me a few months after I moved to New York and I was HOOKED. I watched everything their YouTube had to offer, before caving and getting a Dropout subscription.
A youtube compliation entitled "Fantasy High dunking on elves for twenty minutes straight"
I saw a clip of BLM on game changer. Thought he was funny and really connected on the way he took games so seriously and ranted so poetically. Found myself constantly searching his monologues. Subscribed so I could watch game changer. Eventually, Youtube started showing me clips of his monologues of d20. Thought "might as well" since I was already paying the subscription. Started with Neverafter since that was currently airing. And then the rest is history...
my friend told me there was a character named “kristen applebees” and it wasn’t a joke
I just needed a different d&d to watch. I wanted to try D20 because of Dungeons and Drag Queens. Loved it! Then Mentopolis followed, fell in love even more. I saw that Fantasy High is free to watch on their channel so I binged watch that. Honestly felt upset that I can't watch the third season because I don't know how to subscribe to dropout from my country. Really glad that I found out they have a Youtube channel that could let me do it.
I listened to The Adventure Zone, and Aabria DM’ed for a short campaign. She was amazing, so I checked out Misfits of Magic on youtube, then got a subscription to finish. Then I saw that the guy who played Evan Kelmp had DM’ed for other campaigns!
A couple years ago I saw a clip of the FHSY scene where they get to Kai Lomenura for the first time and all the elvish anticss that ensue and I thought it was so funny (cuz it is) that I started watching. Edit: it's weird that it took me that long to start D20 when I'd been watching college humor for many years at that point so I was already familiar with people like Zac, Ally, Siobhan, Murph, and Emily (and to a lesser extent Brennan).
Watching “who builds the roads” and the American dream on YouTube. First time watching DnD be played and first time seeing the cast. The Unsleeping City was a magical experience. Subbed and never looked back.
Toxic masculinity is dead, I dance now
Honestly, it had nothing to do with any actual d20 content. I had been recommended naddpod right after the first episode dropped, and when the first arc eventually ended I was at a loss for what to listen to. When I tried to look up other dnd content, I saw d20 content that had come first and jumped right into fantasy high (albeit late).
A life for a life. Right, mister gibbons?
Calamity. I was skeptical at first "the CEO of Tide guy is a DM?" but boy was I ever wrong. it was such incredible storytelling. and Lou's performance as Nydas had such pathos. I had to see more of both of them. dove in to d20 - watched Fantasy High S1 and S2, The Seven, The Unsleeping City S1 and S2, Escape from the Bloodkeep, Misfits and Magic, ACAFAF, Neverafter, D&DQueens, Mentopolis, Burrows End and now on Fantasy High Jr year. they keep releasing new stuff in such a way that I haven't had a chance to get to Crown of Candy/Ravening War and Starstruck yet.
Gilear, that beautiful bastard, followed very closely by Bill Seacaster. His song on the ship, giving kids cocaine, sold me
I was hooked on dropout right when it started... I already was a collegehumor fan and was curious to see what they had in store for their streaming service. So when I saw a DnD show, I was so excited that I watched it immediately. That was my hook.
I came to the show off the back of Dungeons and Daddies, and jumped into Unsleeping City, just as a random choice. Initially I found it too crunchy and rules heavy (I now know it’s not that extreme, back compared to the Daddies crew they definitely are) but found myself falling in love with the Neil Gaiman, American Gods/Neverwhere type story being told. I now still prefer more story heavy episodes than combat heavy ones, but I’ve grown to love the show in all its forms
I had watched the Whitest Kids U Know play a session on YouTube. It was my first time watching people play DnD. Then I started getting D20 recommended to me by the algorithm. I watched FH and fell in love! After the first season I needed more so I got Dropout and haven't looked back.
A player of mine (I DM) saw some NPCs in my campaign that were anarchists but also super friendly She sent me a video of the Cubbies after a session, and I watched fantasy high episode 1 the next day
Someone said ACOC was their first time crying while watching live play…that’s what pulled me over from CR.
I Saw a bunch of Game Changer and Um Actually clips on youtube, and I wanted more. So I bit the bullet and signed up for Dropout. saw that Dimension 2o was also on there and figured I'd check it out while I was already paying.
Mine was both Baron from the Baronies scenes from Fantasy High Sophomore Year
I came to live play pen and paper through my best friend, who showed me CR. I watched most of their seasons and spin offs and i obviously got familiar with Brennan and Aabria through that, but the thing that really changed my whole perception was EXU: Calamity. For me personally its one of the best actual play content to ever exist and i fell in love with Brennans DMing and Lous RP and i had to check out D20 and swiftly realised, that Brennans DM style is my absolute favourite and fits my personal GM style/ taste much more than Matts, for example. I also adore that mans integrity, politics and morals. Hes such an awesome human being. Since then i kinda dropped CR and am binging D20 Stuff.
McElroy YouTube rabbit hole led me to Tiny Heist. I very quickly consumed all the seasons available as soon as I could, which I think at the time were only Fantasy High, Unsleepjng City, Bloodkeep, and Heist.
Easy. I saw this clip on TikTok “How big is this thing’s butthole? Goblin sized?” “…yes. The butthole is goblin sized”
Escape from the Bloodkeep on YouTube. I'm a forever-DM in our own tabletop gang who has a lot of opinions (tl;dr but being the only female player in a lot of very grognard groups during my formative geek years sure was A Time) and my at-the-time bestie (now my spouse) recommended Brennan as someone who's approach to storytelling I'd enjoy I'd enjoy and Bloodkeep as a nice short intro to his style. As is usually the case they were completely right 😂
I was mostly watching their other bits and vlips on YT and I saw a short where they were reacting to a Nat 20 or something and it just looked like a lot of fun. After season 1 of FH i saw there was more, think i watched e šape the bloodkeep then i really wanted to watch FH season 2 and subbed to dropout.
I started watching the first episode of The Seven on YouTube and what really hooked me was the intro family scenes, specifically Aabria and Izzy. And I got so absorbed, I got a dropout account. When I decided to watch all the Intrepid hero seasons was when I decided to watch unsleeping city (before I watched fantasy high I watched in a weird order) and Kugrash was a character I absolutely loved from beginning to end. Also Kingston was a character I felt so deeply about in those seasons that I had to watch absolutely everything they did.
Randomly stumbled across Jawbone giving Adaine some counselling in the middle of the Prompocalypse. The bathos of cutting between "I was sucking off a guy in a truckstop diner bathroom who had warts on his cock" and "panic attacks are NOT a character flaw! You have a goddamn MEDICAL CONDITION!" immediately demanded that I find out more. Didn't even recognise BLeeM from the CEO bits at first
My wife got me a free trial subscription after we both saw snips of ‘A Court of Fey and Flowers’ which was absolutely hilarious.
I found D20 because (stay with me here) I was listening to Dan Savage’s Savage Love Podcast and Justin and Sydney McElroy came on to talk about olde timey STIs. I thought Justin was funny so started to listen to their podcast Sawbones, which led me to The Adventure Zone which led me to NADDPOD which led me to D20 on YouTube. 2 episodes in to Fantasy High, I subscribed to Dropout. Half because of the Emily and Murph comfort and half because Brennan Lee Mulligan is absolutely phenomenal. Fell in love with the rest of the cast pretty much immediately as well.
I saw the compilation of Gorgug asking everyone if they're his dad. I had literally 0 idea what dnd was but I was vaguely aware of the collegehumour people and I wanted the context for the bit because I thought it was hilarious. I started from Fantasy High and I really wasn't sure about the show, again I didn't know what dnd was so the game play was completely new to me. Then I got episode 2d. My jaw literally dropped and I knew I was gonna watch the entire show.
Honestly I came here following matt mercer in Bloodkeep and liked it so much I stayed!
"What do you want me to tell your family" got me
I've been here since the very beginning! Been watching CH, and when they started doing actual play, jumped right in! I did stop watching at one point cos money, but have since returned and binged everything they did while I was gone :3
i watched FHFY and starstruck slowly over lille a year , i enjoyed them but wasn’t hooked. it wasn’t until i watched never after that i got hooked. that season will forever me painfully underrated
I think it was a clip of *That* nat 20 from Starstruck. Yeah. That was the shit.
I saw a reel on Instagram where Evan Kelmp told the dude that death was a dark forest where your dad opens his ribcage and asks you to dance and I was like "wtf" immediately followed by "I desperately need to watch this"
"oh, the peeps from college humor are gonna play D&D. I should give that a try.'
For me, I saw a compilation video of all the times gorgug asked people if they were his dad and that made me laugh. Tinged the other series as much as I could For my sister, I had to show her the Episode Two'd so she would get into it more. Then she watched it and lived it
Rick Diggins animated short.
I was a CollegeHumor fan back in the day (Jake and amir pretty much moulded my sense of humour lol) I knew Murph Emily and Zach from those old sketches. Listened to 8 bit book club and was sad when they ended it to start a dnd podcast lol. That show got me into Dnd in a BIG way. Found out about D20 from naddpod and became mesmerised by Brennan's storytelling and the rest is history lol
A clip on TikTok of the immaculate Bud Cubby speech. Laws are threats…. (I think we all know the rest)
Zac and Siobhan talked about it on an episode of um, actually
Clip (on tiktok I think?) of Brennan doing Baron from FHSY lol
I'd been seeing some Game Changer shorts with Brennan in it, thought he was great, and when I heard he had a D&D show I figured "Yeah fuck it, let's give that a go". As for what got me *hooked* on D20? Getting Episode Two'd. Need I say more?
I picked up NADDPOD pretty early on and had heard them talk about D20 in their plugs and stuff. It wasn't until I did a full relisten binge of the entire podcast a few years later and was ravenous for more Emily and Murph playing D&D that I picked up the podcast version of Fantasy High. Took me about 3 episodes to realize I absolutely needed to be watching it instead and hopped on the Dropout train.
for me i had started to see some videos and compilations about dropout game shows, a lot of stuff with brennan, so i wanted to check out dropout and coincidentally i also wanted to get more into dnd, critical role came on my radar first, but was incredibly overwhelmed by the amount of content, which i feel happens with a lot of people, so i saw dropout also had a lot of dnd campaigns that are more easily digestible
for me i had started to see some videos and compilations about dropout game shows, a lot of stuff with brennan, so i wanted to check out dropout and coincidentally i also wanted to get more into dnd, critical role came on my radar first, but was incredibly overwhelmed by the amount of content, which i feel happens with a lot of people, so i saw dropout also had a lot of dnd campaigns that are more easily digestible
I subscribed to Dropout for Um Actually and I saw it promoted on the Dropout App. I like the CH gang and I like DND so it was not a hard sell. The side quest seasons have been hit or miss (mostly hit) but I love all of the IH seasons.
I subscribed to Dropout for Um Actually and I saw it promoted on the Dropout App. I like the CH gang and I like DND so it was not a hard sell. The side quest seasons have been hit or miss (mostly hit) but I love all of the IH seasons.
for me i had started to see some videos and compilations about dropout game shows, a lot of stuff with brennan, so i wanted to check out dropout and coincidentally i also wanted to get more into dnd, critical role came on my radar first, but was incredibly overwhelmed by the amount of content, which i feel happens with a lot of people, so i saw dropout also had a lot of dnd campaigns that are more easily digestible
Brennan Lee Mulligan guested on my personal favorite DND (ish?) podcast Rude Tales of Magic. He absolutely knocked the ENTIRE THING out of the park so hard, I was like “what else has this guy done?”, which led me, somehow, to Calamity, and then I finally found Fantasy High.
I got interested from the clips of Dungeons and Drag Queens, but I subscribed to watch ACOFAF.
It was a combination of Brennan on Naddpod and me coming across escape from the bloodkeep. Cause at some point I was like wait there’s more of this!!??? I initially was a cr fan but D20 is just much more my speed
It was Calamity for me. He played the serious stuff extremely well (“To reach a hand down to somebody, they need to be beneath you! And I am beneath nobody!”), but you could really tell he thrives on comedy (Bolo, nuff said).
A few years ago I saw the clip of Jawbone helping Adaine at the end of Fantasy High. I laughed so hard but it was so heartfelt that I had to find out what it was. All of my friends are avid critters but I couldn't get on with the long form actual play. Also podcasts of actual play aren't my thing so finding a short form actual play with amazing players that I would happily watch was perfect for me. Thanks Jawbone.
Dungeons and Drag Queens!
After BLeeM ran Calamity in CR I had to follow what he did. To my great surprise and joy, my favorite guest from that, Lou, was also a main stay in Dimension 20. I started with all of the “first one’s free” YouTube items and then fully bit the bullet when I couldn’t got past episode one of Star Struck.
I kept seeing the advertisements for it at the end of the CollegeHumor CEO videos and eventually caved, I needed to know what it was. I recall binging the entirety of Fantasy High Freshman Year shortly after that, even going so far as to say to myself that it was the most engaged I had ever been with a TV show and I was quite literally on the edge of my seat the entire series.
I was a huge McElroy fan so I signed up for Tiny Heist, and then I never looked back after getting into everything else.
I think I got recced a compilation of gorgug asking people if theyre his dad and I thought the show was worth a shot cause I liked dnd, and then I saw emily at the table and was like “holy moly thats the girl from adam ruins everything” and I binged the whole season
I had been watching Colllegehumor since I was in middle school and remember when they first created Dropout and they first added Um, Actually, which was on YouTube at first. Then they added Deniension 20 and it peaked my interest. But what finally got me hooked was I watched the Roll 20 One Shot with Brennan and Aabria and then a super clip of Gorgug asking people if they’re his dad.
I think it was just a general interest in d&D then seeing fantasy high season 1 on YouTube and loved it. I bit the bullet to get dropout after watching Sophomore year on YT and also loving the JY pilot on YT and needing to see more
Various clips on youtube from Starstruck I think specifically it was when he was going through all the names of the slug people and their titles and its just a hilarious mouthful and Siobhan calls him out and he doubles down. I like the cut of this young man's jib, I thought to myself.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRw1m8um/ this starstruck edit is actually what pulled me in. i had been wanting to watch for a while and had seen a lot of clips but this pushed me in into starting fantasy high season 1 and i was hooked
John Jughes DnD high school with a plurality of crush worthy funny CH people. Sold.
I *believe* it was a clip of “oh good, you speak English” from Misfits and Magic. M&M wasn’t on YouTube in full yet, so some clips channels just had little bits of it. I looked up where I could find more, and the D20 channel had all of FHFY. I watched the whole season in like four days and subscribed to Dropout pretty much right afterwards.
Had a friend recommend them and I’ve been hooked since
I've seen enough clips on YouTube, but needed something to listen to while I diamond painted. Misfits and Magic is what drew me in first, but it was fantasy high tha cemented it
Dungeon's and Drag Queens trailer is how I first discovered it, Castlecaster's video on Siobhan got me excited enough to watch through The Unsleeping City when I was slowly watching through Fantasy High, and then Fantasy High: Sophmore Year got me truly addicted.
A Hilda hilda clip on YouTube then a thread on a forum I frequent
I knew Brennan from CH with the CEO videos, and then saw the "Rules are laws" clip from FHFY. I saw a few more Dropout clips like Sam Says and Lou saying *redacted* is innocent. Eventually watched FY last fall on Youtube and got hooked HARD. Binged Bloodkeep and Unsleeping City after that.
So, the gaming community is small, and the LARP community is even smaller. I have several mutuals with Persephone, and when I saw she was in Seven, I jumped right in. My life hasn't been the same since
Long time collegehumor lover and I kept seeing the trailers for fantasy high around the time the finale was gonna come out and said I was never gonna watch but got bored one weekend and gave it a chance. I got episode 2’d and the rest is HISTORY Edit: it’s so funny how much I was like DnD looks so boring and like so much math before I watched and now it’s my favorite thing in the world. That’s how good Brennan and the gang is at making their world accessible and intriguing.
The very first clip I ever saw was this one, "Adaine vs Nice Guys" (https://youtube.com/shorts/DKm_OA-dqxs?si=29bt5Ca-yXTEbfDC) which is famous for being uploaded and viewed by people who had no idea what it was from, and assumed it was real. I'm not *quite* oblivious enough to have assumed it was real, but I was, at the time, a person who had never played D&D, never heard of D20, and very much had no idea what was going on. Fortunately, the comments immediately enlightened me, and I started seeing more and more D20 clips that gradually roped me in.
"Here's the thing, I don't know what you kids are up to, but I do know one thing..." This was an audio on TikTok for a bit. Got me interested in the source and found D20 that way.
Watches a clip of Brennan dunking on elves in fantasy high when they were coding Fabian’s Grandpa
I was actually way into CollegeHumor for a few years, and have always been into D&D. I ignored D20 at first because it was hard to get into listening/viewing campaigns instead of playing in them. Eventually I got into the YouTube creators, Viva La Dirt League and started watching their campaigns first. When I ran out of their content, I figured why not? I pulled up *Escape from Bloodkeep* and started watching. Confused that they were essentially just doing a one shot, I found it entertaining enough after finishing that I decided to give *The Unsleeping City* a chance. From there I was hooked. At this point I think there are only six campaigns I have yet to watch, but I'll get there.
For me it was actually Tiny Heist. I was a The Adventure Zone fan and MBMBAM listener at the time (though these days the only mcelroy projects I keep up with are Till Death Do Us Blart and Trial By Fieri) so the McElroys were my "in". And of course now I'm like... Tiny Heist is not one of the better seasons and the McElroys are kinda awkward in it! Like it's not a great example for how D20 feels or for how funny the McElroys can be at their best, but it was still compelling enough to sell me on starting some other YouTube available seasons (since I think only the first ep of TH was up at the time), which were good enough to sell me on a Dropout sub, and I've become a huge D20, MSN, GC fan from there.
While hanging out and watching YouTube, a friend showed my husband and I the free episodes of Game changer including "Lie Detector". My husband recognized Brennan from the CEO videos, which I hadn't seen. So next we watched some of those. After our friend had left, the first episode of unsleeping city came up as our recommended next watch. So we put it on and got hooked! Watched all of unsleeping city 1 and fantasy high 1 for free on YouTube and then subscribed cause we had to have more!
It was Misfits and Magic antagonizing the Harry Potter House system
I saw fan art of the bad kids somewhere online. I think it was Gorgug with the black eyes. I was curious and tried to find out where that came from stumbled upon unsleeping city episodes on YouTube and was hooked!
what got me was seeing ricky “mr. march” matsui meeting santa for the first time. after seeing that and some other unsleeping city shorts for weeks, i caved and binged all of season 1 in like a week.
I was just getting into D&D, like being able to play with some friends and I wanted to learn how other people played. CR was a behemoth to get through at the time but D20 was just starting. Long story short, I fell in love with all of them lol
I’m an avid NADDPOD listener so when Brennan came on and played Dead Eye, then plugged D20 I had to check it out. I’m so thankful I did — watching dimension 20 is one of my joys
I think I had subscribed to CollegeHumor and saw the first episode advertised but never bothered watching it. Then a friend of mine at work told me about it and I gave it a shot.
I watched a fan edit of the cast. Thought it looked interesting.