#it may be a dimension 20 thing

[ilthit]

I am still not quite over Aabria Iyengar rocking up to Critical Role's big new game on their official channel, and deciding, as her first act as gamemaster, to homebrew some new rules.

Like, Nice game! Let me improve it.

And it was so good!

[sluttycinderella]

one thing i really love about never stop blowing up is how brennan was like “ok so we’re doing a season set in a very specific time period with a genre that is not known for its representation. but we will still have poc people everywhere. the female characters will still be complex and important. the mob boss will be canonically bisexual.” and cait may was like “fuck you im giving this cool side character top surgery scars.”like everyone was willing to give themselves up to the conventions of the genre but only to the extent that it felt fun and liberatory. when it began to interfere with the values and morals of the d20 team they went “no actually, we’re changing this.”

[bacchuschucklefuck]

doing chibi is a good design exercise bc it forces u to think on shapes n essential details, essentially thumbnailing ur designs. its also a terrible design exercise bc it ends up looking cute no matter what

[karmicpunishment]

nothing is a more satisfying mental image to me than the rat grinders watching the bad kids absolutely dominate the last stand in disbelief because they thought they were going to fuck up and fail

[sigsfigs]

i'm mrs. manhattan

[operationslipperypuppet]

So insanely funny that Emily’s French press tea was during the angry “hold for tea pour” naddpod era. Murph was appropriately losing it

[rain-after-thunder]

Disabled Aelwyn who uses crutches.

Aelwyn who can’t go back to school to finish her wizzard studies, who starts researching different ways to bend magic to her will.

Aelwyn, who has always had a knack for creating new spells, starting to tinker at her own crutches, weaving wards into the framework.

Aelwyn, for who good is not good enough, caves and asks Gorgug for help. Who finds a way to make her crutches extend, bend and move to support her arms, elbows, shoulders. Makes them connect to her back, her hips, down her legs .

They no longer look much like crutches anymore, it’s a thin, light framework that supports her entire body, that moves her exactly the way she wants, that allows her to stand with her back straight for more than 5 minutes for the first time in two years. The exoskeleton glows with abjurative runes and the outline of a powerfull ward is visible over her body, deflecting blows like steel armor.

New spells rest in her memory, mechanical and precise if nature in a way that the arcane inks in her spelbook can’t articulate. Spare the Dying, Resistance, Cure Wounds, Sanctuary.

Her joints still ache, she tires fast and even after all this time it is still hard to control the venom in her words, still hard to accept help and kindness without it feeling like a wool blanket on freshly flayed skin. But she has found something that is wholly hers, found something to be proud of that isn’t tinged with approval from her parents.

Aelwyn still can’t walk without support, but the frame folding her up is crafted by her own hands. Maybe everything will be allright.

[figsbass]

trouble in tuffeton, dimension 20 // on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20's Fantasy High: Junior Year episode 17

[all-about-the-tea-parties]

I know we’re all upset about the lack of empathy for the rat grinders but guys

Do you not remember how they treated ragh before they decided they liked him

[captainofthetidesbreath]

FASCINATING how the Fontina family is three generations of men dedicating their life so completely to a cause they believe just and to protect the people and for the betterment of the future.

Lucas is described by his grandson to have fought against royals who had their boots on the necks of the people and to have been an honorable man. He led the people in rebellion and, for a while, "it seemed like he might actually make a difference" in the Dairy Islands. He died in service to this cause.

Aaron believed fanatically, in direct opposition to his son, in the cause of the Sanctus Putris, that rot and decay will deliver the peoples of Calorum from consumption by the Hungry One and allow them to be saved and endure under the Bulb. He died in service to this cause.

Colin dedicates himself with intense focus to excising the rot of the Sanctus Putris from Calorum and fighting against their mission to sow perpetual war and widespread death to foster decay and spoil. He will spend the rest of his days in service to this cause.

Against all odds, against the circumstances of their very different lives: like father, like son. Driven to give their lives to something they believe will create a better future for Calorum and single-mindedly serving that purpose to the very end.

[jq37]

What is it that the Rat Grinders actually want exactly? Or at least, what does Kipperlilly want since she's the one we know the most about.

At the top of the season it seemed like she wanted to Be The Best at school and Be Recognized in a very Tracy Flick/Sara Berry kind of way and was just going to crazy lengths to get there because this is a world where you help a dragon kidnap girls so you can be Prom Queen and life goes on. But now we know that the Rat Grinders are a part of Porter's larger plan and one of the major steps of that plan is completely abolishing Aguefort as an institution.

It's clear what Porter gets out of this. He gets to be a god and he gets to continue his imperialistic family legacy. And I would maybe get what Kipperlilly would get out of this is she were the Cleric/Paladin of the plan. She'd get to be the new god's champion, like she was gushing to Lucy. That's maybe worth something to an achievement hunting, Type A individual.

But she's not gonna get to be the best student at Aguefort if Aguefort doesn't exist anymore. Hell, Elmville won't really exist anymore. Is Porter planning on opening a new Adventuring School in Rage Elmville and she gets to be the god Principal's pet? Does she think he's gonna make things "fair" for her somehow? How? Retroactively killing her parents? Does she want to use the powers she cheesed from the easy XP he drip fed her to be a renown adventurer? Kinda hard to pull that off when everyone knows you were part of the plan that doomed the town. Maybe she thought they were going to get away with it without being implicated? Does she literally not want anything other than a chance to kill the Bad Kids? Or even pettier, to just to be stronger than Riz? Is that worth it to her? To damn the whole town just so she can say that she beat Riz once? Did she want something concrete at one point but at this point she's just lost in the sauce and doing whatever the next task is without knowing what she'd even do with a victory if she got it? Did she already get what she wanted in the free XP and now she's just paying her end of the bargain?

I'm just very unsure about what her version of a happy ending is here.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

❗❗Official Class Swap Sorcerer!Kristen Post Alert❗❗ you can: look at her

[cxlandine]

now i really hope this isn't right, but i gotta say it

kalina said ragh barkrock, not lydia. lydia has experience with these things, she knows how to seal it and she's pretty cognizant and capable at the moment so she doesn't need ragh to explain on her behalf. maybe kalina just said ragh because he used to be infected (and he wasn't born with it so we can assume lydia wasn't) so she knows him better, but. lydia's already occupied with the gem in her chest. IF the same ritual needed to happen to seal the shatter stars again, lydia wouldn't be strong enough in her current state since she's weakened by the gem. gorgug's strength score dropped to 18 since taking more levels of artificer. ragh still has a +5. as far as we know the closest person to the bad kids who COULD have the strength to fuse with the gem is ragh, who also has some experience with it already. and if he did he would experience the same illness as his mother if not worse.

[iamnotawomanimagod]

you know, I've rarely really enjoyed any end to Dimension 20 stories

I think it's really, really hard to pull off a brilliantly satisfying ending when you're a group of improvisers on an unscripted comedy show.

they shoot their seasons in a matter of days or, at most, a couple of weeks. there aren't big long breaks between episodes where they can scrape their notes and remember all the little details that have happened so far and plan ahead for a perfect ending.

also, they get to choose where they take the story. that's the fun of TTRPGs!! and it makes sense that a group of comedic improvisors who love making each other laugh are going to be drawn to doing funny bits instead of digging deep for super meaningful scenes. there have been plenty of those scenes, throughout all of the seasons. but that has never been the ultimate premise of Dimension 20.

I also think the Intrepid Heroes have been pretty clear that they don't love doing those really dramatic scenes. they don't actually enjoy crying on camera and being sad. they want to make each other laugh and they want to do dumb bits, and since that's the priority, super cohesive endings take a backseat.

but it's not really about the ending for me. the journey along the way is always really worthwhile.

[catartac]

Absolutely obsessed with crazy cat teacher Aelwyn so I’m working on a little wip