#moocher tiny heist

[rainydaygt]

Bean leaves the battlefield Clean

[merladel]

So since Brennan mentions Gladiator industries in Tiny Heist, canonically, toys come to life and Moochers exist in the Unsleeping City universe.

[rabdoidal]

I’m quitting my job to go back to school and I’m gonna have a full week and a half of free time between them, which d20 campaign should I binge first?

I’ll answer this in two parts! Dimension 20 is largely behind a paywal, which I’m comfortable with paying because of the insane amount of work that goes into it. That being said, there are only 2 campaigns available in their entirety for free on YouTube. The first season of Fantasy High and all of Escape from the Bloodkeep are the ones available on YouTube - I recommend starting with those ones before committing to a free trial if you want to watch the other ones! All the episodes are available in full and uncensored at https://www.dropout.tv/. 

I’m going to describe each season down bellow and you can decide if you’d rather watch just the free stuff or try the free trial!

Fantasy High: Freshman Year Genre: teen, drama, comedy, coming of age, adventure Availability: 17 episodes, All for free on YouTube! Intro: What if John Hughes ran a D&D game? Fantasy High follows the Bad Kids, a group of teen adventurers starting their heroic careers at the Aguefort Adventuring Academy. The group combats personal drama as much as they battle foes, but is everything as it seems in Elmville?  Cast: Emily Axford, Brian Murphy, Ally Beardsley, Lou Wilson, Siobhan Thompson, Zac Oyama

Fantasy High: Sophomore Year Genre: teen, drama, comedy, coming of age, adventure, horror Availability: 20 episodes, 3.5 episodes available on Youtube Intro: Following the Bad Kids as they go into their second year at Aguefort Adventuring Academy! Their spring break project is worth 60% of their grade, so if they want to get to Junior year, they need to find the lost crown of the Nightmare King. Romance, heartbreak, drugs, and identity crisis are abound, with a heavy dose of horror and a dash of high seas piracy.  Cast: Emily Axford, Brian Murphy, Ally Beardsley, Lou Wilson, Siobhan Thompson, Zac Oyama

Escape from the Bloodkeep Genre: high fantasy, medieval, workplace comedy, found family Availability: 6 episodes, all for free on Youtube Intro: What were the forces of evil up to during the Lord of The Rings movies? Following the Vile Villains of the Bloodkeep, generals to the dark lord Zaul'Nazh, as they try to keep the forces of evil together as everything starts falling apart around them - in some cases, literally. Someone should really do something about those pesky persistent halflings. Cast: Erika Ishii, Michael Trapp, Rekha Shankar, Ify Nwadiwe, Matthew Mercer, Amy Vorpahl

The Unsleeping City Genre: urban fantasy, comedy, magical realism, superhero Availability: 17 episodes, 8 available for free on YouTube Intro: Set in current day New York City, the Dream Team is made up of people from all walks of life - from Broadway diva to firefighter to drug dealer. The Unsleeping city revolves around the current of magic that runs through New York, and the corruption that’s infecting the people that live there. Caught between the American dream and the reality of cold pavement, this is a story about unreal heroes in a harsh reality.  Cast: Emily Axford, Brian Murphy, Ally Beardsley, Lou Wilson, Siobhan Thompson, Zac Oyama

Tiny Heist  Genre: heist, crime, comedy, action, adventure Availability: 6 episodes, 1 episode for free on YouTube Intro: What if Oceans 11 was really little, and also Terry Pratchett wrote it? Tiny Heist is a thrilling and hilarious world full of little people and big crimes. Living in the underbrush and discarded places of Thimble Lane, right at the end of summer vacation, toys, moochers and bugs alike plot to take down the tiny tyrant that’s been making life miserable for the bitty-folk. For some its revenge, and for some its the score of a lifetime. Cast: Clint McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Jessica Ross, Lily Du

A Crown of Candy Genre: low fantasy, medieval, drama, war Availability: 17 episodes, 1 episode for free on YouTube Intro: When Game of Thrones and the Candyland board game collide, you get the world of Calorum. A Crown of Candy follows the royal Rocks family and some of their trusted advisors as they navigate the complex web of imperial politics and religious wars, all while trying to survive the night. Secrets are deadly, boldness is necessary, and this season, the world is especially unfair.  Cast: Emily Axford, Brian Murphy, Ally Beardsley, Lou Wilson, Siobhan Thompson, Zac Oyama

[terezis]

[ID: A series of tweets from @ dimension20show on Twitter:

“Gang - TINY HEIST premieres tomorrow on @Dropout! Time to meet our tiny thieves! 

First up - BEAN. Played by @griffinmcelroy, Bean's a Moocher, a group of bitty-folk who live outside the house, and a monk of the watermelon temple. His robe is an old banana peel!”

“Next - CAR-GO JONES. Played by @travismcelroy, Car-Go is an old model of Car-Mo-Bot (the famous franchise featuring cars that "transform" into robots, no relation to any other franchise) whose car form is a 70s style station wagon with wood paneling!”

“Meet the mighty BOOMER COLEOPTERA. Played by @DocCurm, Boomer is the muscle for the villainous Felix Flick, but is all warm and squishy inside (sorta like warm jell-o) and wants nothing more than to be an actor.”

“Who's that? Why, it's RICK DIGGINS, MAN ABOUT TOWN! Played by @JustinMcElroy, Rick's a Click-o Man who leads a complicated life and is running from a terrible past. Some would describe him as "two-faced", but those people are underestimating Rick's face count.”

“ Outta the way, here comes AGNES! Played by Jessica Ross, Agnes is the no-nonsense, chain-smoking fairy who runs Shoeby's Casino - and may just have nothing left to lose...”

“Exploding onto the scene is TI-83! Played by @LilyD, TI belongs to a group of bitty-folk called the Tik-Teks, who have little mouse noses, love technology, and live in the teen center. TI might have a SLIGHT issue with wanting to blow up every problem she runs into...”

“And playing every other character is Game Master @BrennanLM! Wiseguy mice, horny art-dealing turtles, yummy-looking mushroom men, too-chill grasshoppers, and more! The heist is small, but the stakes are huge. Start a free trial of @dropout here: http://bit.ly/tinyheistdropout …” /ID]

TINY HEIST!!! TOMORROW!!! FEAT. THE MCELROYS??? YEAH!!!

[inconsistentlyontime]

Tiny Heist Oneshot

Hello tiny thieves! I am your quarantined dungeon master, here to offer a big adventure on a very small scale. 

Beneath the floorboards of the big folk, a legendary moocher explorer and adventurer by the name of Pigeon has just passed away. Within hours of his passing, the word is out; Pigeon's vast wealth is hidden in Dockerty House, only a week’s journey away, and is just waiting to be claimed. Of course, the journey will be treacherous beyond belief, going through the territory of feral fairies and marauding dragonflies alike, and you won’t be the only ones chasing the treasure. So are you willing to risk dangers untold to claim Pigeon’s Prize? The oneshot will be on Saturday the 24th of April at approximately 17:00 CEST and will be played via discord and Roll20. The players will be a group of bittyfolk, level 6-7, that have assembled to hunt down Pigeon’s Prize, all PCs having been made collaboratively with me beforehand.

If you are interested in playing, please fill out the series of questions linked below and then add GM-Ned#7493 on discord and send your answers to that account.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_hk2DJKX1CA3EnfVOCFWr17XDVk6Pj4HLhWe_9_0cyI/edit?usp=sharing

Looking forward to playing with you all!

[royallywarped]

ALL of Dimension 20 is so good, and so worth supporting. Each season is a new campaign and they're all so excellent. Brennan is an amazing Dungeon Master and they go all out, with their own 3D battle map sets and miniatures for combats. They even have live episodes set in the world of season one featuring Griffon McElroy (Episode unavailable??) And Polygon’s BDG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ulIYMA0sqg Season 1- Fantasy High (It’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect) Season 2- Escape from the Bloodkeep (A LOTR inspired evil campaign with Matt Mercer as one of the players) Season 3- The Unsleeping City (A modern magic campaign set in NYC) Season 4- Tiny Heist (Toys, bugs, fairies and moochers planning a heist in the backyard of a human family, featuring all the McElroy boys. If you’re a fan of TAZ, you’ll almost certainly love Dimension 20.

this was my favorite bit i nearly had an asthma attack

[gt-ridel]

Some people seem a bit confused as to what I'm talking about. There's apparently more than one Tiny Heist, so that's 100% on me. ^__^;;

The Tiny Heist that I'm talking about is a new mini series on Dropout's show, Dimension 20.

Dropout is College Humor's streaming channel. You can get a free seven day trial. (I'm going to stay subscribed longer, because there are other shows I want to watch now!)

Dimension 20 is a show where a bunch of guests play tabletop RPGs of different sorts.

I have to admit, when I first heard the concept of listening to someone else play DnD, I did NOT understand the appeal. I thought, what's the point if you're not the one playing? If you feel the same, please give me a few moments to convince you to give this a try.

1: The game master, Brennan Lee Mulligan, is incredibly charming, clever, and will go ALL OUT when acting the various NPCs. He brings an energy to the production that really keeps your attention. I've only heard him in two shows so far, Tiny Heist and Dadlands (an Adventure Zone live show where he was a guest DM) but both times he's been wonderful! And I really look forward to seeing him in more shows.

2: The McElroy family (three brothers and their father) are accomplished comedians who have had several years of experience writing and playing RPGs specifically for a listening audience. They know how to weave a compelling narrative and keep you laughing along the way, without getting bogged down in the kind of DnD minutiae that might otherwise make for difficult *coughtorturouscough* listening.

3: The setting and characters are just *chefs kiss*

There are Moochers and Stewards (non copywritten versions of Borrowers). Moochers live a difficult life outside. Stewards are elitist innies who seem to be keeping the Moochers out so they can continue to live in comfort.

There's two Moocher player characters. Bean, a monk/scavenger whose home in the compost heap has recently been destroyed. He makes friends with the human child in the first scene. It is adorable and heartwarming. ;w;

And Ti-83, a tech savvy girl who lives with her tribe in the community center tech drawer. She loves explosions. The scene where these two characters meet is honestly the best thing I've ever heard. I can't spoil it, but it's amazing. XD

There are also fairies. We don't know as much about them as a society, since there is only one fairy character. But Agnes is this upper middle aged woman who runs a casino, wears pink leopard skin pants, has a fanny pack with fairy dust in it, is constantly smoking, and often dabbles in crime. What is not to love about that???

There are living toys, which come to life either through the love of a child, or by being exposed to fairy dust. There is a noble Car-Mo-Bot (transformer) named Car-Go Jones, who is dedicated to saving his owner from some sort of sinister plot masterminded by a Borrower crime lord named Flick. (We don't know what the danger is yet. There is only one episode up)

And a Clicko-man (lego) named Rick Diggins, who spent two years stuck between car seats, and has become somewhat jaded by the experience (hmm, sounds familiar) He has multiple different outfits and personalities, four out of five of which are in debt to a bug crime boss named Garbanzo Bugless.

And last but not least, we have a Hercules Beetle named Boomer Coleoptra, who is hired muscle for Flick, the main Borrower crime boss. He's not a violent guy. He's just big. He has a sensitive soul and just wants to be an actor.

If you haven't been enticed by this little synopsis, well, that's probably my fault. I am not very good at this sort of thing. 😅

But please, please give this a try! It's so funny and so well thought out (and cinematic as heck! I could envision everything perfectly clearly) and I REALLY want to talk about it with other people!

Here's the trailer.

https://youtu.be/kR6vADysaxM

GT FRIENDS! GT FRIENDS!

You have to watch Tiny Heist! It's GOOD MCFREAKIN' CONTENT!

So far the two borrower characters are my favorites.

I am CRYING I'm laughing so hard!