Emily Is One of The Best D&D Players in the World
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- ...she was also sent from Hell to kill Brennan. #shorts #dimension20
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Brennan: * basically calls Emily a force of chaos from hell to her husband *
Her Husband without hesitating: "yes"
That's a great relationship right there
Of course he would, it's an incredible compliment; and true on top of that!
Not just yes, but "Yes. Yes, yes yes yes." This is a man who knows this to his very core, and is so very happy to have someone who finally understands, haha
That's love
I mean Murph also DMs for her so that's a very understandable response from him
"I never want to say no, but I will revel in the consequences of saying yes."
- Brennan after Kristen fell three stories and broke every bone in her body while trying to use a ribbon to fly.
Beeferly Togold falling out of a tower after trying to goof a god.
She wanted to drop three stories using her ribbon as a grappling hook. She ended up yeeting herself out the window and dropping ten stories down lol.
Him saying "I've got good news, you get there WAAAAAAAY before he does" in reference to that scene, is one of my all time favorite D20 moments.
@@SuperAwsomNinjaSquad Even reading about that moment made me laugh 🤣🤣
That’s what happens when you goof!
He never wants to say no, but the few times he does he absolutely revels in it. "Under no circumstance will I allow you to do that!"
Occasionally as a DM, the foot needs to come down and say "Hell no, that won't go".
Lol I loved "Hey Rekha? Straight up no"
And then: "Hey, Ally, I'm going to ALLOW this to happen..."
I am trying so hard to remember when Brennan said this. Was it in Unsleeping City?
@@LARGELinCHARGEL honestly I'm not 100%, but I'm pretty sure I'm thinking of Escape from the Bloodkeep when Efink tried to cast sanctuary on the airship
“She was also sent from hell to kill me”
*Fig laughs in the distance*
I love that Murph, her partner, TOTALLY agrees with Brannen xD
Laughs in Hilda Hilda and tricking a racist pirate by turning into him.
The time devil sends his regards
Reer.
@@Blarg6306 RIP Grimmy
Brennan: Emily was sent from hell to kill me
Murph, Emily's husband: YES YES YES ABSOLUTELY
True love hehe
I had no idea they were married
@@lovemusic6218 They wrote a parody dating self help book together too.
@@theradiantdehd3997 do you know the name of the book? I'd love to check out out!
@@delylahmartin-ruiz2805 h ok e to turn your booty call into your emergency contact
Brennan holding Emily to the consequences of her chaotic choice is peak DM'ing. My favorite part of the Hilda Hilda scene is Brennan's in character "no, we're in this now". If Emily wants to do an out of left field scene she can but Brennan's gonna go toe to toe with her all the way.
I am just now watching a crown of candy campaign on Dropout. The number of mega social f*** ups Emily does that Brennan just blasts her with is hilarious. Their chaotic energy is incredible to behold.
That was so funny to watch. "YOUR FIRST THOUGHT IS TO APPEAR AS HIM?!?!"
If "Keep that same energy" was a person
And Emily KNOWS this, this is the point.
Yes but she’s like a kid randomly moving pieces successfully against a grand master in chess. Everyone thinks she has a plan but she is just bottled chaos and will pushed out of a pressure hose
Honourable mentions go to Hilda Hilda, 'I transform into him', and Fig literally refusing to go to school in the first episode
Refusing to go to school is an underrated chaos moment, I think especially because it was so deeply in character that it slipped by a lot of viewers. But as a DM, Brennan probably went into full panic mode
@@michaelhird432 and who would make the assumption of that coming up? Emily, right from the off, reveled in the chaos of her own making
@@michaelhird432 And then Brennan's solution was some of the best DM'ing I've ever seen.
@@chompyoface the last time Gilear showed any level of competence
@@chompyoface that was amazing of him tbh, I didn't really know much about d&d but I thought at that time fig would have her own storyline, and brennan literally brought her back on track, great move
Emily has said on NADDPOD's Short Rest that after her mother had her first two children, she wanted a third to "introduce a little chaos". Emily was literally born to be chaotic.
Too neat.
She's the main character at this point...
@@stephenodom3431 I mean have you seen her hair?????? Definitely main character ™
Also a peak Emily-type decision, genetics have clearly played a role.
I kinda want to do that as a mom now lol
emily terrifies me as a dm because shes chaotic and unhinged but also fully understands the rules and is a dnd genius (see: That saccharina round in acoc)
Honestly, it was iconic
Oh her DMing in NADDPOD was so fucking good I hope we can experience that same thing happen again
@@G30R6E93 100% I need Cool boy winter to become a real thing!
operation slippery puppet, also.
@@yuvalsela4482 That makes it even scarier, wrecking brennan's shit and turning the tide in one turn, she gained an understanding of a system she had only been playing for like a week.
I am almost certain l heard the redirecting energy bit and interpreting desires in a tip for dealing with toddlers I read once.
That’s unbelievably hilarious
As a dnd player, dnd players and toddlers have a lot in common
makes sense! He was a camp counselor (maybe still is?) for many many years
Well, Brennan does want to be a dad more than anything else. Maybe DnD has always been practice for that
@@ravendoesscience8539 The venn diagram is a circle.
Brennan: Your wife was sent from hell to kill me
Murph: yes
Brennan: yes
Murph: yes
Brennan: yes
My favorite moment is still when Emily pointed to Kalvaxsis and said "but he's not wearing any armor" and the look on Brennan's face was priceless.
Episode with timestamp please? I'm new here!
@@dude59974 I don’t have a time stamp, but it would be in one of the last two episodes of fantasy high season 1
what was the context?
@@dude59974 Fantasy High Ep. 16, 52:50
@@johnwetzel3392 Thank you, my child.
I believe it’s due to Emily’s narrative first approach where most people who play ask the question “what can I do here” and she thinks more “what can’t I do here” her creativity combined with her - let’s be frank INCREDIBLE luck of the dice makes her a serious threat in the game.
Her luck is above average, but not incredible. That's Ally. Emily has good luck, endless creativity and an Expert level of understanding of the rules. She is fully aware of where the boundaries lie, how hard she can push them and how far she can step past them. That's what make her so dangerous.
@@hopelesslydull7588 as the seasons go on I must agree
Brennan is also one of the best DMs I've ever seen, which is what makes their chemistry so compelling. The player who will try anything vs the game master who can take it all in stride.
I’ve played with more bad DMs than good, and Brennan is the sort of DM I’d kill to have. His pacing and way of world building in Dimension 20 has inspired me so much in breaking away from the “Your characters are all in a tavern when…“ mentality.
@@vancearama The first episode of Fantasy High Freshman Year is a is a perfect example of a DM giving his players the illusion of free will. He lets them think they’re controlling their own stories, but in the end they were always going to end up in detention together by the end of the session.
That entire first season is really a masterclass on how to play D&D and play it well. Whether a DM or a player, there’s so much to learn from that campaign, even for a seasoned player like me.
There's a round table with Brennan, Aabria, and Matt, and in part of it Brennan is talking about navigating railroading versus character choices in Dimension 20. It's a long video, but has really good stuff
"She was sent from hell to kill me, you understand." Best line ever.
I forgot about the sexy rat 😭 that was the first time Brennan broke character I remember. “Emily. I need you to explain to me, as you, what a SEXY RAT is.” Good times.
Off to listen to more D20
What's arguably the funniest part of that interaction is that Emily then IMMEDIATELY STARTS DESCRIBING A SEXY RAT 😭💀
Remember the “illusions are real” forest? Emily took that and ran, hard. lol
Forest of the Nightmare King was so fun to watch. Emily creating diamonds for revivify like 3 times. She really held Brennan to his worldbuilding.
The redirection example he gives, he imitates me as a pre-k teacher, dear God. 'I think what you're saying is __, is that right?'
I'm a therapist, and we also rely on that skill constantly. Idk if you call it something different in education, but we call it "reflective listening." It's one of our core skills, and we rely on it so much bc it signals that you're paying attention, AND that you're interested in understanding what the person in front of you really means. It even gives the person you're talking to a chance to say something over again if they messed it up the first time.
I hope your students are able to pick that up from you one day. 🙂
My favorite part... watching Brennan's meticulously narrated speeches fall to pieces while the party in the background sigh and bombard him with inane questions.
"Are you my dad?"
😆
Emily knows the rules! She knows the rules very well and how to break them over her knee like it were a spaghetti noodle.
Best example of exactly this was on starstruck when she did Operation Slippery Puppet on Plinth
let's not forget "I wanna rip a SICK U-turn."
One of my favorite fantasy high moments is
"Can I cast friends on the flask and make her drink it"
"That's not how that works but I'll allow it"
I know I once said "Emily is the best player on this show, and she gets away with so much because her ideas are better than the dms" this statement applies to any show she is on.
They're nearly always internally consistent too. Like sometimes it'll be stuff that doesn't directly have a rule for it, but it'll be a thing that within the confines of a actual lived in world is something that makes sense.
Brennan handling Emily as a DM is like hes corralling a toddler. She literally tried to stop the game and derail his entire story in her INTRODUCTION of Fantasy High (the first episode of the first season) and he handled it like a champ, and it read as both Brennan lecturing Emily and the Gilear lecturing Fig. Excellent character establishing moment.
Emily is absolutely one of the best players in the world. Knows the rules inside and out. Does not give a shit.
Shoutout to Bev trying to goof a god and getting launched off a tower to his almost death
Want a berry?
Oh Sweet P Bev!
Never goof a god, Bev
Is this in naddpod?
@@azrulashraf00 Yes! And pretty early on.
Emily is absolutely my favorite DnD player. She always has the best energy and is endlessly supportive of her other players and DM. Shes also REAAALLLY good with the mechanics and is a force in combat.
The problem with Emily is she’s chaotic and they’re rules guys, but she knows how to use the rules to accomplish her chaos
Your name is Hilda Hilda and you own a house on both Hilda Street AND Hilda Avenue?
Emily: yes 😘😘
Emily is my favorite player. If there is some published media where Emily is a player, I will watch it. NaddPod, Dimension20, Rotating Heroess, anything. She is the essence of ambivalent chaos.
My favorite moments of D20 is actually from Unsleeping City S2, when Murph reveals Cody and then Emily just spends like 15 minutes cackling at him.
God her and Lou on ACoF&F are fucking killing me with their synergy. It's some of the funniest shit I've ever seen.
I didn't know how much I could love a game purely about reputation and appearances until I realized Emily and Lou would be playing cousins trying so very hard NOT to go on a drug-fueled bender/orgy/rave.@@DefconDelta88
Emily and Ally in particular will always make things more unhinged and interesting. But my favourite moment is still Rekha fully committing to the idea where her character tries to shit out a window to try and soften the blow of another PC about to potentially die from fall damage. I was crying from laughter lol
I love that Emily is such an unhinged force of chaos but also such an incredible actress and improviser. She can bring such sincerity to a scene because she always understands her character through and through. I can really relate to that as a player, but I'm working on the unhinged chaos part.
See now I'm just imagining like six acne ridden teenagers in a basement somewhere in Canarsie. Chanting in broken Latin trying to call forth some demon. But instead Emily just appears saying only "I seek Brennan Lee mulligan" then she immediately gets distracted by something shiny.
You mean something she can make into a familiar? 🤣
There's a few times where I feel like Brennan is fed up with the shenanigans and forces the cast to play them out. He's like "you wanted this, now you're getting it. Now it's happening."
Sometimes the best way to punish your players is to give them exactly what they asked for.
Yep. Honestly those moments are some of my favorite because A) As fun as chaos gremlins can be, sometimes you need to draw a line. And B) Brenan is really good at turning those line drawing moments into really shenanigan fueled comedy bits
The unsleeping world's Emily suggestion is still the best "Make Wally the king of the fairies"
"I feel like, well first of all it's like"
That is SUCH a brendan opening sentence
This has a lot of parallels with the current d20 season, all his players are chaotic this time and he is constantly having to compromise and negotiate
The trick to saying no is to let the player describe their insane plan out loud and in detail.
My DM was very lenient. He gave me a decanter of endless water. He allowed me to alter spells slightly. Such as wall of water. He allowed me to make it shorter, in height and length, to make it wider. And he also allowed me to use a homebrew sharkkin race. Which then me and my friend built around. Because the variant sharkkin I used had quadruple speed in water. So whenever combat would arise we would dual cast wall of water and make what we proudly called ... the Chum bucket.
You could guess what happened next.
When we knew a battle would take place in a certain area, we'd preemptively dig large pits and use the decanter and water spells to fill them, then conceal them. It was ... A grand time.
He's such a ducking great DM
Duck yeah he is!
It's true. Emily's ability to role-play extremely vulnerable situations is so beautiful.
This hits harder after the "How'd you guys know there'd be a Plinth?" bit from Starstruck hahahaha
Brennan and Murph: We're rules guys
*One Starship Odyssey later*
Brennan: Am I getting Ocean's Eleven'd on my own show?!
Siobhan: We read the rules Brennan, by which I mean Emily read the rules!
You thought chaotic Emily was dangerous, wait until you see rules lawyer Emily :P
Also
Abriya: Lou, you know magic has verbal components.
Emily: I subtle spell gift of Gab.
Abriya: *Surprised Pikachu face*
Read the book not the rules. Starship odyssey was based on a book that Brennans mom wrote
brennan handles his players the same way i handle my preschool class lmao
One of my favorite improv moments of all time was when Brennan and Emily rp'd a spicy hospital drama. I absolutely loved it!
watching this after ASO's "Operation Slippery Puppet" is SOOOO funny
I love Emily's shenanigans. Sexy rat, Hilda Hilda, turning into her character's mom to try to get out of going to school... she's great at twisting the rules to her advantage (see: half the forest of the Nightmare King in sophomore year, all the times she used the "illusions/dreams are real here" thing to make revivify diamonds)
Brennan: "I wanna pull a bomb out of my butt" is too far
Also brennan (worlds beyond number, county affair: "I wanna pull a rocket launcher out of my butt"
"We're rules guys and she's chaotic"
"Emily busts out the rulebook and wrecks Brennan in A Crown of Candy"
10000% agreeee! And I love how Murph and Em say that they don't make sense together on paper, but for real they are just amazing. I love them. NADDPOD was instrumental in saving my life and I'll be forever grateful for them. 💜
“She was sent from hell to kill me.”
Murph’s “Yes , yes, yes” actually means: I know better than anyone, I’m married to that chaos demon.
Little would Brennan know that Emily would indeed pull a bomb out of her butt in Operation: Slippery Puppet
A good DM knows where to set boundaries for players.
A good DM knows how to set boundaries while creating the illusion that there are no boundaries.
Brennan would be a wonderful teacher he knows so many things that kids would ask he’s a master at redirecting conversations to what he wants and he’s hilarious while doing it I could easily see him in a classroom holding the attention of young children and helping them learn by fueling their curiosity rather than crushing it
I'm coming back to this video after finally catching up and watching the Mice and Murder finale only to remember the tower scene and how it broke Brennan
It is truly a pleasure watching Emily play D&D she really is an incredible player that sinks into her PC and gives it life while simultaneously just being chaotic as fuck and hilarious
Aikido is such a great analogy for dealing with chaos and not saying flat out no
“Daddy that was a waste of a turn” I’m fucking dead
the makeshift unseen servant was awesome too
Brennan: "I'm a rules guy"
Also Brennan: "that's not how that spell works but I'll allow it cuz it's cool."
"I wanna roll to make myself alive again"
"Sure"
That's a dnd thing, though, when rolling death saves, rules as written say that natural 20's give you one hp, and brennan's plan was like "ok ally, you're stable, and if you want to roll more you won't be stable anymore, it'll restart the death saves"
The "nat 20 = two successes" is a houserule.
Brennan just didn't expect ally to crit at a pivotal moment, because it was campaign 1 and he had no idea he was playing with an irl destiny sorcerer
I'm a therapist and that "aikido" technique is 70% of what I do with clients. It's fascinating to see the parallels between my work and Brennan's. Especially with some of the analogies he makes.
I just got done watching Emily attack a building with a toilet 😂
The best part is while Emily is a Chaotic force of nature, she does it in a way that encourages others to be chaotic and fun, without getting in the way of narrative or stealing spotlight from others.
Her Moonshine in NAADPOD is still one of my all time favorites
Indeed. One of the things I noticed when she played with the Critical Role crew was that she was still chaotic, but not nearly as chaotic as she was in, say, _Fantasy High_ or _A Crown of Candy._ And honestly the level of chaos she brought felt natural to the Crit Role setting, whereas is she brought the same level she did as other Dimension 20 games, it'd feel tonally out of place. Which to me says that where her talent actually lies is in being able to read just how much chaos is appropriate for a given setting and adjusting it. Gal's good at reading a group
Not another dnd podcast is so fucking good and funny
emily and players like her are players who the people who made the rules for dnd never expected to exist so most of the stuff they want to do know one knows what the rule is cause no one ever thought that anyone would try something like that
This is so funny when you take into account Naddpod dnd court stats saying that Emily rules in favor of DMs the most.
Brennan is the Clippy of DND.
“I WANNA PULL A BOMB OUT OF MY BUTT!”
“It sounds like what you want to do is create an area of effect spell.”
Considering that Clippy shows up in Starstruck Odyssey, that's accurate.
Emily is definitely a force of nature and Brennan is the one keeping her accountable most of the time. Love how they praise her for it while being afraid.
This is actually how you corral a toddler. I love this.
Emily is insanely talented, Flippin BEAUTIFUL and hilariously creative. What a luck guy Murph is.
Yea, they're talking about the same woman who created a short documentary about flushing an entire chocolate cake down a toilet. Of COURSE she's chaotic!
I hadn't seen that video before, and dear God am I glad I checked it out
Murphs YES YES YES, reminds me when they were playing naddpod and he had this whole encounter with his flying horses and she just polymorphed them into a sea creature and the entire encounter is done.
Or also in naddpod when she rolled with advantage and ended up rolling two nat twenties
Listening to this as a child and adolescent therapist in city schools, I’m realizing Brennan and I have the same job sometimes. It’s all about channeling the chaos 😂
I love Emily's ideas (not just the craziness but also the earnest character development) so much, and I appreciate both Murph and Brennan for giving her space to do that in the shows I've heard them in 💕
She's chaotic but damn does she know her spells and abilities 😊
Emily is responsible for one of my favorite scenes in all media when she faced down Ulfgar's axe in NaDDPod. I choke up every time I think about it.
Emily is a menace a MENACE!!🤣🤣🤣
“You have some players that will try some shit”
The berry incident…..
"I think if you watch me DM, it's all ✨aikido✨"
i think this is part of what makes brennan such a phenomenal DM. he wants his players to have fun first and foremost so instead of cutting their ideas down entirely, he finds a way for both of them to enjoy the scene while still having the consequences of their actions.
Emily backdooring her way to clairvoyance as a level 2 warlock is one of my favorite dnd things ever
To be honest, I used to dm with a two sided chalk board, and let me tell you. It is so fun to start marking the symbols of the fight and see your party's increasingly worried looks as the chalk sounds don't stop, especially when finished by a long noise indicating that one of the ennemies is enormous (my dm battle encounter style is "the horde", so it happened very frequently).
Also, the chalk board is just a fun thing in general, because you can erase in a dramatic fashion and a ton of other shenanigans.
The dynamic of “she’s a creature sent from hell to kill me”
“Yes yes yes”
“Yes, you understand.”
i feel like this man is so good at redirecting adults in dnd is because he works with kids too 😂
Wow, Brennan would be an amazing teacher. 💖
I aspire to the level of chaos that Emily Axford radiates
I've never heard of NADDPod before, but something tells me it's called "Not Another D&D Podcast"
I love how Lou has become an Emily in his own right. And Ally really reeled in the rules in Starstruck for the team's benefit.
he’d be a good dad lol
And now we can officially hope that Matt will get to dm for her on dimension 20 in May!
Its not just the chaos, its that she knows when to reign it in and let a serious scene be serious. I try to model my play after what ive seen of her and i hope it works because imho shes very much a role model for a player
This is all the more powerful now we have a few examples of Brennan in the character chair. He takes that aikido energy, his rulez book and pro bono law experience and really screws other DMs. Emily's influence is strong in him.
Emily the 'force of chaos' 'Oh that thing just one shot me, well im back up, i have less health now but imma jump up and try and punch it again' axford. She is my favourite player on D20
I'm gonna go watch you DM right now, Dropout freakin rocks.
Seeing Brennan talk about a player that goes “I wanna pull a bomb out of my butt” after listening to him in a county affair on worlds beyond number where he plays a chicken character that literally pulls an rpg launcher out of her ass (among other things) is so funny
Back here after Slippery Puppet and...yup still holds true only now +10
Emily's level of roleplay in DnD is something I strive for. Like, holy shit does she just put absolutely EVERYTHING into bringing her characters to life and that is fuckin awesome. Especially Sundry Sidney in Starstruck Odyssey. Absolutely fantastic. I kinda have a difficult time bringing my characters to that level, as usually, I either go down the Warforged route with a personality like HK-47 from KOTOR, or I play a simple-minded brute with a good heart just trying to find his way in the world.
The funny this is Emily absolutely seems like the kind of person who if they heard their husband emphatically agreeing that she was sent from hell to kill them, that she would 100% take that as a compliment, which it is.
My first 'dnd' (gurps because that's what my dad preferred) character my dad helped me build, he told me to tell him 3 spells I wanted to do, not limiting me to a spell in a book.
I can't remember the 3rd I chose, but I wanted to spit rocks at people, and I wanted to be able to make a force field.
The prerequisite spells for the first thing alone accidentally made me rather strong, as I had to be able to make earth, shape it, I had to have the ability to levitate the bullets, etc.
I was 10.
My first actual dnd character I made I wanted to be able to have exploding fireballs, which again came with many many prerequisites.
Gurps stands for general universal role playing system. You can take any character, from dnd, wow, what every system and turn it into a gurps character. But you can not take a gurps character and turn it into a dnd character
What game did you play with gurps?
Emily's contribution to A Crown Of Candy literally broke me in every way, her chaotic nature is so infectious and I aspire to her levels
Brennan: Emily was sent from hell to kill me.
And that says a lot coming from Brennan.