The most realistic/relatable part of this is when they spent a good 5 minutes agonizing over the best way to phrase an email to their professor only to immediately get a casual two-word, information-free phatic response.
I recently received an email that literally said "polite stuff", a single sentence with a request, then "more polite stuff". My email to her was several hundred words.
@@duckdudette I'm sorry, but if I got that email I would burn the school. That's so disrespectful. Like, I know you don't, but at least pretend to care that another human being is gonna recieve that email.
If i had a penny for every time Aabria has run a TTRPG game for Brennan in a magical school where he plays a dark wizard with an unpronounceable name, I'd have two pennies which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
I love how Brennan throws out like five options for Abraham Mehermblur's title and when Aabria calls out "citizen doctor" and laughs at it, he locks in
@@TheQuashingoftheTubI have no idea what you are referencing, but the character(?) sounds like something I'd be interested in. Can you tell me what you mean by that?
@@merri_spiderly6017UA-camrs JaidenAnimations, Ranboo, and Alpharad played a oneshot dmed by Charlie Slimecicle of Just Roll With It fame. In it, JaidenAnimation's character, a black dragonborn warlock named Zoot pretends to be the BBEG's deceased wife and lures him in. The BBEG breaks down crying in Zoot's arms and then Jaiden straight up uses her Breath Attack on him point blank
Strixhaven as a magic the gathering set does have two cards that are bears that are professors, one’s just a generic professor of Zoomancy the other is actually a named character named Ruxa
The content warnings for this are so fucking funny because you read the 'suicide' 'self-harm' 'body horror' mixed with the 'sexual themes' 'comedic death' and you're like 'what the fuck is going on here' and then its just mehermblur running headfirst into the nearest opportunity for death as fast as his little undead legs can carry him while everyone else is too busy being horny in the bg to get anything done efficiently
Not surprising from Brennan "There is no corner of my heart I would not turn over for 5 points" Mulligan. He's not scared of using literally any part of himself to make a bit land, it's inspired.
Some of us D&D nerds are becons of perfection, glowing like a lighthouse of purity. Brenan represents the rest of us. The sweaty troglodytes. The ever hungry trolls. The pasty undead. We can pretend to be a brilliant lord or a lady all we want but we aren't at home roleplaying until we snort wipe our snotty nose on our arm as a 12 year old.
@@kredonystus7768 He hungers. Hungers for almonds, ethics, and storytelling. We also hunger and we too wish for a second mouth so we may speak and eat nachos simultaneously..
So if Abraham's life flashes before his eyes every time he dies, wouldn't that mean his previous deaths flash before his eyes too? If so, do those previous flashes also flash before his eyes? If so, then he's fucking right about being reborn bringing knowledge and enlightenment. Every time he dies, the amount of lifetimes he's lived grows exponentially. After dying 10 times, he'll have lived 65 full life times.
The time between deaths aren't super long, so it wouldn't be full lives, he's in his mid 30's, so he'd probably only have "lived" for a few hundred years if he's died 10 times.
This was the most realistic beginning of a dnd session I've ever seen. 6 minutes of straight chaotic bullshit that delighted me to the very core. VERY excited about this group- and this game!!!
Does the name Evan Kelmp ring a bell? "These next 3 minutes are going to be very important for you..." I love seeing him as a player almost as much as a DM.
@@daniellins4114 I was hoping he would. You can tell he loves messing with whoever is DM'ing a game he plays. It's his little taste of being on the other side of the screen. He's going to enjoy himself.
So my friends and I are playing in Strixhaven and our DM added Abraham and Paddles to the npc casting. Abraham is one of the professors and there’s another who’s a reaper and also a professor. every time Abraham dies the other professor runs out of his class with his scythe and then comes back a few seconds later despondent when Abraham is successfully revived. It’s pretty great!
As I watch more and more campaign videos with Brennan and Aabria, I am finding that regardless of who else is at the table, if those 2 are together, everything from start to finish is just going to be glorious chaos
@@dark_neverland when you can it's worth it (and doesnt tie you into a subscription length, so can stop and start it as funds allow-which is what I've been doing) a court of fey and flowers is also a good Dimension 20 with Aabria GMing and Brennan playing
More real play shows need to take a cue from Carlos editing wise. This was like we skipped the original ep and went straight to the "D&D Strixhaven being chaotic for two hours and fifty-three minutes" fan video, and I'm so here for that. I genuinely would love to see a whole season of this
"If I can be my own patron, you can be your own union" I don't know why, but that made me laugh way too much. Also - absolutely the energy I need for 2023.
as a grown man who went through continuing ed at a big ten uni, I love the old weird guy representation of Abraham; we love you my old weird virgin, way to lift up the little guys and advocate for unionization rights!
Aabria always seems so well put together in the games she DMs. Watching her and the PCs be unhinged and feral is kinda nice. It gives me hope for myself and my players
In the latter part of the first exu series she dm'd for critical role the chaos of the cast draws her in, and it's a great way to see that process shift.
Aabria just casting Polymorph irl to become Lou Wilson for like 20 minutes as Tulk is incredible. I loved these Strixhaven games, amazing crew and cast and amazing job on the edit Carlos!
Brennan has an amazing ability to craft characters that are fun to watch, must be fun to play, is completely capable of carrying the game but bows out to either do something awesome for another player or to kill the audience with his in character jokes. I legitimately almost fell out of my chair when Abraham said very sweet and quietly please kill me
Every time Brennan and Aabria are in a game together, it's like Brennan takes it as a personal challenge to be the most chaotic lump of chaos he can possibly be 😂
Brennan is chaotic enough on his own, but somehow, whenever he and Aabria are in the same game, the chaos threshold becomes surpassed by so much that it collapses into a chaotic black hole of chaos.
@@chefjustin18ify I can't. My brain begins to consider such absolute insanity, and then immediately shuts down to protect myself from full mental implosion.
“I don’t know if I would call you a virgin after what’s happened here right before my very eyes.” Well there is a reason the French call it la petite mort.
Never has a face been more relatable than the fraction of a second we see Brendan's face (a loooong term DM) being able to ask another DM "what's your name" to a rando NPC.
As soon as Brennan mentioned Digimon, I was disappointed that Karina from Drawfee wasn't present because she would be hype as hell that he'd brought it up
Not gonna lie I had no intention of watching this in its entirety, but I am five minutes in and I can’t imagine not finishing this chaotic mess right now.
@@rhondacumbo7356 Ii wouldn't even wish that on basic lands, since they end up in most decks anyway. I was hoping they were the kind of trash commons you get in most booster packs, the ones that would only ever find play in a "fun" deck.
I suggest watching The unleashed if you like Aabria's style, it was a show she did during the start of the pandemic with cast members from her other show Kollok 1991
And this is why I like Aabria so much as a DM, she uses the rules to tell the narrative instead of forcing the narrative into the DnD ruleset. If the DnD Rules doesn't facilitate the narrative, she kicks it to the curve. She puts narrative and collaborating story first and rules second and that's the DM style I love. Great session today.
If you like this kind of DM'ing, try the Dungeon World RPG! Its a much simpler system with less focus on rules and more on collaborative storytelling. I think it sucks that D&D gets all the attention when there are so many good rpg systems out there that would fit people playstyles so much better.
@@BlueMadness666666 Why would you think the attention D&D gets sucks when it its popularity is largely responsible for the tabletop rpg revolution of the last decade? I mean I like Dungeon World just fine, but it's not hard to understand that its greater reliance on freeform roleplay feels less like a game and more like narrative contrivance, i.e. making anything up. Most people like having clearly defined actions and abilities so they know the limit of what they can and can't do, as opposed to having choice overload when those things are left vague and undefined.
Preliminary timestamps 0:05 welcome 0:25 cast intros 3:10 back to Aabria; fundraising info 3:49 Unlocking daddy ending option 4:50 Zaddies, 5:12 Digvolve 5:55 Welcome to Strixhaven, 6:33 picking a college 7:31 the commons 9:16 Citizen Dr’s description, 10:46 Sigrid’s description, 11:42 Conflagra’s description, 12:51 Ruby Bega’s description 14:01 Minna Lee, 15:14 Alina, 15:47 What did you do?!, 16:15 deception check, 17:00 enthralling performance, 18:05 tucked in tight, 18:48 history check, 19:25 detect thoughts, 21:10 old draconic, 21:54 Augusta; headmaster of Lorehold 23:37 Sigrid try’s to smooth things over, 25:59 team huddle, 26:51 coffee update, 27:12 Bodyrolls, Dr Citizen thoughts on the fire & puddles 29:26 bardic inspiration & helping recall the old draconic 32:59 lorehold investigative students 33:31 the Dean of Order, 35:34 evidence? 36:45 invisible servant fetching Coffee, 37:43 how old are you? 38:12 npc switch & Dr Citizens thoughts on the draconic voice 39:40 root vegetable divination 41:50 love is in the air 42:29 the center of the blast 43:28 the undead rutabagas; undead representation 44:12 a piece of shrapnel, 45:16 keen mind 47:40 Citizen Dr & Paddles use past lives, 50:40 the oracle, the creation of this world, the center of Strixhaven 53:52 The egg cup, 55:53 Draconic 57:06 Sigrid & murder 57:22 Rudy collects evidence, & 2 routes, 58:13 focal points? 59:35 Captain “Daddy” wing 1:00:16 distractions, Buffalo change, Owlin saying 1:02:33 “I hate Strixhaven” 1:03:27 Strixhaven stadium, 1:04:17 tap performance 1:05:28 Zanther Bowen 1:08:16 a rumor ( it’s a magic card), 1:08:45 opposed to the sharing of knowledge, 1:09:47 Rudy is jealous 1:11:46 “Boo knowledge”, 1:11:54 Body rolls & an amazing wing woman 1:12:50 an old virgin, 1:13:28 just best friends, 1:14:10 Tulk the bulk, 1:15:26 Your friends dead 1:16:44 FF 7 theme & paddles, 1:18:05 “haaaaaaate the founders!” 1:19:01 not a virgin?, 1:19:25 a warning, 1:20:09 dying is like pooping, 1:21:17 the carrot, 1:22:05 Prof of Quandrix, 1:23:47 a bear that does math 1:25:39 A P in the chat 1:26:46 hold person fades 1:27:38 Perception check 1:29:11 Break/ Becca beatboxing 1:29:54 back from break, mage hunters, 1:30:52 parsnip Fire bolt, 1:32:35 burning hands, 1:33:50 rebounded, 1:34:32 Sigrid is slashed, 1:36:38 Shuffle ball change, 1:38:04 slashing Conflagra, 1:39:52 poofy pants, 1:40:22 form of dread, Ray of sickness, 1:43:39 Cure wounds, 1:46:13 guiding bolt, 1:48:20 hellish rebuke & intimidation, 1:50:23 lack of curiosity & awe from the onlookers, 1:51:36 opportunity attack, 1:52:56 thunderwave, 1:53:59 rebound, 1:54:59 bolting, silvery barbs, 1:58:23 Daddy pick me up, 2:00:31 ray of sickness, 2:02:11 Tulk casts greater healing, 2:03:29 beast bond, 2:05:57 an ancient blue dragon, 2:07:55 Sembarca, 2:08:53 Conflagra & Sigrid elaborate 2:09:33 Abraham is cradled 2:08:16 next steps, 2:11:23 Jeffie jam, riding Muffie, 2:12:33 the potato was inside you the whole time, 2:13:35 the campus & choices, 2:15:12 sending, 2:17:21 attention everyone! 2:18:38 paddles, 2:23:41 Abraham meets Rufus, 2:25:38 chatting about Winthrick, 2:27:16 Abraham’s possible college pick, 2:29:00 Muffie harvesting 2:30:52 Druidcrafting root vegtables, 2:32:17 moonster energy drink, 2:33:32 two possible vectors, 2:35:50 entering the stadium, 2:36:12 ancient dragons in hiding! 2:40:12 5 mundane humans, 2:42:14 Rudy & Conflagra, 2:43:39 bag of potatos, 2:47:56 Sigrid, 2:45:46 Abraham & Paddles, 2:50:44 Credits, Sembarca is our bitch, spirals
@@carlosluna309 sure! I also recently did timestamps for thatBronzegirl’s call of Cthulhu one shot on roll20. So if you like you could put those timestamps in the description as well.
I love when Aabria makes the PCs make trades for things that would otherwise be impossible. Beastbond would never work, they're not even beasts... But then she ignores that, focuses on the INT, and then creates this INCREDIBLE moment... for [rules lawyers] like me, it really pushes me to grow as a player & DM... LOVE IT
No one gonna talk about the absolute CHAOS of Brennan just throwing out a Junji Ito reference in the end without knowing what it is??? Also RIP Becca and Mica for peering into the abyss PSA: The Spiral, or Uzumaki is a Japanese horror comic by Junji Ito (who is kinda known for the genre) that is REALLY popular for crazies into that stuff (it’s me. I’m crazies)
I love Brennan so much. He is the kind of player and GM that I resonate with. Aabria is also way up there. She is a true fan of the malleable Storyteller.
"No one doesn't not do magic all the time.." Thank you for this quote, Aabria! I know I'm overjoyed to live in a world where 'no one doesn't not' play d&d all the time :)
Lmao "are you a secret dragon" really felt like "are you secretly in drag" 😂😂 I loved that "Please come help... Senbarca" glad that didn't get misconstrued lmfao
2:40:40 and onward gives me absolute chills Aabria's storytelling style is so well honed and her focus on creating atmosphere is intensely moving. I love when DM's can do good voices and make clever puzzles, but there is something separate and glorious in being able to cut to the heart of your PCs and make the moment land. Her word choice and honor to the narrative is something I deeply admire as a budding DM. Aabria has a direct line to both my tear ducts and deepest belly laughs. Thank you for making this and major props to the editing and sound design. I mean this with the utmost respect: I'm lifting some of this for my own future Strixhaven game.
The intro to this game is some crazy energy… i was not prepared nor aware of how much I needed Booger Lee Mulligan singing the digimon theme song in baritone
Thoroughly enjoying the edits, especially the closeups for comedic value they always make me laugh! The set is really chill too love having the map behind aabria!
I've been hunting this down since I missed the live event, SO GLAD IT'S HERE, thank lawd for the christmas miracle of the daddy ending. Everyone was so great, I could watch a whole campaign of the shenanigans happening with this cast.
God damn it... just when I thought Evan Kelmp was my favorite character, Brennan brings out another weird and amazing creation. How the hell does he do that?!
I think "Kelmp" put a terrible idea in Brennan's brain about what his characters' names should sound like, and now he's a monster and he needs therapy to get it out 😂 "Merhermblur" though? 😂 The whole Sending moment really gave me Critical Role Jester/Travis vibes, and all I could think was, "....are you pooping?" 😂
What a wonderful table and a fun energy at the table. Always a pleasure to see Aabria DMing, Becca, Brennan, Mica and Danny make a fantastic cast! What a great gift from Roll20 and for such a good cause!
Now I really want to see a crossover/tournament arc with Misfits and Magic and/or Arther Aguefort’s Adventuring Academy like a tri-wizard school tournament. Or even whatever magical academy equivalent that can be found in Exandria Unlimited (honestly the chaos birthed by EXU’s Opal, and any PC created by Emily and Brendan as Evan, Abraham, or any of his various NPC’s) needs to happen at some point. Maybe bring in Laura Bailey or Sam Reigel for additional M9/VM cameos and make it a proper bracketed PvP tournament with level adjusted Jester or Scanlan.
The most realistic/relatable part of this is when they spent a good 5 minutes agonizing over the best way to phrase an email to their professor only to immediately get a casual two-word, information-free phatic response.
TOO REAL
I have been on both sides of this and it is awesome and awful
I recently received an email that literally said "polite stuff", a single sentence with a request, then "more polite stuff". My email to her was several hundred words.
@@duckdudette I'm sorry, but if I got that email I would burn the school. That's so disrespectful. Like, I know you don't, but at least pretend to care that another human being is gonna recieve that email.
@@trinifernandez8870 You're one of them real sensitive types. Maybe people don't have enough time to waste on niceties that get ignored anyway?
If i had a penny for every time Aabria has run a TTRPG game for Brennan in a magical school where he plays a dark wizard with an unpronounceable name, I'd have two pennies which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
I wonder how Kelmp would react to Merhermbler. I see a best friendship in the works
Evan would probably freak out and be like "oh no this is my future"
neither of them are wizards i dont think
I know of at least 3 TTRPG's where Aabria runs a magic school game. It's kind of like the DM version of a typecast or something lol
Technically three now lol
And here I thought Brennan could never come up with another name as funny as "Kelmp"
I will definitely be adding "merhermbler" to my names list lol
I mean... it's the same dude that came up with Fethrethriel and looked straight into the camera to proclaim that "Bim" was short for "Bimothy" x)
Don't ever tell Brennan he's made a mistake in D&D: he will only take that as a challenge to double down 😂
Why?
Why?
Why would you think that?
@@IceMetalPunk and then tell you to get in the comments
"I promise to kill you later."
"You're a good friend"
This is too good
Love that Brennan's half-dead old man warlock character is only 34 🤣
"I know, I look great for my age."
"No! You don't!"
He looks like he forgot an extra 0
Maybe he’s only counting the time he’s been alive?
@@GusCraft460 😂😂 good theory that would explain a lot
For anyone who has read In The Company of Ogres, his character is basically Never-Dead Ned, which is hilarious
I love how Brennan throws out like five options for Abraham Mehermblur's title and when Aabria calls out "citizen doctor" and laughs at it, he locks in
Muhurmblur actively seeking death making all the enemies super uncomfortable is probably the biggest DnD power move I’ve ever seen.
Yeah, having that vibe makes friends uncomfortable too (at least in my experience)
It's on par with Jaiden weaponizing Depression
@@TheQuashingoftheTubI have no idea what you are referencing, but the character(?) sounds like something I'd be interested in. Can you tell me what you mean by that?
@@merri_spiderly6017UA-camrs JaidenAnimations, Ranboo, and Alpharad played a oneshot dmed by Charlie Slimecicle of Just Roll With It fame. In it, JaidenAnimation's character, a black dragonborn warlock named Zoot pretends to be the BBEG's deceased wife and lures him in. The BBEG breaks down crying in Zoot's arms and then Jaiden straight up uses her Breath Attack on him point blank
"There is only one bear in this campus" Aabria, you can't go promising a Daddy ending when there's only one bear in campus.
They would probably have to be king bear.
There can be only one literal bear and still be plenty of people who could be in the category of “bear”.
Strixhaven as a magic the gathering set does have two cards that are bears that are professors, one’s just a generic professor of Zoomancy the other is actually a named character named Ruxa
@@mwil2495 King Daddy Werebear?
There's only one bear now cause Evan Kelmp likely killed the other bears
"Just because it feels good doesn't mean it's sex" - Undead scientist man
Considering events in the current Dimension 20 campaign this is especially funny
Debatable
@@flask223 clearly you haven't taken a really big dump after having to hold it in
citizen doctor!
@@diegomorones-castillo2225 thats just backwards sex
While I completely love their group name, i feel like "dead hot chili feathers" was a missed oportunity (?
Very underrated comment, I love this so much 😂
The content warnings for this are so fucking funny because you read the 'suicide' 'self-harm' 'body horror' mixed with the 'sexual themes' 'comedic death' and you're like 'what the fuck is going on here' and then its just mehermblur running headfirst into the nearest opportunity for death as fast as his little undead legs can carry him while everyone else is too busy being horny in the bg to get anything done efficiently
I love that Brennan's character voice for this is just undead Gilear Faeth.
When one thinks it over, is yoghurt not merely undead milk?
@@mixmastermind this comment deserves more likes
Could Gilear be one of his reincarnation?
Really? The only thing I could think of when listening to him was of how similar Abraham was to Arthur Aegfot
Mad scientist necromancer who constantly kills himself and is still less depressing than Gilear
Bro, Brennan singing the Digimon theme is something I wasn't aware I needed lmao
Digimon got referenced to much behind the scenes
Do you see the links for the charity they are talking about?
I saw links in the Gmail i got from roll20 that led me to the video
Chaaaange into digi tull cham pyuns tooooo save the digi tul WHURL
I read this before watching and thought he would sing "Butterfly"...
Brennen so firmly embodies, "There is no vanity in comedy" I just love how he is never afraid to be weird or gross or look insane.
Not surprising from Brennan "There is no corner of my heart I would not turn over for 5 points" Mulligan. He's not scared of using literally any part of himself to make a bit land, it's inspired.
He’s a feral king.
Some of us D&D nerds are becons of perfection, glowing like a lighthouse of purity.
Brenan represents the rest of us. The sweaty troglodytes. The ever hungry trolls. The pasty undead. We can pretend to be a brilliant lord or a lady all we want but we aren't at home roleplaying until we snort wipe our snotty nose on our arm as a 12 year old.
@@kredonystus7768 He hungers. Hungers for almonds, ethics, and storytelling. We also hunger and we too wish for a second mouth so we may speak and eat nachos simultaneously..
How about Becca's ".....Snnnnaaaarrrlllllll Eaterrrrrrrr"
There is no more relatable DM move then screaming, "everyone Shut up! I'm trying to start the game!," at the party
So if Abraham's life flashes before his eyes every time he dies, wouldn't that mean his previous deaths flash before his eyes too? If so, do those previous flashes also flash before his eyes? If so, then he's fucking right about being reborn bringing knowledge and enlightenment. Every time he dies, the amount of lifetimes he's lived grows exponentially. After dying 10 times, he'll have lived 65 full life times.
holy fucking shit.
oooooo
maybe... maybe that's why he looks so old?
The time between deaths aren't super long, so it wouldn't be full lives, he's in his mid 30's, so he'd probably only have "lived" for a few hundred years if he's died 10 times.
@@hopelesslydull7588 My guess is that time flows differently inside The In-between realm of death. Or at least that makes sense in my mind
"The potato was inside you the whole time." - Brennan Lee Mulligan
As a Ukrainian, I felt that.
Ukrainians unite!
Oof sorry man
That sounds like some ones kink for sure
Hope you're safe. Potato power!
Glory to Ukraine
I like the fact that brennan's character in this somehow has a lower AC than Gilear does in fantasy high lmao just shows how badly he wants to die.
This was the most realistic beginning of a dnd session I've ever seen. 6 minutes of straight chaotic bullshit that delighted me to the very core. VERY excited about this group- and this game!!!
They would have never started the game if the camera's weren't there ha
It could only be more realistic if it took 2 hours to start the game lmao
"Everyone shut up I'm trying to start the game!"
🤣
Does anyone know what she said that was bleeped?
@@elguapo1690 I also wanna know!
I must know what heinous daddy description she gave to voluntarily yest herself
I need Brennan to be a player more, dear God please, I love how all out he goes on his characters
I liked his appearance in the 6 episodes for dndbeyond
Does the name Evan Kelmp ring a bell? "These next 3 minutes are going to be very important for you..." I love seeing him as a player almost as much as a DM.
@@TSGypside Evan Kelmp...that name just takes your whole mouth to say.
@@TSGypside when I noticed the premisse was that of a magical academy, I half expected him to replay Evan just to mess with Aabria
@@daniellins4114 I was hoping he would. You can tell he loves messing with whoever is DM'ing a game he plays. It's his little taste of being on the other side of the screen. He's going to enjoy himself.
So my friends and I are playing in Strixhaven and our DM added Abraham and Paddles to the npc casting. Abraham is one of the professors and there’s another who’s a reaper and also a professor. every time Abraham dies the other professor runs out of his class with his scythe and then comes back a few seconds later despondent when Abraham is successfully revived. It’s pretty great!
As I watch more and more campaign videos with Brennan and Aabria, I am finding that regardless of who else is at the table, if those 2 are together, everything from start to finish is just going to be glorious chaos
have you seen “The Seven” from Dimension 20? brilliant chaos & comedy & drama
@@MorganBondelid not yet because i can't currently afford a dropout tv sub
@@dark_neverland when you can it's worth it (and doesnt tie you into a subscription length, so can stop and start it as funds allow-which is what I've been doing) a court of fey and flowers is also a good Dimension 20 with Aabria GMing and Brennan playing
@@carliegriffiths6290 I also want to add Misfits and Magic, also on Dropout!
Aabria has mastered the skill of sculpting brennans magic chaos into some bizarre borderline orderly art
More real play shows need to take a cue from Carlos editing wise. This was like we skipped the original ep and went straight to the "D&D Strixhaven being chaotic for two hours and fifty-three minutes" fan video, and I'm so here for that. I genuinely would love to see a whole season of this
the editing and effects are brilliant 💝✨🌟
they add so much and don't overshadow the players
"If I can be my own patron, you can be your own union"
I don't know why, but that made me laugh way too much. Also - absolutely the energy I need for 2023.
“Are you a secret dragon” is the new “when I was backpacking across Western Europe”
Blue Dragonborn is the new Ken Adams😂
as a grown man who went through continuing ed at a big ten uni, I love the old weird guy representation of Abraham; we love you my old weird virgin, way to lift up the little guys and advocate for unionization rights!
Aabria always seems so well put together in the games she DMs. Watching her and the PCs be unhinged and feral is kinda nice. It gives me hope for myself and my players
In the latter part of the first exu series she dm'd for critical role the chaos of the cast draws her in, and it's a great way to see that process shift.
The little drawing of Aabria after introductions is amazing.
That might have been my favorite part, the expression on the drawn face was perfection 😂
Abraham sure is the healthiest boy hp-wise for the man who is consistently the Most Not Okay
Aabria just casting Polymorph irl to become Lou Wilson for like 20 minutes as Tulk is incredible. I loved these Strixhaven games, amazing crew and cast and amazing job on the edit Carlos!
Also, it kills me that 4/6 content warnings in the intro are DEFINITELY because of Brennan's character.
Brennan continuing his tradition of naming his character to make Aabria, specifically, lose her shit
I never knew how much I needed Brennan and Mica in a game together.
Their respective chaotic energies mix so well.
Aabria's imp voice is top notch! And I love the root vegetable detect magic scrying.
Brennan literally steals the show of every game he's in! How is he so insanely funny?
Stand up.
@@aFoolsMartyr All his improv work made him great at stand up as well
If you aren't a dropout subscriber, then you've missed K. P. Hobb, where the K. P. stands for Knickolas Pnackolas (the k and the p are both silent).
@@Tacobell1384 Umm, Actually, it's Knickolas Pnackleless Hob (according to the D20 wiki)
@@Z3DT fair but my comment was made before the wiki article was
Brennan as a player is always a rare and tasty treat, but man, what a table.
This is the greatest first 6 minutes of a D&D livestream ever.
💯
Seriously is there any way they could just like loop the first 6 minutes of this for like 10 hours
🔥💥🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃
There’s so much raw, wonderful chaos.
Brennan has an amazing ability to craft characters that are fun to watch, must be fun to play, is completely capable of carrying the game but bows out to either do something awesome for another player or to kill the audience with his in character jokes.
I legitimately almost fell out of my chair when Abraham said very sweet and quietly please kill me
Why is it when Brennan makes a character in an Aabria game, he always has a mouthful of a surname? First it's Kelmp, now it's Mehermblur?!
The second he dropped his characters name the whole game fell apart.
@@carlosluna309 the Daddy Ending tease sure as hell didn't help get the train get back on the rails. I suspect the outtakes were just utter chaos?
Somehow Mehermblur rolls off the tongue better than Kelmp. 🤣
@@ryper9167 yep Kelp is just all tongue
Every time Brennan and Aabria are in a game together, it's like Brennan takes it as a personal challenge to be the most chaotic lump of chaos he can possibly be 😂
Imagine Abraham meeting Laudna... the creepy hilarious possibilities 🤣 😆 😂
"So, how many times have you died?" "Just once, I think..." "Oh... Paddles, maybe don't write that down." "Paddles?! Oh, lovely, he should meet Pate!"
@@IceMetalPunk omg I forgot about Patė and Paddles! I love it!
"Who did you pact with?" "The most powerful being beyond the veil I could find...MYSELF!"
@@Notbatman374 "That sounds a lot better than D, actually... I wonder if I can do some sort of patron exchange program?"
Real talk: Could Paddles animate Pâté?
I think this is the most chaotic actual play table I've ever seen, and I'm only 5 minutes in.
*I love it*
Brennan is chaotic enough on his own, but somehow, whenever he and Aabria are in the same game, the chaos threshold becomes surpassed by so much that it collapses into a chaotic black hole of chaos.
I made 3:38 before realizing how chaotic this will be.
Imagine brennen, abria, and sam riegal all at the same table
@@chefjustin18ify I can't. My brain begins to consider such absolute insanity, and then immediately shuts down to protect myself from full mental implosion.
Brennan's new Dimension 20 game is OVERFLOWING with incredible chaos. I can't wait for every Thursday when the new episodes drop.
I love when Brennan plays in a game ... things go off the rails pretty quickly, generally even before the game starts.
It’s the power of the Lee Mulligan.
“I don’t know if I would call you a virgin after what’s happened here right before my very eyes.” Well there is a reason the French call it la petite mort.
This! This here, is peak dnd content. Clearly a cast that NEEDS more episodes
I second this!
@@armando7682 Third!
The chucklefuckery is amazing
did you catch the second episode?
love that they gave aabria character art too
Never has a face been more relatable than the fraction of a second we see Brendan's face (a loooong term DM) being able to ask another DM "what's your name" to a rando NPC.
I love how they are suspected of setting the cafe on fire and they start the combat against the Mage hunters by flinging fire spells
Right? Terrible optics
Brennan, you cant just play Arthur Augefort as a character, he's...
Oh shit he is 🤣
As soon as Brennan mentioned Digimon, I was disappointed that Karina from Drawfee wasn't present because she would be hype as hell that he'd brought it up
" Nope I would rather die" that had me laughing my ass off.
"You can tell meee, I'm also a dragon~"
I'm dead.
Not gonna lie I had no intention of watching this in its entirety, but I am five minutes in and I can’t imagine not finishing this chaotic mess right now.
I could just watch them talk FOREVER
@@carlosluna309 do you have clips of them being ridiculous that you have saved for days when you need cheering up?
@@Daxthemonk I think we need some behind the scenes or outtakes videos…
The return of awful last names in Brennan’s characters, we had kelmp, now welcome mehermbler
And Hob
@@humphrke Captain K.P
Hob is a fantastic name, fight me
@@curtisholsinger6023 knickolas pnackleless sounds like a bunch of marbles in your mouth
Becca's yelp as those MtG cards went flying through the air. My only thought was "I sure hope those were all commons"
Me too!
That's a lotta Moxen!
My thought was that those had better be basic lands.
@@rhondacumbo7356 Ii wouldn't even wish that on basic lands, since they end up in most decks anyway. I was hoping they were the kind of trash commons you get in most booster packs, the ones that would only ever find play in a "fun" deck.
They're all Providences
I'm loving Mica and oh my gosh I didn't realize how much I missed Aabria's DMing since ExU!!
if you haven't seen Misfits & Magic, you're gonna wanna get on that ;)
Same!! It’s so lovely to see her style of total immersion plus playful antagonism with the players
I suggest watching The unleashed if you like Aabria's style, it was a show she did during the start of the pandemic with cast members from her other show Kollok 1991
A Court of Fey and Flowers. Aabria's best work, best reason to subscribe to Dropout :)
And this is why I like Aabria so much as a DM, she uses the rules to tell the narrative instead of forcing the narrative into the DnD ruleset. If the DnD Rules doesn't facilitate the narrative, she kicks it to the curve. She puts narrative and collaborating story first and rules second and that's the DM style I love. Great session today.
If you like this kind of DM'ing, try the Dungeon World RPG! Its a much simpler system with less focus on rules and more on collaborative storytelling. I think it sucks that D&D gets all the attention when there are so many good rpg systems out there that would fit people playstyles so much better.
curb
@@BlueMadness666666 Why would you think the attention D&D gets sucks when it its popularity is largely responsible for the tabletop rpg revolution of the last decade?
I mean I like Dungeon World just fine, but it's not hard to understand that its greater reliance on freeform roleplay feels less like a game and more like narrative contrivance, i.e. making anything up. Most people like having clearly defined actions and abilities so they know the limit of what they can and can't do, as opposed to having choice overload when those things are left vague and undefined.
It feels like she laces the rule of cool In her stories
I stand with Brennan and the dozen or so others who still love and remember Digimon 😂
I shall be stranded with you.
Digi brothers and sisters stand together
Cue Dunkey voice - "I don't give a FUCKabout the Digimon franchiiise."
Apparently there's at least a hundred of us, and that's very gratifying.
There are dozens of us!!
Preliminary timestamps
0:05 welcome
0:25 cast intros
3:10 back to Aabria; fundraising info
3:49 Unlocking daddy ending option
4:50 Zaddies, 5:12 Digvolve
5:55 Welcome to Strixhaven, 6:33 picking a college
7:31 the commons
9:16 Citizen Dr’s description, 10:46 Sigrid’s description, 11:42 Conflagra’s description, 12:51 Ruby Bega’s description
14:01 Minna Lee, 15:14 Alina,
15:47 What did you do?!, 16:15 deception check, 17:00 enthralling performance, 18:05 tucked in tight, 18:48 history check, 19:25 detect thoughts, 21:10 old draconic, 21:54 Augusta; headmaster of Lorehold
23:37 Sigrid try’s to smooth things over, 25:59 team huddle, 26:51 coffee update,
27:12 Bodyrolls, Dr Citizen thoughts on the fire & puddles
29:26 bardic inspiration & helping recall the old draconic
32:59 lorehold investigative students
33:31 the Dean of Order, 35:34 evidence?
36:45 invisible servant fetching Coffee, 37:43 how old are you?
38:12 npc switch & Dr Citizens thoughts on the draconic voice
39:40 root vegetable divination
41:50 love is in the air
42:29 the center of the blast
43:28 the undead rutabagas; undead representation
44:12 a piece of shrapnel, 45:16 keen mind
47:40 Citizen Dr & Paddles use past lives, 50:40 the oracle, the creation of this world, the center of Strixhaven
53:52 The egg cup, 55:53 Draconic
57:06 Sigrid & murder
57:22 Rudy collects evidence, & 2 routes, 58:13 focal points?
59:35 Captain “Daddy” wing
1:00:16 distractions, Buffalo change, Owlin saying
1:02:33 “I hate Strixhaven”
1:03:27 Strixhaven stadium, 1:04:17 tap performance
1:05:28 Zanther Bowen
1:08:16 a rumor ( it’s a magic card), 1:08:45 opposed to the sharing of knowledge, 1:09:47 Rudy is jealous
1:11:46 “Boo knowledge”, 1:11:54 Body rolls & an amazing wing woman
1:12:50 an old virgin, 1:13:28 just best friends,
1:14:10 Tulk the bulk, 1:15:26 Your friends dead
1:16:44 FF 7 theme & paddles, 1:18:05 “haaaaaaate the founders!”
1:19:01 not a virgin?, 1:19:25 a warning, 1:20:09 dying is like pooping, 1:21:17 the carrot,
1:22:05 Prof of Quandrix, 1:23:47 a bear that does math
1:25:39 A P in the chat
1:26:46 hold person fades
1:27:38 Perception check
1:29:11 Break/ Becca beatboxing
1:29:54 back from break, mage hunters, 1:30:52 parsnip Fire bolt, 1:32:35 burning hands, 1:33:50 rebounded, 1:34:32 Sigrid is slashed, 1:36:38 Shuffle ball change, 1:38:04 slashing Conflagra, 1:39:52 poofy pants, 1:40:22 form of dread, Ray of sickness, 1:43:39 Cure wounds, 1:46:13 guiding bolt, 1:48:20 hellish rebuke & intimidation, 1:50:23 lack of curiosity & awe from the onlookers, 1:51:36 opportunity attack, 1:52:56 thunderwave, 1:53:59 rebound, 1:54:59 bolting, silvery barbs, 1:58:23 Daddy pick me up, 2:00:31 ray of sickness, 2:02:11 Tulk casts greater healing, 2:03:29 beast bond, 2:05:57 an ancient blue dragon, 2:07:55 Sembarca, 2:08:53 Conflagra & Sigrid elaborate
2:09:33 Abraham is cradled
2:08:16 next steps, 2:11:23 Jeffie jam, riding Muffie, 2:12:33 the potato was inside you the whole time, 2:13:35 the campus & choices, 2:15:12 sending, 2:17:21 attention everyone! 2:18:38 paddles,
2:23:41 Abraham meets Rufus, 2:25:38 chatting about Winthrick, 2:27:16 Abraham’s possible college pick, 2:29:00 Muffie harvesting
2:30:52 Druidcrafting root vegtables, 2:32:17 moonster energy drink, 2:33:32 two possible vectors,
2:35:50 entering the stadium, 2:36:12 ancient dragons in hiding! 2:40:12 5 mundane humans, 2:42:14 Rudy & Conflagra, 2:43:39 bag of potatos, 2:47:56 Sigrid, 2:45:46 Abraham & Paddles, 2:50:44 Credits, Sembarca is our bitch, spirals
@liquidfranz This is incredible! Do you mind if I put these in the description and credit you?
@@carlosluna309 sure! I also recently did timestamps for thatBronzegirl’s call of Cthulhu one shot on roll20. So if you like you could put those timestamps in the description as well.
Thank you! That first 5 minutes was an absolute drag.
2:13:05 The potato was inside you the whole time.
@@EggoPop 🤨
I love when Aabria makes the PCs make trades for things that would otherwise be impossible. Beastbond would never work, they're not even beasts... But then she ignores that, focuses on the INT, and then creates this INCREDIBLE moment... for [rules lawyers] like me, it really pushes me to grow as a player & DM... LOVE IT
No one gonna talk about the absolute CHAOS of Brennan just throwing out a Junji Ito reference in the end without knowing what it is??? Also RIP Becca and Mica for peering into the abyss
PSA: The Spiral, or Uzumaki is a Japanese horror comic by Junji Ito (who is kinda known for the genre) that is REALLY popular for crazies into that stuff (it’s me. I’m crazies)
It's gonna be great to see him delve into that. He already has his weird bird facts.
Oh gosh thank you I missed the reference and the subtitles didn't help!
Only ever read the fault lines one and I’m good
Its honestly impressive that the crew automatically assumed he knew. He roleplayed enough that they just assumed he knew.
Can you give me a cryptic explanation of the plot that will intrigue me into reading it?
I'm gonna make Citizen Doctor Murhermblur a NPC in my Strixhaven campaign.
Why just Stryxhaven?
@@laoxep valid point.
I love Brennan so much. He is the kind of player and GM that I resonate with. Aabria is also way up there. She is a true fan of the malleable Storyteller.
love that Brennan is trying to find a true dragon while in an illusion which is pointless as dragons have true sight and see through illusions
I absolutely NEED Aabria and Brennan to be at a table together always
Cut to, one year later: "my friend, have you discovered Worlds Beyond Number yet?"
"No one doesn't not do magic all the time.." Thank you for this quote, Aabria! I know I'm overjoyed to live in a world where 'no one doesn't not' play d&d all the time :)
The VERY last second, they caught him. GUILTY!
"Brennan's eating! Brennan's eating brennan's eating Brennan's eating!"
obviously an OOC action for his meta-race
I’m glad that Brennan gets more opportunities to be a player nowadays
Lmao "are you a secret dragon" really felt like "are you secretly in drag" 😂😂 I loved that
"Please come help... Senbarca" glad that didn't get misconstrued lmfao
Given the amount of stuff they let fly, I am DYING to know what they had to censor.
2:40:40 and onward gives me absolute chills
Aabria's storytelling style is so well honed and her focus on creating atmosphere is intensely moving.
I love when DM's can do good voices and make clever puzzles, but there is something separate and glorious in being able to cut to the heart of your PCs and make the moment land.
Her word choice and honor to the narrative is something I deeply admire as a budding DM. Aabria has a direct line to both my tear ducts and deepest belly laughs.
Thank you for making this and major props to the editing and sound design.
I mean this with the utmost respect: I'm lifting some of this for my own future Strixhaven game.
She kills it
Wait what did Aabria actually say under those bleeps I need to know 😂😂
The intro to this game is some crazy energy… i was not prepared nor aware of how much I needed Booger Lee Mulligan singing the digimon theme song in baritone
Man, every time you put GMs into a game, they blow the doors off.
After this and Misfits, I can’t wait for a game when things are reversed and Aabria gets to PC in one of Brennan’s games
The Seven - fantasy high spin-off has Aabria as a player with Brennan DM
And now the wonderful trip of EXU Calamity
and dimension 20's leviathan!!! aabria has played in a lot of brennan's stuff!!!!!
Thoroughly enjoying the edits, especially the closeups for comedic value they always make me laugh! The set is really chill too love having the map behind aabria!
The 1st 6 minutes of this one shot is worth every donation. And it only gets better after that.
This feels like Arthur Aegfort the early years
Not even 5 minutes into this, and I'm already loving the chaos emanating from everyone at this table
The last second of this video is everything.
Cheese!
It's a beautiful thing, watching Aabria Iyengar tell a story. Damn
This was all very good, but honestly the unison yell of "NO ONE KNOWS DIGIMON!!" really set the tone early on.
I've been hunting this down since I missed the live event, SO GLAD IT'S HERE, thank lawd for the christmas miracle of the daddy ending.
Everyone was so great, I could watch a whole campaign of the shenanigans happening with this cast.
The "Guilty" on Brennan at the very very very end made me cry laughing
Brennan was sneaking food during the game, and I saw that clip in post and didn't know what to do with it, so I used it as the end credit sign off lol
Shout out the editors cause they were having some fun with this one
"Stage fright is the mind killer" - Becca Scott
Okay, 1000% won me over with Digimon. Brennan is now my new favorite person.
Aabria’s voices are as amazing as ever! Paddles!
Brennan may be Mr. Bird Facts, but Aabria is Queen of Pi
God damn it... just when I thought Evan Kelmp was my favorite character, Brennan brings out another weird and amazing creation. How the hell does he do that?!
The most incredible name they spelled it on screen
I think "Kelmp" put a terrible idea in Brennan's brain about what his characters' names should sound like, and now he's a monster and he needs therapy to get it out 😂 "Merhermblur" though? 😂
The whole Sending moment really gave me Critical Role Jester/Travis vibes, and all I could think was, "....are you pooping?" 😂
Yes! I was wondering if someone else caught that, lol. 😂😂😂
This combo of ppl is the sweet spot and dream team of chaotic greatness. I especially love the combo of Aabria + Becca + Brennan.
“I’m not hitting on you I’m an old virgin.”
I don’t know what that means but it sure worked.
I’m 100% putting in Abraham as one of my NPC teachers for the Strixhaven campaign I’m going to run
“Grandfather of necrotics” “his own patron” paddles as a TA, so much to work with 👌
Youthful students and their Citizen Doctor friend taking a sabbatical at Strixhaven.
What a wonderful table and a fun energy at the table. Always a pleasure to see Aabria DMing, Becca, Brennan, Mica and Danny make a fantastic cast! What a great gift from Roll20 and for such a good cause!
Not even 3 and a half minutes in and it's already enough chaos for a whole week. I've been waiting soooo long for this video.
Why is brennen holding that pencil like if all 5 finger tips aren't touching it its going to fly away?
Also I love all of this.
Brennen embodies chaotic neutral to his very core in EVERY character he plays and its beautiful
Abraham is just a reincarnation of Arthur Aegfort and no one can tell me otherwise!
Now I really want to see a crossover/tournament arc with Misfits and Magic and/or Arther Aguefort’s Adventuring Academy like a tri-wizard school tournament. Or even whatever magical academy equivalent that can be found in Exandria Unlimited (honestly the chaos birthed by EXU’s Opal, and any PC created by Emily and Brendan as Evan, Abraham, or any of his various NPC’s) needs to happen at some point. Maybe bring in Laura Bailey or Sam Reigel for additional M9/VM cameos and make it a proper bracketed PvP tournament with level adjusted Jester or Scanlan.
Opal Fearne Dariax Abraham Jester Nott/Scanlan Chetney and Whitney Jammer in a 8 man bracket DM'd by Aabria🙏🏽