Kristen is Chaos you Can't Counter  

Genuinely missed the school setting when watching D20 Live. There were so many cool teachers and student characters missing. There’s a charming mundanity about a public school that’s missed, D20 Live just felt more like a regular fantasy adventure. Also I missed the overall vibe of Elmville, too. It’s such a beautiful parody of suburban life.

And they were literally in a nightmare forest that could spawn buses with arms for legs

⁠@@bearbones7913The fact that I didn’t immediately double-take at the thought of busses in Spyre having legs and OBVIOUSLY not arms says something about the world that Brennan has built here. Idk what but it says something.

I think the inherent safety of familiar locations, people, and schedules are letting them be stupid more often without the constant fear of spending skills and spells that might save a life.

They've always been great but boy oh boy Beardsley has been knocking it out of the park this season

And also, how (why?) is she different from Penny Luckstone ?

Penny has warmth and a soul. She loves her friends and wants what's best for everyone in a way similar to Riz just with a different flavor of neuroticism. Penny wants to do her best to support her friends and family, not for herself. Even tho Penny can be snarky and vicious, she ultimately is better off than KLCP because she isn't malicious. She is sweet to her core and will always do things with love.

Yes, very well put. But it's interesting to me why Brennan makes a "steel orb of a personality" with same type-A behavior and even descriptions, as Penny. Meaning - how 2 very similarly acting people can be profoundly different

polished steel orb .... .... .... you know who that sounds like? mf grix boom!

@@daveconnor6174 Grix is just two halflings stacked on top of each other.

It's funny how in Startstuck Odyssey it was Ally's Margaret who was the composed one, and it was Lou who was running these self-destructive bits. And now they switched

Suit yourself. I prefer it when there are actual requirements to accomplish things beyond goofy bits.

@@cr820 I mean most of the spells they added would have not added to the 'requirement' (jump helps with practical effect of escaping but it has no change in dex mods) or would likely change the DC entirely (casting fear and causing everyone to panic, or nondetection which wouldn't add to the DC at all but would likely help lower the DC a little) The whole moment was a goofy bit the DM decided, as they are allowed to do, that while they likely weren't going to make the intended Deception check, the casual partygoers looking for gossip aren't going to stick around after several bombs and a man sized spider go off effectively canceling the roll and passing it for now. You dont need to persuasion check the Bouncer at a door if the Barbarian punches him so hard his brain turns to soup y'know?

@@RandomRWalker A decent point, yeah. Chaos is often an effective substitute to deception.

Nah, relying on the luck of the die to hit a number is my least favorite part of DnD. If players are making creative choices that ​seem plausible (or at least very funny or cool), I'd rather reward that. @@cr820

It's even funnier because they all went against as fully and readily Fabian in the honey incident 😄

Ally's bits this season are wild - the campaign gags, the Cassandra gags and Kipperlily rivalry are incredible

@@skyphy and we can't forget every variation of "hey girlie!!!!!!!!!" that they have managed to sneak into every episode since they started that bit, i love their energy this season sm!!!

That deserves its own compilation

Yup, she's the avatar of Brennan's revenge for all the shenanigans the bad kids did

@@skyphy Fantasy High 3: Brenan's Revenge😂

Yes! Very well put 😄 that's why got rid of all the helpful NPCs and introduced agent Clark, me thinks 😅

Love how you can tell she was Riz' enemy but the chaos chose Kristen

They're so deeply stressed out (and sleep deprived, for some of them) that they've unlocked a new dimension of absurd.

Creativity is best found when under the most constraints , also they're level 11 so sanity was never an option

I really hope @dropout or @DeepBlueInk get to it some day

Haha, in a bad way? I'm learning photo editing, don't really know what i'm doing and what I shouldn't be doing

@@skyphynot unless you don’t want it that way

Thanks. I definitely wasn't actively pursuing that look, it just kinda what I'm able to throw together. That avatar - i made in 2020, I really should change it. Don't know what to target though... What type of thumbnail do you prefer?

@@skyphy i like the thumbnails that are more just shitposts but i don’t think im in the majority there, i think what gives it the look is the combination of compiled images of the cast, the bright yellow border, matching bright yellow text w/ drop shadow is a bit buzzfeed (rip “YES!”), a custom background instead of the d20 background, Again not bad but not really the same sort of vibe as d20, if you’re not sure what to do instead just shop around and keep it in mind when you see other thumbnails of any videos (not just d20 stuff) and consider if it would work with d20, Also you don’t really have to do custom thumbnails if you don’t want to, i don’t want to discourage you if you feel like it but d20 has a pretty recognizable look by itself

I get it. I do like the color yellow, but there's a lot of thumbnails that are similar to this style. My main takeaway from this whole channel is to learn to use photoshop & stuff, that's why i'm trying to find my style. (i'll try to get better, promise). P.S.: you might very well be in the majority here with your preferences, if the thumbnails from other dropout fan channels are anything to go by.