Siobhan Thompson is a Dungeon Master's Dream Player 

honestly, I think that was the exact moment I was like. well shit. guess she’s my favorite now

omg when is that from? i need to see that clip!!

@@rachela7 uhhhh considering it's a "latin clue", I imagine it could be something in fantasy high, unsleeping city, crown of candy, or neverafter? I don't recall anything about a latin clue in crown of candy or fantasy high.

@@dnsl4176 i ended up googling it and it was from TUC2!

@@rachela7 it's from season two of the unsleeping city - I don't remember which episode it's from, but I do think it's a clip on the d20 channel

you perfectly put it into words. she’s so good at working with what brennan gives her it sometimes feels like she’s an npc there to guide them along with their journey. i don’t think the intrepid heroes really have a group leader in any of the campaigns they all work together and listen to one another but Siobhan always seems to know what to do next

She is the ultimate in supporting. I can’t think of a time she tried to take the main role in a story arc but I can’t really think of one she didn’t help shape. She has also let more characters go than any other d20 actor I think. Both Riva and Misty Moore were retired after one season. She fulfilled their character arcs while helping her friends and so she let them retire. She definitely also fits the co-dm role. There’s a reason she’s the first non-dm hired to the Iyengar-Mulligan Rules Lawyering firm.

She also rarely steals the spotlight to make a bit happen. Zac, Murph and Siobhan are very giving improvisers. They would rather fade into the storyline than step on someone's shadow. That said, CC's video aged like fine wine because since Mentopolis and Burrow's End we got to see her as a vital lead and, Man did she shine 🥰

I don't think there is a second season of starstruck Odyssey ​@@jonstewart5525

And doesn't jawbone have a super sweet moment with her regarding her anxiety?

​@@ProducedByMERChe does! It's such a super cool mechanic they homebrewed, her anxiety is almost like a status effect that actually has real world implications

My favourite is when she demoralises an Alligator by telling him he’ll never work in showbusiness 😂

‘look darling we’ve all had different lives… let me tell you about my good friend john wilkes booth’

"well she can't have been that good of an oracle if she didn't see the storm coming" 🔥

"Is it your child or is it your body's child ?" _wide eyed thousand yards stares_ "Please hooold !"

My favorite line was "Hello! NEVER MIND! 👀"

She also, from the very beginning, coordinates every single outfit that she wears to fit her character. I honestly think the other players saw her do this from the early episodes of Fantasy High and decided to join her. She commits to her character harder than anyone else.

I know this comment is from five months ago, before Burrow's End, but just tacking on to this are all of her bits as Jaysohn. Siobhan doing the little punches and kicks while pretending to be asleep when she's not even in the conversation that occurs are absolutely hilarious. It really does make the world feel more lived in.

Totally agree - I first saw Siobhan in Starstruck Odyssey, and when I moved on to Unsleeping City I was shocked to realize how much of what I thought was her real life physical presence was actually her embodying the character. Like I swear she seemed physically TALLER as Misty. But it really clicked for me in UC s2 when she played Iga and you could see her *blinking* differently, embodying the character even while just staring at her zoom camera during long scenes she wasn’t in. She’s an incredible actor!

Riva is a sheltered aquatic alien who is finally learning the galaxy can be AWFUL! 😁😁

As someone who loves the Far Traveler background, my experience definitely plays into that. I'm not an immigrant, and I've lived mostly in a single county my entire life, but in my childhood we moved _a lot._ I went to 4 different elementary schools and 2 different middle schools, and as a kid, your whole world is your school and your neighborhood. I was the new kid four times before I turned 14, and two times before I was 8. The culture and everything was all pretty similar, but the specific people around me and the established social dynamics were vastly different each time. I had to restart the process of making and maintaining friendships several times as an ADHD weird kid, which increases the difficulty a lot So I'm pretty familiar with being thrown into a completely new place and having to survive socially with very little established knowledge to draw on. It's something pretty integral to my being, I'm not even sure if i could play someone who's been in the same place their entire life, bc I just don't have the experience to understand that

Most recently Sleeping Beauty discovering how common ppl live compared to the rules, expectations, and “happily ever after” she is thrust upon as a fairy tale princess

You are SO RIGHT!! Riva especially encapsulates Siobhan's entire outlook on character building!

I went back and watched the video where she talks about that other character option, and her crust punk rogue lived in east village, not the sewers. definitely a cool character concept, but as Brennan explained it it was kind of halfway in between Pete and Kugrash, and like you said without Misty we lose the entirety of broadway in Unsleeping City, and a lot of the fae stuff is significantly less important and represented by the characters. Misty isn’t really my favorite character of Unsleeping City (I still really like her and she’s a lot of fun, but i don’t connect with her the same way i do with other character Siobhan plays), but i think she was the right choice for the campaign, even if the crust punk rogue is more individually interesting to me

Can you share the name of the video?

@@saimilind9086 “recapping fantasy high with Siobhan and Lou”, it’s from a mini series of live streams they did on twitch that they’ve now uploaded onto youtube and dropout. the full series of these livestreams is called Fantasy High Extra Credit

That last fight she was a fucking God. Every time I hear please hold it sends me lmao

Travis Willingham with Grog played a dumb character and manages to make him not feel like he doesn’t not know what’s going on just because of his low intelligence. The trust me with my 6 intelligence is an incredible line as well.

The "Please hold!" bit was great. I want to handle conflict as smoothly!

God, I remember watching the unsleeping city finale and reaching the "my love" scene and just choking up on the bus, I was getting through one of the toughest semesters of college because of a combination of depression and burn out, and that scene just pulled at that part of me that loved my art and writing, through it all, it's always going to be my first love, my biggest dream (also the Adaine and Jawbone scene was so important to me, goddamn, thank you for everything Siobhan Thompson!)

Oh but she does have Emily's combat prowess, it just so happens that her moments either have smaller kill count, damage total, or she prefers to make actions that help other players shine. She's a fantastic and incredibly creative team player. Remember the way she used Web so that she and other players would throw concrete golem off balance in FH? What about that time she used Dimension Door to teleport above the spell-cancelling bubble, bypassing it and allowing a martial character to get close to the lich in the Stock Exchange battle in TUC?

@@fatim0nster Or when she used Dimension Door to save Ricky's body after he died in the American Dream battle

Same here. As a forever DM Siobhan is easily the player I would want at my table. She invests in the world, she plays to the other players' strengths, and she is ALWAYS enjoying herself.

It's also a great detail that when she reincarnates into Rowan Berry she changes her voice a bit.

Her and Lou are great foils for Brennan in my eyes because they play off, with and against him so well

This advice is golden

I have worked with many DMs and none of them give me proper information about the world or genre when asked beforehand. Many campaigns are set in bland fantasy worlds and most DMs don't even know what genre their game is.

This just made me realize I do this, gotta start leaning into these flaws

Not to mention the whole thing with Ruby in the latter half of A Crown of Candy: from what I understand, some people got really bent out of shape about that whole dynamic, but I really liked it personally.

Facts tho

Even better because she asks "Was that lit the whole time?" in character, which is both a fair reaction to that happening and establishing that it was actually lit.

Welcome aboard!

Thank you!

Well there all the regular guest stars that I would love to see covered

My first DM hated that I wrote a backstory for my character, because he wanted to make it up himself. He told me I was an orphan, so I wrote WHY I was an orphan.

I agree- rich girl, but not stuck-up.

I think stubborn is the correct wording for it

I can even wiggle them

really enjoyed it

Thats the intent!

Who let my clone out

I am! I'm loving it. Its so much fun watching Matt mess with Brennan.