The Beginning Begins (Ep. 1) | Fantasy High 

Murph was so ahead of the times naming his character with bad social skills "rizz"

i am crying the dm was setting up this traditional, gnomish household and when he describes his character he goes “im 6 foot” like i got whiplash

“i stole a book, i’m sorry” “we all fall short of the grace of god” “that’s a bit strong for this” i am CRYING pls💀💀💀

"What's the connection between luck and skill? 500 gold pieces" that killed me

"You seem really non-violent, and I think that's really cool. Violence is never the answer -" "I go into a R A G E."

Sweet baby Gorgug with his tiny metal flower getting slugged in the stomach while trying to make a friend will forever haunt me.

I like that Kristen isn't the "Christian purist" archetype, because that's plenty overdone, but instead she's the "lowkey, half-judgy half-sweet Christian" and that's just as funny lol

"violence is not the answer" "i go into a rage" So funny haha

"You seem like a nonviolent person and I respect that, violence is not-" "I go in to a rage" One of my favorite bits of dialogue right there.

"A hero is someone with the courage to go to strange lands, and enact violence on the things they find there." That lines is too perfect.

I love how Brennan is so good at portraying hateable characters that he made Siobhan use up all of her spell slots in what was literally just supposed to be her introductory scene.

"she can't have been that good of an oracle if she didn't see the storm coming" straight up sent meee😭

The mom saying "Why am I encouraging this!? Don't do that." That's just a classic parenting line if I've ever heard one.

“She can’t have been that good an Oracle if she didn’t see the storm coming.” Sickest burn I’ve ever heard.

I love that vice principal Goldenhoard wasn't even being strict, they were just causing so much chaos that they all got immediate detention

A privateer isn't just some lunatic who goes around pillaging... they're a PROFESSIONAL lunatic who goes around pillaging

I love the fact that the definition of "hero" is basically "murder-hobo".

“I’m holding a flower. I offer him the flower.” “I punch him in the stomach.” I DIED, my brother had to come check on me, he was so confused

Way late to this series, but I love Brennan's hard decline of Fig's adventure attempt. Emily's pushing her luck, and Brennan as DM is just like "No, fuck you, you're going to school. I'm in control here."

fuck, he really established sklonda gukgak as one of my favorite characters with the single action of pouring some of her cereal milk into riz's bowl and refilling hers with water like that says so so much i love her

"You say this every day." ONE WEEK AGO "PAPA! How was the fishing trip?" "Aye, it was fine. Did ye take out the trash?" "Of course." "That's a good lad. Well, I'm rather beat. Think I'll get some sleep." "Goodnight, papa." "Oh, almost forgot! Your mother and you will outlive me by centuries. Love ya!"

Two goblins having an emotional moment as part of the daily struggle, then immediately lapsing into ferocious goblinoid scramble-eating is my new favorite thing

Brennan saying "THERE GOES THE FUCKIN' BUS" literally moved me to tears because it sounded just like my parents getting upset at me for oversleeping

Holy fuck, Siobhan KILLED it as a scorned baby sister. I haven't seen such great acting in forever. I am IMPRESSED.

OK but Gorgug’s parents are kind of the best?!

Aguefort > Hogwarts

The gnome parents are so wholesome I'd listen to a whole DND game of just them giving advice 🤣

1:19:10 headcannon “you are walking past the library, roll a perception check” “nat one” “don’t worry about it, it’s nothing” *roll credits*

"I'm trying to be a good older sister." "I punch her in the face." "Violence is not the answer." "I go into a rage." "Why do you have a cigarrete?!?" "I light another cigarette." I've always had trouble paying attention to DnD games because they're so long and my short attention span couldn't handle paying attention for longer periods of time but this has been such a delight to watch. I saw Brennan do a collab with some other channel and he was so funny I decided to search him and ended up here. Always loved CollegeHumor so this was such an amazing watch!!

"no one can find the rogue teacher" That killed me

Adaine OFFERING the popular girl her orb just because she mentioned it... That is such good character work!

Riz is probably the most ironic name for the character with the least game.

"we all fall short of the grace of god" "i'm not sure thats appropriate for this situation" BRUH IM DYING RN

"I put the cigarette out in her coffee" "GOD DAMNIT" Bro I'm fucking wheezing.

Just realizing that at 1:05:30, Ragh is sort of admitting that the reason he goes so aggro on Riz and dunks him (and births the whole The Ball legend) is that he saw Dayne talking to a boy who wasn't him.

I cannot help but love Vice Principal Goldenrod. He’s trying so hard to do his job while being chill about it. Poor dude. Edit: thx for correcting me

“theatre is where you go when you get kicked out of anything” me, a theatre kid: 👀

Perfect example of a DM keeping control. Fig tries to go off on a mini adventure, rolls really well - and still ends up where she needs to be for the detention of the soon-to-be party. So so good!!

Brennan does family dynamics so well; each with their own problems, varying in severity and type, all with realistic basis in character

God why is Brennan so profound sometimes? Some of his improv speeches legitimately hit lol

Is it me or is Brennen like REALLY good at playing struggling moms. I love this series!

Why is everyone skipping over that savage line in Adaine's introduction. When she said, "Can't have been much of an oracle if she didn't see the storm coming."

"Kid don't...don't give him the flower." Goldenhoard struggling already

I can FEEL the ‘Yes and’ energy that these guys have clearly had drilled into them and for D&D that’s PHENOMINAL! It makes things clearly go so much smoother x-x

i feel like they really captured the essence of high school freshmen: just a bunch of insufferable little weirdos. can't wait for character development!

How are they not dying when Brennan said " Fig, im sitting here with beans on my shirt." with the best deadpan ever

The idea that Gilear said unkind things when Fig's horns came in is hard to imagine. I can't remember any time he's overtly unkind in an episode other than the "demon" outburst in this one.

I’ve seen the shorts pop up for months and the clips pop up for years. I’m finally realizing why Brennan said that he both loved Emily but also said she was trying to kill him. She’s very good at derailing campaigns in total logical ways and Brennan is an ultimate rule of cool master.

okay i’ve just started and so far: parents are: a fantasy colonizer, fantasy racists, and then SWEET AND KIND AND GOOD AND TRYING THEIR BEST aw

Pcs with loving family's and stable homes? Inconsivable.

The way Ally's character "corrects" Lou's language from fucking to freaking is gold

"All happy families are alike. All unhappy families are unique" -Leo Tolstoy I love how we really see this at play with the characters here

This is just the magical version of how everyone in Lemonade Mouth met

how was brennan perfectly able to mimic how teenage girls talk

That moment when you realize you're for sure about to watch 8+ hours of other people roleplaying.

1:06:10 brennan's so good at that subtle high school girl putdown 😭

I can see why Brennan is a professional DM. The writing and character control and improvisations are just fantastic. Very excited to keep watching.

"Never forget that the greatest magic of all is chronomancy, the magic of time." -Brennan Lee Mulligan, on every DM's rule #-1

The sincerity in Brennan's performance when he did the old principle's speech had me in absolute tears. "...who enacts their will bloodily and with strange magicks upon the world."

Okay, but rolling a Nat 20 and having it become a 2 is the perfect definition of what anxiety does to a person

"The most piratey fuckin pirate" is the greatest sentence I've ever heard maybe ever

The illustrations: Fabian’s family: 4:15 4:47 5:10 6:11 Kristen’s: 10:10 14:32 Gorgug’s: 17:07 18:26 Adine’s 23:55 Riz’s: 36:19 37:18 Fig’s: 43:39 47:58 Goldenhoard: 55:56 Penelope: 1:02:24 Dayne: 1:03:05 1:04:07 Ragh: 1:04:24 Coach Daybreak: 1:08:04 Zayn: 1:09:14 Arthur Aguefort principal 1:11:20 LunchLady Doreen: 1:16:16 Johnny: 1:33:22 1:35:43 Sam 1:34:45 Ostentatia 1:39:07 Mister Gibbons 1:49:23

I sometimes go back to this episode four years later to get a refresher on what I consider the master class of introductions to a D&D campaign

So I'm three years late to this masterpiece, but can anyone explain why Brennan is literally the personification of every struggling mother with their teenage child?

"What do we say is the relation between luck, and talent?" "500 gold pieces" That exchange is just brilliant

I love how Brennan’s reaction to high rolls is always “fuck yeah,” because he’s rooting for them and totally down to roll with their imaginations (no pun intended)

I like how this episode could have ended with a group therapy session.

I am years late to this, but Aguefort's little unhinged "what is a hero" welcome speech had me in stiches. "And never forget that the greatest magic of all-" "friendship, right?" "-is chronomancy, the magic of time!"

I love how everyone's intros were just that, a little intro but siobhan is already like "BITCH IMMA PUNCH MY SISTER AND CAST SOME SPELLS ITS ROLEPLAY TIME!!!"

1:07:45 “Cute outfit! It looks like you go to a different school than here” …I PUNCH HER IN THE FACE 😂😂😂

I love Gorgug's parents, they are so wonderful.

*Totally serious:* “Why would it be impractical to use a 2-foot diameter orb during battle?” God I love Brennan

The scene with Riz's mom and the cereal hit real hard. When she did the water thing, I didn't even care that that's normally gross. I just saw my mom and the effort she put into making me not feel like we were poor. Shoutout moms.

I'm already loving all of these but dude straight away, Zach and Siobhan were just born to play angsty teenagers.

Anyone else here after watching Critical Role Calamity and just NEEDING more Brennen?

Collegehumor has really made a comeback since Brennan joined the cast

ive come here solely because I saw some dude asking everyone if they were his dad

I'm sure it's been said many times, but damn, Brennan's acting range is just endless

I'm here after having my mind blown by Brennan's AMAZING DM'ing in the Exandria Calamity game yesterday. Who else is here after witnessing that?

Never forget the first actual combat of Fantasy High was PvP

I love how the DM manoeuvred the situation to get them all into detention.

the foreshadowing of lou sayin "i love your sister" at 30:40

Gorgug's gnome parents are a blessing upon us all.

I love the parents just as much as the players. Everyone has so much personality!

Just pointing out how well foreshadowed the detention event was, and how well Brennan got everyone together like that: Bill, the most important character in Fabian's life, told him to punch the strongest guy in school, so of course he would, and Gorgug happened to be the biggest one around. His father also bribed a gym teacher who was gonna welch on the deal, and Fabian with no subtlety would shout about it if he hadn't been gotten for the punch. Gorgug, a fledgling barbarian with anger issues as a central character conflict was punched in the gut, so of course he's gonna rage, it's self-defense. Odds are if he wasn't punched he'dve been targeted by the Rog, who physically attacks multiple party members across the first day. Adaine was told that stealing a book from a restricted section would be a huge benefit to her status and gain in wizardry, and with self-esteem issues like hers it was definitely in the cards to do. Then, she saw a restricted-section book completely unprotected, stole it, and promptly had a panic attack, a pre-established status condition. Riz was extremely focused on finding Penny Luckstone again after she disappeared while babysitting him, so when he stumbled onto a clue of course he'd do whatever it takes. There is no solution to getting info from the girl's changing room that doesn't lead to detention. Kristen wanted new perspectives and was riding the high concept of "religious girl reforms deliquents" straight into hell, so she joined willingly. Fig is an agent of chaos and was literally never going to be anywhere else, except maybe jail. Brennan set up situations perfectly tailored to get the players into detention (except Fig, who is the situation), without compromising player choice at all. It's a great stroke of DMing and is really subtle for how skilled it is.

Ally effortlessly breaking the cast by saying they're like Jesus, then Helio. This is what I love about Dungeons and Dragons. There's always at least one person who's able to effortlessly break the rest of the team.

“You ever seen a FAT elf in your life?” It’s 2 am and I have WORK in the morning I don’t have TIME for this to be so damn funny

I really feel for Fig's dad, kinda. Dude's life's falling apart, and he's trying to do his best, but it just keeps getting worse. Also he has beans on his shirt.

The fact that THE NIGHTMARE KING is literally mentioned in the first episode of this world is mind boggling to me and I’m impressed

the COMEDY. I did not expect such perfect foreshadowing and payoff as the fight between Fabian and Gorgug

Anyone notice that Fig should've still looked like her mom during the teacher's lounge scene? Hell, before she even gets out of the car she apparently waxes her horns, but it's never mentioned that she un-disguises - Fig didn't get detention, her MOM got detention

“I hope I don’t have 1 human friend” She took that statement literally

K: *boiling water* A: Kristen what are you doing K: I'm making holy water! A: How is that making holy water- K: I'm boiling the hell out of it (haha pls don't kill me)

I’m blown away that during the lunch lady scene Brennan didn’t take full advantage and hit us with a “you hit the drums and it actually doesn’t sound corny at all”.

"Can I get a perception check if this dude actually rules?" "This dude fuckin rules."

"A hero is a violent wanderer, who enacts their will bloodily and with strange magics upon the world." _~Arthur Aguefort_ I am going to watch this entire show and there is nothing you can do to stop me

Fabian getting detention for letting slip that the local authority is corrupt is some straight up real American Highschool shenanigans. Love it

Now that rizz is a slang term now, hearing Brennan say riz over and over is hilarious 😂

Gorgug is very relatable. Being adopted myself, i get it. And his parents clearly love him so much....i think hes my favorite.

The segment with Siobhan’s character and her sister is just pure gold, in fact, all the character introductions are amazing.