Zac Gets One Over on Brennan | Fantasy High Junior Year 

The way Brennan just sinks and goes “Nooo wait” will never not be funny

Siobhan's double-barrel bird flip is a whole ass mood.

Between Emily's cackle, the way it just went off without a hitch, Brennan dropping like he's been wounded, the "no wait", Ally's complete honesty, this was a great clip.

Zac doesn't say much but when he does. WHEN HE DOES IT IS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH.

The thing I love about both Brennan and Matt is that when their players get one over on them, they always let it ride, and even if they're frustrated they're also PROUD of their players.

As absolutely hysterical as this moment is, it's also just poetically beautiful that Gorgug regains his clarity of thought through mindless rage. It is as Ayda said, his mind is a clear mountain lake... so long as he's enraged.

I love Brennan's "I will never finacially recover from this" moments, they are always fun to see happen the first time. and every other time after it.

emily releasing her supervillain laugh as gorgug goes into a rage

I love how absurdly rare of an occurrence it is to be both charmed AND frightened at the same time, and all at once negating it with your rage that specifically makes you immune to those particular conditions

“You want me to rage?” “Yes my minion, let forth your mindless, uncontrollable RAGE-! Wait no-!” “YyyyYep, let the good times roll! 😊” *sweetly and brutally unalives the living hell out of the wizard*

Zac’s DND playing is a lot like his comedic style. He might not have amazing luck, or be pure chaos. But when he needs to get _one thing right_ .By god it will be done right.

The way you can see Emily contort from the sheer pleasure of what she's about to witness! I like to pretend that she was possessed by [spoiler] in the lead up to that moment.

Zac just going into a rage and negating it was nothing short of genial. But asking Brennan for permission so that he can't "no but" this situation? Absolutely god tier.

Where's your bulb now? I take out my thermal detonator!

Wow a rare moment where the Berserker Barbarian subclass comes in clutch instead of killing your own character like it’s designed to do. 😂

I love how when Zac is saying it you can see Emily preparing her hands just off frame to point and laugh at Brennan

Lou’s quiet “vroom vroom, there’s gas in that tank” is so damned funny. It’s gonna be one of those things that I start quoting in my day to day life, and be sad that no one gets the reference.

The way brennan genuinely dramaticly faints back into his chair and desparingly cries "nooo!!" Is a pure mood.

Zac successfully tricking Brennan is a great moment. Shows there are cool ways to help your allies even when you are in bad situations.

It’s not just that he had the ability that let him get out of the position Brennan had put him in, it’s that he tricked Brennan into letting him, forcing him even, to use it XD that is some Grade A fairy tale trickster shenanigans

You bad! You good! That will always get me

this episode was set up to REALLY fuck the players up with high power enemies, rng encounters, rooms with no save mind control spells and a (potentially) nasty time mechanic, but they were just on their A game here. Id say murph is probably the mvp here weaponizing his shit luck by circumnavigating the entire encounter with rouge features followed by two low rolls on a d4 for the clock. excellent episode as far as play goes and a rare instance of a mechanically satisfying high level encounter.

It's a crime we didn't get to see Murph's or Lou's reaction in the moment!!

It's even better when you realize that Gorgug starts doing Kugrash's dance.

Math + rage is mage and that is why Gorgug is the best wizard

As expected from the greatest wizard of our age.

1:00 Zac can barely contain himself, knowing he's about to totally blow Brennan's mind 🤣

Best way to take advantage of the DM forgetting that your barbarian loses charm when they rage.

Commanded to get angry Angry that someone made him angry Can no longer be commanded

It's the " Hey thems the breaks" that gets me everytime.

I love the "do a little dance" part so much! Brennan fully trusts Siobhan to do something interesting with temporarily being the bad guy, asking her what to do next (as Zara and Zayne), and she immediately comes up with something both really creepy and really silly (perfect for the vibe of this episode), and then the combination of Siobhan, Brennan and Zac playing off of that is sooo fun to watch! I keep replaying it. That together with the perfection that is the following bit about rage just makes this video so freaking good! So glad they compiled it into a video. Added to my favorites playlist

1:22 And this kids, is the look of “I’m tilted… but impressed.”

This might have been the best episode in all of Fantasy High... The game mechanics, the roleplay, the set design, the props, the luck, it's all just PERFECT

I love how he had and got rid of BOTH conditions

Thank god my dnd party has a Berserker Barbarian bc as soon as Zac started talking, I knew what he was going for

Zac has been the MVP this season. In combat and character-wise. Such solid jokes and performance.

zac and emily need to sit beside each other more so that they can destroy brennan with their combined forces

One of my favorite combat encounters of all time on this show, accented by one of the best Zach plays of all time. Priceless! Not to mention how great the whole "do a little dance" bit is LOL.

The way Brennan just sags under that realization is SO cool to see

Ay, them’s the breaks 🤷‍♀️

Emily the evil mastermind at it again

Been replaying 1:19- 1:21 for Emily's cackle over and over.

I know it is no slippery puppet but damn if it isn't as satisfying...

I love how this has become a truly historic moment in the series

This is right up there with Jester's Dust of Deliciousness.

If I could get my MVP plays punctuated by Emily cackling I’d be a happy man

The actual psychic damage Brennan takes when he realizes he got bamboozled yet again by his players.

This battle is one of my favorite from all the seasons!! It was funny and interesting and there were some really clutch dice rolls, but this moment above all else was amazing, I gasped out loud and was grinning like a madman!

This was easily the best moment of the campaign so far.

If you try to manipulate Gorgug, you'll find he's one slippery puppet.

This episode was some of the best d&d ive seen.

You see him and Emily trying hard not to laugh or telegraph what's about to happen as he's asking. So funny

Lol the way he collapses into the chair.

the fact that it was *EMILY WHO TOLD HIM TO ASK* even when it's not her directly messing with Brennan, she is still on her mission from Hell to kill him

possibly the best moment of the season.

ally doing lou's famous "YESSSUH!" at 0:48 was so fucking good

The funny thing is as a DM, you want your players to succeed at the same time you're playing your villains. I can completely see this turmoil in Brennan's face.

This is one of my favorite moments of late-stage Fantasy High and it alone could justify my dropout sub

I cant wait for someone to animate the part where they get possessed by Baron

Brennan got the vapors

I feel like if Brennan had realized it, he woulda been fair enough to make a role to see if it worked

YOU BAD🤬 YOU GOOD 🥰

Something you really notice on multiple viewings is Emily, partially out of frame, barely keeping it together as Zac asks if he can go into a rage… she knows what is happening and is delighted Zac and her’s evil plan to screw over Brennan is coming to fruition.

0:00 - 1:20 "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great." 1:21 "You have no power over me!” (Emily/Fig loudly plays the Labyrinth synth on electric bass)

The last time Brennan reacted this physically to being whomped was by Saccharina rescuing Jawbreaker in CoC. Ya love to see it

This is so meta because the way Zac ask the vilain could have done the same mistake.

This was such a stand-out incredible moment from an already incredible episode!

Zac's "Ehhhh dems the breaks" is so on point he broke Brennan! LOL!

Absolutely got him

God I was so waiting for that. The one good part about that subclass lol

That was an amazing play on Zac's part. It can be hard as a GM to keep everything in on your mind, and on top of that you as the GM might know something that the NPC you are playing dose not. I don't think that the Warlock teacher would know Gorgug has mindless rage. I don't think every barbarian path gets mindless rage?? Still does not detract from the awesome play.

I laughed so hard at this when it showed up I genuinely, legitimately got a headache

This along with using ship cannons in a regular brawl in Starstruck are a couple of famous tactical moments. So tactical, so timely.

theres hype and theres tricking your DM into screwing themselves

As soon as he said Gorgug is charmed I knew what was about to happen i love Barbarin so much

Zac almost couldn't finish asking for permission to rage. He was already laughing because he knew how Brennan would react.

I truly feel bad for Brennan, but every time I feel sad, I watched this clip and pull out the sacred phrase, “Hey, them’s the break.” to make myself feel better. 😌

lol, just like in crown of candy when she used the lightening strike on the people lined up~ always finding a way~

This was a cackle and a half

This was so beatifull

Brennan's "No Wait!" Is always fun to hear

The sheer pain of “oh no I have a raging barbarian next to my caster”

Axfords reaction is just the best

I have been busy for a long time, so I haven't caught up on D20 since Coffin Run and The Ravening War. Now I must definitely rejoin watching The Bad Kids, though I don't know if I should start from Junior Year so I can watch other seasons after or continue sequentially 😅

Congratulations, you played yourself

I understand almost nothing about how any of this works (I don't even know what happening really) and yet this I understood perfectly. Amazing.

If i had a nickle for everytime zac outwitted brennan,id have 2 nickles.

Even if Brennan *had* remembered about it, there's no way in hell that Warlock would have known.

nice clip. brennan sure was taken aback by zac's genius.

I don't know if the crew reads the youtube comments, but i like how ankarna is suspiciously close to ankorna (the ducks in swedish).

Emily would make a fantastic witch with that cackle.

It's always fun to see those sudden turns that cause someone to go "What did I do?" Bonus points when that someone is the DM lol

It doesn't look like it's come up, but just to twist the knife Ally's wearing a Rage Against the Machine shirt. Just for that chef's kiss.

Something very similar to this happened in Campaign One of Critical Role. In a battle with a vampire, as a matter of fact. Most parties live in fear of their Barbarians being charmed, but Berserkers are a whole other story.

Brennan Lee Mulligan, human D&D handbook, defeated because he forgot one of the rules, is absolutely fantastic. Love that Emily was fully using psychology on him too, a perfect play all around

I've gained a sudden attraction to Siobhan this season and I don't know where it came from!

A tale as old as time, happens to all of us GM's at some point! 😄

As a DM I love this because he knew what he wanted to do to get him out of this situation as a player, but instead of trying to argue against the charm, found a way in-character to get the controller to order him to use it. And the NPC has no reasonable way of knowing his rage would do that, only that he can rage, so reasonably would order him to do so.

Even if this didn't fool *ME* as the DM I would give it a high chance to fool the enemy who almost certainly doesn't know that he has that ability!

I don't know anymore if it is Brennan who broke Zac more this season or the other way around