Episode Reviews

This season of Dimension20 is probably one of my favorite D&D games I've ever witnessed (and that's including the one's I've ran or played in!). Brennan Lee Mulligan, a New Yorker through and through, has created such a beautiful homage to the city, and his pure and full-hearted love for this place is so evident not only in the passion in his voice, but especially the "homebrewed" variants of classic D&D mechanics and dynamics. By modifying the traditional classes of the game to fit into modern NYC, he paints a truly beautiful picture of the very real magic the city holds. I'll never be anything less than awestruck by the way he and the players worked so cleverly to build their characters in such a way that enhances and immerses the listener into the culture of the city (ie. Zac making a paladin who is a firefighter devoted so strongly to safety, Lou creating a cleric who works as an ER Nurse, Siobhan's bard character who is a Broadway Legend, Brian Murphy's circle of the shepherd druid in the form of a sewer rat who provides for the lost and transient folks of the city, Emily with a Drunken Master monk who is an alcoholic (almost) divorcee, and (quite possibly my personal favorite) Ally Beardsley's wild magic sorcerer manifested as an unstable drug dealer descending into the chaos of dreams, directly tying to the unpredictable wild magic surge mechanic built into that particular subclass). If there is any season of Dimension20 or even any actual play D&D series to listen to, this one is certainly well worth your time. For any New Yorkers, this will hit exceptionally close to home in the absolute best way possible.