Punchbowl: Brennan Lee Mulligan (Dimension 20)
Join the Party
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Brennan Lee Mulligan is the DM of Dimension 20, the Dungeons & Dragons video anthology series on CollegeHumor’s Dropout platform. We talk about games as a storytelling tool, the flexibility of D&D in any genre, and how he is so, so good at emotionally devastating his players.
The Punchbowl is our interview segment about playing D&D in 2020 and beyond. We talk to people who are pushing the game forward—creatively, communally, socially, just doing good work. Catch up on past interviews on our website!
Guest
- Brennan Lee Mulligan is @BrennanLM on Twitter.
- DIMENSION 20: A CROWN OF CANDY airs Wednesdays at 7pm ET. Watch it live on the College Humor YouTube channel or stream it on demand on DROPOUT.tv. If you want to catch up after it airs, go to DROPOUT.tv!
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Cast & Crew
- Host: Eric Silver
- Editor: Julia Schifini
- Mixing and Additional Editing: Brandon Grugle
- Producer: Amanda McLoughlin
- Multitude: multitude.productions
About Us
Join the Party is a D&D actual play podcast with tangible worlds, genre-pushing storytelling, and collaborators who make each other laugh each week. We welcome everyone to the table, from longtime players to folks who’ve never touched a roleplaying game before. Begin with Campaign 2 (The Join Campaign) for a modern, sci-fi superhero game, or marathon all of Campaign 1 (The Party Campaign) for a high fantasy story. And once a month we release the Afterparty, where we answer your questions about the show and how we play the game. New episodes three Tuesdays a month.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Eric, your DM, and welcome to the Punch Bowl, our interview segment |
| 0:04.2 | and join the party, which is back, back, back, back, again, again. |
| 0:08.3 | Even on our off weeks, I'm thinking about D&D. |
| 0:11.2 | Like, if I could run an episode of Yugia with D&D mechanics, how would that work? |
| 0:15.8 | Is everyone a druid? |
| 0:16.8 | I'm not. |
| 0:17.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:18.8 | But I'm also thinking about what it's like to be a player in 2020 and beyond, so I figured I'd put that to good use and |
| 0:24.2 | talk to those who are pushing the game forward. When we started joining the party, |
| 0:28.5 | it was May 2017. That feels like an eternity ago, and in terms of D&D media it kind of was our |
| 0:36.3 | Lodestone was the adventure zone then rocking and rolling through the balance |
| 0:40.5 | campaign and we emulated the goofs and the story arcs because that's what we |
| 0:44.3 | trusted and that's pretty much all that was there. Now D&D media has exploded and leaving the |
| 0:50.6 | charge is to mention 20. The D&D video series on College Humor's dropout platform. |
| 0:56.2 | It is truly one of my favorite pieces of media right now, gaming or otherwise. |
| 1:01.7 | It's funny and emotional and it has some of the highest quality |
| 1:05.2 | Dungeons and Dragons playing I've ever seen in my entire life. And it is |
| 1:09.3 | anchored by the Dungeon Master, a man of a million fantasy accents, Brennan Lee Mulligan. |
| 1:16.0 | With Dimension 20 dropping their fifth campaign a crowd of candy, think Game of Thrones, but everyone and everything is food. |
| 1:24.0 | I needed to talk to Brennan about how he was pulling all of this together. |
| 1:28.2 | So I got on the internet to ask him about games as a storytelling tool, the flexibility of Dungeons and Dragons in any genre, |
| 1:35.0 | and how he's so good at emotionally devastating his players. |
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