#marcid the typhoon

[envy-starlight]

#edp original post #a court of fey and flowers #aabria iyengar #acofaf #myrtle #marcid the typhoon #delloso de la rue #captain kp hob #marcid x myrtle #rue x hob #delloso de la rue x captain kp hob #battlemaster of ceremonies #ruehob #hobrue

[thisisnotthenerd]

continuing with the partial casters, we have rangers:

feel free to share your reasoning/propaganda. rangers kind of run in the opposite direction from clerics--sparse at first but more recently.

#dimension 20 #ultimate d20 class fight #sokhbarr #liam wilhelmina #marcid the typhoon #antiope jones #rosamund du prix #d20 twyla #d20 thorn vale

[dimension20pcbracket]

poll redux: I fucked up

I accidentally set the original Twyla v Marcid poll to only run for a day instead of a week, so now we all have to vote again. sorry, gang!

#twyla #marcid the typhoon #dungeons and drag queens #pirates of leviathan #dimension 20

[platosworstnightmare]

I couldn’t get this out of my head

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #pirates of leviathan #adaine abernant #cheese #garthy obrien #jawbone o'shaughnessey #Jack brakkow #Marcid the typhoon

[hollyevolving]

As much as I adore K.P. Hob (and my god do I), he was not the first extremely dangerous & gentlemanly bugbear in Dimension 20 history.

That honor belongs to Marcid the Typhoon, played by B. Dave Walters in the Pirates of Leviathan campaign.

#dropout #dimension 20 #pirates of leviathan #marcid the typhoon #b. dave walters

[kadharononart]

It took me a while to get into it, but Pirates of Leviathan is charming, actually.

#sketches #pirates of leviathan #jack brakkow #marcid the typhoon #cheese the wizard

[sams-fluffadise]

Cheese doesn't need any of the crew to adopt him, he is getting his brother back and thus his family back

I see you, I hear you. But consider... Both Cheese and Spaulding are so deeply traumatised by their parents and everything that happened to them.

Jack, putting a hand on little Cheese shoulder after a long day, saying "I am proud of you." Cheese would burst out into tears.

Myrtle, silently casting some kind of protection spell on Cheese before combat. Only later does he notice that some attacks just seem to bounce of him and something inside him breaks a little bit. Later, when they are alone, he gives her a hug and then scurries off SO FAST.

Marcid tries his very best to explain all this ship-owning-buisness to little Cheese, who doesn't even know economy 101 and at some point, Cheese's head just drops back and he us fast asleep after hours of doing this. With a deep sigh, Marcid picks the boy up and just deposits him in his bed, throwing a blanket on him. Cheese wakes up in the morning, pulls his knees to his chest and just weeps.

BECAUSE FINALLY, FINALLY THERE ARE SOME ADULTS WHO CARE ABOUT HIM AND TAKE CARE OF HIM!!!!!

So, yeah, Cheese is close to grown up and has his brother, but I refuse to believe that he (and his bro) don't deserve to do some healing and to have some positive experiences with parental figures.

Oh, also, since they theoretically don't have a home except for the ship anymore, they absolutely stay at Gold Gardens while in Leviathan. Having some fun under the watchful eyes of Garthy and Jack.

#i will die on this hill #just gimme lil cheese being happy and doing some healing #d20 #dimension 20 #pirates of leviathan #not writing #spaulding stormcrank #cheese stormcrank #jack brakkow #garthy obrien #myrtle the bitch #marcid the typhoon

[fluffyquill]

More Pirates of Leviathan!

#my art #dimension20 #pirates of leviathan #pirol #pol #marcid the typhoon #myrtle the bitch #garthy obrien #jack brakkow #the quintessential PFAA Matt Mercer noise #Jack/Garthy #Myrtle/Marcid #sketches

[arachnaem]

Sunday Cosplay for the Kenku kids 👀

#d20 spoilers #dimension 20 #pirates of leviathan #pirates of leviathan spoilers #marcid the typhoon #b dave walters #dnd kenku

[best-d20-character]

#myrtle #marcid the typhoon #pol #pirates of leviathan #d20 #dimension 20 #tumblr poll #best d20 character

[thisisnotthenerd]

and we're back with another edition of thisisnotthenerd's d20 stats. this time we're talking character races. mechanically. they are not all italian.

most common character races

a couple of things:

the chart displays the character races as they present within their individual seasons. this is not always reflective of their mechanical races, which is what i'm using to evaluate. if you go into the spreadsheet and look at the notes, you'll see the mechanical race for each character.

some characters are not counted because they do not have an accurate equivalent, e.g. the creepy co-eds and the prefrontal p.i.s. the magical misfits are because i don't know that you can get more variant human than what they have going on.

obviously there are repeats in the chart. those are not counted in the totals.

at the top, as most would expect from d20, is variant human, with 40 characters. this tracks for several reasons; it's a fairly solid race that allows you to start with a feat and tool proficiencies and focuses asis rather than spreading them around. the other reason is that it's used as the base for most characters in most seasons that don't fit the dnd standard races, i.e. tiny heist, a crown of candy, mice & murder, and the ravening war.

next up is actually harengon with 6, though it might not look like it from the chart. that's because all of the stoats from burrow's end are using harengon stats with the addition of at will primal savagery and claw/bite attacks. it's a solid build that fits well for this season, but makes the rabbit comments from the top of the season funnier.

next up is half-elves, with 4 characters: fabian seacaster, danielle barkstock, misty moore, and agnes. mechanically, those marked as faeries are half-elves. they are marked as faerie to distinguish them from fairies, who are also on this list a little later on.

in fourth place is tieflings, with 3 characters: fig faeth, magfelda/maggie, and gertrude. two fo them sit in the same seat in back to back seasons. tied with them are half-orcs: gorgug thistlespring, katja cleaver, and sokhbarr, who is another reskin, much like the faerie characters.

tied for fifth with two each are: bugbear (marcid the typhoon & k.p. hob), drow (lilith (as a reskin) & andhera), changeling (rick diggins & binx choppley), high elf (adaine abernant & efink murderdeath), kalashtar (pete conlan & riva), kenku (chirp & squak), ratfolk [different types] (kugrash & jack brakkow), vampire (squing & may wong), and warforged (car-go jones & pinocchio)

and with one each we have:

aarakocra: sunny biscotto

aasimar: barbarella sarsaparilla gainglynn

android [ryn]: sundry sidney

cerebroslug: skip/valdrinor

clone soldier [shistavanen]: big barry syx

dwarf: ostentatia wallace

fairy: twyla

genasi [water]: sam nightingale

gnome [forest]: cheese

goblin: riz gukgak

halfling [lightfoot]: penny luckstone

hobgoblin [frog-man reskin]: gerard of greenleigh

hollow one: leiland

merfolk: myrtle the bitch

orc: princess foehammer

owlbear: delloso de la rue

satyr: zelda donovan

shifter [beasthide]: ylfa snorgelsson

tabaxi: puss in boots/pib

triton: troyánn

there were a total of 34 pc races used over the course of dimension 20.

now for the fun part, beyond the numbers:

commentary

a lot of this won't make sense without the notes. if you're interested in reading through this, i'd suggest at least a cursory look.

most of the pc races used on dimension 20 do actually have a standardized background (or two or more) in dnd. generally they stick to the same variants most of the time, usually the ones that grant the best versions of racial abilities. even the reskins have a solid background: kashai->half-orc, faerie->half-elf, the usage of kalashtar stats for pete, frogman->hobgoblin, cat->tabaxi, puppet->warforged, rick diggins as a changeling clicko man. they make sense and make sure that characters have a balance of racial traits.

however there are a few that don't have a standard. some of them only show up in the bestiaries. some are straight up homebrewed or borrowed from 'unofficial' sources. i pieced them together based on wiki info and what i could find on each of these.

drider: from what i found, drider isn't currently playable. i suspect they combined drider traits from the bestiaries and drow/dark elf stats to make lilith. it gives her a bunch of really cool abilities.

ratfolk: this one was tough, because murph and matt used different sources to make their rat-men. murph's likely comes from kobold press, wherein ratfolk are small, with 25 ft of movement, rodent empathy, darkvision, and poison resistance. hell, kug might still be a reflavored dwarf. i don't think so, because he doesn't use any of the racial abilities that would make him a dwarf as opposed to ratfolk, but who knows. matt's comes from adamant entertainment's ratkin, whose ratfolk are medium, humanoid rats, with 30 ft of movement, low light vision, immunity to disease, and proficiency with bite attacks. matt specifically references ratkin during pirates of leviathan, so i'm fairly confident that that's what jack is.

cyborg: gunnie is a base human, but has a lot of cybernetic replacements and so has a few extras that come with it. he gets an additional +1 to any skill, at the expense of augmentation side effects i.e. vulnerability to ion damage. this is a combination of sw 5e's cybernetic augmentation rules with the sw 5e human.

cerebroslug: norman is a base human in sw 5e. that part is easy. i'm pretty sure that cerebroslugs were a homebrew creation based on existing starstruck lore and zac's character pitch. i had to go back and watch a few episodes of starstruck to figure out what he's using, because it sure as hell is not on the wiki. body thief is the one named ability that i can recall. if a creature is incapacitated, the cerebroslug can enter its body start running it. if not incapacitated, the cerebroslug cannot attempt to overpower their vessel. other racial traits allow the cerebroslug to a) retain it's own mental statistics while using the vessel's physical statistics, b) run the body by using piloting statistics, e.g. making piloting checks to run the body upon waking. with enough successes, they stop being required. cerebroslugs are sensitive to cold--they are ejected from their vessel if 20 points of cold damage are dealt to them. they must succeed on a dc 15 con saving throw or be paralyzed upon ejection. i really hope this is actually written down somewhere and isn't just me hallucinating after hours of rewatching starstruck.

owlbear: this was simpler: rue is an awakened owlbear as opposed to a standard owlbear. the adaptations: innate savagery. ancestric physiology, natural instincts, and clumsy are the noted racial traits.

stoat: they're actually harengons as noted previously. they also have the cantrip primal savagery that they can cast at will in order to up the damage of their claw/bite attacks. these stoats are literally built different.

and that's all! let me know if there's something i missed; i'd love to hear it. the spreadsheet is open to perusal.

#dimension 20 #dimension 20 meta #thisisnotthenerd's d20 stats #dimension 20 statistics

[dimension20pcbracket]

round 1 statistics

hi, gamers! while we wait for the round 2 polls to close, here are some interesting stats and tidbits from round 1 that I noticed :)

total votes: added up, the 52 polls in round 1 had a total of 28,221 votes. holy shit!

largest percentage of votes: sometimes the polls were tight, and other times they were... not. the top 5 most decisive winners were:

Fig Faeth (93.6%)

Kingston Brown (93.2%)

Sofia Lee (90.3%)

Chirp Featherfowl (89.7%)

Pete Conlan (88.8%)

the thinnest margin of victory to eke out a win went to Rue, who beat Amethar Rocks with a slender 52.2% of votes. notably, Rue kept up the trend in round 2, with their even slimmer 50.2% defeat of Gerard of Greenleigh, so it will be interesting to see if they're able to keep clinging on through round 3.

polls with the most votes: some polls really got you fired up, and brought Dimension 20 fans running in droves to vote for their faves...

Lapin Cadbury v Pinocchio with an unparalleled 1,636 votes

Squak Airavis v Kristen Applebees (838 votes)

Sam Nightingale v Colin Provolone (818 votes)

Katja Cleaver v Prince Andhera (767 votes)

Kingston Brown v Gangie Green (718 votes)

... while other polls had less fanfare. polls with the least votes:

Tuti IV v Maggie (347 votes)

Vicar Ian Prescott v Bob (388 votes)

Saccharina Frostwhip v Megan Mirror // Twyla v Marcid the Typhoon (392 votes each)

Bean v Amangeaux Epicée du Peche (409 votes)

Sunny Biscotto v Binx Choppley (416 votes)

it may not surprise anyone to know that it looks like none of the winners of these least-voted-on polls will be advancing to round 3; it seems the passion isn't there for these particular PCs :/

winning PCs with the most individual votes:

Lapin Cadbury (851 votes)

Kingston Brown (669 votes)

Fig Faeth (573 votes)

Evan Kelmp (509 votes)

Kristen Applebees (487 votes)

winning PCs with the least individual votes:

Maggie (255 votes)

Bob (260 votes)

Sam Black (269 votes)

Cody Walsh (274 votes)

Gunnie Miggles-Rashbax (285)

evidently, individual votes accrued in round 1 aren't a great basis for predicting future success - Kelmp was the fourth most-voted for PC in round 1 but won't be making it to round3, and Gunnie was the fifth least-voted for character in round 1 but on track to head into round 3 by a pretty decent margin.

campaign stats:

the most to least successful campaigns, by % of characters that won their round 1 polls:

Fantasy High: 100% (6/6)

Misfits and Magic: 100% (4/4)

A Starstruck Odyssey: 83.3% (5/6)

A Court of Fey and Flowers: 83.3% (5/6)

The Unsleeping City: 77.8% (7/9)

A Crown of Candy: 75% (6/8)*

The Seven: 66.7% (4/6)

Neverafter: 66.7% (4/6)

Mentopolis: 66.7% (4/6)

Burrow's End: 66.7% (4/6)

Coffin Run: 25% (1/4)

Dungeons and Drag Queens: 25% (1/4)

The Ravening War: 20% (1/5)

Escape from the Bloodkeep: 16.7% (1/6)

Pirates of Leviathan: 16.7% (1/6)

Tiny Heist: 0% (0/6)

Mice and Murder: 0% (0/6)

Shriek Week: 0% (0/4)

*ACOC: while Amethar was passes on to round 2 to compete against Pinocchio, he did lose his initial poll against Rue. if we included Amethar as a winner, ACOC would have a considerably higher 87.5% success rate, making it the third most successful campaign overall.

it's definitely interesting to see how the success of various campaigns has changed over round 2! Fantasy High stays strong, while the MisMag crew has been wiped out, and several campaigns have lost all of their remaining PCs. it'll be exciting to see how the numbers look when all of the final votes for round 2 are in.

thank you all so much for playing along with this bracket! I hope you're all still having fun and are getting hype for round three :)

[thecharcoalsalamander]

I want more Pirates of Leviathan. I want the campaign where they go find Spalding. I want more Myrtle the Bitch and Jack Brackow. More Bob being an absolute badass. Need now please.

Edited to add Sunny and Marcid the Typhoon being unlikely but adorable friends, where Marcid teaches Sunny more about fighting and pirating, and she continues to impress him with her growing skills.

#dimension20 #pirates of leviathan #Aabria Iyengar #Carlos Luna #Matthew Mercer #Marisha Ray #B Dave Walters #Krystina Arielle

[poopfriendtm]

Brennan Lee Mulligan: Think Treasure Island when making your characters!"

B. Dave Walters, Aabria Iyengar, & Matthew Mercer : Hell, yeah! I love Robert Louis Stevenson!

Krystina Arielle, Marisha Ray, & Carlos Luna : Hell, yeah! I love The Muppets!

#bob #dimension 20 #pirates of leviathan #brennan lee mulligan #b dave walters #aabria iyengar #matt mercer #krystina arielle #marisha ray #carlos luna #marcid the typhoon #d20 myrtle #unlucky jack brakkow #barbarella sasparilla gainglynn #sunny biscotto #d20 cheese

[elzee3]

So, Pirates of Leviathan

Loved it, and Marcid the Typhoon. But I’m a sucker for bugbears, he was such a fun character. And @quiddie ’s Myrtle was glorious.

#Art #fan art #myrtle pirates of leviathan #marcid the typhoon #pirates of leviathan #coloring this got away from me #myrtle was so fun to work on #and marcid’s tiny stache

[penguinpanic]

Say hi, Buccaneer Buddies! 

#dimension 20 #marcid the typhoon #myrtle #sunny biscotto #cheese #Barbarella Sasparilla Gainglynn #Bob #Jack Brakkow #brennan lee mulligan #B Dave Walters #aabria iyengar #Marisha Ray #Carlos Luna #Krystina Arielle #matt mercer #Dungeons and dragons #pirates of leviathan