Dimension 20

Dimension 20 is a TTRPG actual-play web series and podcast produced by Dropout. The main show features the Intrepid Heroes with DM Brennan Lee Mulligan, but there have been several "side quests"Tweet. Posted 4 Jan 2021. Accessed 19 Feb 2023. With other groups of players and DMs. The show is primarily played with Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, but other systems have been used in the side quest seasons. While the show is filmed, all the seasons are available in audio format for Dropout subscribers with several campaigns are also available on other podcast platforms.
Because Dimension 20 is an anthology show, nearly every season features new characters and many of them feature new settings as well. This makes the fandom slightly different from other actual-play fandoms such as Critical Role and Friends at the Table, which feature a few campaigns stretched over many years.
==Campaigns==
As of February 2025, there are 24 seasons of Dimension 20 split into 5 longer campaigns with the Intrepid Heroes (usually about 17 episodes) and 13 shorter side quests featuring other players and DMs (between 4 and 10 episodes). These campaigns range from Escape from the Bloodkeep, a side quest campaign parodying The Lord of the Rings from the villains' perspective, to Misfits and Magic, a Harry Potter parody played with the Kids on Brooms TTRPG system.
*Fantasy High (September 2018-January 2019)
*Escape from the Bloodkeep (April-June 2019)
*The Unsleeping City (July-October 2019)
*Fantasy High: Sophomore Year (October 2019-April 2020)
*Tiny Heist (January-February 2020)
*A Crown of Candy (April-August 2020)
*Pirates of Leviathan (September-October 2020)
*The Unsleeping City: Chapter II (November 2020-March 2021)
*Mice & Murder (April-June 2021)
*Misfits and Magic (June-July 2021)
*The Seven (August-October 2021)
*Shriek Week (November-December 2021)
*A Starstruck Odyssey (January-May 2022)
*Coffin Run (June-July 2022)
*A Court of Fey & Flowers (August-October 2022)
*Neverafter (November 2022–April 2023)
*The Ravening War (May-June 2023)
*Dungeons and Drag Queens (June-July 2023)
*Mentopolis (August-September 2023)
*Burrow's End (October-December 2023)
*Fantasy High:Junior Year (January-May 2024)
*Never Stop Blowing Up (June-August 2024)
*Misfits and Magic Season 2 (September-December 2024)
*Dungeons and Drag Queens Season 2 (January-February 2025)
===Fantasy High===
Fantasy High is what can be considered the "main" Dimension 20 world, insofar as an anthology has a main world. It's described as D&D by way of The Breakfast Club, featuring characters in a fantasy high school setting. This was the first campaign featuring the Intrepid Heroes and was quickly followed by two live events, one featuring Brian David Gilbert and another featuring Griffin McElroy. The popularity of Fantasy High resulted in a sequel campaign livestreamed on Twitch following the characters in their sophomore year. A further two "live" events were recorded, "College Visit" for RTX @ Home and "Boys' Night!" for Roll20Con. A third season of Fantasy High covering the characters' junior year was announced in Dropout's 5th Anniversary video.Dropout's 5th Anniversary (and What's Coming Next). Posted 26 Sept 2023. Accessed 5 Nov 2023.
There are also two spin-off side quests set in the world of Fantasy High: Pirates of Leviathan, an adventure largely unrelated to the main plot of Fantasy High featuring a crew of pirates, and The Seven, a campaign following the titular Seven Maidens who became connected after Prompocalypse.
===The Unsleeping City===
The other Dimension 20 campaign that's returned for another season is The Unsleeping City. It's billed as "D&D meets NYC" and takes place in an urban fantasy version of New York. The second season was filmed remotely and aired in 2020.
==Fandom==
As of February 2025, the fandom has over 6,780 works on AO3, most of them rated Teen and Up. Most of the fan works on AO3 currently feature the Fantasy High characters, but most campaigns have at least 5 works. A Crown of Candy has inspired a fan podcast, a regular Big Bang event, and several vids.
Main pairings include: 
* Riz Gukgak/Fabian Aramais Seacaster 
* Ayda Aguefort/Figueroth Faeth (canon femslash pairing) 
* Zelda Donovan/Gorgug Thistespring (canon in freshman and sophomore year)
* Hunch Curio/Daniel Fucks (Slash, from Mentopolis)
Dimension 20 Wiki is the fandom's fan wiki.
==Example Fanworks==
==="Official" Fanworks===
*It's Alright: A Fantasy High MAPIt's Alright: A Fantasy High MAP. Posted 18 Dec 2020. Accessed 19 Feb 2023. by Dimension 20 Animated (December 2020)
=== Notable Fanfic ===
* Lunacy by Remidyal
The adventuring life has a lot of hazards. Adaine Abernant is less than a month into her freshman year, and she's already picked up her first kill, her first dead party members, and her first life-shattering curse.
Now she just needs to hold this mess together for four years, somehow.
* Midnight Oil by theCryptidZenith
Kalina was tired of being a shadow. Operation after operation failed because she couldn't get involved directly. She had eyes and ears, what she needed were hands.
And there was a particular pair of hands she had in mind. A child's pair of green hands, already dexterous despite his young age. Those hands were adept at teasing blocks from behind couch cushions and scrawling the correct answers on every assignment, but they grasp at other hands far too often.
* Walk this Empty Street by Fioment
When Adaine's parents left her to fend for herself in her last week of middle school, she assumed it was some petty power play and prepared to take care of herself until they came back. She wouldn't realize she'd been abandoned until she'd gotten pretty good at that, and had also gotten a mystery to solve: the disappearance of five girls around town, including one she knew well.
* The Pilot Program's Guide to Falling in Love with your Four Best Friends by Gretccheen
A poly retelling of Misfits and Magic following the four American students at Gowpenny Academy of Arcane Arts learn about magic, mysteries, friendship, and each other.
* Practice Makes Perfect by the_flail_snail
Riz privately wonders what skill check kissing falls under (Persuasion? Acrobatics? Animal handling?), and how many more times Fabian will pull him onto his lap or back him into a wall before Riz will gain proficiency.
===Vids===
* GLITTER & GOLD - A CROWN OF CANDY ANIMATIC by kindlespark (July 2020)
* soldier • poet • king | a crown of candy by breadddie/maddie (June 2020)
* leave it all to me! • fantasy high by breadddie/maddie (June 2020)
===Art===
* I started fantasy high and I'm having a blast digital drawing by crashsfx (2021)
* the girls digital drawing by hatepotion (2021)
* da bad kidzzz >:-) digital drawing by nutellarella (2021)
===Music/Filk===
Fantasy High features a band called "Fig and the Sig Figs." Several fans then came together to form a band called the Sig Figs Collective,Sig Figs Collective YouTube. Accessed 19 Feb 2023. Which has produced several fan albums for various Dimension 20 campaigns. Significant Figures is a Fantasy High fan album, Sucrosi Road King Size is a fan album for A Crown of Candy, and Voxes: Stimulant is for The Unsleeping City.
Additionally, YouTuber Night Yorb also produced a fan album for Fantasy HighNIGHT YORB: FANTASY HIGH FAN ALBUM. Posted 31 Mar 2020. Accessed 19 Feb 2023. As well as several other fan songs.
==Links & Resources==
* Dimension 20 (Web Series) at Archive of Our Own
* Dimension 20 Official YouTube
* Dimension 20's Official page on Dropout TV
* Dimension 20 Tumblr Tag
* Dimension 20 Wiki
==References==
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Category:2018 Podcasts
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