Dimension 20
Tabletop role-playing web series
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| 2025 | Dungeons and Drag Queens won the Queerty Awards for Best Web Series |
| January 24 2025 | Dimension 20 performed 'Gauntlet at the Garden' at Madison Square Garden, continuing The Unsleeping City story. The event sold 15,000 tickets in four days and was expected to be the largest actual play show in the United States. |
| January 2025 | Dimension 20 announced a comics adaptation of the Fantasy High campaign on Webtoon, scheduled to run for 61 episodes starting in spring. |
| 2024 | Christopher Cruz of Rolling Stone discusses Dimension 20's unique approach to storytelling, emphasizing its creative campaign framing, diverse representation, and focus on socially relevant themes. |
| 2024 | A Fantasy High miniature auction was held, donating 100% of profits to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and including scenery pieces and Dungeon Master's screen segments. |
| November 2024 | Dropout released the Never Stop Blowing Up game system for free on their website, a home-brewed role-playing game system designed specifically for Dimension 20's 22nd campaign, based on Kids on Bikes and created with less focus on game balance. |
| September 25 2024 | Dimension 20 continues the Misfits and Magic campaign, investigating the disappearance of magic using a custom game system that combines Kids on Brooms and Dropout's Never Stop System. |
| April 2024 | Dimension 20 conducted a live tour in the UK and Ireland, featuring the 'Time Quangle' performances with non-canonical campaign crossovers. |
| April 2 2024 | Premiere of a unique campaign featuring WWE wrestlers (Xavier Woods, Bayley, Kofi Kingston, Chelsea Green) in an Athenian adventure blending Greek mythology and professional wrestling. |
| January 2024 | Dropout released a behind-the-scenes documentary titled 'The Legendary Rick Perry and the Art of Dimension 20', which focuses on the work of production designer and creative producer Rick Perry. |
| January 10 2024 | Fantasy High returns for its third season, continuing the story of 'The Bad Kids' with more elaborate stage productions and a new theme song by Sarah Barrios. |
| 2023 | Moises Taveras from Paste magazine reviews Dimension 20, emphasizing the show's unique blend of game mechanics and improvisational skills that create unpredictable and authentic storytelling. |
| 2023 | Lauren Coates of Polygon reviews the show, praising its anthology format that allows for genre reinvention and highlighting the series' ability to deliver emotionally deep and comedic storytelling. |
| August 2023 | Dropout announced the resumption of all shows, including Dimension 20, under a non-struck SAG-AFTRA contract for Non-Dramatic Programming. |
| July 2023 | During the SAG-AFTRA strike, Dropout CEO Sam Reich explored potential interim agreements to resume production of Dimension 20. |
| June 28 2023 | Dimension 20 debuts its first campaign featuring RuPaul's Drag Race stars, creating a high fantasy adventure where drag performers play adventurers descending into the underworld. |
| 2022 | Neverafter campaign was filmed, featuring Graham Sheldon as director of photography and utilizing a five-camera setup with overhead shots of maps and miniatures. |
| 2022 | Dropout began auctioning miniatures from previous Dimension 20 seasons, starting with A Crown of Candy pieces. Auction proceeds were used to fund future seasons and support charitable causes. |
| 2022 | The show continued its successful run, producing multiple new campaigns and expanding its audience through College Humor's Dropout streaming platform. |
| November 30 2022 | The horror-themed Neverafter campaign launches, featuring twisted versions of classic fairy tale characters in a dark, corrupted land. |
| August 3 2022 | Dimension 20 introduces a Regency era-inspired Fae Court campaign, utilizing both 5e and Good Society game systems, marking another innovative storytelling approach. |
| January 12 2022 | The sci-fi campaign Starstruck: Infinite Cosmos begins, using the Star Wars 5e role-playing system and co-created with Brennan Lee Mulligan's mother, Elaine Lee. |
| 2021 | Glen Weldon from NPR praises Brennan Lee Mulligan's Dungeon Mastering skills, highlighting his exceptional improvisational abilities and responsive storytelling in Dimension 20. |
| June 30 2021 | Dimension 20 returns to in-studio recording with the Dungeons and Drag Queens campaign, which is the first post-pandemic in-studio production. |
| June 30 2021 | Dimension 20 returns to in-studio recording with the Harry Potter parody campaign, A Firebrand Academy, which is also the first campaign with a guest Game Master (Aabria Iyengar). |
| May 24 2021 | Brennan Lee Mulligan announced the resumption of in-studio production for Dimension 20 and other CollegeHumor projects, following COVID-19 safety guidelines. The show also began planning to use rotating game masters for side-quest campaigns. |
| 2020 | The full cast of The Adventure Zone appears in Tiny Heist. |
| September 16 2020 | The first fully remote campaign, Pirates of Leviathan, is recorded, marking a significant adaptation to pandemic production constraints. |
| April 8 2020 | Dimension 20 begins pre-recording episodes remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, starting with the Candy Land-inspired campaign A Crown of Candy. |
| January 2020 | Dimension 20 cast is laid off as part of larger CollegeHumor layoffs, with Brennan Lee Mulligan remaining the only creative staff member on payroll. |
| 2019 | Fantasy High: Sophomore Year was filmed, marking the last campaign to use the original geodesic dome set design before transitioning to curved walls in subsequent campaigns. |
| 2019 | Griffin McElroy appears as a guest in a live episode of Fantasy High. |
| 2019 | Fantasy High: Sophomore Year premieres, featuring live Twitch streaming unlike previous pre-recorded campaigns. |
| September 26 2018 | Dimension 20 launches its first campaign, Fantasy High, featuring the original cast of 'The Bad Kids' attending Aguefort Adventuring Academy in the town of Elmville. |
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