Dimension 20 drops the cuddly act, launches new horror D&D actual play

Dungeons & Dragons actual play troupe Dimension 20 is pulling no punches with its next series, titled Neverafter. The hardcore, horror-themed game of Dungeons & Dragons will kick off with a table filled with fan-favorite players. Six intrepid characters will be led by Dungeon Master Brennan Lee Mulligan, who returns Nov. 30 to guide them through 20 episodes.

Dimension 20 is part Dropout.tv’s boutique streaming series. Fans will have to sign up to access the new season. Fans of past series will recognize the characters Ally Beardsley and Brian Murphy as well as Siobhan Thompson and Siobhan Thomson. Fantasy High, The Unsleeping City, The Crown of CandyAnd A Starstruck Odyssey. The characters range from an Analogue of Mother Goose Timothy to Puss in Boots or Pinocchio.

You can find the complete series description in a newsrelease:

Neverafter is the world of fairy tales, fables, and other folktales. It welcomes you into a new land, where terrifying, and sometimes even bone-chilling, stories from old are mixed with modern-day reality. One princess who slept in a tower for too long has been trapped by briars in the midst of fallen bodies of princes trying to save her. An elderly woman in red hood walks through woods lamenting what a wolf did to her family. One-time cursed prince slowly turns back into a frog. These are but a few stories from the bizarrely familiar Neverafter.

NeverafterIt follows the success of another Dimension 20 series. A Court of Fey & Flowers, which combined 5th edition D&D with the Jane Austen-inspired Good Society. This new season will also see the return of what producers call “physical battlesets” — elaborate dioramas with custom-made miniatures to depict combat at the table.

YouTube is not currently planning to stream the series.