Emily Axford's masterclass on D&D

Emily Axford's masterclass on D&D | 4-Sided Dive E14

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11 ай бұрын

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@adamhayden4455 10 ай бұрын

"Emily Axford is one of the best D&D players I've ever had at my table. And has been personally sent from hell to destroy me." -Brennan Lee Mulligan (most likely paraphrased.)

@RegnumMortis 9 ай бұрын

It was in a podcast with Brennan and Brian Murphy (Emily's husband). Quote: Brennan: "Listen, Emily is one of the best D&D players in the world, endlessly creative, so fun to play with. She was also sent from hell to kill me." Murph: "Yes! Yes yes yes." Brennan: "Yes! You understand me." Murph: "Yes!"

@evanbell 6 ай бұрын

@@RegnumMortisAnd later that year, she proved him right with that Thunderstep move she pulled in Crown of Candy

@andypandypuddinpie6532 Ай бұрын

I like how you have more likes than the main content… maybe it is because it’s sitting at 69 and I’m not touching that All I can think of of Laura saying “nice” lol

@britnicox3929 10 ай бұрын

On the surface it sounds like she’s saying just get good with your spells but really she’s saying read the details so you can make your spells looks as sick as possible

@theGhoulman 9 ай бұрын

100% she gets it. Heck, the spells are all inspired by books and movies right?

@CatherinesClaws 2 ай бұрын

this is why i loved caleb in campaign 2. liam read those spells and he always made them sound cool as fuck lmao

@claire3614 11 ай бұрын

Marisha asked her why is she so good at DND and she straight up said " it starts by knowing your character sheet and reading your spells" am I reading this correctly

@addicteduser8 11 ай бұрын

Yup :D

@addicteduser8 11 ай бұрын

A super great example of this is Operation Slippery Puppet. Her understanding of what she can do in that moment and game mechanics of the system was masterful!

@claire3614 11 ай бұрын

@@addicteduser8 I meant the read of this unintended but epic dunk on the DND player who casted wind walk on the middle of a battle

@kylehahn4410 10 ай бұрын

It's not just about being good at the game, imo. Emily's playstyle has always felt like combining competency with character, showing how understanding the mechanics will elevate what you want to portray in-game.

@joshp8535 10 ай бұрын

@@claire3614in fairness to marisha, she should never have been given the option of casting the spell, either, because its a minute casting time. Also, that was YEARS AGO.

@kylehahn4410 10 ай бұрын

Competency + Character = The Axford Method

@toddalexander5015 10 ай бұрын

Dont forget to add "Action movie + novelty"

@KamiakHD 9 ай бұрын

GENIUS

@mdugan16 6 ай бұрын

In a recent naddpod thing someone shouted out how great she is and she basically gave that answer and Murph was like “NO, you do X you do y you do z you do like as much homework as a DM for each of your characters” so I think the real way to get a good answer to that question is to actually ask Murph not Emily

@joshuafrancisco1163 Ай бұрын

There’s an adventuring party for Starstruck (maybe?) where Siobhan talks about how Emily’s chaos is very organized cause she makes like super in depth notebooks for her characters as a framework for her to improv on

@emiliehan3570 27 күн бұрын

@@joshuafrancisco1163 yes she's lawful chaotic which is an alignment but it should be

@VivaLaDnDLogs 10 ай бұрын

I think Emily's experience with improv adds a lot to her roleplaying. She loves the characters so much (everyone's, not just her own) that it brings out better roleplay in everyone. Lastly, almost as an afterthought, she thinks of terrifying spell combos that will wreck any DM.

@Ailieorz Ай бұрын

THIS. It's not all about her, she thinks how her character can help the group as much as what she can do for herself.

@xantares13 10 ай бұрын

Knowing your character’s abilities isn’t metagaming, it’s a skill just like roleplaying and it makes the game better.

@override367 10 ай бұрын

I honestly do not understand how the CR cast is (mostly) still so bad at D&D, the game is not very hard. The spells are not *that* complicated. It's been 8 years

@paawan3764 9 ай бұрын

@@override367It's because any sliver of actual strategy and synergy of abilities that might pair well together is seen as metagaming. They had 2 clerics in campaign 2. They were so underutilized it actually hurt to watch. PS some points for people who might come at me 1. I know it's their game and my opinion doesn't matter 2. I love the cast and there's nothing wrong with how they play.

@oscarsalazar5876 6 ай бұрын

It's also due to Matt's influence in his world. He's a fan of magical items having penalties (exceptions being the vestiges), he makes resurrection harder and harder. There's a strong feeling of magic being hard to pull off in exandria, while dimension 20/naddpod is more rule of cool and at worst rules as written. The other heavy advantage that Emily has over CR cast is she goes through so many classes because of d20, and has time to get comfortable with a preferred class because of naddpod. Even someone like Jake Hurwitz became a pretty competent dnd player, because naddpod campaign while long are much faster than cr campaigns. Brian Murphy and Brennan get very creative with their encounters as well.

@Ailieorz Ай бұрын

@@override367 because they're all so absorbed by themselves thinking they're the main character. That and Matt just enables them

@orionriftclan2727 9 ай бұрын

Remember, Emily is a demon sent from hell to kill Brennan

@epsilon497 9 ай бұрын

And torture her castmates. Sexy rat is a prime example

@raine-time 5 ай бұрын

She comes up with sick ass scenarios in her mind and calculates it in order to bring it into reality, she's so cool

@NikNakNaj 9 ай бұрын

The novelty point is a good one because it probably makes you less predictable to the DM and forces you to learn from new situations rather than a rinse and repeat.

@lawrencesaylol 9 ай бұрын

It’s that her character starts where Emily ends. She plays the characters with her whole heart.

@lawrencesaylol 6 ай бұрын

Siobhan said she literally makes binders for every character and creates a 5-10 year plan for them.

@celloafterdark4173 5 ай бұрын

I love seeing everyone praising Emily- she's amazing!

@mrraisbeck 10 ай бұрын

Her secret? Reading *hairflip*

@banquetoftheleviathan1404 9 ай бұрын

if you put glitter in your shampoo it like flings off your hair when you do that. but mom was pissed that i got glitter all over the tub

@MrYoyojuan 10 ай бұрын

Your DM puts effort into the game as a whole, imagine how competent you would be if you put the same effort into one character.

@override367 10 ай бұрын

You don't have to though, you just have to spend literally any time outside of the game reading your character's abilities and thinking about how you might use them

@StrawberryCrush2000 Ай бұрын

she is the best d&d player in the world full stop

@zoelavenderlilypad7863 8 ай бұрын

I LOVE taking spells and writing some flavor text notes of what those spells look like when MY character casts them and ideas of what i can do with them, as almost a cheat sheet. I LOVE U EMILY 🫶🏻

@TheKillaShow 5 ай бұрын

As I DM when a player tells me their action I ask them "what does that look like?" this usually gets their creativity going.

@SignumInterriti 9 ай бұрын

If you have that player in your group where whatever class/buildt they play, you think "this should be nerfed", cherish them! That's not a power-gamer, that's a powerful gamer!

@thomaselliott5026 11 ай бұрын

Emily just proving that she belongs at any table she wants to play at. Hopefully the CR folks learned a little something.

@theGhoulman 9 ай бұрын

except, Laura vs. Emily fight club.

@Ailieorz Ай бұрын

@@theGhoulman Emily would own her, there's no competition. One is actually good and the other just pouts till she gets what she wants

@theGhoulman Ай бұрын

@@Ailieorz Laura Fucking Bailey? Not a good player? The woman who got a green hag to drop a curse and let her go, with hands not cut off, with one spell, some dust of deliciousness, and a cup cake??? sure pal, sure.

@fennec9882 9 күн бұрын

possibly the best d&d player in the world tbh. insanely creative and skilled and so so good at roleplay

@Rzepcl 11 ай бұрын

I love her so much!!!!!!

@Jcrobify 9 ай бұрын

She’s a total D&D Nerd who has read her entire D&D library of books. Lol

@adaniel8632 7 ай бұрын

I know you can't really win DnD but I think Emily Axford has and did.

@rhiannajd4412 5 ай бұрын

If yall want to see just how fucking sick Emily is watch Episode 13 of A Starstruck Odyssey on Dimension 20. She straight up breaks Brennan.

@Drekromancer Ай бұрын

4:56 The "you wouldn't fuck me as a rabbit" clip wasn't a bit. It was principle. Emily expects a healthy relationship to bridge the difficulties that come from one person being magically transformed - so she expects Murph to weather it when she's a rabbit, and she affirms that he's still hot when he's a frog. That's integrity, folks.

@Summer_Lee 11 ай бұрын

Emily is a meeeenniicceeee!!!

@raekaskie1521 13 күн бұрын

Every single one of her characters she has done has been a banger

@jaeded2391 3 күн бұрын

I mean yeah, she's basically saying to know what your character can do and think about how to apply that. Like luring in someone's rat familiar by making a sext rat.

@MrThejunkman 9 ай бұрын

knowledge of the game is as simple as just reading the rules and not having the memory of a goldfish

@CaptCKernel 13 күн бұрын

The coolest thing about Emily and DnD is she doesn't have a lot of experience in it, she got into it as an adult later and was admittedly not really into fantasy at all but was just interested in the ttrpg

@Drekromancer Ай бұрын

True love is real and this video is proof

@jennyinutil2018 3 ай бұрын

> "It's like going to catholic school because the education's better than public school, not because you're catholic" God, I feel this in my bones

@kenmizoguchi6800 10 ай бұрын

That’s the pitch perfect dude

@_marchmaker 5 ай бұрын

her teeth are PERFECT like how!!!

@LittleBananaJoe 6 ай бұрын

The fact that after over like 5000 hours of on air game still no one at the table knows how sneak attack works tells you everything you need to know…

@elena5888 Ай бұрын

i am so sorry, but is that the guy from pitch perfect???

@addicteduser8 Ай бұрын

You mean Utkarsh? Yep haha

@isaactelesco2141 9 ай бұрын

Here's the answer. Read the book. Not like its homework, or like the achievement is what matters. Read it, like every page that has mechanics on it, is an opportunity to gain more insight to what You CAN do in the game, that the dm cant say no to

@NamedNitrogen 3 ай бұрын

This seems so Alien, I’ve only ever heard Emily’s voice! Seeing Emily’s voice coming out of a human face is just so weird. 🤔

@psychic_vampire_88 7 ай бұрын

Has Emily played DND with an 8-Ball?

@intoxicatedconqueror 9 ай бұрын

😁

@SecondAftermath Ай бұрын

Hmm so her process is basically that one character in the anime (usually the overpowered MC) whose really really strong because they just read in between the lines of their abilities. Take what's described in the ability literally and mold it from there. Did I get that right?

@addicteduser8 Ай бұрын

More or less, yeah :D