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@adamhayden44559 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.)
@RegnumMortis9 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!"
@evanbell6 ай бұрын
@@RegnumMortisAnd later that year, she proved him right with that Thunderstep move she pulled in Crown of Candy
@andypandypuddinpie6532Ай 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
@claire361411 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
@addicteduser811 ай бұрын
Yup :D
@addicteduser811 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!
@claire361410 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
@kylehahn441010 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.
@joshp853510 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.
@britnicox39299 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
@theGhoulman9 ай бұрын
100% she gets it. Heck, the spells are all inspired by books and movies right?
@CatherinesClaws2 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
@kylehahn441010 ай бұрын
Competency + Character = The Axford Method
@toddalexander501510 ай бұрын
Dont forget to add "Action movie + novelty"
@KamiakHD9 ай бұрын
GENIUS
@mdugan166 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
@joshuafrancisco1163Ай 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
@emiliehan357019 күн бұрын
@@joshuafrancisco1163 yes she's lawful chaotic which is an alignment but it should be
@VivaLaDnDLogs9 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.
@Ailieorz24 күн 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.
@orionriftclan27279 ай бұрын
Remember, Emily is a demon sent from hell to kill Brennan
@epsilon4979 ай бұрын
And torture her castmates. Sexy rat is a prime example
@xantares1310 ай бұрын
Knowing your character’s abilities isn’t metagaming, it’s a skill just like roleplaying and it makes the game better.
@override3679 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
@paawan37649 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.
@oscarsalazar58766 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.
@Ailieorz23 күн бұрын
@@override367 because they're all so absorbed by themselves thinking they're the main character. That and Matt just enables them
@raine-time5 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
@celloafterdark41735 ай бұрын
I love seeing everyone praising Emily- she's amazing!
@NikNakNaj9 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.
@lawrencesaylol9 ай бұрын
It’s that her character starts where Emily ends. She plays the characters with her whole heart.
@lawrencesaylol5 ай бұрын
Siobhan said she literally makes binders for every character and creates a 5-10 year plan for them.
@mrraisbeck9 ай бұрын
Her secret? Reading *hairflip*
@banquetoftheleviathan14049 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
@MrYoyojuan9 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.
@override3679 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
@raekaskie15215 күн бұрын
Every single one of her characters she has done has been a banger
@zoelavenderlilypad78638 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 🫶🏻
@TheKillaShow5 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.
@fennec988221 сағат бұрын
possibly the best d&d player in the world tbh. insanely creative and skilled and so so good at roleplay
@StrawberryCrush2000Ай бұрын
she is the best d&d player in the world full stop
@SignumInterriti8 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!
@Rzepcl11 ай бұрын
I love her so much!!!!!!
@Jcrobify8 ай бұрын
She’s a total D&D Nerd who has read her entire D&D library of books. Lol
@thomaselliott502611 ай бұрын
Emily just proving that she belongs at any table she wants to play at. Hopefully the CR folks learned a little something.
@theGhoulman9 ай бұрын
except, Laura vs. Emily fight club.
@Ailieorz23 күн 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
@theGhoulman23 күн 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.
@adaniel86326 ай бұрын
I know you can't really win DnD but I think Emily Axford has and did.
@Summer_Lee11 ай бұрын
Emily is a meeeenniicceeee!!!
@kenmizoguchi68009 ай бұрын
That’s the pitch perfect dude
@rhiannajd44125 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.
@DrekromancerАй бұрын
True love is real and this video is proof
@DrekromancerАй 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.
@MrThejunkman8 ай бұрын
knowledge of the game is as simple as just reading the rules and not having the memory of a goldfish
@jennyinutil20183 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
@CaptCKernel5 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
@LittleBananaJoe5 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…
@_marchmaker5 ай бұрын
her teeth are PERFECT like how!!!
@elena5888Ай бұрын
i am so sorry, but is that the guy from pitch perfect???
@addicteduser8Ай бұрын
You mean Utkarsh? Yep haha
@isaactelesco21419 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
@intoxicatedconqueror8 ай бұрын
😁
@NamedNitrogen3 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_887 ай бұрын
Has Emily played DND with an 8-Ball?
@SecondAftermathАй 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?
@addicteduser8Ай бұрын
More or less, yeah :D
@Vinzaf4 ай бұрын
Take improv classes.
@codyfisher398525 күн бұрын
only prob with her is everything i listen to with her in it she cuts ppl off all the time
@navdhillon79125 ай бұрын
Talisen is embarrassing bad at knowing how his characters work or common game mechanics...so I hope his mind could handle Emily's 'duh' answer lol