The Many Sword Forms of Gerard of Greenleigh (Compilation)

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Жыл бұрын

Prince Gerard of Greenleigh demonstrates the many sword forms one can do while fencing. From "The Rabbit Rushed Onward" to "Long Sniff of a Rose," you too can learn how to do the thing. To watch the complete season of Dimension 20: Neverafter along with the Adventuring Party talkbacks, sign-up for Dropout.tv: dimension20.dropout.tv/
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@luka-gl9dz Жыл бұрын

“Panther in the Porridge? That’s me, babeyyyy” zac oyama is a national treasure

@jamesjoy7547 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking Tony the Tiger: "They're GR-R-R-REAT!"

@galev3955 11 ай бұрын

literally scrollod for the comments to say this and it is the top comment XD 'nuff said

@DaBezzzz Жыл бұрын

As a swordfighter I can tell you, those pictures from the manuals are REAL hard to figure out sometimes. And the Poetic Metaphorical Verses to describe them, which are in older versions of languages I don't fully speak, don't help either. Gerard is FULLY in the right presuming that the guy in the picture was actually sniffing, because who fucking knows

@user-bq1vu5eu3h Жыл бұрын

Saw one the other day that was supposedly depicting a ringen method for disarming a dagger. My mans looked like he had three left feet and no neck.

@lucashayes346 Жыл бұрын

Historical treatises are fucking hard bro

@rochewatson4715 11 ай бұрын

I do HEMA, and this is incredibly relatable

@rochewatson4715 11 ай бұрын

I do HEMA, and this is incredibly relatable

@MenachemSchmuel 11 ай бұрын

i mean id imagine theyre not really meant to teach you the moves outright, but more as a reference guide you can use after you initially learn them with a coach

@VivaLaDnDLogs Жыл бұрын

Gerard is such a glorious disaster.

@GZilla311 Жыл бұрын

So a Murph character.

@clairecohen3178 Жыл бұрын

Murph is so funny and sometimes I forget because he plays the straight man so well

@Drekromancer Жыл бұрын

Well said. It was about damned time he got to go feral, though. And as it turns out, when you have a ton of emotional intelligence like Murph, acting like an immature dudebro is fucking _hysterical._ I'm glad he got to have such a good time this season.

@thejunkmommy Жыл бұрын

Him playing two different kinds of himbos in the last two seasons is the kind of balance the world needed

@plumeria1985 Жыл бұрын

@@Drekromancer Well don't forget Starstruck! Barry was one of the funniest characters that season(and that season was already unhinged from the start!)

@clairecohen3178 Жыл бұрын

@@plumeria1985 sometimes I think about "imagine if you will, me" and just laugh quietly to myself

@rabbit-rabbit-boy Жыл бұрын

@@thejunkmommydon’t forget dumbass edgelord in Unsleeping City season 2!

@TheBirdOfParadox Жыл бұрын

Plight of the Honeybee. It is sort of a sacrificial move. It is Plight of the honeybee because it is their plight to die. Like pulling the glass shard out of a fairy godmother and impaling yourself on it. Is it that kind of move?

@Drekromancer Жыл бұрын

Wow, never noticed the unintentional foreshadowing. That makes it much more interesting when he really does perform a heroic sacrifice later on. Turns out he was more than empty blustering after all.

@jamesjoy7547 Жыл бұрын

@@Drekromancer because we didn't know The Secret

@bluebawls Жыл бұрын

Hoky shit mæn

@user-bq1vu5eu3h Жыл бұрын

Fully half of the great Achille Marozzo's sword plays should be referred to this way. I mean half of them begin with something like, "And if the misfortune should ever befall you-"

@jamesjoy7547 Жыл бұрын

*That's* the guy's name! I've been trying to remember it since I saw the video

@t.rdixon6869 Жыл бұрын

Lou losing his shit at, "Two Eels for Supper" is absolute gold XDXD

@Verylengthyapple Жыл бұрын

I love that murph is reading his made up sword movements like they r official dnd 5e attacks

@rhysdevlinmusic Жыл бұрын

"im the hero of this fight, pinocchio didnt drown did he?" Has the same energy as "Coffee's ordered, is the ball dead?" From FHSY

@itwasidio1736 Жыл бұрын

lou and murph have switched roles

@fallonrishiva7841 Жыл бұрын

Murph is just so genius, the way he can perfectly matches the energy of the wheel of time form names but just make them so stupid

@Jaygorian1 Жыл бұрын

I can 100% imagine Lan shouting out 2 Eels for Supper lmao

@Arya-no2qc 6 ай бұрын

One day you must sheathe the sword, Rand. You must undergo the plight of the honeybee. Sheat

@jennyinutil2018 Жыл бұрын

As the series progresses I just end up saying more and more often "THIS WAS THE HORROR SEASON!"

@jaxsonadros2066 Жыл бұрын

Horrifyingly hilarious!

@math9172 Жыл бұрын

Seriously Fantasy High season 2 was way more horrific than NeverAfter. NeverAfter is more of an uncanny valley, creepy vibe rather than true horror IMO. And paradoxically it turned out to be one of the most unhinged and hilarious season.

@OdeOneEleven 11 ай бұрын

I feel like Brennan tried really hard to make it a genuine "horror" season but the Intrepid Heroes just weren't having it... in particular, the "Queen of Chaos", Emily Axford. By the last episode, it was just a big cartoon party.

@galev3955 11 ай бұрын

@@OdeOneEleven Well almost everyone did silly things (I wonder if they were subconsciously bringing in comedy to break the tension); and Brennan mostly just played along and "yes and"-ed all the silliness, or almost all of it. I think if he really wanted to, he could have reigned it in a little bit in the first few episodes by not engaging with all the jokes. But they were probably all just having too much fun and Dropout is a comedy platform after all.

@Hypersaiyanike 10 ай бұрын

@@math9172I share this stance with you, and have seen a decent interpretation as to why that is. Horror is rooted in the feeling of being helpless in a situation and a fear of the unknown. The Nightmare King achieved this by being a constant threat that they couldn't swing a sword at or run away from, forcing them to meticulously set up sleeping arrangements or face pretty grave consequences. It isn't until the last few sessions that an explanation for what's truly going on even starts to happen, but to solve any of it they have to go into the forest where the Nightmare King makes the rules. In Neverafter, every encounter is prefaced by the context of the setting. Social interactions start mental "Guess who" games until the five seconds it takes for someone to pick up the right hints an KNOW who they're dealing with. Worse yet, they have the biggest piece of the solution in their possession from the very beginning, and are explicitly told so in session 1. Brennan did a lot of leg work to twist these fable visually, but that made it more gore than horror.

@greenredblue Жыл бұрын

"The guys doing the moves are... So skinny!" Ten bucks they're crude stick figures.

@origami_dream Жыл бұрын

Lou's trademark *banshee shriek* of explosive mirth requires a nigh-impossible Wisdom save to avoid laughing along with, every time, forever.

@WardNightstone Жыл бұрын

Actual sword form names in wheel of time Pebbles on black sand Parting the Silks Soft rain at sunset Robert Jordan used these because Reading about a sword fighting it usually REALLY boring so he used these names instead of "he blocked the downward cut and countered with a slash Wind and rain was Met by Cutting the clouds they all have descriptions of how they work for example Kissign the Adder is revering your grip and stabign behind you in an upward arc to catch someone behind you by surprise

@stevendonaldson1216 Жыл бұрын

Using the Titles of the sword play also let's the reader imagine it in there own way. Even if you don't know the actual forms, you can paint the pictures yourself.

@elrapido5150 Жыл бұрын

That is adorable as all get.

@l.o.b.2433 Жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, (having read only the early books), I'd much rather have a description of the actual moves instead of a list of esoteric sounding names. Maybe that's because I have a HEMA background where there's an "Oberhau" (Overstrike) instead more fantastical forms (although there is a guard called Unicorn, The Iron Gate, etc in Fiore's books. So it's not all HEMA that's to the point, just the German sources)

@stevendonaldson1216 Жыл бұрын

@@l.o.b.2433 somewhere there's a chart. I think it was HEMA peeps who tried to figure out each form then described illustrated it. I'd have to go find the link.....

@l.o.b.2433 Жыл бұрын

@@stevendonaldson1216 I found a KZfaq channel of HEMA people practicing these forms and that's pretty cool. It just doesn't work for me in written format

@alalessia Жыл бұрын

I feel like plight of the honeybee should have been the "I'll let him stab me and then hold on to him, so I can stab him right back and we both die" move

@Jaygorian1 Жыл бұрын

That's an actual Wheel of Time one called "Sheathing the Sword" lmao

@Drekromancer Жыл бұрын

There's so much comedic depth in the idea of taking something beautiful and making your own shitty knockoff with blackjack and hookers. It really characterizes Gerard as a wannabe warrior-scholar type, and it shows how little he understands about what kind of maturity that would require from him. Which makes it even more poignant when he finally grows up in the end.

@uhghouls Жыл бұрын

this is murph's time to shine but i'm so obsessed with the way brennan says "darling, this...rules" at 3:32

@mackswilliams8933 Жыл бұрын

The greatest Gerard line is simply just "TOM!!?!?" after being woken up at 5am

@zalekenney6754 Жыл бұрын

The fact that Gerard is constantly calling out his attacks is so anime. It is a very sleeping city, Cody move. At any point in the campaign does he “Go all out”?

@mr.invizible9742 Жыл бұрын

Yes, but just once

@itwasidio1736 Жыл бұрын

non spoiler spoiler: it’s a lot of hair until it gets down

@woodsytheowlscharedcorpse4761 6 ай бұрын

He goes full frog at one point, does that count?

@Hypersaiyanike 4 ай бұрын

@@woodsytheowlscharedcorpse4761 Frog wild

@cinnamonzor7043 Жыл бұрын

Gerard's sword forms are like a more realized version of the high-elven sword form bit from NADDPOD's Mage Madness arc and I LOVE it

@holliehrm7928 Жыл бұрын

I was just thinking that!! You KNOW he was thinking of Ren :D

@Earthheart Жыл бұрын

I love he got this idea from Wheel of Time because "Cat Crosses the Courtyard" is the first thing I thought of.

@pancho7776 Жыл бұрын

God I love Gerard and his whole story. Really is just about being an adult and not feeling like ur life is over if u hit some speed bumps or go in a different direction than expected.

@jamesjoy7547 Жыл бұрын

I had a similar character once - Mouse Crumb, a Gnome Monk. He would declare his forms: "Squirrel climbs the tree" "Kitten bites your finger" "Bumblebee tickles your neck" DM made a foil for him, an NPC that announced their forms. My favorite was when DM hit me with: "He counters with 'Cat got your tongue'!" Another player passed me a suggestion... "Silent Cricket In Your Ear!" Didn't work. But it was glorious! (edited for clarity)

@eliasmolck5566 Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Hak Foo from the Jackie Chan cartoon, who was always naming his attacks. "Angry crow takes flight" (leaping forward to attack) being his most common, but "rabid hamster rides wheel" (grabbing a water wheel to climb out of a river) always sticks in my head.

@connorwells1855 Жыл бұрын

And Omi from Xaoilin Showdown 😂

@jamesjoy7547 Жыл бұрын

@@eliasmolck5566 oh I wish I'd known about that Rabid Hamster one, that would be a perfect fit! I wanted the forms to reflect harmless creatures being mildly annoying - I think the most threatening I came up with was probably "Sparrow Plucks Your Berries"

@jamesjoy7547 Жыл бұрын

@@connorwells1855 I had to look him up on Fandom. And yeah, I can totally see it; weighs less than 20 pounds, all over the shen gong wu, voiced by Tara Strong, that's Mouse Crumb!

@jennyinutil2018 Жыл бұрын

"Silent Cricket in Your Ear", what a band name

@itsrouchus1863 Жыл бұрын

What a blessing to share this planet with Murph, love him.

@inverse2000 Жыл бұрын

Now imagine Cody doing these sword forms with his Thirsting Blade Dark Excalibur Mega-Genesis

@GZilla311 Жыл бұрын

He would kill himself with it before he managed one.

@mikochaos6310 Жыл бұрын

I just want Murph to write this whole book and sell them as merch.

@Rogue_Won Жыл бұрын

The compilation we, the fans, needed badly 🐸⚔️🤺🗡

@rajasurapaneni3501 Жыл бұрын

The wheel of time slander

@GZilla311 Жыл бұрын

I see it as acknowledgement, not slander.

@rajasurapaneni3501 Жыл бұрын

@@GZilla311 True but he did my boy Galad dirty in NADDPOD. As Johnathan Joestar puts it "UNFORGIVABLE!" I do appreciate the shoutout tho.

@GZilla311 11 ай бұрын

@@rajasurapaneni3501 Ah that’s fair. Galad is amazing.

@Kaptonii Жыл бұрын

I’m curious, did he have an actual fencing book with pictures? Or was Emily just improvising as if there where pictures?

@marys4038 Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he just wrote the names down in his notebook

@Rileysaura1 Жыл бұрын

@@marys4038 I dunno, I feel like Murph has shown commitment to prop bits before. We're talking about the guy who made a mini scroll for one throwaway gag in Crown of Candy after all.

@jamesjoy7547 Жыл бұрын

I envision a bunch of scribbles, that they improv from. My table would totally run with it: ""What's this one? Is that your mum wrestling with a lich?"

@deaf-tomcat Жыл бұрын

i think the "that man is so skinny" is in reference to stick figures that Murph must've drawn lol

@kayohwai Жыл бұрын

@@jamesjoy7547 That illustration is for the form, "Mother's quieting embrace." It's intended to neutralize a spellcaster. If you look closely, that's the guy from the other forms wearing a wig and a dress. See, he still has that pointy goatee, or is that his chin? I guess he was just that into portraying the forms accurately.

@Moonscar1 Жыл бұрын

7:10 we need a super cut of every time the d20 crew has done a brennan impression

@steegen101 Жыл бұрын

There are a few horror moments & emotional beats but... giggle fits like these make up the vast majority of Neverafter.

@gsmith3755 Жыл бұрын

"panther in the porridge" "that's me baby!"

@loser_geek_weebever2807 Жыл бұрын

this reminds me of the Ketan from The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. he did the same thing as the wheel of time, where it's like 42 named moves that goes from 'dancing bear' to 'maiden combs her hair' and he made up SO MANY NAMES

@liveadhdtv 9 ай бұрын

The reasoning was different. Basically the martial arts was supposed to be a secret, so he used the names so he wouldn't have to describe what it looked like.

@OneEvanescent 9 ай бұрын

As a longtime Wheel of Time fan, I could not handle my amusement at all the sword forms

@jamesjoy7547 Жыл бұрын

*Build-up* - Brennen says "I'll write this down" *Tension* - "C'mon! What is it?" *Release* - "...He had 9 HP left!" *Everyone* - "YEAHHHH!"

@hintofginger3144 Жыл бұрын

“Don’t gotta get ready if you stay ready b*****s”

@SeanCRinaldo Жыл бұрын

Of all the things to make a compilation of…this was the last one I expected 😂😂

@deegs6074 Жыл бұрын

Honestly after looking up real sword forms from wheel of time a lot of Gerard’s forms would fit in well. There’s is actually one called dandelion in the wind so

@iIxInertiaxIi Жыл бұрын

This is PEAK content

@Swangdangflang Жыл бұрын

3:07 The way Emily watches Murph trying to sell the sword forms is so cute

@nathaniel201 Жыл бұрын

Spoilers "I've always thought we might need to defend the Lines Between at some point" Should have learned those forms, Legend

@andrewdiaz3529 Жыл бұрын

"Rabbit Rushed Onward" sounds a lot like "Boar Rushing Down the Mountain" from Wheel of Time no lie

@auburn_rachel Жыл бұрын

i'm listening to NADDpod from the beginning and when they're in Gladeholm, Murph has his fancy royal high elf NPCs use similar fighting forms lmao. it's cool to see that he gets to play a similar character as a PC! (also ylfa reminds me of emily's character moonshine, just for the epic druid/barbarian multiclass combo >:))

@MightyAceCakes 8 ай бұрын

I miss as Pawpaw

@AuthenticApathy Жыл бұрын

This compilation was necessary

@heylolp9 10 ай бұрын

Gerrard is basically like a wizard taking minutes to flip though their spell book Just brilliant flavour for a absolute weirdo fighter character like this great work from Murph as always

@TempestInWonderland Жыл бұрын

I cannot tell you how much I would give for a second season of this concept! It was hitting so many of my favorite things!

@MicahEdmonds Жыл бұрын

These were the Gladeholm Elves from Naddpod reskinned, right? Frog On The Water!!!!

@MalkuthSephira 5 ай бұрын

"Darling, this rules" hit me inexplicably hard

@sllimjimsinkhole 11 ай бұрын

Gerard brings me so much joy, I almost wish he stayed an uptight prince for a longer time.

@chew_1993 3 ай бұрын

Gerard is such a Murph character

@GDBadger Жыл бұрын

I was hoping for a compilation of these! Love it 😂

@azurebunny4155 11 ай бұрын

"It's a bad move" - I love it so much *__*

@Closer2Zero Жыл бұрын

Honestly, its weird and hilarious that Murph both seems to really like playing horrible fathers/husbands and is really good at, while at the same time being a really good husband to Emily

@Kinsume1 Жыл бұрын

I've never been so happy to throw a link to my spouse, who has read the wheel of time

@blazekeaveny645 Жыл бұрын

Dimension 20, huge fan! Loved the idea of Neverafter and I thought DMing a campaign loosely based off of the idea, but with Mythology, folklore and legends. with the two true BBEGs are the Little Star based on the nursery rhyme and the Narrator(me), acting as my extension on the world. Just wanted to say thanks for this awesome series, can't wait to finish it!

@Maurenriques Жыл бұрын

Stop please this poor pathetic frogman is simply trying his BEST

@idrc1415 Жыл бұрын

Pathetic? Did you not hear? He's a real hero!

@Maurenriques Жыл бұрын

He's just trying to be a *GOOD FRIEND* for his *EX WIFE*

@ellieahearn4055 Жыл бұрын

I watched the full season. Did not remember this bit for some reason. Glad I had this reminder

@user-bq1vu5eu3h Жыл бұрын

Flashbacks to my DM putting me on the spot with "and describe your attack for us" because he knows I'm a swordfighter. Problem is we don't have fun Robert Jordan names for it irl. Instead real fencing manuals are just like "and if they try to stab your low opening, stab them first but better, like so."

@lastnamefirstname8655 Жыл бұрын

gerard has so many sword forms it's impressive.

@jennegatron Жыл бұрын

Murph is the funniest man alive. Gerard is a perfect character.

@Morhek Жыл бұрын

I love that Gerard shouts his attack names like a Naruto character.

@toshmagosh666 Жыл бұрын

i love that he got this idea from wheel of time because i always found the sword forms cool but the way he's doing it is so silly

@Time628 10 ай бұрын

I know Murph was inspired by Wheel of Time, but when I first heard him naming sword forms, my first thought was Xoulin Showdown. One of the main characters, Omi, shouts out his moves all the time. One that sticks out in my mind is "Sparrow catches hot dog"

@hubofinsanity4122 11 ай бұрын

this is probably my favorite season

@nehemiahsomers4141 10 ай бұрын

For real, it's not very scary but its so funny I love it

@hubofinsanity4122 10 ай бұрын

@@nehemiahsomers4141 its got the creepy horror aesthetic around it with haunting images and then the cast comes in and has fun bits but if you think about a man sized frog for too long its kinda scary. especially if you’re a frog owner and have experienced them putting anything that can fit in their mouth in said mouth and eating it. Gerard could have easily been a killer if he wasn’t so Gerard.

@enbyglitch Жыл бұрын

Been waiting for something like this, thanks ^^

@Mylo8328 9 ай бұрын

Such an underrated season fr I adore all these characters

@whispywind1015 Жыл бұрын

I feel like this is a fighter with wizard energy

@Bearwiffa228 Жыл бұрын

Now I want to see the entire season, just to know for sure if he ever uses plight of the honey bee...

@tamrymer4153 Жыл бұрын

I would love for Gerard and gilear to meet

@kylesouhrada8036 Жыл бұрын

I've been waiting so long for this one specifically

@tiffany02020 3 ай бұрын

Gods Plight of the Honeybee fuckin kills me every time hahaha

@embvrry Ай бұрын

boulder in the chute is so funny for no reason

@KnotAnOwl 11 ай бұрын

I've never been more confused about mixing up Wheel of Time and Wheel of Fortune.

@raoulduke2924 10 ай бұрын

I'm in the middle of reading Wheel of Time so it was very fun to hear all of Gerard's forms throughout the campaign.

@theaggrokrag 6 ай бұрын

Cat Crosses The Courtyard into Heron Wading in The Rushes finishing with Soft Rain st Sunset

@erinhigbee9682 Жыл бұрын

This makes me wanna rewatch neverafter and it just ended 😂