Lou Wilson (a regular Dimension 20 player and as of 2022 the announcer for Jimmy Kimmel Live) plays Whitney Jammer, a Chicago high school athlete who’s all about the team, whatever team he might be on. The cast is filled with veterans of the emerging, and booming, actual play genre. It’s a tale that mixes the familiar and the deliberately subversive: four diverse American kids are invited to become the first exchange students at a prestigious British school of witchcraft and wizardry. No, in the Misfits and Magic mini-season of long-running D&D show Dimension 20, game master Aabria Iyengar chose to use the Kids on Brooms system to tell her story. And the game they’re playing isn’t Dungeons and Dragons, though the actual play format is certainly inspired by it. The bunch of nerds in question are professional actors, comedians, and other masters of improvising in front of a camera. Misfits and Magic, a Kids on Brooms actual play So if you need to scratch that Harry Potter itch and you don’t want to buy the game (or go see increasingly terrible spin-off movies), I’ve got a humble suggestion: watch a bunch of nerds play Dungeons and Dragons instead. nor Rowling have an exclusive on the idea of teenage wizards and witches.
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