A Court of Fey & Flowers has a lot to say about love, class, and equality

polygon.com:

Dimension 20’s A Court of Fey & Flowers delivered on all the romance, intrigue, and revolution seeded in its earliest episodes. The Dungeons & Dragons streaming series, led by Dungeon Master Aabria Iyengar, also managed to deliver all the unexpected twists and turns that actual play is known for, breaking down the formulaic conventions of the Regency genre through mashup and the chaos of randomized dice rolls.

[Ed note: This story contains spoilers for the two-part finale of Dimension 20’s A Court of Fey & Flowers. Episodes 9 and 10 are now available on dropout.tv.]

While Iyengar’s “Pack of Pixies” achieved goals worthy of any D&D party (save the world) and a game of Good Society (find love), the rules of both games were totally transformed by putting them together at the table. Transformation is the name of the game with this one — combat rounds where Arcana checks are the focus, not physical attacks; a near-bloodless revolution; and love plots that aren’t exclusively romantic. In a season where the players reaching out their hands to one another has closed every episode, it’s unsurprising that reaching out — making connections of all kinds — is at the heart of what Iyengar calls this “very strange, very lovely story.”

Iyengar bookends these final two episodes from the rest of the series with a Shakespearean sonnet that sets the stage for the final choices between duty and love, the individual and community. She deftly brought all these ideas together in the series’ final encounter, where the party fought to keep the last remaining portal from the Fey Realm to the Mortal Realm open. This would prevent the flow of magic to mortals and consolidate the Court of Wonder’s power. It would also permanently separate Lady Chirp