A new actual play ports Jane Austen into Dungeons & Dragons

polygon.com:

Dimension 20’s next Dungeons & Dragons actual play campaign offers up something even more dangerous than the Demogorgon — Regency-era romance. A Court of Fey & Flowers is a 10-part tabletop role-playing series that kicks off Aug. 3 on Dropout TV. The announcement was made Wednesday, accompanied by a new trailer. Polygon sat down with game master Aabria Iyengar to find out what’s in store.

Iyengar is an old hand at working with the team at Dimension 20. Her first appearance with the troupe was back in 2020 in Pirates of Leviathan, where she shared a table with Matt Mercer, Marisha Ray, and B. Dave Walters. From there Iyengar’s career as a GM has taken off, leading to additional opportunities with Critical Role and The Adventure Zone, among others. Now she’s back and headlining Dimension 20’s next actual play campaign. Her goal? To take “a big swing” at moving the medium forward.

“There’s just something about Dimension 20 specifically that scratches every beautiful part of the comedy and improvisation and that wildly creative storytelling thing,” Iyengar told Polygon. “It opened up the new possibility for the kind of stories you could tell versus the sort of epic-tier, high fantasy D&D games that I kind of [grew up with].”

The plan is to mash up traditional D&D with Good Society, an indie tabletop RPG by Storybrewers. In a recent round-up, Polygon called Good Society “the gold standard in Regency role-play.” It’s a system that Iyengar simply adores.

“There’s something about the mechanics and how elegantly they’re written into Good Society that allows you to drop into the pacing of that kind of storytelling,” Iyengar said. “It shows you the specific ways in which your character expresses themselves. There’s a rumor phase