Dropout's Dimension 20 has returned for its 26th season and ninth to feature the main cast of Intrepid Heroes. The tabletop role-playing show is jumping into the steampunk genre for the first time in this campaign, titled Cloudward, Ho. The setting presents an interesting challenge for Dungeon Master Brennan Lee Mulligan and players Siobhan Thompson, Ally Beardsley, Brian Murphy, Emily Axford, Zac Oyama, and Lou Wilson, who are sticking with Dungeons & Dragons 5e. Though D&D can be changed and adapted to fit pretty much any genre, mechanically the system is primarily built for extremely magical, high-fantasy stories. And there are traditionally not a lot of fantastical people or straight-up magical wizardry in steampunk, as evident by how Cloudward, Ho's cast are all purposefully limiting themselves to playing as humans and non-spellcasters.Cloudward, Ho sees two wannabe explorers--one concerned with securing fortune, the other eager to find their long-lost grandmother--teaming up and recruiting four members of a long-disbanded airship crew for one last adventure to find a fabled continent believed to have disappeared in the distant past. The first episode has strong Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Treasure Planet vibes, especially regarding how delightfully absurd many of the characters are. In the new season, Thompson and Oyama are playing Fighters named Vanellope Chapman and Daisuke Bucklesby, respectively; Beardsley is playing as a Rogue named Olethra Macleod (though Episode 1 feels like it heavily implies Olethra will multiclass into something like Artificer before all is said and done); Axford is playing an Artificer named Marya Junková; Murphy is playing as a Pugilist named Maxwell Gulch; and Wilson is playing a Ranger named Montgomery LaMontgommery. No magic-manipulating Sorcerers, god-worshipping Clerics, or any of D&D's six main spellcaster classes--most of which have been regular picks for a few of the players, like Axford and Beardsley.Continue Reading at GameSpot