Emily Axford's masterclass on D&D | 4-Sided Dive E14

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[adamhayden]

"Emily Axford is one of the best D&D players I've ever had at my table. And has been personally sent from hell to destroy me." -Brennan Lee Mulligan (most likely paraphrased.)

[Wolfvonbiele]

On the surface it sounds like she’s saying just get good with your spells but really she’s saying read the details so you can make your spells looks as sick as possible

[kylehahn]

Competency + Character = The Axford Method

[VivaLaDnDLogs]

I think Emily's experience with improv adds a lot to her roleplaying. She loves the characters so much (everyone's, not just her own) that it brings out better roleplay in everyone. Lastly, almost as an afterthought, she thinks of terrifying spell combos that will wreck any DM.

[orionriftclan]

Remember, Emily is a demon sent from hell to kill Brennan

[mdugs]

In a recent naddpod thing someone shouted out how great she is and she basically gave that answer and Murph was like “NO, you do X you do y you do z you do like as much homework as a DM for each of your characters” so I think the real way to get a good answer to that question is to actually ask Murph not Emily

[RealTomSanborn]

I have been playing D&D for 10 years and the way she just casually blew my mind with “Novelty. I want to go into every battle and use something I haven’t used before.” I can’t believe I’ve never even fathomed that ideology. Insane. Literally just changed my games forever.

[zijayar]

I mean yeah, she's basically saying to know what your character can do and think about how to apply that. Like luring in someone's rat familiar by making a sext rat.

[xantares]

Knowing your character’s abilities isn’t metagaming, it’s a skill just like roleplaying and it makes the game better.

[Doinstuffman]

"Emily is one of the best D&D players in the world. Endlessly creative, so fun to play with... she was also sent from Hell to kill me."

[smilingkelly]

I think a big key in the way Emily plays. Is that idea of novelty she’s talking about, but more than that, it’s not about min/maxing your character from the beginning, it’s about doing things that make sense for the character, even if it’s not the best “outcome” for the game.

[claire]

Marisha asked her why is she so good at DND and she straight up said " it starts by knowing your character sheet and reading your spells" am I reading this correctly

[NikNakNaj]

The novelty point is a good one because it probably makes you less predictable to the DM and forces you to learn from new situations rather than a rinse and repeat.

[GryphonDes]

Emily is a profoundly talented roleplayer and has flawless timing w/her improv chops -- it would be fantastic if we could have more of her in CR !

[celloafterdark]

I love seeing everyone praising Emily- she's amazing!

[MrYoyojuan]

Your DM puts effort into the game as a whole, imagine how competent you would be if you put the same effort into one character.

[RaeIsTiredCryptid]

Every single one of her characters she has done has been a banger

[Medaumplay]

'Read your spells" Wow. Didn't have to do us like that.

[zoelavenderlilypad]

I LOVE taking spells and writing some flavor text notes of what those spells look like when MY character casts them and ideas of what i can do with them, as almost a cheat sheet. I LOVE U EMILY 🫶🏻

[lawrencesaylol]

It’s that her character starts where Emily ends. She plays the characters with her whole heart.