JourneyQuest

A must for every D&D gamer. I highly RECOMEND these shorts

So imagine some LARP enthusiast's came into some inheritance money and decided to make a series. Its thin on story, the acting isn't great and the make up and costumes are pretty bad, however this is more than made up for by the comedy. It's charm is that it doesn't take itself seriously and for that it is endlessly enjoyable. Definitely worth watching!

JourneyQuest starts with your standard fantasy tropes – a group of adventurers: Nara the Elf (Anne Brady), Carrow the Healer (Brian Lewis), Perf the Yellow Wizard (Christian Doyle), and Glorion the single-minded Warrior (Kevin Pitman) out on a quest to the Temple of All Dooms to recover the magic Sword of Fighting (voiced by Jeremy Spray) while being hunted by a band of orcs led by Rilk the Wise (Jesse Lee Keeter). Additionally there is Wren the Bard (Emilie Rommel Shimkus) invisibly (mostly) recording the epic and the Assassin (Samara Lerman) hunting the party to collect a bounty.

From there it plays on these tropes in many hilarious, unexpected and memorable ways. The storytelling is very solid and the characters are vibrant. Two seasons in, there are a multitude of open story threads that will likely take 6 or 7 seasons to wrap up. And I cannot wait.

What I love most about JourneyQuest over similar gaming-inspired shows is that one doesn't have to be a gamer to enjoy the story and get the jokes. This makes the series much more accessible to the general public than say Gamers: Dorkness Rising, Standard Action, or Glitch (all great shows by the way).

The first season's episodes are short. Keep watching. They get even funnier and thread together well.

The writing is great. It's really well acted (including a few known actors and some who will clearly get picked up in other things) and well put together. For a series made without a big studio budget this is three notches above what you typically see.

I heard someone describe this as "Lord of the Rings meets Monty Python" and that's just about right. You don't have to be super into medieval settings to like this.

There are plenty of clever lines, funny subtitles for things not in English (surprise! Orcs don't speak English!), and plot setups that you don't see coming until they hit.

Funnier than most TV shows out there.

Thank you to the cast and crew for putting together a fun, enjoyable, enthralling world! This series for me was more enjoyable than a majority of the blockbuster and high budget movies or series I have watched. The actors made me fall in love with the characters they portrayed. The way the directors utilized the special effects made this world more believable than a lot of the over the top effects of today's mainstream movies. I hope there is more to come! Can't leave us hanging after the third series like that so I would assume there will be a conclusion coming.