10 Favorite DnD Content Creators, from Dispel Dice

It’s no secret that Dungeons & Dragons has hit the mainstream in a big way, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. From sold-out concert stadiums and full-time-job YouTube channels, to scheduled streamed episodes people plan their days around watching in real time, there is no shortage of incredible games, advice and shenanigans to keep us entertained when we’re not playing ourselves. We thought it was about time we round up our favorites and share them with you. Here are our top 10 favorite DnD content creators!

1. Avantris Entertainment

Seven best friends playing D&D in their own epic homebrew worlds, wacky voices included? Sign us up! The Legends of Avantris have been playing Dungeons & Dragons together since college, and now they get to play and stream their adventures full time. Their focus is heavy on roleplay with loads of ongoing character development and tons of laughs.

They are best known for their ongoing Once Upon A Witchlight campaign, a story they’ve been building on since 2022. It follows a madcap group of carnival characters struggling with the consequences of their own poor decisions on their adventures. The Legends also recently broke all kinds of crowdfunding records with the Neon Odyssey Kickstarter campaign, a space opera trilogy for D&D that they’re playing through on stream right now.

If you’re already a fan and missed our dice collab, you can still pick up an Avantris x Dispel Dice "Once Upon a Witchlight" Iconic 7-Piece Dice Set over on their website!

2. Ginny Di

Our girl Ginny Di is all about helping tabletop gamers become better roleplayers, storytellers and tablemates. On YouTube, she uploads plenty of incredible advice for both DMs and players, with specific playlists for beginners if you’re new to the hobby. Dungeons & Dragons tables can be very male-dominated spaces, and Ginny Di is very much a girls’ girl if you’re looking to inject some more sparkle into your games.

What makes her especially unique is that she doesn’t participate in many actual plays or have her own streamed game. She prefers to play offline with her close friends, and she knows that’s how most people play as well. Ginny feels that she can give better advice for improving and having more fun at the table from that perspective.

She’s also famous for her fantasy-themed songs, parodies, and elf ears that get larger every time someone laughs at how big they are. And if you’ve ever wanted to see someone give Barbie D&D character makeovers, Ginny Di’s corner of the internet is where it’s happening.

3. High Rollers

High Rollers is a DnD live-play crew who also have Europe’s biggest TTRPG stream. They started rolling dice every Sunday 10 years ago. In that time, they got to host their very first live show on London’s West End, and have played Discworld Live at the O2.

They’re currently playing through their homebrewed world of Altheya, a land shaped and ruled by arch-dragons. Their characters have been on this journey for two years now, and they launched a campaign setting book for their world of dragons, dungeons and daring heroes on Kickstarter earlier this year.

If you’re looking for creators who play in classic D&D worlds you imagined as a kid, the High Rollers deliver heroic journeys, powerful dragons, mysterious dungeons and all kinds of high-fantasy magic on Sundays.

4. Join The Party

Sitting down to watch an hours-long actual play stream or YouTube upload isn’t for everyone, and sometimes you just need something interesting to listen to while you’re doing laundry. That’s where actual play podcasts come in, and we’ve got the perfect rec for you.

Join the Party brings collaborators together every week to play D&D in tangible worlds with genre-pushing narratives. Their goal is to make sure that absolutely everyone feels comfortable at their table, from long-time players and complete beginners, to folks who just love good improv storytelling.

Their current campaign is set in a superhero high school, and is packed with all the drama and excitement you can imagine. Their other campaigns have included a pirate story set in a plant/bug world, and a classic high fantasy story, with all their past episodes waiting for you to discover them.

5. Aabria Iyengar

Aabria is an actual play streamer who has been gaining more and more traction lately, and with good reason. She played Dungeons & Dragons for the first time around 10 years ago, when she joined her now-husband’s board game group. While she fell in love with the game itself, she also often found herself to be the only woman or person of color at the table. In addition to blatant harassment and racism, she often had to deal with other players questioning her knowledge and skills in the game.

Since she started streaming actual plays and DMing her own games, Aabria has been working towards ensuring that players like her don’t experience the same challenges. Now, she is a creator-owner of Worlds Beyond Number; she has been a player and DM on Dimension 20; she has also recently joined the main cast of Critical Role for their fourth campaign.

Aabria is a sought-after writer, RPG web series actress, DM, and player for multiple actual play podcasts and streams. You can find her taking up space all over the internet, and helping other women and players and DMs of color do the same.

6. Pointy Hat

Maybe you and your friends watch a lot of D&D content online, and love how weird and wacky the sessions can get. Maybe you want to get more laughs and eye-popping moments of your own at the table. Basically, if you’re struggling to make things weird, Pointy Hat is the creator you need to subscribe to to save the day.

Pointy and his human familiar, Antonio, help players create homebrew content with the purpose of giving it a twist within the constraints of the rules. The Pointy Hat YouTube channel is full of insights into things like how to fix bad bard subclasses, commonly ignored monsters, turning dragons into warlocks, better hags, and so much more.

Whether it’s characters, subclasses, locations, combat or monsters, if Pointy and Antonio find it boring or too standard, they have a video to make it more interesting, more playable and (as promised) more weird.

7. Critical Role

With almost 3 million subscribers on YouTube, an animated Amazon Prime series based on their first campaign, and sold-out stadium shows, of course we need to recommend Critical Role. If you haven’t checked them out yet, now is the time. They’re a group of friends who went from playing D&D for special occasions at home to an organization dedicated to quality storytelling and leaving better than they found it.

They’re currently adventuring their way through their 4th campaign saga, with all three previous long-term campaigns available for you to watch. All their campaigns are set in the same world, but each one features a different adventuring party. Their campaigns run for multiple years, allowing their audience to become truly immersed in the stories they tell, with the time and space to explore backstories in detail and go on plenty of fun side quests.

What makes these guys even more special is their charity work. When they say they want to make the world a better place, they mean it! The Critical Role Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to raising money and advocating for as many important causes as possible.

8. Treantmonk’s Temple

If you really want to get into the nitty gritty of Dungeons & Dragons, you’re gonna need to pay a visit to Treantmonk’s Temple. Chris creates deep-dive videos on goal-specific character builds, as well as rules analysis and optimization.

Chris was told that people who play D&D are either optimizers who do everything they can to win the game with the highest stats possible, or roleplayers who are primarily interested in storytelling and worldbuilding. While this may be mostly true, Chris doesn’t believe that these two kinds of players need to spoil each other’s fun.

In his videos and detailed guides, he explores ways to optimize game rules and character builds so they can be as effective as possible in the stories players tell, without compromising on the quality of those stories. His race and class guides are also extremely popular, and so is his own revised version of the 5e rulebook.

9. Monarch’s Factory

Also known as Dael Kingsmill, she’s another woman creator we love, making space for herself at the table. If you prefer your DM advice with a side of comedic value, she’s your gal. And if that wasn’t enough, she also deep dives into all the real-world mythology and folklore that inspires the games we love today.

You can expect content on things you can steal from other things for your D&D campaigns, hurting your players but making it fun, and fictional holidays for your players. But don’t let all the lightheartedness and whimsy catch you off guard. Dael is an experienced DM who has been refining her craft for a long time. Her tips, tricks and DM prep advice are sure to inspire you to try running your table a little differently.

She is most well-known for her Kingsmill Method, a homebrew system she designed for serious injuries. She has developed a set of tables that allow for major injuries and permanent scarring to have long-lasting effects on her players, their characters and the narrative as a whole. In addition to combat with lasting consequences, she also has her extremely popular SPERM Method to help DMs design towns and settlements in a more structured and purposeful way.

10. Dungeon Dad

Who doesn’t love a solid ongoing content series? Dungeon Dad is probably most well known for his Monster of the Week series, which is almost 300 episodes deep and counting! What makes this series even better is that every episode has a theme. For example, you can learn all about the most powerful D&D monster of all time, new post-apocalyptic monsters, the most disgusting monster in D&D history, the deadliest ghost, and more like that.

Monsters aren’t the only deep dives Dungeon Dad gets into. He also has series’ on Dungeon Mastery, Be a Better Player and tabletop roleplaying game history. You can also expect adventures, zines, and monster stat blocks. Known in the community as the archaeologist of D&D history, if you’re looking for scraps of lore to enhance your game, Dungeon Dad is the channel to keep your eye on.