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1 For All is an Australian Web Video Series by Deerstalker Pictures. It centers around a trio of adventurers in a Dungeons & Dragons game (and, of course, their Dungeon Master) in an unnamed land, and their various (mis)adventures. The series is presented skit-style, so we never get to see the full campaigns.
The three adventurers (and their players) are:
- Evandra/Eva (Laura Cagnacci): A half-elf mercenary fighter who leads the team; her player starts off somewhat reserved, but quickly opens up;
- Antrius the Great/Antonio (Thomas Taufan): A somewhat egotistical human bard, something he inherits from his player; and
- Nixie/Nicole (Alessia Medina): A pink tiefling sorceress with a penchant for setting things aflame; her player can be a bit flippant at times, but means well.
Not be confused with All For One, another web series dealing with another, unrelated property.
This series provides examples of the following tropes:
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In one short
Lumi, the cat who we normally only see in the real-life scenes, jumps on the table and knocks over all the minis - we get to see what that looks like from the perspective of the terrified player characters and NPCs. - Acting for Two: In-Universe. Given the DM usually represents everyone else in the world, Pat basically populates the world as all the NPCs, male or female.
- The Alcoholic: Downplayed with Evandra. She likes her drink, but is rarely portrayed drunk.
- The Bard: Antrius. It's rare he's without an instrument, be it a ukelele, a mandolin or an accordian.
- Berserk Button:
- Nixie does not appreciate it when someone takes away an opportunity for her to use Fireball. When Annandale the Warlock uses Eldritch Blast to kill someone right before Nixie was going to set him ablaze, Nixie can barely contain her fury.
- Vlithryn the Cleric has one regarding how her party uses her Healing Hands: Nixie and Antrius use it for nonexistent wounds, while Evandra asks her to cure her flu despite her having half an arm. She barely keeps control for most of the episode, before throwing herself into the sea. (Her player, Vivienne, is not too impressed about their ability to unwittingly kill themselves either.)
- Butch Lesbian: Downplayed a little with Evandra. She does eye off female NPCs a bit. Eva's got a stucky build, short hair, and is a fierce warrior who's pretty aggressive overall to people aside from her fellow party members.
- Chromatic Arrangement: Evandra/Eva is usually dressed in green, Antrius/Antonio in blue, and Nixie/Nicole in red (along with pink skin and hair).
- Confession Cam: Vlithryn addresses the audience in this manner in "Cleric". May be subverted, since it seems she is talking to one of Pat's NPCs.
- Credits Gag: The "Subscribe" video bit at the end of each episode is usually pretty funny and a little ribald, and always done by an NPC featured in that episode.
- Dark and Troubled Past: "Tragic Backstories" results in a competition between Nixie, Evandra and the NPC Killit. Antrius doesn't understand any of this, while Nixie amps it up to eleven.
- Deep-Immersion Gaming: A TTRPG example, although the characters are inksuits of their players.
- This can get broken a little, especially in "Stealthy Approach", as the NPCs, being the DM's creations, can sometimes be his mouthpiece in-world.
- A gag in Bardic Inspiration cuts away from the party harmonizing in-game to the ungodly caterwauling the actual players are doing to represent it.
- The Ditz: Nixie comes across as this a bit at times. In "How To Handle Creepy Players in D&D", Nixie's Intelligence score on her character sheet is shown to be 0.
- Failed a Spot Check: Evandra does not notice the thieves in the forest in "Perception Check". To be fair to her, her player did fail the eponymous check.
- Fighter, Mage, Thief: Played with a little. Evandra is a fighter played straight, but Nixie is a pyromaniacal sorceress with more focus on destruction than healing, while Antrius is a bard who can still sneak (sort of) and talk his way around things.
- Final Speech: Nixie delivers one throughout "Splitting the Party", complete with audacious claims about her life, something she had already been talking about for four hours by episode's start! Turns out this has been the case because she ran off after something shiny, splitting the party.
- Fish People: Vlithryn, the guest cleric in "Cleric", is a Triton, specifically a princess of Prisana.
- Freudian Trio: Nixie is Id, Evandra and Antrius can switch between Ego and Superego, although Evandra is more often than not Superego.
- Guest-Star Party Member: Several episodes have Pat try to introduce a new player, although dealing with the main party always drives them off by the end of the episode, though Annandale is so annoying that they drive him away.
- Healing Hands: Vlithryn is a cleric. This seems to be her sole use in the party for the one episode she's in.
- Heh Heh, You Said "X": Nicole gives a half-hearted "Heh. Willy." when guest player Andrew goes on an in-character rant about how his eldritch powers are not to be abused willy-nilly.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: The party's combined Murderhobo tendencies are played for laughs.
- Heroic Seducer: Antrius demonstrates a rare Spear Counterpart in "Roll to Seduce". It backfires (see below), but still.
- Hero with an F in Good: The party are not the greatest at doing the right thing. Among their transgressions are:
- Nixie's many surrenders to her pyromania
- Murdering a literal mound of people in "Murderhobo"
- Killing a hafling chef just trying to live his life.
- Nixie burning down a house...to cover for Antrius seducing the resident's wife...which was to cover for Evandra murdering their child.Nixie: Are we the bad guys?
- I Am a Humanitarian: Mogdar The Destroyer's family, which includes his orc mother and human father. Nixie also decides to partake during a family dinner.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Evandra, Antrius and Nixie are really just their players, Eva, Antonio and Nicole respectively, transplanted in the fantasy world. Even their names are derived from their players'.
- Ironic Echo: In "Roll to Seduce", Antrius successfully manages to seduce the Marquis, and they end up having sex which culminates in both of them repeatedly moaning, "Oh, Antrius!" Then the Marquis Eldritch Blasts... and it turns out Antrius has no resistance to disease. Cue the DM making a Slasher Smile and ominously saying, "Oh, Antrius..."
- Large Ham: Annandale (pronounced Ah-nan-dah-lay), a guest adventurer to the party in "The Party Guest", is a warlock who worships Xax'gadoth, and loves talking about them. A lot. And loudly. Eva, Nicole and Patrick are glad to get rid of him by the end.
- Mega Neko: When Lumi the cat jumps on the table, to the characters she appears as a tarrasque-like behemoth and she proceeds to step on them all (knock the minis off the table).
- Murder Is the Best Solution: In "Murderhobo", after accidentally killing an apple seller (for trying to sell the party an apple for two silver), they get discovered. It quickly escalates.
- Musical Episode: Season 3, Episode 1 "Bardic Inspiration". The team have been imprisoned, but managed to escape to a tune which everyone joins in on by the end.
- Mythology Gag: In "Magic in the Forgotten Realms", the Marquis challenges the party to game of Magic: The Gathering. At the time of the episode's release, the most recent Magic set was a Crossover with D&D, called "Adventures in the Forgotten Realms".
- Noodle Incident: We never get to see the campaigns in full; instead we get glimpses from these.
- Not What It Looks Like: In "Murderhobo", Evandra and Antrius try and pull their first murder victim (who they killed for trying to sell them an overpriced apple) off the path. His pants snag, they fall, and...they caught by a passerby supposedly engaging in necrophilia. Murder ensues.
- Practical Taunt: True to Vicious Mockery's intent, Antrius kills a guard with it in the eponymous episode.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: Nixie seems to treat fire (and the people she sets it to) as a toy, really.
- Pyromaniac: Nixie. So far, every single ones of her spells have been fire related. What's worse, she doesn't even seem to consider using them non-violently. The only use she has for Create Bonfire is to burn corpses.
- Really Gets Around: Antrius does with no regard for gender, if his actions in "Roll to Seduce" and "Shopping Episode" are anything to work off. Gets him into trouble in "Cleric" and "Lawful Good Paladin".
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The colour coding of Nixie and Antrius is more than a little coincidental. Similarly with Evandra with her usually green attire, although she can also slide between the two in terms of temperaments.
- Rest-and-Resupply Stop:
- Subverted with the Minotaurium Emporium. It's full of junk, and because he marks up the price on them, Nixie can't help but blow it up. Alas, one item (Rock of Gravity Detection) hits Evandra (who has 1HP) and does 1 point of bludgeoning damage.
- Unusually, it does get a better rap in "Vicious Mockery", despite the happenings of "Shopping Episode", putting it more in line with a straight play of this trope.
- Rules Lawyer: Pat becomes this in "Rules as Written", in a rare case of the DM being the Rules Lawyer. Despite Eva wanting to invoke Rule of Cool, he doesn't budge, so the gang flip the script on him and fight according to the book, destroying the mook. He doesn't take it well.
- Say My Name: Antrius and the Marquis do this to each other while having sex in "Roll to Seduce". It culminates in them both moaning Antrius's name:Marquis: Oh, Antrius!
Antrius: Oh, Marquis!
Marquis: Oh, Antrius!
Antrius: Oh, Marquis!
Marquis: Oh, Antrius!
Antrius: Oh, Marquis!
Marquis: Oh, Antrius!
Antrius: Oh, Antrius!
Marquis: Antrius!
Antrius: Antrius!
Marquis: Antrius! - Saying Too Much: When Evandra and Antrius get captured by a cult who want to use them as sacrifice Evandra makes things things far worse when she spots the cult has an infiltrator; as she recognises him as Drizzt Do'Urden from The Legend of Drizzt and can't stop fangirling and giving away his secrets (that her player Eva knows out of game).
- They Killed Kenny Again: The main trio has found themselves in a situation where either one of them dies or they're all on the business end of a Total Party Kill... most likely caused by their own incompetence. However, come the next episode, due to being Dungeons & Dragons Player Characters, they're either in a world where Death Is Cheap or Patrick probably makes a whole new campaign nearly after every time they wipe but the players insist on continuing to use their regular characters.
- Total Party Kill: In the first episode, no less! Seriously, they don't even LEAVE the tavern before Nixie accidentally burns it down with them inside of it. And yet, it's not the only one that happens.
- Unwanted Assistance: Evandra tries to help Drizzt during a fight with cultists when their leader has a dagger to his neck, unfortunately for them both apparently Eva rolled a natural one in that moment meaning she limply throws a dagger at them which pings off Drizzt's armor. So he directly tells her to stop helping.
- Voice of the Legion: Nixie's voice picks up the echo occasionally when she is angry or threatening someone.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: After several episodes of the party only rolling nat 1's, "Roll to Seduce" has the party rolling consecutive natural 20's, culminating in Antrius seducing the Marquis and both of them proceeding to have sex on the floor. Then the Marquis "Eldritch Blasts"... and then asks if Antrius is resistant to disease. He's not.DM: [Slasher Smile] "Oh, Antrius..."
- You All Meet in an Inn: Considering the first episode references this in the title, you know this trope is in play.
