What Matt Mercer’s Meta Joke & The Time Jumps In Dimension 20 Mean

Brennan Lee Mulligan breaks down the deeper meaning behind Matt Mercer’s metatextual joke at the start of Dimension 20’s The Ravening War, incorporating time jumps. Mercer kicked off the premiere of The Ravening War with “water” before diving into a descriptive monologue, which is a callback to the finale of how Mulligan started Critical Role’s miniseries EXU: Calamity. Mercer also surprised the player with a time jump at the end of the episode, bringing the characters years into the future before the start of episode 2.