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Natural Six

Natural Six is a UK-based Dungeons & Dragons actual play (recorded sessions of people playing a tabletop RPG) video series in which prominent video game performers and personalities play a campaign set in the original world of Reliquiae, released on YouTube since April 2, 2024.¹ The cast comprises Dungeon Master Harry McEntire and players Ben Starr, Hollie Bennett, Alex Jordan, Doug Cockle, and Aoife Wilson.¹ Episodes average 197 minutes, and the show is distributed both as video and as an audio podcast feed.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Format	UK-based D&D actual play video series on YouTube, also published as a podcast; genres listed as adventure, comedy, fantasy, and game show¹
Cast	Harry McEntire (Dungeon Master), Ben Starr, Hollie Bennett, Alex Jordan, Doug Cockle, Aoife Wilson; Anjali Bhimani appears as Dasha¹
First aired	April 2, 2024 (Episode 1, "The Gods are Real"); Session Zero special aired October 26, 2023¹^•³
Funding	$86,987 (£67,932) raised on Kickstarter to fund the first ten episodes⁴
Setting	Reliquiae, a mountain-surrounded crater region where five agents of the shadowy organization The Web are sent on missions³^•⁵
Output	Season 1 lists 66 episodes running April 2024 to October 27, 2026, alongside a catalog of 195 specials⁶^•¹

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Cast and characters

The players are drawn from video game performance and games media. Ben Starr is known for Final Fantasy 16, Doug Cockle for The Witcher series, Aoife Wilson for Eurogamer, Hollie Bennett for PlayStation Access, and Alex Jordan for Dragon Age: Veilguard, while Harry McEntire of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 serves as Dungeon Master.⁴ The party of five player characters is Kelnys (Doug Cockle), Endellion Rinnan (Hollie Bennett), Raidion Thornbear (Ben Starr), Dolly DeWinter (Aoife Wilson), and I (Alex Jordan).¹^•³ Anjali Bhimani is listed in the cast as Dasha.¹

The campaign opens with the party tasked by The Web to aid in a sacred rite at the peak of Mount Atria, and subsequent episodes follow missions including a prison break beneath the city of Baruun and the burning of five buildings as part of a deception the party only later understands.³

Origins

The group first met in the summer of 2023 with no plan to make a show. In the Patreon anniversary post the six describe it as meant to be a home game with no cameras and no filming, just the six of them playing together. At that first meeting Harry McEntire produced a hand-drawn map and the story of Reliquiae, including the Wild, the Vile, and the Virtuous, the mountain-surrounded crater where the story unfolds, and the shadowy organization known as The Web. By the end of that meeting the group had decided to launch a Kickstarter and turn their games into something more.⁵

Before the campaign proper began, the channel published a Session Zero special on October 26, 2023, in which five agents of The Web come together under orders and face cryptic warnings and unsettling visions, and a Session 0.5 recorded live at EGX London 2023, aired November 4, 2023.³ The Kickstarter raised $86,987 (£67,932) to fund the first ten episodes.⁴ The cast count April 2 as the official anniversary, marking the launch of Episode One in 2024.⁵

Production approach

High production values from the start. McEntire has described the standard path for a new actual play, starting on Zoom and expanding as the community grows, and said the group deliberately rejected it in favor of something that felt like an elevated home game with cameras, lights, and miniatures. Because that costs money, the group chose crowdfunding on the understanding that backers had to be rewarded with the highest production values possible.⁷ The Christmas special used the group's most elaborate miniature set, and Alex Jordan put his own money into it after the build outstripped the campaign's usual mini budget.⁷

The show's storytelling style favors character-driven risk over optimal play. McEntire has said Ben Starr is the only player he has run who makes poor decisions because he thinks they are more interesting, and players described deliberately putting their characters in danger in service of the story; Doug Cockle's druid, despite stats Hollie Bennett put at 29 points above standard array, regularly chooses not to use his strongest abilities to keep the story interesting.⁴

Community and business

Natural Six supports itself through Patreon, where it publishes the episodes alongside bonus content such as the Action Surge post-show discussions, character journals, behind-the-scenes videos, and monthly updates.²^•⁸ In its first year the group's first merchandise drop sold out in 28 minutes, and the show collaborated with Funko POP!, Wizards of the Coast, and Magic: The Gathering, while appearing at capacity-crowd shows at MCM Expo and preparing for PAX East.⁵ The cast credits the community, including fan art and cosplay of the characters, as central to the show's growth.⁷ The group has also stated a goal of becoming fully self-funded through this model.⁵

Release pattern

Season 1 episodes air on YouTube roughly every two weeks on Tuesdays, with 66 episodes listed from April 2, 2024 through October 27, 2026.⁶ Each main episode is accompanied by an Action Surge post-show discussion released the following week on the podcast feed.² TheTVDB separately lists 195 specials between October 2023 and November 2025, reflecting the volume of bonus material the production publishes alongside the campaign.¹

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Comedy, drama, and general-genre web series › Premiered 2022 to 2026

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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