Creator / Ginny Di

Every time someone complains about the size of my elf ears, I get bigger ones.

"Hey friends, Ginny Di here!"

— Ginny's intro

Ginny Di is a YouTuber, tabletop gamer, singer, and cosplayer.

Ginny first started uploading videos in 2014, most of which contained cosplay tutorials and parody songs. In 2018, her content started shifting toward Critical Role fan content, with her cosplay of Jester Lavorre becoming her most notable work. In 2020, she fully transitioned to making videos mostly about Dungeons & Dragons, such as providing tips for better play and game running and promoting supplementary handbooks for the game. She also is known for her unique sponsorship segments, which feature storylines and unique, sometimes recurring, characters.

Every year, Ginny creates a calendar with pictures of herself in various cosplays as the pictures for each month. Her first five calendars were pin-up calendars, while her upcoming 2023 calendar is fantasy and Dungeons & Dragons themed. Additionally, starting in 2021, Ginny's calendar features original characters, rather than her cosplays.

Ginny has also released original songs, including "Melee Range," "Carol of the Spells," and an album titled "Songs To Drown Sailors to," which contains all original music except for her cover of "Jolly Sailor Bold."

Ginny has appeared on several live-streamed Dungeons and Dragons games, mostly for charity. She also appeared in Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story. She appeared in two promotional spots on Critical Role as Duplicate Jester alongside Laura Bailey.

Her channel is here, her website is here, her Twitter is here, and her Instagram is here.

Tropes in her videos

• Accent Interest: Ginny has mentioned that she likes using accents for her character voices. For various characters, she has used a British accent, an Irish accent, a New York accent, and a Russian accent.
• Acting for Two: Ginny portrays every single character that appears in her videos (not counting the boyfriend in the "Mermaid Girlfriend" shorts, who was played by her now-husband):
  • This is evident in her own responses to her POV roleplay videos, where she is playing Aisling responding to Elliwyn and Augury, also played by her. It's also present with "Elliwyn goes to the Matchmaker" where she is playing both Elliwyn and Edith, and "The healer and the half-orc" where she is playing Elliwyn and Na'Krasha.
  • Exaggerated in her video on D&D solo adventures where she plays Nymwen, Na'Krasha, and at least three NPCs. This is also present in a few of her sponsorship ads, with either her playing two different characters or just wearing a different outfit.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Lots of Ginny's original characters featured in her various videos have abnormal skin colors, such as Na'Krasha (who is green), Mariska (who is teal), and Augury (who is red).
• Author Appeal: Is an admitted fan of elves and tieflings, mermaids, and centaurs. This is evident in her original characters. Of the ones listed in the character pages, 8 are elves, a mermaid and a tiefling are present, and even a mixed-race tiefling-centaur is present.
• Bathtub Mermaid: The main character in her "Mermaid Girlfriend" shorts is one of these.
• Catchphrase: Always starts her videos with "Hi/hey friends, Ginny Di here!" She explained that she does this so that people know it's pronounced "dee" and not "die."
• Comically Missing the Point: The "mermaid girlfriend" tells her boyfriend not to worry about the plumber she killed - he fixed the faucet first!
• Converted Fanboy: Well, fan-woman. She wasn't initially into D&D until she started watching Critical Role, but has since become a regular player of it and now covers the game - plus others on occasion - regularly.
• Creator Backlash:
  • Her 2020 video, "Why you should build your character wrong" (viewable here), is one she's no longer proud of as of 2022. She would go on to "roast" herself for this argument, pointing out that while building a poorly-optimised character will work in some groups and parties as did it for her PC, in others it can be a liability. In the case of Aisling, it was also her first D&D character, and she wasn't as experienced in TTRPGs in general. Furthering this backlash was the fact that the D&D community is notoriously split on "min-maxing", and she kept getting flak for her stance.
  • Although she agreed to do some work with Wizards of the Coast for their promotion of One D&D, she would later make several public and scathing criticisms of the leaked plans for Wizards to overhaul their Open-Game Licence, openly saying that it was - in her view - a move that would only harm the community and her fellow content creators.
• Enmity with an Object: Puts her dice in "dice jail" as punishment for bad rolls.
• Fake Brit: A lot of her characters have accents that could be described as "Received Pronunciation" or upper-class English, most prominently Augury.
• Fake Russian: Na'Krasha speaks with a Russian accent.
• Nature Hero: Many of Ginny's original characters are connected to nature in some way. Aisling is an archfey warlock/druid, Penelope is a mushroom farmer, Artemisia is a ranger raised by a treant, Morelia is a classic hedge witch who makes potions from magical plants, and so on. She is admittedly a fan of these nature-based D&D subclasses and backgrounds.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Ginny's Perpetual Smiler nature in her pre-recorded videos is completely absent from her video response to the proposed changed OGL for D&D, showing just how furious and exasperated she was.
• Perpetual Smiler: Ginny is typically smiling in her videos, which leads to hilarious dissonance when she's being sarcastic, especially on Twitter. She constantly jokes that even though her viewers think she is sweet, people who know her in real life know that she is a brutal snarker.
• Poor Communication Kills: A key theme in her advice videos for tabletop roleplaying games; talk your problems through. Ginny argues that both players and Dungeon/Game Master need to be open if there's a problem such as differing expectations or behaviour making a participant uncomfortable, rather than bottle it up or begin sniping at each other, as otherwise things will go badly.
• Promoted Fangirl: After cosplaying as Jester, she got to meet the cast of Critical Role and even star alongside Laura Bailey for a skit for the team. She also got to work with Matthew Mercer, albeit on some different projects.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Ginny is openly bisexual, and a considerable number of her characters are LGBT+ in some form.
• Selfcest: Played for Laughs. She wrote a romantic subplot between her characters Na'Krasha and Elliwyn, then filmed Na'Krasha responding to Elliwyn's POV response video to show their first meeting. Of course, both of these characters are portrayed by Ginny herself.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: In her video on how to incorporate character stats into roleplaying, Ginny states "I have lots of friends, and none of them are just me wearing a different shirt".
• Take That, Audience!: She sometimes pokes fun at fans who ask her for more...risqué content.