{"id":125776,"date":"2026-02-06T23:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125776\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:39:32","slug":"dimension-20s-oscar-montoya-is-playing-a-drag-queen-but-isnt-trying-to-compete-with-rupauls-all-stars-of-dungeons-drag-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125776\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimension 20’s Oscar Montoya is playing a drag queen, but isn’t trying to compete with RuPaul’s All Stars of Dungeons & Drag Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dimension 20<\/a>‘s Dungeons & Drag Queens proved that TTRPG actual play and drag go perfectly hand-in-hand, combining RuPaul stars Mon\u00e9t X Change, Alaska Thunderfuck, Bob the Drag Queen, and Jujubee with current Critical Role<\/a> GM Brennan Lee Mulligan for two full seasons of natural 20s and fake lashes. So when Dropout favorite Oscar Montoya was recruited for this newest seaosn of the D&D actual play show, he wasn’t going to try and compete with their success.<\/p>\n

Montoya does, though, play a Drag Queen in Dimension 20 season 27 – known to the fandom as Gladlands. Poppy Persona is a post-apocalyptic drag queen, making her lavish outfits out of the same materials survivors use in the nuclear wastes, and even though the concept was pretty far-fetched (because how close to the apocalypse could we\u00a0really be Guys?), we had to ask –\u00a0Were there any real drag queens that inspired Poppy?<\/p>\n

“No,” answered Montoya, “I try to avoid any real ones, only because, like, the most iconic drag queens did Dungeons and Drag Queens. Two seasons of it. So I don’t wanna compare myself to these amazing drag artists; I’m gonna create my own.”<\/p>\n

“There’s elements of the way that she is dressed,” continues the Dropout star, “That is Wizard of Oz inspired. Which is something that hasn’t been said yet, but it’s a little Easter egg for people to clock. You have the metallic corset, like the Tin Man, and then you have the scraps of fabric like The Scarecrow, and then of course, the claws.”<\/p>\n

“Of course,” Montoya concludes, “The name Poppy is a Wizard of Oz reference, which relates to her whole MO of trying to find these fiction books that have like transformed people’s lives.”<\/p>\n

The final episode of Dimension 20 season 27, Gladlands, airs February 10 on Dropout<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Popverse’s Dimension 20 watch order<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dimension 20‘s Dungeons & Drag Queens proved that TTRPG actual play and drag go perfectly hand-in-hand, combining RuPaul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[54580,54579,54578,20637,9,24,63,122,124,123,4943],"class_list":{"0":"post-125776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-brennan-lee-mulligan","9":"tag-dimension-20","10":"tag-dropout","11":"tag-gaming","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-rupauls-drag-race"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}