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Making a Monster episodes
- In Free League's Vaesen, Fairies Capture Changing Culture
Nils Hintze is the lead writer of Vaesen, a Nordic horror role-playing game by Free League Publishing. In this game, fairies and other monsters manifest the anxieties of a rapidly-urbanizing 19th century Sweden.
Read the full transcript here: https://scintilla.studio/free-leagues-vaesen
Read the transcript and get more from the show: https://scintilla.studio/monster-planegea-atlas-games/
Get stat blocks, bonus content, and other monstrous perks: www.patreon.com/scintillastudio
Join the conversation: www.twitter.com/SparkOtter
Meet my guest Nils Hintze:
https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/authors/nils-hintze-2/
https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/vaesen/
Music by Arcane Anthems: https://www.patreon.com/arcaneanthems
29 min - The Displacer Beast with A.E. Van Vogt - April Fool's special
The true and actual* origins of D&D's displacer beast with A. E. Van Vogt, author of science fiction short story Black Destroyer.
*This episode was released April 1st. Celebrity voices were impersonated, even mine.
Get stat blocks, bonus content, and other monstrous perks: www.patreon.com/scintillastudio
Join the conversation: www.twitter.com/SparkOtter
Acting credits:
Lucas Zellers: Caleb Curby, Lucas Zellers
A. E. Van Vogt: Nat Biggs
Closing music from Jason Shaw at Audionautix.com
13 min - The Monsters Know What They're Doing with Keith Ammann
Keith Ammann, author of Monsters Know What They're Doing, shows us how to decode a monster's game mechanics to discover its intended use. We also get into how culture makes monsters, both in game and out.
Read the transcript and get more from the show: https://scintilla.studio/monster-keith-ammann/
Get stat blocks, bonus content, and other monstrous perks: www.patreon.com/scintillastudio
Join the conversation: www.twitter.com/SparkOtter
Meet my guest Kieth Ammann:
https://twitter.com/KeithAmmann
https://www.themonstersknow.com
Closing music from Jason Shaw at Audionautix.com
18 min - The Raven Wizard - Coyote and Crow
The Cherokee myth of the Raven Wizard is retold in Connor Alexander's Coyote and Crow, a tabletop role-playing game set in an alternate future of the Americas where colonization never occurred.
Full transcript: https://scintilla.studio/monster-coyote-and-crow-raven-wizard/
Get stat blocks, bonus content, and other monstrous perks: www.patreon.com/scintillastudio
Join the conversation: www.twitter.com/SparkOtter
Meet my guest Connor Alexander:
https://coyoteandcrow.net
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/connoralexander/coyote-and-crow/#
https://twitter.com/CoyoteNCrowRPG
Opening music "Cloning Lab" from ComposerJD and Hoffzart at AdventureMusic:
www.patreon.com/adventuremusic
Closing music from Jason Shaw at Audionautix.com
23 min - Vo the Voice Snatcher, from the Bard College of Silence
From the Bard College of Silence by Kai Linder comes Vo the Voice Snatcher, an aberration capable of stealing the voice from your throat and adding it to its own. It's a kind of creepy that stays with you long after the fight is over.
Get stat blocks, bonus content, and other monstrous perks: www.patreon.com/scintillastudio
Join the conversation: www.twitter.com/SparkOtter
Meet my guest Kai Linder: https://twitter.com/Paradoliak
Opening music "Ethereal Temple" from ComposerJD and Hoffzart at AdventureMusic:
www.patreon.com/adventuremusic
Closing music from Jason Shaw at Audionautix.com
20 min - Bonus: Dvati - playing 2 characters across editions
Dvati is a race option for D&D to play 2 characters at once. An extra-long bonus episode 20 years in the making, bringing together the original Dvati designer, the 5th edition homebrewer, and maybe the only person to ever play Dvati twins in a long-running campaign.
Read the full transcript here: https://scintilla.studio/monster-dvati-race-dnd/
Get stat blocks, bonus content, and other monstrous perks: www.patreon.com/scintillastudio
Join the conversation: www.twitter.com/SparkOtter
Meet my guests, fantasy illustrator Talon Dunning and 5E indy publisher Mike Holik:
https://www.facebook.com/TalonArt
https://talonart.com/
https://darkmatter.magehandpress.com/
https://twitter.com/MageHandPress
Music by Jason Shaw of Audionautix
51 min - Wizmos from "D&D in Space" by Mage Hand Press
"They're capricious little scrap robots, and I love them." The Wizmos from Dark Matter (a sci-fi D&D conversion by Mage Hand Press) are just doing the best they can, and it isn't very good.
Get one-page-RPG Wizmo Havoc here: https://scintilla.studio/wizmos-dark-matter-mage-hand-press/
Support the show and get even more cool stuff: https://www.patreon.com/scintillastudio
Join the conversation: www.twitter.com/SparkOtter
Dark Matter by Mage Hand Press:
https://darkmatter.magehandpress.com/
Music: Starmachine2000 by Wintergatan, https://wintergatan.net/
License details: https://wintergatan.net/collections/download/products/license-to-use-wintergatan-music-for-video-and-livestream-background-music
19 min - Niels RPG Toons makes a Monstrosity
What if the Kraken is too big to release? Niels RPG Toons uses cartoon-style fantasy art to tell vibrant, expressive stories, including one about a tentacle monster so big it's an ecosystem unto itself. Get monster stats, lore, and papercraft miniatures for monsters from the Stars and Sea campaign bundle at https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-download-43834622
Read the transcript and get more from the show: https://scintilla.studio/monster-niels-rpg-toons-makes-a-monstrosity
Get stat blocks, bonus content, and other monstrous perks: www.patreon.com/scintillastudio
Join the conversation: www.twitter.com/SparkOtter
Meet my guest RPG Toons:
https://www.patreon.com/rpgtoons
https://twitter.com/rpgtoons
Opening music from ComposerJD and Hoffzart at AdventureMusic: www.patreon.com/adventuremusic
Closing music from Jason Shaw at Audionautix.com
21 min - Melusine of Avalon - Chris Hopper
The Melusine is one of the oldest mermaid legends in the world with so many tails in our modern cultural heritage that you've probably seen her even if you didn't know her name - much like the work of a good spymaster. Chris Hopper is a freelance writer for Realmwarp Media and student of Arthurian lore who updated the melusine for the Cities of Myth D&D setting.
Get the stat block for the Melusine and read the full transcript here: https://scintilla.studio/monster-melusine-chris-hopper
Get stat blocks, bonus content, and other monstrous perks: www.patreon.com/scintillastudio
Join the conversation: www.twitter.com/SparkOtter
Meet my guest Chris Hopper: www.twitter.com/chrishopper2
Music:
"Fathomless" by Will Savino: www.patreon.com/musicd20
21 min - 14: Grikk the Many - Matthew Whitby
What happens when the monsters level up too? Matthew Whitby, host of the Dungeon Master's Guild House, shares a goblin with power enough to be more than a level 1 punching bag.
Get the full transcript and see the art of Grikk the Many here: https://scintilla.studio/monster-boss-goblin-matthew-whitby
Get stat blocks, bonus content, and other monstrous perks: www.patreon.com/scintillastudio
Join the conversation: www.twitter.com/SparkOtter
Meet my guest Matthew Whitby and watch his YouTube podcast "The Dungeon Master's Guildhouse"!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZvHj-LI4-ZO10NCr_tRRzQ
https://www.twitter.com/WhitbyWrites
Music:
"Something Amiss" by Will Savino, www.patreon.com/musicd20
"Pennywhistle" by Jason Shaw, www.audionautix.com
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About Making a Monster
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Game designers show you their favorite monster, how it works, why it works, and what it means. Each bite-sized episode features a D&D or TTRPG designer and the monster of their choice.