Making a Monster

Media & Entertainment Podcasts

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.

Episodes

Giant Sharkbowl Ooze by Kobold Press

Wave Lurcher: Astra Fauna by Sarah Dahlinger

Extinction: The Dodo

OGL 1.1 & The Extinction of D&D

Ol' Chap Ettercap, ft. Critical Crafting

Mörk Borg's 7 Deadly Sins

Shoebill Cockatrices show a terrifying biodiversity of monsters

Migo: Stillfleet's bio-tech super-future scientists with Wythe Marschall

Extinction: The Call of the Giant Beaver

The Mukad: aberrant insect harbingers from Grim Hollow by Ghostfire Games

Aurochs, De-Extinction, and the Racism of Orcs in D&D

The Frog of Holding, ft. Nature Check

Extinction: Dragon Bones & Cave Bears

Giant spider chucking goblins in the MCDM monster book

Solarpunk in Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel

Extinction: The Florida Fairy Shrimp

The False Hydra & Larry the Kung Fu Kraken

Arrow of Destruction & The Wireless Troll

Peasant Rail Gun & Quantum Ogre

Luthic the Blood Moon Witch in Uncaged Goddesses