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Featuring an interview with Jeff LaSala, writer of The Ecology of the Gargoyle for Dragon magazine #423.

Jeff LaSala lived in Germany for only one year, long ago, and really needs to go back if only to see some more castles and pick up an untranslated copy of Die unendliche Geschichte. He is responsible for The Silmarillion Primer, the more recent and much shorter Second Age Primer, the Deep Delvings series, and a few other assorted articles on this site. Tolkien nerdom aside, Jeff wrote a Scribe Award–nominated D&D novel, produced some cyberpunk stories, and works in production for Macmillan and the Tor Publishing Group. He is sometimes on Twitter.

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The Prank Paradox, the weakness of whimsy, and what it means when the world is just cake.

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Making stink to spite yourself, checking your buckets for holes, and how to get along with too many cooks in the kitchen.

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Under the guise of picking apart the Monk class, we interview James Kerr (Radio James Games) about FIGHT TO SURVIVE, crowdfunding now no Kickstarter.

How do you find time to train while ransacking a goblin cave? What is the Monk's role in a party or adventure, and do the mechanics back it up? And how does FIGHT TO SURVIVE put the heart in hand-to-hand combat?

Check out FIGHT TO SURVIVE here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jameskerr/fight-to-survive

Twitter: @Panjumanju

Development Blog: https://www.radiojamesgames.com/blog

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Maximum Spider Output (MSO), teleporting leg-balls, and a friendly uncle over for BBQ.

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God-babies, mandatory birthday cakes, and three circles of God.

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Mary-sues, accidental-on-purpose plagarization, and the gothiest goths who ever gothed.

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Workahol, Brutalism, and magical capes.

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Sexy tree ladies, interspecial romantic triangles, and eco-terrorist fashion models.

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Half elf, half spider, all Drider.

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It's Halloween Month, so the monsters are getting restless. Will this mean more frequent Monster Mashing? Who knows. But please, for now, enjoy the biggest turtle in the game.

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Reverse dragon economies, goofy drought enablers, and the ultimate bird-cat-snake.

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A bad cat who is not where you think it is.

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Creationist theme parks, homebrewed Archaeology, and Wes' Dino Corner!

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keep BEHOLDing! The DEMON part 2 episode!

The Scorpion King, Demon Life Hacks, and the sex comedy of King Solomon.

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Part 1 of 2. We scratch the surface of the Abyss and discover Chris doesn't like organized chaos and doesn't like the TV show Stranger Things (probably for the second or third time). Wes soothes his wrathful soul with the cure for demons (and also a reasonable defense of the TV show Stranger Things.)

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The lights are still on here at Monster Manual Mash, but before we let the goblins back out of their bags, Wes has gone rogue and would like to elucidate on the finer points of the “Find Familiar” Spell.

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Chaotic Goblin Unions, Hipster Necromancers, and Villainous Heads of Note

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BEHOLD! The DEATHKNIGHT!

The Lithuanian flag, bad people who do good things, and a sorta-black-if-you-squint knight.

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BEHOLD! The BARBARIAN!

Quick detour before tackling the Ds, this episode is our angriest yet.

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BEHOLD! The DARKMANTLE!

Fancy biting  hats, reverse Bat-Man, and also regular bats.

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BEHOLD! The CYCLOPS!

Sheep keeping, flat earthers by nature, and hot pokers.

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This episode is all hands.

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BEHOLD! The Coatl!

Back from the dead, the Monster Manual Mash digs into the annals of history to give you our episode recorded in front of a live audience at Sadleir House back in November. We get heckled and fact-checked in REAL TIME, just like you always wanted!

Part snake, part bird, all snake-bird. The Coatl is a nice guy patron.

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BEHOLD! The COCKATRICE!

A neurotic monstrosity for your modern mascot needs.

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BEHOLD! The CLOAKER!

Half manta ray, half old coat, all gimmick.

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BEHOLD! The CHUUL!

Sentience settled, Japanese Bug Fights, and the golf ball maker's apprentice.

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BEHOLD! The Chimera!

Putting a hat on a hat, echidnas aren't just small ant-eaters, and Bellerophon was totally a PC.

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BEHOLD! The Centaur!

Party monsters, noble poison victims, and a human butt on top of a horse butt.

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BEHOLD! The Carrion Crawler!

Dungeon Slug, Dungeon Slug, Dungeon Slug, and Pepsi.

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BEHOLD! The Cambion!

Bad tattoos, angsty teens, and sexy devils.

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Hobbes' Leviathan, poisonous frogs, and gross faces you want to punch.

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BEHOLD! The Bulette!

Land-sharks, dollar stores, and power rangers.

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BEHOLD! The Bugbear!

Military Muppets, monster rehab centers, and high speed gobo-Darwinism.

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BEHOLD! BLIGHTS!

Wes knows a thing or two about tree oil, the whole forest actively hates you, and these peas are really big, as far as peas go.

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BEHOLD! The Beholder!

Finally got that out of my system. Chris justifies his hand tattoo with crazy talk, special guest Karol talks Cacodemon copyright, and Wes describes his experience of the ideal Beholder encounter (screaming, lasers).

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BEHOLD! The Behir!

The first potential dud is narrowly avoided by turning everything into weasels, demonstrating advanced eel knowledge, and cutting out some cardboard dragons.

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BEHOLD! The Basilisk!

Bad smelling chickens, how to generate rats, and an idea that enslaves you by thinking about it.

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BEHOLD! The Banshee!

Misogynistic biology, professional mourners, and, while ghosts are real, we'd really like you not to think about them.

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BEHOLD! The Azer!

Metal-based racism, fire worship and sexy elves trying not to be sexy.

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BEHOLD! THE ANKHEG!

9 AM is a bad time to watch Tremors, giant ants might actually be marmots, and a tree coming out of your neck HAS to mean something.

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BEHOLD! Animated Objects!

This rug was made for smothering, and that's just what it'll do. We talk chairs who think they're cows, magic as advertising, and the nefarious implications of Pixar's Cars.

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BEHOLD! Some angels!

Wes and Chris talk muscly, feathery, Abrahamic HUNKS. With the right setup, you can use them right out of the box, but have you considered covering them in eyes or making them look like a giant wheel?

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BEHOLD! The Aboleth!

D&D's favorite mind-controlling fish blob. Wes is all for it, but Chris thinks it's a hot mess. Is it Lovecraft-ian enough? What are “globsters”? And, have you ever seen an exploding whale?

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Welcome to Monster Manual Mash!

We are no one in particular, and we pick apart every entry in the Dungeons and Dragons monster manual, drawing from history, mythology, arm-chair psychology, pop culture and our own improv to figure out what makes each one tick.

BEHOLD! The Aaraokocra!

What do bird people from the elemental plane of air have to do with Buddhism, Romulans, and the planet Jupiter? Maybe if you LISTENED you would know, ok?

NOTE: We botched the quality of the recording so it sounds tinny. Wes fixes some of it part way through but, it is what it is. Rather than rerecord and lose the spontaneity and energy of our conversation, we are asking you to grin and bear it this time around. Don't be precious. Sorry. Sorry. We get better!

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