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Kill Every Monster

Kill Every Monster is an award-winning Dungeons and Dragons podcast about every monster in the manual. Co-hosts Dylan and Aram are joined by a guest for a DM-deep-dive into a classic D&D monster. The first part is a discussion, and the second is a one-shot actual play where our guest takes on the role of the monster. Dungeons & Dragons is many things to many people, but at its heart lies a system that rewards players for killing monsters. In each episode we ask three central questions: What is this creature? Are they really a monster? How would you change them in Dungeons and Dragons? Each episode of Kill Every Monster is a contained story, so you never have to worry about being caught up or listening out of order. Pick any monster you like and dive right in! The show is free and available anywhere you get your podcasts. We are supported by listeners like you via Patreon where you can get ad-free versions of each episode a week early, and Patreon-exclusive bonus episodes like our DM Notes and and Cutting Room Floor series.

Copyright: © Dead Ghost Productions, LLC

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Rakshasa Jul 11, 2022

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We are joined by ⁠KP⁠.

KP is a creative tackling multiple fields including photography, cosplay, Streaming, TTRPG AP, and published written work. He's currently a permanent cast member of Glenbrook Unhallowed (Tales from the Loop AP), Void (Coriolis AP), and City of Light & Shadow (Fate AP), with many other charity one shots and long term APs under his belt. He's worked with major channels and cons, such as Roll20, Kobold Press, Gen Con, Jasper's Game Day. KP is also a Jasper's Game Day Ambassador, using his space to raise over $10k for charity in the last year.

KP strives to use inspiration from his culture as a PoC/South Asian to tell unique stories in all his works, with hopes to inspire those around him to invest in such cultures & their voices. He can be found on Twitter at ⁠@KP11Studios⁠.

CAST

⁠Dylan Malenfant⁠: Co-producer, Gamemaster
⁠Aram Vartian⁠: Co-producer, Editor

MUSIC

"A Truly Powerful Force" by NC Music
"Capital City" by Stephane Lorello
"Soaring" by Kevin Macleod
"Haratanaya Sree" by Veena Kinhal
"Return of the Mummy" by Kevin Macleod
"Duduk Drone" by Patrick Sainton
"Sunset" by Kai Engel

COMMUNITY

Kill Every Monster is a 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast. In each episode, we are joined by a guest to discuss the lore, mechanics, and story potential of classic D&D creatures. We debate tactics for maximizing these creatures in your game, and we ask the ever-important question: are they really a monster?

⁠Send us your questions⁠ for a future mailbag episode!

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Dryad Jun 27, 2022

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We are joined by ⁠Emily Buza⁠.

Emily is an actress, writer, and podcaster. She is the co-host of Whelmed: The Young Justice Files, a deep dive podcast about discussing and analyzing the DC Comics animated series Young Justice. And she can also be heard as a guest on several audio dramas and actual play podcasts, often playing superheroes, women with magic, and ladies in space. She can be found on Twitter at ⁠@emilyofarden⁠.

CAST

⁠Dylan Malenfant⁠: Co-producer, Gamemaster
⁠Aram Vartian⁠: Co-producer, Editor

MUSIC

"A Truly Powerful Force" by NC Music
"Capital City" by Stephane Lorello
"Elven Dirge - Mennai Um Vela Ata" by GoofParade
"Nu Flute" by Kevin MacLeod
"Water Lily" by Kevin Macleod
"Darkness" by Three Chain Links
"Marty Gots A Plan" by Kevin Macleod"

COMMUNITY

Kill Every Monster is a 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast. In each episode, we are joined by a guest to discuss the lore, mechanics, and story potential of classic D&D creatures. We debate tactics for maximizing these creatures in your game, and we ask the ever-important question: are they really a monster?

⁠Send us your questions⁠ for a future mailbag episode!

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Cambion Jun 13, 2022

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The Monster Manual describes Cambions as “the offspring of a fiend (usually a succubus or incubus) and a humanoid (usually a human). Cambions inherit aspects of both parents, but their horns, leathery wings, and sinewy tails are hallmarks of their otherworldly parentage.”

We are joined by ⁠Anthony Rapp⁠.

Anthony is a lifelong geek and actor, who now has the great fortune of living his best geek and actor life by appearing as Commander Paul Stamets in Star Trek Discovery. He also has enjoyed a resurgence of DnD love, having played as a kid, but not again until the middle of 2020, thanks to COVID-mandated Zoom sessions. He can be found on Twitter at ⁠@albinokid⁠.

CAST

⁠Dylan Malenfant⁠: Co-producer, Gamemaster
⁠Aram Vartian⁠: Co-producer, Editor

MUSIC

"A Truly Powerful Force" by NC Music
"Capital City" by Stephane Lorello
"Touch the Darkness" by Kai Engel
"Darkest Child" by Kevin Macleod
"Going Undercover" by Borrtex
"The Show Must Be Go" by Kevin Macleod

COMMUNITY

Kill Every Monster is a 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast. In each episode, we are joined by a guest to discuss the lore, mechanics, and story potential of classic D&D creatures. We debate tactics for maximizing these creatures in your game, and we ask the ever-important question: are they really a monster?

⁠Send us your questions⁠ for a future mailbag episode!

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Nothic May 30, 2022

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The Monster Manual describes the nothic as "a monstrous creature with terrible talons and a single great eye. When driven to violence, it uses its horrific gaze to rot the flesh from its enemies’ bones."

In this episode, we are joined by ⁠Synxiec⁠.

Synxiec is a part-time variety streamer on Twitch with a focus on story-driven games and open discussion on the gaming community and culture. Outside of streaming, he’s involved in tabletop gaming, being featured in multiple games as a player and also being a writer for ⁠Mnemonic RPG⁠ and ⁠Into the Motherlands⁠. His pronouns are he/they.

CAST

⁠Dylan Malenfant⁠: Co-producer, Gamemaster
⁠Aram Vartian⁠: Co-producer, Editor

MUSIC

"A Truly Powerful Force" by NC Music
"Capital City" by Stephane Lorello
"Agnus Dei X", "Divertissement - Pizzicato (from the ballet Sylvia)", "Floating Cities", "March of the Spoons", "Metaphysik", "Sneaky Snitch" by Kevin MacLeod (⁠incompetech.com⁠)
⁠Licensed under Creative Commons⁠: By Attribution 3.0

COMMUNITY

Kill Every Monster is a 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast. In each episode, we are joined by a guest to discuss the lore, mechanics, and story potential of classic D&D creatures. We debate tactics for maximizing these creatures in your game, and we ask the ever-important question: are they really a monster?

⁠Send us your questions⁠ for a future mailbag episode!

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Couatl May 16, 2022

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We are joined by Carlos Cisco.

Carlos, whose pronouns are he/him, is a newly minted narrative designer with work on the DMs guild, ⁠⁠#iHunt⁠⁠, and in ⁠⁠MCDM’s ARCADIA⁠⁠. Or it feels new because time got real elastic during those early days of the pandemic. His primary craft is television writing but unlike design work his ascent was not quite so propulsive, spending the past decade clawing his way up the ladder to find himself recently as a writer on Star Trek: Discovery. In the immortal and often maligned words of the Enterprise theme song “It’s been a long road, gettin’ from there to here…”

He can be found most easily on Twitter at ⁠⁠@carlos_cisco⁠⁠.

We were also joined this episode by Alejandro Torres, an archaeologist, DM, and writer from Chicago.

Alejandro is writing his own Maya-themed world setting, and planning a podcast to discuss Mesoamerican representation and celebrate Latinx/Indigenous creators in the TTRPG space. He plays Milo the Halfling Fighter on the ⁠⁠Adamo_AS⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Morphos_XL⁠⁠ Twitch channels every other Wednesday. He loves to chat about Maya archaeology, podcasting, and TTRPGs on Twitter at ⁠⁠@Tonal_teka⁠⁠.

CAST

⁠⁠Dylan Malenfant⁠⁠: Co-producer, Gamemaster
⁠⁠Aram Vartian⁠⁠: Co-producer, Editor

MUSIC

"A Truly Powerful Force" by NC Music
"Hurakan" by Ricardo Lozano (featuring Jorge Ramos)
"Discovery" by Scott Holmes
"Web Of Dreams" by Jorge Reyes
"Sazilakab" by Jorge Reyes
"See You Soon" by Borrtex
"Xibalba" by Ricardo Lozano (featuring Jorge Ramos)
"Kukulkan" by Ricardo Lozano (featuring Jorge Ramos)
"The Goddess Of The Eagles" by Jorge Reyes
"Dark Times" by Kevin Macleod

COMMUNITY

Kill Every Monster is a 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast. In each episode, we are joined by a guest to discuss the lore, mechanics, and story potential of classic D&D creatures. We debate tactics for maximizing these creatures in your game, and we ask the ever-important question: are they really a monster?

⁠⁠Send us your questions⁠⁠ for a future mailbag episode!

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DM Notes: Couatl May 04, 2022

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Hey, people! We are changing up how we do Dylan's DM's notes into an audio, post-edit and episode release discussion

For our first Audio DM's Notes, we talk about what went in to producing the Couatl episode.

Kill Every Monster is a 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast. In each episode, we are joined by a guest to discuss the lore, mechanics, and story potential of classic D&D creatures. We debate tactics for maximizing these creatures in your game, and we ask the ever-important question: are they really a monster?

⁠Send us your questions⁠ for a future mailbag episode!

CAST

⁠Dylan Malenfant⁠: Co-producer, Gamemaster
⁠Aram Vartian⁠: Co-producer, Editor

COMMUNITY

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Does It Murder? Apr 30, 2022

Show notes

Send us your questions⁠ for a future mailbag episode!

CAST

⁠Dylan Malenfant⁠: Co-producer, Gamemaster
⁠Aram Vartian⁠: Co-producer, Editor

COMMUNITY

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Deva Mar 14, 2022

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This episode, we are joined by RK.

RK - whose pronouns are they/them - is a Pro-GM, Podcaster, Streamer, Writer, Safety Consultant, and Event Organizer. They are the creator of the podcasts ⁠Prism Pals⁠ & the soon-to-be-released horror podcast, ⁠Fear in Living Color⁠. They are also the Safety Consultant for the Professional GMing site Start Playing Games. You can find them online on Twitter ⁠@russwildest⁠.

CAST

⁠Dylan Malenfant⁠: Co-producer, Gamemaster
⁠Aram Vartian⁠: Co-producer, Editor

MUSIC

"Cylinder Three" by Chris Zabriskie
"Rites" by Kevin MacLeod
"Reggae Life" by GOYMAMBA
"Gayatri Mantra (Tapestry of Light)" by Siddhartha Corsus
"Cold War Echo" by Kai Engel
"Run" by Kai Engel
"Soaring" by Kevin Macleod
"Ascent" by Jon Luc Hefferman
"The Time to Run" by Dexter Britain

COMMUNITY

Kill Every Monster is a 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast. In each episode, we are joined by a guest to discuss the lore, mechanics, and story potential of classic D&D creatures. We debate tactics for maximizing these creatures in your game, and we ask the ever-important question: are they really a monster?

⁠Send us your questions⁠ for a future mailbag episode!

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Season 1 Mailbag Feb 28, 2022

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Thank you to everyone who has listened to the first season of Kill Every Monster!

We answer several listener questions in this episode, and go off on a few tangets of our own. Thank you to everyone who sent us questions!

Kill Every Monster is a 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast. In each episode, we are joined by a guest to discuss the lore, mechanics, and story potential of classic D&D creatures. We debate tactics for maximizing these creatures in your game, and we ask the ever-important question: are they really a monster?

⁠Send us your questions⁠ for a future mailbag episode!

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Vampire Feb 14, 2022

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The Monster Manual describes Vampires as creatures “awakened to an endless night, vampires hunger for the life they have lost and sate that hunger by drinking the blood of the living. Vampires abhor sunlight, for its touch burns them. They never cast shadows or reflections, and any vampire wishing to move unnoticed among the living keeps to the darkness and far from reflective surfaces.” We are joined by Sharang Biswas. Sharang is a writer, artist, and game designer. He has won IndieCade and IGDN awards for his games and has showcased interactive works at numerous art institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. He has contributed essays to Dicebreaker, Eurogamer, and Unwinnable, and fiction to Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, and Neon Hemlock Press among others. He is the co-editor of Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games (Pelgrane Press, 2020) and Strange Lusts / Strange Loves: An Anthology of Erotic Interactive Fiction (Strange Horizons, 2021). Find him on Twitter @SharangBiswas and some of his games at astrolingus.itch.io MUSIC "Darkness" by Three Chain Links "Concerto Grosso G Minor 1" by the Advent Chamber Orchestra "Duduk Drone" by Patrick Sainton "Discovery" by Scott Holmes "Cylinder Two" by Chris Zabriskie "Epic Cinematic" by Scott Holmes Kill Every Monster is a 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons podcast. In each episode, we are joined by a guest to discuss the lore, mechanics, and story potential of classic D&D creatures. We debate tactics for maximizing these creatures in your game, and we ask the ever-important question: are they really a monster? Send us your questions for our Season 1 Mailbag episode! COMMUNITY Discord Twitter Reddit Instagram Facebook
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