The Creature Club podcast is a weekly podcast released on Mondays all about the monsters of Dungeons and Dragons. Where they come from, how cool they are and how we like to use them.
Dan Whyte, Mikey Deasy and Tim Porter
Flippin’ Flumphs! Our fleet of friends, the hosts, are searching for the few-and-far-between fiendish Fomorians! The lads lose their minds reading the paragraphs of impenetrable text for this ancient piece of Irish mythology. Dan, Mikey, and Tim all have plenty to share from fun, silly ideas to more fully formed and fleshed out thoughts on … Continue reading Creature Club Episode 84 – Fomorian
Another full episode where our favorite hosts frolic through the foul smelling cave to find the friends, not foes, that are the Flumphs!
This week Dan and Mikey discuss dungeons. Yes Dan did it before in a solo Cunning Action and no you shouldn’t go back and listen to it. This isn’t a bit or reverse psychology, I am begging you not to listen to that 30 minute ramble. Mikey would like to apologise in advance of you … Continue reading Talking is a Free Action Episode 3 – Dungeons
This week, Dan & Mikey discuss the hot-headed Flameskull. Do you remember in the Ghost Rider movie when the other Ghost Rider has a horse instead of car? Does that mean he also sold his horse’s soul to the devil? Answers below please.
A glass crashes to the floor behind you as you admire your fresh baked apple pie, you turn to see it in smithereens. “Well, that’s a shame. At least I have my pie” you think as you turn in horror to see your pie missing! Our hosts, Dan, Mikey, and Tim, trepidatiously trek into the … Continue reading Creature Club Episode 81 – Faerie Dragon
This week, Dan & Mikey return to the Dungeon Master’s Guide to discuss a number of magic items and end up side-tracked discussing the nature of D&D as well as a way cooler mundane interpretation of a magic mirror.
Oh my god it’s episode 80, look at that nice round figure. In this episode Dan and Mikey discuss the big two-headed ettin.
Another exciting episode including all three of our delightful hosts! Dan, Mikey, and Tim examine the arachnid-shepherding humanoid creature, the Ettercap. The lads discuss traps, garrotes, and lariats and consider some exciting expansions to the meagre pickings presented before us. In other words, this is another collaborative effort to make stuff more interesting with the … Continue reading Creature Club Episode 79 – Ettercap
This week, Mikey and Tim discuss the powerful celestial demigod; the empyrean.
Dan, Mikey, and Tim continue the investigation of the enigmatic Drow.
Another Creature Club episode spearheaded by the brilliant Dan and the blindingly-bright Mikey. This episode is brought to your in stereo surround and involves these travelling troubadours discussing the often misunderstood, but always mightily entertaining Elves of the underdark, the Drow!
This week Dan and Mikey traverse 3 letters of the alphabet in just one episode. If only they could be this expedient with monsters.
Dan and Mikey discuss campaign pitches, primers and adventures they’d like to run.
The lads are back at their old devious games, concocting virtueless villains to halt your party in their tracks. This time, Dan, Mikey, and Tim utilise the table of monster features from the Dungeon Master’s guide to pick to random feats to create 4 distinct monsters/villains and use their collective imaginations to work them into … Continue reading Villain Squad 9 – Random Feat
In part 2 of our explorers’ endeavour to examine these creatures of pure elemental energy, Dad, Mikey, and Tim get up close and personal with the water and fire elementals.
Our heroes embark on another extra-planar exploration into the world of the Elemantals! Excellent examples of ephemeral spirit creatures that can be easily summoned for some exciting encounters! You can find Dan’s supplement here: Hidal’s Tome of the Esoteric
Today, Dan and Mikey hop down into the vault to find some interesting items, instruments, and implements in this incredible episode of Teasure Trove!
The chaotic inaugural episode of a less refined, casual show where Dan, Mikey, and Tim start out with the intention of recording the first 3-person Cunning Action, but the episode blossoms into its own beautiful flower. Tim gets some thoughts off his chest about his own setting, and Mikey and Dan try, desperately, to keep … Continue reading Talking is a Free Action Episode 1: Settings, Encounters
A feature length episode dedicated to the underdark-dwelling dwarven dudes dedicated to delving deep into darker and darker depths.
This week, we have finally got a functional Tim-clone, and he has a bunch of stuff to talk abut including dragons, Ringo Starr, and Desserts. Oh also we talk about the Dryad!
This week, Mikey and Dan create mercenary company to cause havoc and destruction for the highest bidder.
This week, Dan and Mikey discuss the hybrid of drow and spider; the many-legged drider and finally escape the clutches of dragonkind.
Dan and Mikey go for a swim and find themselves confronted by the great, wise Dragon Turtle.
Here we are at the end of this journey through the Draconic Omnibus. We lost our minds more than once, and finally made it through the dragons. We are so happy to be moving on, but we had good fun along the way.
This week, Dan and Tim have have a look at the Shadowfell-influenced Shadow Dragon. The guys discuss the history of this interesting creature, and imagine how other planes may establish themselves in other dragons.
This week, Dan and Mikey discuss the skeletal dracolich; an undead template for true dragons.
This week the boys are scattered so Dan talks about his new Technique player feature system.
On this, the ultimate single-dragon episode of the Dragons omnibus, Dan, Mikey, and Tim encounter the charming, intelligent, and insightful Silver Dragon. The lads are still losing their minds, but from the ashes of insanity, some of our favourite creations in recent memory spring forth!
Dan and Tim dive, once again, head-first into the huge hoard that is the handy list of hocus-pocus items in the DM’s Handbook.
Dan, Mikey, and Tim fall further down the ridiculous, raving rabbit hole that is the Dragon series, and find themselves in good company with the fun-loving, evil-hating, self-appointed-quest-going Gold Dragon! This dragon’s bizarre abilities send the lads into a confused spiral, and many laughs and good times ensue. Join us as we continue our journey … Continue reading Creature Club Episode 65 – Dragons Part 9: Gold Dragon
In this week’s thrilling episode in the crushing depths of the Draconic series, Dan, Mikey, and Tim find themselves face to face with the acidic, trickster: the Copper Dragon.
This week, Dan, Mikey, and Tim set sail to face the great behemoth that is the Bronze Dragon! The lads are excited to finally be able to record an entire episode together, and so shenanigans inevitably ensue! A few unique ideas about how to treat this dragon rear their head in this instalment of the … Continue reading Creature Club Episode 63 – Dragons Part 7: Bronze Dragon
This week, Dan and Mikey take their first tentative steps into the mythical, mysterious, metallic dragons! Download here!
This week all three of the lads muster to discuss the arctic predator, the white dragon. Then Dan gets sent to the Shadow Realm for ‘Word Crimes’ and Tim and Mikey have to finish the episode without which they manage with aplomb cos they’re dang professionals. Enjoy and stay safe!
This week, Dan and Mikey look into the arrogant Red Dragon. Download here!
This week, Dan and Tim trek their way through the dangerous, thorny forest that is the Green Dragon entry of the Monster Manual. With technical difficulties galore, the lads have a grand old laugh at some of the bizarrely specific details in the entry, and wrestle with potential incongruities. A grand time was had, and … Continue reading Creature Club Episode 59 – Dragons Part 3: Green Dragon
This week Dan and Mikey discuss the second of the chromatic dragons; the blue desert drake. Download here!
The boys are back in the studio and are wrestling with Ancient Black dragons, Tim’s insatiable hunger for ridiculous editing idiocy, and ridiculously specific in-game descriptions. We swear it’s mostly about dragons, but honestly, it’s about 50/50. Download here!
This week, Dan and Tim hunt through the Dungeon Master’s Guide to hear each other out on these hilarious and historical items. We hope you enjoy this latest episode into the heaping hoard of hocus-pocus hats, helms, and hammers! Download here!
The boys return after a brief hiatus to begin an investigation into the world of Dragons! Download here!
This week Mikey and Dan create a strange and oblique order of black knights to oppose your party. Download here!
This week Mikey slips into the Cunning Chamber and joins Dan as they discuss Dan’s custom weapons. Download here! New Weapons PDF
In a new potential format for future shows, Dan and Tim forged their way through the thick forest of the internet to find their way to Twitch to work together to create a Subclass for the Sorceror based on the Dragon-hating Behir. Broken into 4 parts because file size limits on our host! We won’t … Continue reading Creature Clup Live on Twitch – Behir Soul Sorceror Subclass
Jee whizz! what a handful this episode was! Mikey and Tim rummage through the duffel bag that is the Dungeon Masters Guide to find some interesting and infuriating items. Download here!
In this post-halloween spectacular, the guys face the Universal monsters in all their glory! Building a central crew, and some tangental ideas, this episode is sure to inspire encounters and campaigns alike. Download here!
The final infernal feature is upon us! Tim and Dan have the final peek into the Nine Hells and get a face full of spines from the Spined Devil. Download here!
This week Dan and Mikey confront the master of the Hells; the unholy pit fiend. Download here!
For this episode our intrepid hosts, Dan and Mikey, carry themselves proudly into the depths of the nine hells to emerge again with stories of two little Devils, the infamous Imp, and the Porridge-like Lemure. Download here!
In this chapter in the Devilish Saga, it’s a Mikey and Tim combo! This week we’re working away alongside the cool-as-a-cucumber Ice Devil. This insectoid creature has the lads finding interesting twists on real world insects, and stretching the abilities of an Ice-based creature to it’s limits! Download here!
In this latest deep dive into the deliciously devilish depths of the Nine Hells, Mikey and Tim are cursed to leave their AC on (sorry), and talk the wings off our latest Devil buddy: The Horned Devil, Cornugon, Malebranche, whatever you want to call it. Devil voices, Christmas carols, and Tim consistently messing up and … Continue reading Creature Club Episode 51 – Devils Part 6 Horned Devil
In this, the freshest episode, Tim and Daniel (feat. Ivy, Tim’s wife) dive into an even fresher hell to explore the concept of the Erinyes. Tim gets to sink his teeth into a juicy piece of Grecian mythological history, and Dan presents an incredible setting for a potential entire arc! Download here!