Welcome back to the Dungeon Master's block, the place where we come to talk about the Dungeon Master, the most important person in the game.

With every conversation we hope to inspire as many as

possible to keep on dungeon mastering. And I'm one of your host, DM Neal, aka Jote Moniac. And today

we have a very special guest, someone whose work I have followed for a very long time. And come to

find out someone whose sensibilities match up with my own in a very

specific way, but you'll find out how in the rest of the episode, because we have Keith Amman,

who is the any award-winning writer of The Monsters Know What They're Doing.

And if you don't know what that is, go straight now, right now. Just go to the show notes, go there, learn, come back, listen to the episode, and learn some more.

Because today we're going to be talking specifically about making smarter monsters. And in its own way, it's almost being smarter about making monsters.

I don't know.

It's just a great discussion about a more nuanced approach to how you make monsters,

choose monsters for your campaign, for your world, for your story.

And it's just a great discussion between Derek, myself, and Keith.

But that's enough for me.

I'm too excited.

Let's head to the meat.

I'm starving.

We ain't had nothing but maggotty bread for three stinking days.

Why can't we have some meats?

The plate meat back on the menu, boys.

And today on the meet, we are super excited to talk to Keith Amman.

He is in any award-winning writer-based in Chicago.

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