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, the only person capable of painting the town dead, killing characters' families,

and decimating the sanity of all the players at your table.

I am one of your host, DM Neal, aka Joke Moniac.

And I am your other host for this episode,

our Halloween episode, Dungeon Master Chris.

And if my memory was good enough,

I totally would have tried to make that, like an intro like The Crypt the Cryptaker. Do you remember? Oh, my gosh, what was that show called? Tales from the Crypt. Got it. Oh, yes. Is that the one with the, like, skeleton guy who... Yeah. Is that the one? Yeah, he's the skeleton one that, like, sits there, wispy white Yeah. Ugh. Like all five hairs, wispy and white. I remember legitimately sitting behind my dad's recliner watching that peeking out from behind the corner because I didn't want to sit like right. It was so terrifying to me as a child. That was the creepiest part. Oh, yeah. Was just that. Yeah, it was terrifying. So to try and make that a segue that works, we are going to be somewhat talking about haunted houses because I'm pretty sure that's where the cryptkeeper lived. He might have lived in a crypt, but that, nope, he lived in a haunted house. It's canon. I said it. It's canon now. Yeah, To a show that has been dead since the 90s, it's

canon. Oh, or was it always dead? Oh. Undead? Bad jokes. Yeah. Yeah. So we've got a couple

elements by a couple, I mean 10, that we love or rather love to hate, depending on how they

strike your fancy. But before we get to that, we have some five-star reviews from iTunes that we are going to read for you today.

The first one comes from Silvici, and they write Great Podcasts Five Stars,

one of the best and most inspirational podcasts for aspiring DMs and GMs alike.

This podcast will help you create and run compelling games regardless of the system you choose to play. I ran three games a week for over a year. Props to you. That's a lot. And this podcast helped to make sure I never ran out of new and interesting adventures for my players. Thanks so much for all you guys do for the role-playing community. So thank you so much, Silvici. We're glad that we could be such a great place for inspiration for you. So for the next one, it is titled Essential, Informative, Entertaining, Food

Mage. I don't know. So now it's just a verb. It's five stars. And it's from Veritas W.L. I don't

think those all go together, so I'll say it that way. This podcast has given me so many

inspirational ideas, and as a DM since 2014, I've found it incredibly useful. The ideas discussed

in this show, while awesome and unique, spin-off ideas of my own in my brain place. I'm going to

use that term from now on. My brain plays. That's fantastic. I moved recently

and I can't seem to find a group locally, so I've had to hang up the DM hat for a while.

But the storytime episodes have helped me to play vicariously through the host. All the while,

soaking up info and ideas to use for my next party, I get to DM. This podcast is incredibly

useful and I like to thank

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