Welcome back to Diamnastics, the gym for dungeon masters to work out their minds.

I'm one of your hosts, D.M. Celeste, aka. Sea Witch.

And I'm your other host, D.M. Neal, aka Jote Moniac. And I can clearly see from my waveforms

that that was too loud, but I'll fix it later. It's okay. Yay, fix it a post. Yes. And today we are

going to be doing another fun exercise. We're trying to get back to our roots where it's just

random small things that you can do to keep. Again, lift those mental weights as a dungeon master, try and keep yourself on your toes,

try and keep your players on your toes.

And we're always hopeful that it will work out better than we expect it to.

So today, Celeste, what are we going to do?

So for this one, we have sitting in front of us here, the Tome of Beasts, which is a creature compendium book from Cobalt Press, like in the spirit of, you know, the monster manual for Dungeons and Dragons.

So we've got these big old books full of monsters.

And what I see on the notes is that we're going to do some kind of monster swap, which sounds very exciting.

But Neil, you should explain the exact thing we're doing because I'm excited and confused.

Yay!

Perfect.

So basically, I think it was when I first got a hold of the Tome of Beast, one of the things was there are a lot of monsters that are similar to the things that you're

used to, but for me personally, my table is older players in the sense that they got me

into it during second edition, which also implies that they were playing before that.

So kind of turning things on their head is a requirement of mine just because if I put

something very standard, it's not very fun for them because they've seen a lot of things.

They've seen it. They already know how it works all its tricks. Yeah. So I distinctly remember

using the putrid zombie from here because it basically throws up on the characters and they were terrified.

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