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

I'm one of your hosts, D.M. Celeste, a.k.a. C. Witch. I'm your other host, D.M. Neal, aka. Jote,

Mone. Celeste is fantastic to have you back in the gym. Yes, I'm your other host, DM Neal, aka Jote Money.

Celeste is fantastic to have you back in the gym.

Yes, I'm excited to be here. Things have been so heckin' busy in my gym, my personal home gym.

So I really appreciate everyone having all these fantastic guests.

And, you know, making time so I can take care of business.

And business is being taken care of, but we have more business to take care of.

I don't know what I named this.

The Waking Dead.

That's what it was.

So it's like zombies.

Yes.

But they're not walking. They're they're waking up excellent great uh on that note so basically this was this one was inspired by having longtime guest

i don't know if he has a golden jacket from us yet, but I think he's close.

Lou Anders, who writes the Thrones and Bones series. So it's set, it's set basically in the Frozen North, and it follows some giants. And one of the very first interactions is with

a drowger, which is, it's in D&D, but it's also been in mythology for a really long time.

Yeah. And if you are familiar with the Skyrim game series, you've seen a glimpse of that kind of mythology brought into modern pop culture, too.

So one of the things that we set out is with the exercise, because I think one of the key differences with the Drauger is it's that the reluctant stay of the undead while

maintaining some intelligence i guess it's a litch without magic i don't it's just that's it's

it's kind of like i think revenants are probably like the closest thing i would say so people bound

you know into this kind of extra strong undefth for whatever reason

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