Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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If you're a dungeon master, you've probably made some homebrew monsters! We've talked about it before, but since then we've designed DOZENS for many books, and we've learned a thing or two! Here's all the best game design advice we have for making your own monsters at the table for D&D and TTRPG. Our Kickstarter for Worlds of Web DM: Weird Wastelands is LIVE NOW! Check it out here: kickstarter.com/projects/webdm/worlds-of-web-dm-weird-wastelands?ref=a1or3s

Time stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:51 Initial Brainstorm
6:41 Find the Hook
9:11 Statblock Draft
15:52 Revise themes, lore, and rewards
19:55 Clean-up statblock/final review


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