Alex Schroeder: Halberds & Helmets
The Halberds & Helmets podcast by Alex Schroeder.
- Update frequency
- every 31 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Gargoyles
Superhumans hanging around in gloomy temples, not knowing what to do with themselves.
00:05:56 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Monsters: Elves
Elves are immortal, metrosexual, aloof know-it-alls. They know everything better, they can do everything better, and they're not afraid to tell you.
00:21:57 |
Fri 21 Jul 2023
Monsters: Elephants
Elephants are cool in war, and they have ivory tusks. Do you want your players to be poachers?
00:07:36 |
Mon 08 May 2023
Monsters: Dwarves
Dwarves are rich and paranoid. There's also a long excursion about dwarves, elves, halflings and humans in the monster manual.
00:15:34 |
Fri 24 Mar 2023
Monsters: Dragons
Dragons a dangerous and lucrative and thus provide players with an excellent betting opportunity. Use more dragons!
00:17:32 |
Sat 25 Feb 2023
Monsters: Doppelgaengers
Doppelgängers are for the urban adventure when you no longer know whom to trust and how to safely uncover the conspiracy.
00:09:48 |
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Monsters: Crocodiles
Crocodiles are ambush predators. I like to announce their presence and treat them like traps.
00:09:34 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
Monsters: Creepers
Creepers are a total party kill in the making with their eight paralysing attacks but I still love them.
00:08:39 |
Fri 26 Aug 2022
Monsters: Giant Crabs
Giant crabs are cool because of the crab demon lord Garaskis that offers pincer arms and carapace armour to the poor and powerless.
00:05:02 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
Monsters: Chimeras
Chimeras are goofy because of the goat head, but also dangerous for the lion attack and the dragon breath. I use them as guardians of the underworld.
00:05:58 |
Sun 19 Dec 2021
Monsters: Giant Centipedes
Giant centipedes and other vermin like rats and bats, and monsters like rot grub or green slime are better handled as traps. They don't need to be in the monster manual.
00:06:08 |
Sun 12 Dec 2021
Monsters: Centaurs
Centaurs are half horse half men, horny drunken violent creatures. Content warning: sexual violence.
00:12:08 |
Tue 23 Nov 2021
Monsters: Cats, Large
A cat for every occasion, from pumas, mountain lions, jaguars, lions to tigers: harassing villages and making it hard to cross rivers
00:10:41 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
Monsters: Bugbears
Bugbears are cat people: sneaky, dangerous, serving underground elves, always ready to pounce on you, always spying on you
00:05:10 |
Fri 23 Jul 2021
Monsters: Boars
Boars as pets for orcs, giant boars as mounts for dwarves and halflings, and demon boars as protector spirits of a forest
00:06:43 |
Thu 22 Jul 2021
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