Aug 10, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min · 13 segments
In this episode Jeff and Tracy sit down with Brandes Stoddard and Jared Rascher to talk about the 2024 5e D&D Monster Manual - this is part 24 of a multi-part series. Thanks to our Sponsor: The Tome…
Jeff GreinerHost
Jared RascherGuest
Tracy HurleyHost
All right, so we are starting with the, the hated ghaik, uh, as Brandes oftentimes refers to them.
If, if the Larian Studios folks made up, uh, a, a little bit of gith language for us to get ghaik, uh, or if that was pre-established in the lore, but, uh, we're talking about mind flayers to start with.
So I'm gonna start off by saying, as usual, I like that we have a new stat block for mind flayers, although it's...
Um, I'm not sup- This is one of those, uh, updates where I'm not super fond of the update.
Everything, everything is either the same or a little bit weaker with a little bit of math to make up for it in a way that, mm, just doesn't come off the same.
All right, so we are starting with the, the hated ghaik, uh, as Brandes oftentimes refers to them.
If, if the Larian Studios folks made up, uh, a, a little bit of gith language for us to get ghaik, uh, or if that was pre-established in the lore, but, uh, we're talking about mind flayers to start with.
So I'm gonna start off by saying, as usual, I like that we have a new stat block for mind flayers, although it's...
Um, I'm not sup- This is one of those, uh, updates where I'm not super fond of the update.
Everything, everything is either the same or a little bit weaker with a little bit of math to make up for it in a way that, mm, just doesn't come off the same.
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