Episode 12: Mental Health & Mischievous Monsters

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Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of mental illness, eating disorders, and self-harm. If you are affected by any of the issues discussed and are struggling, please contact The Samaritans, Mind, or Breathing Space for support.
We get things going this week - with a brief interruption involving Tuppy name-dropping - with a serious discussions about Mental Health in Role-playing Games. Most gamers have at least dabbled in a game that has rules for sanity loss, acquiring mental illnesses or battled against a foe whose justification was "ThEy'Re CrAzY!", but how do you deal with a real world issue in a respectful way? How have different games handled it mechanically and how would we suggest you approach it at the game table?
Things don't stay this serious too long, though, with another Quiz to lighten the tone. This time round, Ailsa has to identify ten monsters from their descriptions in the 1st Edition AD&D Monster Manual: but George has replaced their proper names with his usual mixture of nonsense. Come play along and see if you can also work out what monster has more hit dice than Tiamat, what Muppet-related errors George makes, and what Monster Manual entry is just too giant for Ailsa to stay focused.
All this and we've got appearances by almost our entire roster of characters - Mailer Daemon, Twike the Social Goblin, Tuppence Juniper-Smythe and even Mrs Shawney. We'll be on our guard to keep the Inch-High Incel out of the episode, though to be honest once you see what George has lined up for the mid-episode intermission you might think he's not the worst thing to ever appear in this podcast.
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1. Episode 12: Mental Health & Mischievous Monsters (00:00:00)

2. Mental Health in Role-playing Games (00:02:23)

3. Gary Gygax Song (00:26:40)

4. Quiz: D&D Monster Manual (1e) (00:28:35)