MD 401 Toe-Based Space Wizards w/ Zach Cowan (aka Bat Alchemist, producer of the Mad Dungeon podcast)

Our guest this week is our Mad Dungeon producer, the Bat Alchemist himself, Zach Cowan, a location sound recordist and video producer located in Atlanta. We talk about what season four is all about: We’re making a zine of TTRPG content to use in your home games with each of our guests contributing a page or two, while continuing to utilize our ‘mad dice’ improv style of word play.

Andrew has his first child, working on lots of art, his job as the in-house game designer and editor at Exalted Funeral. Steve talks about the industrial music Mystic Punks adventure he wrote. He went to ShimpCon, a not-so-secret home con of Doug Kovacs (DCC, Inferno Road) where he played Dolmenwood and ran Mystic Punks. Zach has been playing Mothership, and a combat-heavy D&D 5E game. Zach will be running Tiger Wizard and family through a campaign of Brindlewood Bay.

D8 Toe-Based Space Wizards

Art: Tiger Wizard Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Zach Cowan

1. Wiggle Toe - They cast smelly spells, like stink bomb and unknown scent, by wiggling their toes. Wiggle Toe can’t smell the stank, but everyone else does.

2. Tough Toe - arms and legs are all big toes. They cast gravity-based crushing spells.

3. Blaze Bunion - a giant foot with a head where the ankle would connect to the foot. Casts bunion, a spell that causes painful bony bumps to grow in a target’s joints, making them stiff.

4. Turf Toe-ny - They cast healing spells, particularly heeling, which causes sore feet to relax and become rejuvenated.

5. Split Nail - Fires off adamantine toe nail projectiles that when hit causes the target’s nails to painfully split in half.

6. Flat-Arch Mage - Casts spells that hinder your dexterity. Being hit by any of their spells causes fallen arches, and the target becomes flat-footed.

7. Crevice Pressure Witch - She shrinks to go into small places, then grows back to full size to explode them.

8. Toe Jam Courier - They pilot a space mech angel to deliver jars of toe fungus to beings who think it’s delicious. They have magic space cleats that: power the mech, allows them to walk on any surface regardless of gravity, and gives them a shredding force kick.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s Ennie nominated, rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral.
• THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms.

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Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

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