Saving Throes # 114 - Pages Through the Ages: Overlooked Monster - Rakshasa

Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I am currently involved with, or new games or products I have come across.

This week is a new variant of Pages Through the Ages - Overlooked Monsters! I will look through an individual monster from the history of a game and examine its many incarnations. This will be focussed on lesser known or lesser used creatures in general. You won't find the Beholder here for example. I am starting things off with a good examination of the many incarnations of the Rakshasa. While most players are familiar with this monster, I don't often see it in play as a player nor as a GM. However, these creatures have a gold mine of sinister resources for your D&D game if you want to instil nightmares into your players. Tune in to hear about the many expressions of this monster and how you might be able to combine its most iconic and dangerous traits to optimize the terror. 

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