Let's talk about Skinwalkers in D&D, shall we? episode artwork

EPISODE · Mar 11, 2026 · 14 MIN

Let's talk about Skinwalkers in D&D, shall we?

from The Evil Dungeon Master Universe · host The Evil Dungeon Master

I was sitting around thinking about monsters again, and it hit me after watching one of those late night skinwalker videos. In D&D everyone always jumps straight to the doppelganger, but that misses the real fun. A skinwalker doesn’t rush the party. It watches. It studies. It follows them through the woods for days. It waits for someone to wander off, someone to get curious, someone to make a bad choice. That’s where the tension comes from. The party starts noticing animals that appear too often, shadows that move wrong, and the feeling that something is out there just beyond the firelight. By the time they realize they are being hunted, it might already be sitting at the campfire with them.Background Music:Attribution Code"Zombie Hoodoo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

I was sitting around thinking about monsters again, and it hit me after watching one of those late night skinwalker videos. In D&D everyone always jumps straight to the doppelganger, but that misses the real fun. A skinwalker doesn’t rush the party. It watches. It studies. It follows them through the woods for days. It waits for someone to wander off, someone to get curious, someone to make a bad choice. That’s where the tension comes from. The party starts noticing animals that appear too often, shadows that move wrong, and the feeling that something is out there just beyond the firelight. By the time they realize they are being hunted, it might already be sitting at the campfire with them.Background Music:Attribution Code"Zombie Hoodoo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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