You Should Have Been a Meat Shield

An actual-play Dungeons & Dragons Podcast.
We've been questing since 2022.

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Starring in alphabetical order:

Adelaide Underhill the halfling rogue (played by Alex Dunne)
Rowan Harcourt the human warlock (played by Chloe Homewood)
Sapphire Crow the tabaxi monk (played by Gráinne O'Brien)
Sybilline Ex'eventu the anteater wizard (played by Alex Foulkes)

Your Dungeon Master is Lucas "Zero Fun" Maxwell
Your friendly NPC is Ting the Verbeeg druid.

All artwork for the show by Gannucci Art.

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You Should Have Been a Meat Shield

You Should Have Been a Meat Shield, Epsiode 61: Chapter Four: Shush, Zebra!

September 29, 2025 • Lucas Maxwell

The gang are a mile under the ocean in a Storm Giant fortress known as The Maelstrom. They pretend to be the children of a Cloud Giant named Zephyros in order to gather information on the missing Storm Giant Hekaton.