Zack and Griffin's Multiversal Pet Shop

Episode 126: Food vs. Man

January 10th, 2024  |  1 hr 3 mins

dnd 5e, laser pup, pizza slime, retroverse, schrodinger's beast, yggdrasaur

What do you get when you cross neon and vaporwave retro-futurism with Dungeons and Dragons 5e? You get THE RETROVERSE (by Chris Lock and Lluis Abadias)!

Zack and Griffin plunge headfirst into the Retroverse with actor and singer Braeden Glenn Tuttle as their guide!

Find more from Braeden at braedenglenntuttle.com and more about the Retroverse at lasersandliches.com!

Episode 125: Dogs, but Not 5

December 13th, 2023  |  59 mins 44 secs

dnd 5e, dogs, kobold press, primal oozer, qiqirn, spellhound, thrummren, tome of beasts 2

More dogs that are basically dogs, but not quite dogs. And in this episode, Zack and Griffin maybe, just maybe, find...

The Goodest Boy.

Episode 124: Itty Bitty Bois 5: Gravity Bears

November 29th, 2023  |  58 mins 1 sec

barnyard dragonette, dnd 5e, kobold press, light eater, scarsupial, stained glass moth, tome of beasts 3

Surprise! It's a new episode full of tiny friends!
Surprise again! It's our belated five year anniversary episode!
Surprise again again! We get scared by a marsupial!

Come take a listen!

Episode 123: Nicesk

November 15th, 2023  |  55 mins 42 secs

boofly, grub, hollow knight, massive moss charger, nosk, video games

Down, down, down we go into the Kingdom of Hallownest for our first episode featuring the creatures of Hollow Knight! One of Griffin's all time favorite games, and one Zack has never touched. Grab your favorite charm and take a dunk in the hot spring as the boys dodge the creepy critters in favor of big round friends.

Episode 122: Ganj Consigliere and Acidic Spew

November 1st, 2023  |  58 mins 43 secs

cypher, cypher system, edacious destroyer, entrope, ferno walker, golthiar, monte cook games, ninth world, numenera

One of these things is not like the other, though they may be more alike than they seem! We return to the Ninth World from Monte Cook Games' Numenera setting, making new names for ourselves, finding love in all the wrong places, and making some nasty creatures even nastier.

Episode 121: Sh*tty Pokémon 9: 4chan Monkey

October 18th, 2023  |  57 mins 13 secs

bramblin, flamigo, maschiff, paldea, pokémon, scarlet, shroodle, violet

Paldea calls! And those who answer are Zack and Griffin, who are really, REALLY behind on their Pokémon. The boys go for the throat on some of the worst Pokémon designs Scarlet and Violet have to offer.

Episode 120: Cats, but Not 2

October 4th, 2023  |  58 mins 57 secs

alke, catamount, catterball, cyonaxin, dnd 5e, kobold press, tome of beasts 3

Are cats even really cats? I dunno, but these cats certainly ARE NOT cats. You know and love Kobold Press and Tome of Beasts 3 as much as we do at this point, I'm sure. Zack and Griffin are putting these not-cats under the magnifying glass.

Episode 119: Water Horse Can Get It

September 6th, 2023  |  56 mins 27 secs

creature codex, dnd 5e, dracotaur, green knight of the woods, gugalanna, hsomgtfafr, kobold press, water horse

The wait is over! An episode where Zack and Griff get really thirsty about fantasy creatures is back! The boys return to Kobold Press's Creature Codex to talk about more folks that are just plain rad.

Episode 118: Fantasy Roomba Will Eat You

August 23rd, 2023  |  58 mins 8 secs

dnd 5e, glass gator, kobold press, lindwurm, stryx, tome of beasts, xanka

Stop the presses! Actually, strike that, cause Kobold Press keeps providing great creatures from their Tome of Beasts! Zack and Griffin discuss reptiles of many varieties, reminisce about old Flash games, and get a little topsy-turvy at the end.

Episode 117: Dogs, but Not 4

August 9th, 2023  |  58 mins 58 secs

bloodsapper, brimstone locusthound, creature codex, dnd 5e, dogs, kobold press, orthrus, simurg, tome of beasts 2

For all the not-quite-dogs featured in this episode, most of them are still ~very doggo~

Kobold Press does it again with choice pups from both their Creature Codex and Tome of Beasts 2!

Episode 116: Big Bois 7: OnlyPhans

July 26th, 2023  |  1 hr 6 mins

creature codex, dnd 5e, giant shark bowl ooze, kobold press, mantik barbed king of the manticores, oliphaunt, two-headed eagle

This week's episode is BIG! It's full of the BIGGEST creatures we could find in just BIG BIG book of Kobold Press's Creature Codex!

Did I mention it's BIG!?

Episode 115: O-Negative Bears

June 28th, 2023  |  58 mins 54 secs

arcanaphage, bearmit crab, creature codex, dnd 5e, kobold press, leonino, mytholabe

A new book reveals itself! It's actually probably been out for a while, but we just found it! Kobold Press's Creature Codex offers us several ways to ruin a wizard's day, which considering how often they f*ck with bears, honestly, they deserve it.

Episode 114: March of the Xiomarche

June 14th, 2023  |  56 mins 25 secs

balikna, cypher, kanthid, magathan, monte cook games, numenera, xiomarche

Somehow the Time Portal still works, so we're gonna take advantage of it while we can! Zack and Griffin return to the Ninth World to explore the creatures and oddities of the Numenera Beastiary from Monte Cook Games!

Episode 113: Sh*tty Pokémon 8: Gimp-A-Simp

May 31st, 2023  |  59 mins 38 secs

applin, galar, gen 8, impidimp, morpeko, pokemon, shield, sinistea, sword

Neither swords nor shields will keep these Pokémon safe from the tirades of Zack and Griffin! There are sh*tty Pokémon galore in Galar! Come take a listen!

Episode 112: Birds All the Way Down

May 3rd, 2023  |  55 mins 38 secs

ash phoenix, august rooster, dnd, kobold press, lymarien, scarlet ibis, tome of beasts 2

Tome of Beasts? More like Tome of Awesome Birds! Zack and Griffin take to the skies as they discuss some of the finest (and freakiest) birds in Kobold Press's Tome of Beasts 2!

Episode 111: Itty Bitty Bois 4: It Takes a Squiggle

April 19th, 2023  |  56 mins 6 secs

dnd, frog god games, hellcat, mouse dragon, rakklethorn toad, skulleton, tome of horrors

Frog God Games produces more than just horrors from their Tome of Horrors, they also produce some little guys! Zack and Griffin pull out their magnifying glasses to highlight some of the smallest critters around.