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What are the Odds? (E238)

Keep off the Borderlands

English - January 22, 2024 14:49 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Beginning with another reminder for your Movie Monday entries. This month’s movie is Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits (1981). Please see the various methods of contacting the show below.

I respond to a couple of messages kindly sent in by Jason Connerley of Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast before comparing chances of success in various RPGs I’ve played.

Systems mentioned: Chris McDowall’s Into the Odd, David Black’s Black Hack, Gary Gygax & Dave Arneson’s original Dungeons & Dragons, Advanced, Basic and Fifth Edition D&D, Brandish “Runehammer” Gilhelm’s Index Card RPG, Pelle Nilsson’s Mörk Borg, Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu, Free League’s Vaesen, Pith by Free Thrall Games, Graham Walmsley’s Cthulhu Dark.

Podcasts & YouTube Videos: Rich Fraser’s Cockatrice Nuggets,

Yochai Gal & Brad Kerr’s Between Two Cairns,

Anthony “Runeslinger” Boyd’s Casting Shadows,

Colin Green’s Spikepit,

Riley’s Diegetic Advancement,

ivanmike1968.

Coming soon: Andy Goodman’s Grizzly Peaks Radio - Plague of Fools

Honourable mention: Scott Dorward of The Good Friends of Jackson Elias

Music by Timothy J. Drennon

"Warning" by Lieren of Updates From the Middle of Nowhere

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