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13 types of damage in dungeons and dragons, let’s see how many of them we can find amongst actual living creatures.
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In fantasy novels and roll playing games, some characters can see in the dark. What about in real life?
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Fantasy fiction and DND have charm spells and other ways to control one’s mind. We take a look at examples of mind control from nature.
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For our first episode on the science behind dnd and popular fantasy tropes, we search for healing magic in our actual factual world.
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We celebrate our 400th episode with the math behind rolling at advantage and disadvantage in D and D.
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Take 152 of Episode One: Snicker at silly sounding science
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We examine the game of chicken, also called hawks and doves, plus a bit on bits and binary.
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Take 151 of Episode One: How many chickens does it take to…?
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This week, we hurt Phil’s brain with the game multi-heap nim.
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We take a quick look at combinatorial game theory by playing a nice simple game.
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We get some backstory for Twibble and Fidget, as we examine the prisoners’ dilemma.
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Using hints from 391, 392 and 393, we finish a D and D like game, for science!
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