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The Prisoners Dilemma - Cthulhu with a dash of DnD.....(beware there are spoilers!)

Lets start with a confession..... Back in the good old days there was nothing I liked more than rolling up a DnD character.  As I was about 12 or 13 I was probably a bit ‘loose’ with the dice rolls ending up with an 18 in the key stat and probably a 16 in the next key stat (17 would have been too obvious).  It then got more complicated when I started playing Advanced DnD and the concept of having an additional percentile STR (if you were lucky enough to ‘roll’ an 18) came into play.  Of course, there was no use in having STR 18 + 13% naturally those rolls always resulted in 90%+.  At the time we didn’t own a copy of the rules and had to rely on other people to let us peek at the rules at the local Saturday RPG club.  Imagine our horror when we were told that the percentile add on wasn’t for each of the six stats and rolling 90%+ for all six stats was pretty unlikely……I still smile at my CHA 18 + 100%............... What has this to do with the Cthulhu scenario ‘Prisoners Dilemma’?  Wel