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What If World - Stories for Kids

342. Cryptid Kids #6: In a Pinch

What If World - Stories for Kids

Eric O'Keeffe / What If World LLC

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Comedy Fiction, Fiction

4.56.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The Million-Hand-Headed-Hydra is pinching away the Observatorium, and even parts of What If World. It's time for the Cryptid Kids to call in some backup! Lessons include: failure is part of every big challenge; mistakes provide information that can lead us to new ideas. This story is part of a Guilds & Goblins campaign, where What If World characters (and guests) play an original tabletop RPG for kids and families. Real-life dice rolls, usually with a 20-sided die (or d20), help us tell the story, along with your questions! Start with episodes 327, 328, 330, 331, & 341, Cryptid Kids #1 to #5, if you’ve never heard a G&G story.   Here are our four favorite would-you-rather questions. Ask your players these questions before playing G&G, and you’ll know what surprises will please them. For younger kids, ask one question per game. For older kids, ask follow-up questions to help you generate ideas! After every four or five games, ask again and customize the questions or change their order to suit your players better. Would you rather: Explore strange places or meet funny characters? Find a rare treasure or learn a new power? Solve tricky puzzles or face spooky creatures? Train your sidekick or build an invention? Please Subscribe and show your Support! Want more kids podcasts for the whole family? Grown-ups, subscribe to Starglow+ here. Learn more about Starglow Media here. Follow Starglow on Instagram and YouTube Eric and Karen O'Keeffe make What If World. Kevin Swanstrom wrote this episode. Our producer is Miss Lynn. Character art by Ana Stretcu, episode art by Lynn Hickernell, podcast art by Jason O’Keefe, and theme song by Craig Martinson.

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0:00.0

What if kittens played the Glockingfield?

0:07.0

And what if unicorns were real?

0:12.0

What if you could fly or travel back in time?

0:17.0

We welcome you to What If World.

0:24.7

What If World?

0:28.7

This is What If World.

0:36.6

Hi there, folks, and welcome back to Gilds and Goblins.

0:38.4

The What If World Show, where your questions and ideas, combined with our live-in-the-moment dice rolling, to bring

0:44.1

you off-the-cuff adventures.

0:46.6

I'm Papaloo, your guildmaster and host, joined by my stalwart players, starting with my son.

0:55.9

Zach, Jamaloo, but you can call my character, Scribno the Doodle Knight. Yes, I am made of

1:03.4

scribbles, and I can change those scribbles to give myself amazing powers. Then of course there is.

1:10.3

Scully the squid!

1:11.6

Yes, in real life I'm a squid, but my character is a pasta-puss, and their name is Pennypasta.

1:19.6

They have the magical powers of Italian cooking!

1:24.6

Plus their bodies made of pasta and can stretch and stuff.

1:28.8

And don't forget about me, Lola Rabbit. Or my character, whose name is Amara Stormtide.

1:35.1

And yeah, she kind of zuzes or esches, which makes her a little hard to understand.

1:41.7

But once you get used to it, you'll realize that she's quite a detective,

1:46.7

along with being an ocean dragon with storm magic powers. Okay, you don't have to juzh everything

1:53.8

so much, but, uh, I think we got it. Amara Stormtide, Pennypasta, and Scrib-Kno the Doodle Night.

2:01.6

Care to recap our last adventure?

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