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Aren't Mr Tulip and Mr Pin parodies of Jules and Vincent in Pulp Fiction? Given that Pratchett was a journalist for many years, I reckon The Truth is probably his most personal, "speaking from lived experience" novel.

Asking people for their experiences using the new monsters is one thing. Repeatedly telling people who haven't used them to give them a try because they just might like them is another. Besides, I was just being silly - hence the children's book reference.

Everything about Thud! is just chef's kiss. It hits all the right notes on so many levels. Incidentally, I am currently rereading Thief of Time, which stars Lu-Tze the Sweeper and Susan the granddaughter of Death. It was an apropos one to reread after Small Gods because it makes a few...

This. I don't own the physical copies of the 5.5e core books. I'm still waiting for a boxed set. For the most part, I think the new monsters are an improvement. I'm fine with removing saving throws. I like that all Legendary Actions just require 1 action. I don't really care about male hags or...

I’m intending to run it as a purely Eberron adventure with Vol replacing Vecna as the BBEG. Her goal isn’t to remake the universe but rather to restore her Mark of Death and use it to become the Queen of the Dead.

You just need to find someone who can cast Wish on you 13 times:

Anyone else having trouble accessing D&D Beyond right now? I've been getting various server errors for the past 30 minutes or so. EDIT: Yes, it appears the site is having some major technical issues. Status Pages Site

This is the Way. 🤪

When is/was the AMA? Something else I would really love is a more user-friendly homebrew system, especially for NPCs/monsters. My ideal system would let me pick / enter some traits, actions, etc, and then it would calculate the CR for me and then rejig the numbers accordingly. It would also...

21 voters over in the best Discworld novel poll thread are wrong. Thud! is the only correct answer. 😝

There's definitely something wrong with this poll. There should be 22 votes for Thud! and no votes for anything else.

I voted for the obvious best choice: Thud! My runner up is I Shall Wear Midnight.

If Thud! doesn't win, I'm declaring the poll invalid.

LOL. OK, look, I'll admit I had not played any of the games when I watched the first season of the show, but I enjoyed it enough that I have since logged over 600 hours playing Fallout 4, so I think I count as being in the show's target audience now. Please take your gatekeeping somewhere else.

Huh. I could have sworn Thud! was after Unseen Academicals. At least I was right about I Shall Wear Midnight, which was the next one after it. I have finished Small Gods. Better than I remembered it being, but I still wouldn't rate it in my top 5. Maybe top 10.

The thing is, he wrote Thud! and I Shall Wear Midnight after Unseen Academicals. For me, the latter wasn't a bad concept. It just need more editing. It felt messy to me. Whereas the last few novels felt, as I said above, like extended epilogues. I decided to give Small Gods a reread. So far...

I get that. But even futuristic tech needs maintenance. This is stuff that hasn't had any maintenance for 200 years, and yet there are heaps of computer terminals that still turn on and elevators that go up and down despite two centuries' of neglect, dust, sand, whatever else. I know there's...

This is very much a tangent, but I was curious to know why we call movie promos "trailers" ... it appears that in the early days of movies, cinemas showed movie promos after the movie, but since most people didn't stay to watch them, the cinemas started showing them before the movie, but the...

Just took advantage of a 7-day free trial so I could binge this season. My 17 yo daughter and I both enjoyed it. Yeah, sure, there was a lot of setup for another season, but it was still entertaining. One thing that really gets me about the Fallout franchise as a whole is how much technology...

Yes, very much London as well ... but I don't think that was obvious right from the start. It became more like London as the series went on. They're OK in an extended epilogue sort of way, I guess, but they lack any real tension. I know Pratchett was struggling and wanted to wrap things up...