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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Knight" data-source="post: 50814" data-attributes="member: 1113">Sure, but that doesn’t mean that spells don’t exist on the Discworld.  I think what trancejeremy was trying to say (even if they don’t know it), is that parts of Discworld magic is based on D&D.  For example, most of the spells have names before them such as Brother Hushmaster’s Potent Asp-Spray or Maligree’s Wonderful Garden mirroring the Tensor and Bigby spells etc.  Spells on the Discworld must also be memorised from books before being used, once again paying homage to D&D.As the series progressed however, so did the need for wizards not to cast spells.  Hence why they now mostly sit around eating large meals.</blockquote>