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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

I plan on it. I'm just starting with the ones I can get from the library now and then I'll slowly track down others as I get through...

The Discworld books have quite a few different arcs, and which you'll like depends mostly on which characters appeal to you. My...

Different strokes etc. I'm not the biggest fan of the witches, but I love the wizards. What? Death is hilarious! Funniest character on...

Pyramids and Moving Pictures are good stand-alones, not requiring any knowledge of the rest of the series. Pyramids is traditional...

I just don't do "you had something stolen" storylines. In my experience, it doesn't lead to compelling gameplay. I haven't had players...

The Watch series is certainly the most accessible (although it has morphed slightly from being about the Watch to being about the Life...

I don't disagree, but they set up things pretty nicely, and as Unseen University is one of my favorite aspects of the setting, along...

I personally think Pratchett is far better with the literary jokes and the wordplay, and the first books, esp. the first two, are the...

I started with Guards!Guards!, and I have to say the Watch stuff is my favourite(hence the name). The other way to go is start with...

I started with Interesting Times, which was kind of an odd spot (in the middle of the Rincewind sub-series, though it was closer to the...

Each book is a stand-alone book, and you don't have to read previous ones, though it's obviously more fun if you already know the...

What did you think of Cloak and Dagger? I haven't made time for it yet but heard interesting things. How about West Wing? I've...

Curious. How does a character in a game that doesn’t do that have something stolen from them without immediately knowing it? Is it...