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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...

I know my first venture into the world of Discworld was "Witches Abroad". I mentioned this 19 years ago. It was amazing, this might be...

It isn't full of self obsessed but impossibly good looking hormonal teens trying to have sex!

Sure, Lankhmar is the prototype generic fantasy city, and it's influence is all over the genre, including later AM. But AM was...

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...

while Lankhmar is the quintessential Urban Fantasy setting seen across all fantasy cities, Ankh-Morpork is pretty clearly a parody of...

Oh sure, most if not all of the Discworld novels have some elements of parody in them. What I meant was, those early novels are almost...

There have been many writers that have raged against the unfairness baked into society. But the way Sir Terry articulates it is so...

I would argue that the issue with The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic isn't that they are bad. It's that they are more visibly...

I love city books, but the way that I use them maybe is a bit esoteric. I don't use them as references, exactly. I don't run the cities...

I don't think the motivations matter all that much. The OGL in my opinion did a lot more good than it did harm. Like I said above, I owe...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I like announcements as much as (if not more than) the next guy, but it's a practice that is...

I'm still early days in my Discworld journey, but it's a hard toss-up between Equal Rites and Mort.

hello folks. been a while, but I've made another character sheet. Please check it out and let me know how it strikes you. Character...

It’s obvious that this was a deeply foolish and also deeply unkind thing for him to say, though I think the latter was unintentional. It...