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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...

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Thud! was published 2005, Pratchett announced his diagnosis in 2007 whereby he was exploring treatment options and becoming a Alzheimers...

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...

He definitely wasn't coming up with new villains the way he possibly ought to have. Or maybe he was transitioning to have villains be...

Huh. It didn't strike me as anti-religious at all. I could see it being read in divinity school, for instance. Most of the great...

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...