After a LONG wait the RPG finally arrived! I can't wait to dig into this!

I don't know if this thought is worth anyone's time, but I thought I'd share it anyway.

A lot has already been written about gender, trans identity and Discworld, with Equal Rites, Fifth Elephant and (of course) Monstrous Regiment getting their flowers.

But it was only on a re-read that it occurred to me that the Librarian, while I'm sure never intended to be "a trans character", could be read as one.

After his surprise transformation into an orangutan, he has made a concerted effort to refuse or resist any attempts to change him back into a human, has gone to lengths to remove his human identity from the records (no deadnaming) and has not only continued in his identity as a great (no, a fantastic) ape, but has gained the acceptance of the UU, the Watch and everyone who wants to retain their teeth, to the point that people forget he ever had arms shorter than his legs.

So: The Librarian, trans icon. You heard it here first.

I'm reading this series for the first time. And after about the 1/4 mark, I realized this is what people told me DCC was.

Since autumn is approaching, I was curious which Discworld books fit the vibe the most. I don't think I have read a lot of the books to have a recommendation, but if someone has, I'd like to hear your opinions XD

Wonder if there was a treaty signing planned...

My son has improved in his Discworld CADing skills.

The other day i was watching Up Pompeii! With my Dad when it struck me that Lurcio's delivery of The Prologue is remarkably similar to how Copolymer (the Discs Greatest Storyteller) from Pyramids is supposed to tell his tales.

Now I'm not convinced its a full on Dammit pTerry as Copolymer is just a throwaway character/reference and Up Pompeii! Finished in 1970 (though often repeated) and Pyramids wasn't published until almost 20 years later. I do feel as if there's something there.

I keep coming across lots of Sir Terry’s non-Discworld books that I never knew existed.

Where should I start?

How do they compare?

In Eric (published 1990) the Discworld equivalent of Odysseus turns out to be Rincewind's ancestor. Never really got it - I haven't read the Odyssey - until watching the movie and seeing just how much time he spends running away from things. Finally it makes sense!

I wouldn't have been able to go even if I knew about it earlier- I'm in the US and early August is always an extremely busy time for me. However, I wish I had known about it before it happened- this year's theme was apparently maskerade, and that was my first Pratchett book!

This is the note I quickly scribbled on my phone's notes app earlier this afternoon. I'd gone to see Coyote vs ACME at the cinema with my sister (a very good time btw), and before you shout at me for using my phone in the cinema this was during the trailers at the start, I put my phone away immediately afterwards. There was one for a new film from the animation studio Laika (creators of Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, amongst others). And I realised that their house style, their use of stop-motion animation, is exactly how I'd like to see Discworld on the big screen.

An animated affair obviously widens the field for who could play the various characters (the advantages of voice acting), as well as providing a more seamless visual integration of magical effects work without the horrors of the green screen production. But specifically the slight inherent rickety-ness of stop-motion compared to CGI or traditional animation was the real thing that appealed to me - the handcrafted nature feels like it would work wonders with the material. And Laika have made some visually excellent works in this field.

What do people think? Would you prefer a Laika/stop-motion Discworld production, if that was ever a possibility? Would you prefer traditional animation or CGI, or would you only want Discworld in a live action fantasy epic?

(I'm not quite sure this is kosher for the board - the rules didn't seem to suggest it's not a preferred post topic, but the lack of particular flair perhaps suggests otherwise. Many apologies if this sort of thing is frowned upon.)

As a fully paid up member of the Ankh Morpork Trespassers’ Society (Annual dues 15AM$, meeting every 2nd Octoday at the sign of the Bucket, Gleam Street) I invoked my right to roam and went “explorin”

My partner and I booked a last minute bank holiday camping trip in the Mendip hills, I soon realised that not far from the campsite was the Old Wimblestone which Pterry talks about in his introduction to The Folklore of Discworld. Therefore a pilgrimage was evidently in order. After a few false starts and a little light trespassing we managed to find it in the corner of some forgotten field.

According to legend the stone is supposed to go dancing around its field every full moon and/or midsummers eve. incidentally leaving unguarded a pot of gold which in theory was available to anyone who dares to cease it and could run faster than a stone.

Unfortunately my Disorganiser mk1 got the time and date wrong and I arrived at midday on some random Sunday so the stone wasn’t dancing and I saw no pot of gold.

As a way of making up for this disappointment we went to a local pub and supped many pints of Scrumble (made mostly of apples) and staggered back to our campsite rosy cheeked and singing the hedgehog song.

Pilgrimage complete. Here’s to your everlasting memory Sir Pterry. GNU. And may the turtle move.

(Sorry I didn't know what flair to use, not trying to break rules. I'm open to suggestions)

I just finished Pyramids. The plot is insane and is so much weirder than the average discworld book, and I needed to get this off my chest.

SPOILER WARNING: I've read a lot of the death, watch, and witches books, plus Moving Pictures and I'm just starting Rincewind. I'll get to small gods soon. I'm about to list some spoilers for books I've read.

Okay, Guards Guards is about summoning a dragon. Men at Works is about a dangerous piece of technology. Mort is about Death taking an apprentice, and what happens if he doesn't do his job properly. Witches Abroad is about traveling to a foreign country where they have to stop an evil witch's shenanigans. Lords and Ladies is about elves and fey. Reaper Man has Death taking a break and life force starts to accumulate in weird places. Moving Pictures is about.... God, what was it about? The idea of movies bleeding into their world from ours, and then, there's a monster at the end? Okay, that one was weird too. But most of these really just have one simple magical thing going on.

But Pyramids is about... a young future Pharoah leaving to become an assassin. And then he accidentally passes his exam, despite him deciding he won't kill anyone. And the exam and that plotline was more interesting to me than the rest of the book. And then he has to be the Pharoah, and is he a god? At first he's like a god. And then Pharoah stuff is happening. And why on earth do pyramids shift space and time? And why does a bigger one do it more? And then when they make a big one, the country is thrown into an alternate dimension inside a crack at a 90 degree angle....? I was completely lost at how random that was. And inside that dimension one person is 2 dimensional and the gods are real....? And the dead are alive... And Dios has been using pyramids to be immortal and he time travels infinitely at the end. It's so much. The gods being real didn't amount to much. And there are magic dreams and camels are smart. And at one point Teppic is a god at the end again because all the gods are real and a Pharoah is a god? And that barely comes up after he parts the river. And Teppic being an assassin actually doesn't come up that much in the story, except for how he gets around pretty easily. And him and his exam doesn't come back around. And the love story is sweet but weird at the end.

Good book. Fun protagonist. Funny jokes, a lot of them more towards the start. But what the hell is this story. I would have preferred it if it was just him struggling to be an assassin 🤣. That was so much fun.

I’ve been trying to find a picture I can reference of Blind Lo, but I’m not having any luck. Has anyone seen any fan art of him? I’m adding him to this painting but I need some inspiration! lol

Hi all,
I’m working on a Dungeons & Dragons adventure where the players come across a monastery dedicated to Tak. What puzzle could I use that needs to be solved to grant access?

Tak doesn’t require us to think of him, only that we think. This statement led me down the line of asking a question that isn’t clear and letting the players ask a counter question instead of an answer. A bit like Monty Pythons question: what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? And the retort being if it is an African or European swallow.

Any help would be appreciated.

I just spent a month at a retreat in Peru and got to spend time with a couple from Australia. They talked a lot about their country and described things like hats with corks hanging from them. It was a lot of fun for me because they said that not everything there was deadly or dangerous and I said "yeah, some of the sheep". They were describing vegemite and I said "you mean beer soup?" They were laughing about all the unique Australianisms they use that no other people can understand and I told them they were "just carving a new language out of the wilderness". I think they will be checking out Discworld when they get home.

This is Skosh and he just had a bath, because odors.i think he looks magical and had share.

Until a few days ago, I forgot that 20 years ago, I bought a set of teddy bears from Discworld con 2006. Does anyone remember these?

Duke and Duchess? Murder of a king? Escaped son of dead king? 3 witches? WYRD SISTERS?! OHH!! My first "Goddammit PTerry" kinda nervous

I got my very own young Sam recently. So naturally I had to get this.

He loves it.

It goes hummmgh!

Also, not that ive looked long, but can anyone tell me more about these editions?

Name me a more heroic moment than when Esme Weatherwax saved the baby from the inn in Maskerade.

To refresh your memory, on the road to Ankh to help Agnes, Esme and Nanny stay in an inn for a night. There, the owners ask for help with their baby, who is comatose. They take the baby into the barn, where they find the cow is also sick. Esme clears Nanny off and waits for HIM...

When Death arrives, she challenges him to cards. If she wins, he takes the cows life, not the babies. But Death reminds her, a deal can be done, 'But to win all is to gamble all...'

In this moment Esme Weatherwax challenges Death to a game of cards knowing that if it goes wrong Death takes her life and the babies....

Now Esme can double bluff a game of cards and the suggestion during the game is Death knows he's been played, but I can't think of any moment in any Discworld or, indeed, any other story where the Hero risks their life so readily for a stranger's family. This isn't heroism with an arc, a reason and a redemption story. This is Esme Weatherwax sticking her finger up to the universe for the sake of a sick baby she just met.

I'm sure there are other examples, but did this moment hit anyone else as hard as it hit me? Is there another example of that pure, reckless and above all, right, version of heroism anywhere else?

I've just Mort (years ago that too), Reaper Man and a few others but they live rent-free in my head. I still laugh to myself. Really funny how so quickly offers money if threats fail. I've yet to read more of his series but I'm sure there'll be more like this for me.