Wishing all #Pratchett fans a happy #Hogswatch!
I made my friend Lorna a #wreath for the occasion.
🐗🌲
#pratchett
See tagged statuses in the local BookWyrm community
Terry Pratchett interview in Adventurer 11 (June/July 1987)
Adventurer was a rather short running UK RPG magazine. In the last issue, Adventurer 11, June/July 1987, there was an interesting interview with Terry Pratchett, where he recounted his experiences with D&D (he used to play and early Discworld has at least some influences from that) and why he stopped.
My favorite part is this one:
I gained marvellous insight into human nature one day when I introduced the concept of D&D to six ladies who worked in the tele-ads department of a local newspaper for which I was working-They cottoned on to the idea fairly quickly, so I gave them a little scenario which I’d been round backwards and forwards and upside down. They got one central idea torture everyone you meet and grab everything you can. It was a beautiful scenario. There were goodies, baddies, people on your side, monsters. They …
Terry Pratchett interview in Adventurer 11 (June/July 1987)
Adventurer was a rather short running UK RPG magazine. In the last issue, Adventurer 11, June/July 1987, there was an interesting interview with Terry Pratchett, where he recounted his experiences with D&D (he used to play and early Discworld has at least some influences from that) and why he stopped.
My favorite part is this one:
I gained marvellous insight into human nature one day when I introduced the concept of D&D to six ladies who worked in the tele-ads department of a local newspaper for which I was working-They cottoned on to the idea fairly quickly, so I gave them a little scenario which I’d been round backwards and forwards and upside down. They got one central idea torture everyone you meet and grab everything you can. It was a beautiful scenario. There were goodies, baddies, people on your side, monsters. They didn’t care. They just marched in and killed everybody. It didn’t matter to them if their victims were lying there, half-dead. An hour into the game and the air was smoking over the table-they were kicking doors down, no advancing carefully down passages-they ran, swords out. There was one monster which was nearly impossible to kill. They were supposed to find a secret device to help, but they just stood round its cage and kept sticking their swords in. Eventually its hit points came down from one billion trillion to something you could deal with, and they were quite prepared to stand there all day prodding it!The dice rolls were all in their favour and I as DM just gave up. If they couldn’t understand what something was. they threw it away. Out went various clues, secret keys, parchments, but any recognisable treasure went into the sack. And out they went, with two trolls and one zombie they’d made into beasts of burden. It was the first time anyone had ever raped a dungeon. There was nothing left.
Rate this:
#Discworld #dnd #Fantasy #osr #pratchett #terrypratchett #ttrpg
En el apartado de cosas bonitas, hoy el Hereu se ha ganado una mención especial hablando de lo que se está divirtiendo con "La corona de hielo" de Pratchett y lo graciosos que son los Feegle y el queso Horace. Como yo me lo leí hace un par de semanas, lo tengo fresco y se confirma que nos reímos con las mismas cosas 💜
Y ya, por hoy. Nanit!!!
This was November in books! 😻 Quite good looking, and that doesn't just seem so.
#rebsReadings #bookstodon #King #Schweers #Rakoff #Pratchett #Baxter #Ernaux #MillwoodHargrave #Black #Haug #Tian #Braithwaite @bookstodon @thestorygraph
PSA: Thriller & Horror have a sale and offer the complete work of Terry Pratchett for a highly reduced price ($42.00, ebooks in EPUB format): https://thrillerandhorror.com/product/complete-works-of-terry-pratchett/. Please share.
Started with Terry #Pratchett|s and Stephen #Baxter|s The Long Earth [2015], will catch up in parallel on the physics that lead the story and am happy to having the time and the [physical, mental, money-wise] resources to just read on. 🧡
“Über besorgte Bürger wusste er Bescheid. Wo auch immer sie sich aufhielten: Sie sprachen immer die gleiche private Sprache, in der »traditionelle Werte« und ähnliche Ausdrücke auf »jemanden lynchen« hinausliefen.”
Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation
Dt. Titel: Die volle Wahrheit
#pratchett #TerryPrachett #Buch #Lesen #discworld #scheibenwelt #besorgteburger
Tak warned "Do not follow signs written in #shadow. For the Calling Dark lies, and will lead you away from the Long Dark, and the true endarkening within."
#Pratchett #LondonUnderground #KingsCross #TellingStories #London #photography
“You see,” he said, “cheese does make money. And opera doesn’t. Opera’s what you spend money on.” “But . . . what do you get out of it?” “You get opera. You put money in, you see, and opera comes out,” said Salzella wearily.”
— Maskerade: A Discworld Novel by Terry Pratchett
#arts #ArtsFunding #opera #funny #ClassicalMusic #Pratchett #bookstodon
"You can be any sex you like as long as you act male. There's no men and women in the watch, just a bunch of lads. You'll soon learn the language, basically it's how much beer supped last night, his strong the curry was afterwards, and where you were sick. Just think 'ego-testical'" - Angua, Feet of Clay, Terry #Pratchett
🤣
Irish Discworld Convention memberships went on sale this evening. It’s a weekend long event in Cork, Ireland, from 17th-20th October 2025.
Hanging out with fellow Pratchett fans is like meeting friends you didn’t know you had. Can’t recommend it enough. This will be my 9th attending. Raise a toast to the man himself, hear talks, play games, be yourself. A truly welcoming space. www.idwcon.org
#IrishDiscworldCon #DiscworldConvention #IDWCon #Discworld #Pratchett #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett
Magrat Ajostiernos siempre certera.
#Pratchett #TerryPratchett
Richard Degenne reviewed Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #11)
They say there are only two things you can count on ...
But that was …
As good as #Discworld gets
5 stars
Content warning Slight spoilers ahead
I loved Reaper Man. The distinctive style of #Pratchett is as strong as ever, and with three intertwined narrative threads, that means three times as many colorful characters, ridiculous puns and over-the-top situations.
On top of that, I feel like Reaper Man addresses some deeper existential topics compared to the previous books and, with the three narrations, we get three different points of view of the same topic, which makes up a reading experience that is both incredibly funny and thought-provoking enough to be noteworthy.
#FantasyLeserPrompts am 24.04.:
Wo liegst Du auf der #Fantasy-#Nerd-Skala von "Wer ist #Pratchett?" bis "Ich kann ohne Wörtbuch von Elbisch nach Klingonisch übersetzen"? Was ist das nerdischste, das Du je gemacht hast?
Ich habe mich in meinem Nerdismus immer darauf beschränkt, auf viele Veranstaltungen zu gehen oder sie auszurichten. Für übertriebenes Detailwissen ist mein Kopf zu siebig, fürchte ich. Aber ich habe mich fachlich mit einigen Werken befasst (z. B. religionswissenschaftlich).
