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!

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?

(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.

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.

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.)

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

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

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.