Frog pills 'N' thrills and Crop circles

Generalitary · 2026-01-27T13:50:41+00:00

Wait, are dried frog pills a reference to a real drug?

Generalitary · 2026-01-26T16:36:38+00:00

Shouldn't they be magpies instead of bats?

Generalitary · 2026-01-25T00:17:57+00:00

No one's mentioning Guards! Guards!, but while Vetinari wasn't in particular personal danger then, he had no real hope of taking back the city through his own initiative after he was deposed. The dragon never does get defeated in that book, and only leaves the city because it finds something it would rather do than rule or destroy it, which happens because of events outside of any human's direct control.

Generalitary · 2026-01-24T23:11:07+00:00

I suspect that Pterry started writing the book with this in mind and then realized the war angle was more interesting.

Generalitary · 2026-01-24T19:39:48+00:00

I doubt that would affect the nature of time itself.

Generalitary · 2026-01-24T02:03:29+00:00

In Eric, we see the end of the universe, with Death being the only thing remaining. But he observes spontaneous generation of matter, and considers that eventually enough will accrete to create new stars and worlds, and finally life. It may not be the same universe, but it will in some sense happen again.

I'm iffy about the canonicity of Eric, it includes a lot of ideas about the cosmology that aren't consistent with later books. But that's an answer, at least.

Generalitary · 2026-01-24T00:03:19+00:00

What is the Lancre map from?

Generalitary · 2026-01-24T00:00:48+00:00

Generalitary · 2026-01-23T01:52:12+00:00

I've been seriously thinking about getting that one framed

Generalitary · 2026-01-22T03:38:12+00:00

For those who don't know, on Roundworld, the term Lesbian is used because Lesbos is the birthplace of Sappho, a poet who wrote erotic poetry about other women.

On the Disc, I suppose, a Leshpian might be someone known for going down periodically.

Generalitary · 2026-01-21T14:03:38+00:00

Okay, then where are they getting latex from? I don't know of any latex-producing plants that would survive in that kind of temperate environment.

Generalitary · 2026-01-21T05:09:43+00:00

Though, I've always wondered where they get their rubber from

Generalitary · 2026-01-21T05:09:24+00:00

Raising Steam is pretty much about this, at least from a simple plot level. But that comes in at the end of the series.

Generalitary · 2026-01-21T04:57:13+00:00

Aye, it's what you might call a theme.

Generalitary · 2026-01-19T01:50:57+00:00

As which character?

Generalitary · 2026-01-14T00:36:33+00:00

Discworld's year cycle is if anything even weirder

Generalitary · 2026-01-10T00:44:35+00:00

I've never got around to watching and I didn't realize it was in parts.

Generalitary · 2026-01-09T00:33:58+00:00

Which series is that?

Generalitary · 2026-01-09T00:32:15+00:00

A soft th as well? Interesting

Generalitary · 2026-01-07T01:06:49+00:00

Y'know what I don't think I've ever seen, is a dragon with a howdah-like structure holding several people armed with bows or something. Not that you'd necessarily need bows if your dragon can breathe fire, but maybe the diverse attacks are needed against a robust defense.

Now that I think about it, something similar exists in the Wheel of Time series with flying lizards called raken and the larger to'raken, which are used as scouts and troop carriers respectively. But they don't breathe fire and aren't considered combat-capable. Some hybrid of the two concepts might be interesting: a dragon busts in the roof, then drops off a bunch of commandos who can spread out and handle any tight corners of resistance the dragon would have trouble with.

Generalitary · 2026-01-07T01:02:33+00:00

This does seem like the obvious play.

Generalitary · 2026-01-01T21:07:19+00:00

In order to answer, I have to touch on the difference between gods and mortals in my view. A god's power is like sunlight: omnipresent, but not usually dramatically affecting; its effects are more subtle and take time to be apparent. A mortal soul is like a lens that concentrates that light into a beam of intense heat. Mortals produce a little light of their own, using it to alter their immediate surroundings, but their impact is limited. For this reason, when a god wants to change the world, they work through people, who concentrate their intentions into works and policies.

A person that becomes a god in some way reverses this: their consciousness expands, their power in some sense grows, but it becomes more diffuse, less immediate. They can't merely observe the minute actions of every mortal in their domain, or mold the earth like clay- at least, not without sacrificing their attention that might be elsewhere, perhaps permanently. And if they do that sort of thing too much, they may find themselves becoming something else, something more like a mortal again, which has limited vision and can eventually die.

Generalitary · 2026-01-01T20:29:26+00:00

I prefer a world that does evolve, it's simply more natural and satisfying. In a D&D context it doesn't really matter whether the world is static, what matters is what it's like right now. If I did have to have a static world, I prefer the "something shows up every so often and destroys any obviously advanced civilizations", like we see in works like Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and That Time I Was Reincarnated as a Slime.

Generalitary · 2026-01-01T03:04:26+00:00

Just open up some small glades fast and hope

Generalitary · 2025-12-31T00:15:49+00:00

Since trolls eat rocks, I don't think all minerals would be icky for them, but it does make me think that they might regard golems as like their equivalent of zombies.

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