I’ll admit I skip the first few books and start with Mort or Guards, Guards! during a reread depending on which subseries I’m craving. The early books aren’t bad, but they definitely improved as he fleshed out the world more.

The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic especially read more like Douglas Adams in style. Later Douglas Adams, when his cynicism was at its peak and he made his characters miserable in response. The following books are much softer and more philosophical in tone.

Death being straight up antagonistic in the first few books (even killing a random cat when angry IIRC) is the most bothersome part of the early stuff. He’s my favorite character in all of fiction, so seeing him characterized like that doesn’t feel great.

Reaper Man is definitely in my top five Discworld novels, and isn’t first only due to how amazing his other books are.

The religious schism in The Fifth Elephant was amazing worldbuilding and made me love them even more.

I also love the line “Tak [Dwarven god] does not require we think of him, only that we think.”

Oh, supporting a transgender orc could be an entire campaign in itself! I’m of the opinion that transgender issues wouldn’t normally be an issue in a world with permanent polymorph, but for an orc? Even if the tribe had a caster of high enough level, becoming biologically female doesn’t sound great in a traditional orc society (assuming they use their women as baby factories to compensate for their high death rate), and that’s also a culture where not fitting in could have lethal consequences if found out. The orc being a mage adds a fun additional wrinkle if she’s capable of casting it herself but refuses until she gets somewhere safe.

So she’d be putting off the polymorph until after the players help her escape the tribe, while the elders attempt to stop them due to her being one of their few competent mages. Then they have to help her find a place in civilized society that looks down on her for all the things her previous culture praised her for.

I think I fell in love with this character already. Thanks for the inspiration!

Ah, the bane of all adventurers: planning. Why waste time with thinky-think when big stick already hit good?

Though our party of three didn’t include any ranged weapon characters (and my druid was the only caster), so we’d have been completely screwed if the dragon didn’t fail a save before I ran out of spell slots. A strength save, so our own “plan” was a stupid gamble that only paid off due to luck.

“Blood always tells” - some racist jackass whose own family tree resembles a wreath, who probably suffers from a dozen hereditary afflictions themselves. But no, it’s melanin that’s the real measurement of superiority!

The party has to track down whoever is assassinating a bunch of nobles and burning down their manors. It turns out to be a dragon supremacist who’s upset about the wealthy getting honorary dragon status amongst their kin and decided to cull the soft and weak “infecting their race”.

Bonus points if in their dying moments they declare the party would make great dragons for not forgetting to back up their arrogance with personal might.

Damn it, I might have to write and run this campaign now.

Carrot Ironfoundersson is the best dwarf, species notwithstanding.

Okay, second best dwarf. Cheery exists.

… Third best due to Cuddy (RIP).

Okay, Discworld in general has the best dwarves. Some are even dwarven!

That sounds like a job for Readied Actions!

(Our DM tried that with the dragon at the end of Icespire Peak, but fortunately my character had a spell that grounds flying enemies and it failed its save. Dragons aren’t nearly as bad when you know they’re coming and have an entire campaign to build your character towards fighting them. Surprise dragons are a nightmare though!)

He also nearly named Celeborn Teleporno, which would have been awful amazing.

Could you clarify your instructions? I’m smashing two small loaves of bread together but nothing’s happening.

Kind of like this.

The Ring of Attunement idea has come up before, and if I remember correctly there’s a class (Artificer?) that gets a bonus based on how many items they have attuned, making it a genuinely useful item in niche cases.

With no other options, she asks to join the party. Her only move is to launch herself directly at the enemy, causing the barbarian to declare her a kindred spirit and fall madly in love with her.

That’s on the paladin for allowing the cleric to acquire black soul gems, honestly.

And when 64-bit support first came to Windows, Microsoft artificially limited the amount of RAM you could use unless you shelled out for the much more expensive editions. On Vista you were arbitrarily limited to 8 gigs with the basic edition, 16 with premium, and even the business editions had a limit of 128 gigs, a tiny fraction of the addressable space under a 64 bit architecture.

Even now there’s a limit, though it’s insanely high (over a terabyte) and you’re unlikely to ever see it unless you’re running a server on Windows instead of Windows Server (still limited, but in the dozens of terabytes) or Linux (which has a “limit” in the petabytes).

As always, it works at the Speed of Plot™.

Which somehow becomes much slower the second players come up with a use for an infinite source of unclean water.

It’s A Cauldron of Endless Bog Water. The merchant lost it a while back and came here to retrieve it after tales spread of a new swamp popping up out of nowhere.

If they didn’t want players to do this, they wouldn’t have included a drum magazine upgrade for the assault rifle.

With a full party of casters? One hour IC, a couple years OOC.