Dungeon Fantasy in Discworld

vitruvian · 02-25-2008, 05:29 PM

Was musing about this - I know the license has not been renewed so we'll probably never get anything official - but given how much of the earlier Discworld books were built on classic sword&sorcery tropes, it should be doable. Potential problems include the lack of playable elves (since elves are pretty much evil interdimensional invaders), the lack of much in the way of magic-wielding clerics, and the insanity of trying to use healing magic on Discworld even if such existed.

Still, the third note in this Pyramid article.... http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/login...?id=2919#Note3
makes it almost irresistible to contemplate.

I don't really see a way around the elvish problem, other than to put another nonhuman race in their spot. Goblins/pictsies are a little rambunctious for the role, but can take the place of gnomes and halflings.

For the clerics, one could easily have a small cabal of gods (maybe ones that haven't won admittance to the inner circles of Dunmanifestin) that have taken up the practice of actually granting specific boons to their followers in order to recruit more. It could be a sort of pyramid scheme with multiple levels based on how many idiots (worshippers) one manages to recruit or how much of one's finances get turned over to the church, kind of like Scientology except that some of the granted powers actually work (at least when the gods are actually paying attention). As for healing, either exclude those spells, or have them possess random side effects in keeping with the nature of Discworld magic.

Two initial thoughts for dungeons in Discworld (other than the Dungeon Dimensions, which are a different sort of thing) - Evil Harry Dread could easily have had a son at Unseen University with ambitions to do everything on a grander scale than his father; and more locally to Ankh-Morpork, the dwarves seem to have dug a huge network of tunnels under the city that, at least until they put the golem-powered subway lines in, could serve as a most admirable dungeon crawl.

02-25-2008, 05:29 PM	#1
vitruvian Join Date: Aug 2004	Dungeon Fantasy in Discworld Was musing about this - I know the license has not been renewed so we'll probably never get anything official - but given how much of the earlier Discworld books were built on classic sword&sorcery tropes, it should be doable. Potential problems include the lack of playable elves (since elves are pretty much evil interdimensional invaders), the lack of much in the way of magic-wielding clerics, and the insanity of trying to use healing magic on Discworld even if such existed. Still, the third note in this Pyramid article.... http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/login...?id=2919#Note3 makes it almost irresistible to contemplate. I don't really see a way around the elvish problem, other than to put another nonhuman race in their spot. Goblins/pictsies are a little rambunctious for the role, but can take the place of gnomes and halflings. For the clerics, one could easily have a small cabal of gods (maybe ones that haven't won admittance to the inner circles of Dunmanifestin) that have taken up the practice of actually granting specific boons to their followers in order to recruit more. It could be a sort of pyramid scheme with multiple levels based on how many idiots (worshippers) one manages to recruit or how much of one's finances get turned over to the church, kind of like Scientology except that some of the granted powers actually work (at least when the gods are actually paying attention). As for healing, either exclude those spells, or have them possess random side effects in keeping with the nature of Discworld magic. Two initial thoughts for dungeons in Discworld (other than the Dungeon Dimensions, which are a different sort of thing) - Evil Harry Dread could easily have had a son at Unseen University with ambitions to do everything on a grander scale than his father; and more locally to Ankh-Morpork, the dwarves seem to have dug a huge network of tunnels under the city that, at least until they put the golem-powered subway lines in, could serve as a most admirable dungeon crawl.