Want to make sure we get through every Pratchett book (etc)? You can support Pratchat for as little as $2 a month and get access to bonus stuff, including the exclusive supporter podcast Ook Club! Click here to find out more. to the desperation of a gamer dwarf who is so good playing as a troll in the chess-like game of Thud and who cannot quite reconcile what he is with what he.

You’ll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site. 39, 545, 93102, 106, 107n2 cover 39 game 99,100,102,104,106 Thud The Discworld Board Game 2 Thus Spake Zarathustra 85 Tick, Miss Perspicacia 17, 20. Then, bumped to December 8, we’re teaming up with Jo and Francine from The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret to read a discuss the very meta book-from-the-book, Where’s My Cow? You still have time to ask questions for this one! Use the hashtags #Pratchat62 and/or #MakeYeChat. Our “Thud trilogy” continues in our next two episodes! #Pratchat61 will be a discussion of the 34th Discworld novel, 2005’s Thud!, with guest Matt Roden, scheduled for release in late November. Melissa’s currently studying the use of digital tools in hybrid games – which included the “Biometric D&D” project, where they used a facial recognition algorithm to assign you a Dungeons & Dragons character! You can find out more about her research at her website,, or find her on Twitter (or Mastodon – aus.social) at and on BoardGameGeek as melissa. Her PhD thesis was titled “Between Cardboard and Computer: The hobbyist experience of modern boardgames”. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:07:32 - 31.2MB)ĭr Melissa Rogerson is a Lecturer and Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne.

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