Don’t play the Pratchat drinking game this episode folks – there’s plenty of talk of Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, other books, roleplaying games, and eventually even some Terry Pratchett related stuff…
For our second episode, Liz and Ben try a couple of different online quizzes to find out which Discworld characters they are, with mixed results. (Find the ones we tried in the Ow Notes below.) Then Liz forces Ben to answer a mean question before they both move on the rather nicer questions asked by you about which Discworld stories might make good roleplaying game plots, how Terry’s work has affected our lives and work, whether we’ve previously re-read any of Terry’s books, and more!
If you have a question or other suggestion for a future Ook Club, please let us know! We already have a great idea for our next episode… You can email us at chat@pratchatpodcast.com, or ask in the #ook-club channel on our Discord server (available to those supporting us for $5 a month or more).
Ow Notes
- The first quiz is “Which “discworld” Character Are You?“, and the second quiz is “What Would You Be On The Discworld?“, both published on the quiz maker site ProProfs. If you know of a better one we can maybe try taking in a later episode, let us know!
- The “Voight-Kampff test” is used to find artificial humans, known as replicants, in Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the film adaptation, Blade Runner.
- 密やかな結晶 (Hisoyaka na kesshō, “Secret Crystallization“), or in English translation The Memory Police, is a 1994 novel by Japanese author Yōko Ogawa.
- Flames by Robbie Arnott was published in 2019. It’s been on the short and long lists for numerous book awards.
- We also mentioned Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey and Early Riser.
- You can find out more about Monster of the Week here.
- Here’s the official site for Primetime Adventures.
- We discussed the “Boots Theory” with Cal Wilson back in our very first episode, titled, er…”Boots Theory“. (We hadn’t started writing pun titles yet.)
- We of course meant to say that Amy Gray and Jennifer Beckett read Good Omens every year. Otherwise it’d be a brand new tradition.
- Liz did indeed interview Ben about the 2012 Freeplay Independent Games Festival, for online magazine Subterranean Death Cult. The game they’re talking about is Lose/Lose, a Space Invaders style game in which each alien is generated from a random file on the computer; when you kill the alien in the game, the file is deleted.
- Ex Libris is a party game along similar lines to Balderdash, except that the players are making up fake opening and closing lines to real books.
- In two episodes of police comedy Brooklyn 99, the character Lt Terry Jeffords is a huge fan of DC Parlov, author of the fantasy series The Skyfire Cycle.
- The Night Terrace Kickstarter in fact started a couple of days before this episode released; you can find it here.
- Liz’s Dylan Moran interview appears in the October 26 edition of The Saturday Paper. You can find it online here.
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