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. You’ll find the full notes and errata for this episode on our web site. 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. At the end of each battle, points are scored by the winning player and the result of the game is decided by combining the results of both battles. 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. Thud is unusual in that a game consists of two battles - if you command the dwarfs in the first battle then you'll be in charge of the trolls in the second. 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. A board game of Thud was released several years ago.

Thud the discworld board game