Terry Pratchett - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: word choice, typos

2024-07-14T09:57:32Z

word choice, typos

Umbire the Phantom: /* Description */ bit of detail

2024-07-14T09:56:58Z

‎Description: bit of detail

Robindouglasjohnson: Discworld's Creosote is just "Creosote"; "Mr Creosote" is from Monty Python

2024-07-08T14:15:04Z

Discworld's Creosote is just "Creosote"; "Mr Creosote" is from Monty Python

Umbire the Phantom: formatting + copyedit pass

2024-03-09T09:57:19Z

formatting + copyedit pass

Entuno: Add Creosote from Sourcery

2024-02-24T20:28:21Z

Add Creosote from Sourcery

Cherokee Jack: Added wiki link

2016-04-12T00:01:46Z

Added wiki link

Qazmlpok: Death's #chat was modified. He can also quote discworld if you're carrying a novel he appears in, but I think that's just part of the novel tribute.

2016-02-09T00:04:17Z

Death's #chat was modified. He can also quote discworld if you're carrying a novel he appears in, but I think that's just part of the novel tribute.

Catullus: I think that the colour of magic (the first discworld) has Rincewind finding a imp in the camera.

2016-02-08T23:53:23Z

I think that the colour of magic (the first discworld) has Rincewind finding a imp in the camera.

Cherokee Jack: Starting a page for Sir Terry

2016-02-08T23:44:12Z

Starting a page for Sir Terry

New page

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Sir Terence David John '''"Terry" Pratchett''' (April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015) was an English fantasy author, best known for his series of novels set on the Discworld.

The Discworld mythos had an important influence on NetHack, especially on the [[Tourist]] [[role]], which has a Discworld [[pantheon]] and a [[quest]] with characters ([[Twoflower]], the [[Master of Thieves]]) and a setting ([[Ankh-Morpork]]) from the series.

Pratchett passed away from Alzheimer's in early 2015. [[NetHack 3.6.0]], released later that year, contains a tribute to the author: '''[[novel]]s''' named after works in the Discworld series. Novels belong to the [[book]] item class and can be found in bookstores. Reading a novel displays a quotation from Pratchett's writings, and the first novel read gives 20 [[experience]] points.

Other references and tributes to the Discworld in version 3.6.0:
* Breaking an [[expensive camera]] has a 33% chance of creating an [[imp]] or a [[homunculus]]. This is a reference to ''The Light Fantastic'', which reveals that the iconoscope, the Discworld equivalent of a camera, contains a 'picture-painting demon'.
* Each [[squeaky board]] trap squeaks in a specific pitch (for example, "You hear a distant D flat squeak"), which a careful player can use to determine if enemies are near. This is a reference to ''The Light Fantastic'', in which a character has floorboards tuned so he can determine not only if someone is approaching but also where that person is standing.

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 Sir Terence David John '''"Terry" Pratchett''' (April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist. His first novel, ''[[Wikipedia:The Carpet People|The Carpet People]]'', was published in 1971; he is best known for '''''[[#Discworld|Discworld]]''''', a series of 41 comedic fantasy novels set on the titular Discworld, and for the apocalyptic 1990 comedy novel ''[[Wikipedia:Good Omens|Good Omens]]'' which he co-authored with [[Wikipedia:Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman]]. The final Discworld novel, ''[[Wikipedia:The Shepherd's Crown|The Shepherd's Crown]]'', was published five months after his death in August 2015.
-With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998, and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. His influence on the fantasy genre during his life and long after has been long-lasting, and is comparable to that of his many peers, such Ursula K. Le Guin, Terry Brooks, George R. R. Martin, and Neil Gaiman.
+With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998, and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. His influence on the fantasy genre during his life and well after it has been long-lasting, and is comparable to that of his many peers, such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Terry Brooks, George R. R. Martin, and Neil Gaiman.
 ==Description==

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 ==Description==
-The influence of Pratchett's works on fantasy media naturally extends to ''[[NetHack]]'', which contains some monsters and several concepts derived from the ''Discworld'' series. The [[Tourist]] as a [[role]] is an homage to Twoflower in particular and the series as a whole: the [[pantheon]] consists of three Discworld deities, [[Blind Io]], [[The Lady]] and [[Offler]]; the [[Tourist quest]] branch is set in [[Ankh-Morpork]], with Twoflower as the quest leader and the [[Master of Thieves]] as the quest nemesis.
+The influence of Pratchett's works on fantasy media naturally extends to ''[[NetHack]]'', which contains some monsters and several concepts derived from the ''Discworld'' series. The [[Tourist]] as a [[role]] is an homage to Twoflower in particular and the series as a whole: their [[pantheon]] consists of three Discworld deities in [[Blind Io]], [[The Lady]] and [[Offler]], and the [[Tourist quest]] branch is set in [[Ankh-Morpork]], with Twoflower as the quest leader and the [[Master of Thieves]] as the quest nemesis.
 After Pratchett passed away from Alzheimer's in early 2015, [[NetHack 3.6.0]] was released later that year, and contains several additional tributes and references to Pratchett:
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 * Breaking an [[expensive camera]] has a {{frac|3}} chance of creating either an [[imp]] or a [[homunculus]]. In ''The Color of Magic'', the iconoscope (the Discworld equivalent of a camera) is revealed to contain a 'picture-painting demon'.
 * Each [[squeaky board]] trap squeaks in a specific pitch (e.g. "You hear a distant D flat squeak"), which a careful player can use to determine if enemies are near. In ''The Light Fantastic'', a character has floorboards tuned so he can determine not only if someone is approaching, but also where that person is standing.
-* [[Death (monster)|Death]] of the [[Riders]] speaks in all caps and without quotation marks, in the same manner as the recurring Discworld character.
+* [[Death (monster)|Death]] of the [[Riders]] speaks in all caps and without quotation marks, in the same manner as the recurring Discworld character, and offers a few unique messages if spoken to with a novel in open inventory.
-* When a [[guard]] in a [[vault]] asks for your character's name, "Creosote" produces the same result as "[[Croesus]]", causing them to leave you alone if the real Croesus is alive. In ''Sourcery'', a character named Creosote appears, whose name is a pun on "Croesus".
+* When a [[guard]] in a [[vault]] asks for your character's name, "Creosote" produces the same result as "[[Croesus]]". In ''Sourcery'', a character named Creosote appears, whose name is a pun on "Croesus".
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 * Each [[squeaky board]] trap squeaks in a specific pitch (e.g. "You hear a distant D flat squeak"), which a careful player can use to determine if enemies are near. In ''The Light Fantastic'', a character has floorboards tuned so he can determine not only if someone is approaching, but also where that person is standing.
 * [[Death (monster)|Death]] of the [[Riders]] speaks in all caps and without quotation marks, in the same manner as the recurring Discworld character.
-* When a [[guard]] in a [[vault]] asks for your character's name, "Creosote" produces the same result as "[[Croesus]]", causing them to leave you alone if the real Croesus is alive. In ''Sourcery'', a character named Mr. Creosote appears, whose name is a pun on "Croesus".
+* When a [[guard]] in a [[vault]] asks for your character's name, "Creosote" produces the same result as "[[Croesus]]", causing them to leave you alone if the real Croesus is alive. In ''Sourcery'', a character named Creosote appears, whose name is a pun on "Croesus".
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 {{wikipedia|Terry Pratchett}}
-Sir Terence David John '''"Terry" Pratchett''' (April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015) was an English fantasy author, best known for his series of novels set on the Discworld.
+Sir Terence David John '''"Terry" Pratchett''' (April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist. His first novel, ''[[Wikipedia:The Carpet People|The Carpet People]]'', was published in 1971; he is best known for '''''[[#Discworld|Discworld]]''''', a series of 41 comedic fantasy novels set on the titular Discworld, and for the apocalyptic 1990 comedy novel ''[[Wikipedia:Good Omens|Good Omens]]'' which he co-authored with [[Wikipedia:Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman]]. The final Discworld novel, ''[[Wikipedia:The Shepherd's Crown|The Shepherd's Crown]]'', was published five months after his death in August 2015.
-The Discworld mythos had an important influence on NetHack, especially on the [[Tourist]] [[role]], which has a Discworld [[pantheon]] and a [[quest]] with characters ([[Twoflower]], the [[Master of Thieves]]) and a setting ([[Ankh-Morpork]]) from the series.
+With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998, and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. His influence on the fantasy genre during his life and long after has been long-lasting, and is comparable to that of his many peers, such Ursula K. Le Guin, Terry Brooks, George R. R. Martin, and Neil Gaiman.
-Pratchett passed away from Alzheimer's in early 2015. [[NetHack 3.6.0]], released later that year, contains a tribute to the author: '''[[novel]]s''' named after works in the Discworld series. Novels belong to the [[book]] item class and can be found in bookstores. Reading a novel displays a quotation from Pratchett's writings, and the first novel read gives 20 [[experience]] points.
+==Description==
-Other references and tributes to the Discworld in version 3.6.0:
+After Pratchett passed away from Alzheimer's in early 2015, [[NetHack 3.6.0]] was released later that year, and contains several additional tributes and references to Pratchett:
 [[Category:Notable people]]

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 * Breaking an [[expensive camera]] has a 33% chance of creating an [[imp]] or a [[homunculus]]. This is a reference to ''The Color of Magic'', which reveals that the iconoscope, the Discworld equivalent of a camera, contains a 'picture-painting demon'.
 * Each [[squeaky board]] trap squeaks in a specific pitch (for example, "You hear a distant D flat squeak"), which a careful player can use to determine if enemies are near. This is a reference to ''The Light Fantastic'', in which a character has floorboards tuned so he can determine not only if someone is approaching but also where that person is standing.
 * [[Riders|Death]] now speaks in all caps and without quotation marks, in the same manner as the recurring Discworld character.
 [[Category:Notable people]]

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	Sir Terence David John '''"Terry" Pratchett''' (April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015) was an English fantasy author, best known for his series of novels set on the Discworld.		Sir Terence David John '''"Terry" Pratchett''' (April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015) was an English fantasy author, best known for his series of novels set on the Discworld.