Biggest Fool Of Them All: Tackling Discworld's Timeline
This year has been a good year for reading: the project I started back at the beginning in 2023 (and quickly abandoned) to read my own private "Appendix N" list has been successful so far - at least 50 books, by my count, in 3 months. (Appendix N being the suggested reading list of inspirations for Dungeons & Dragons by Gary Gygax in the original Dungeon Master's Guide). The series I am working on now wasn't even around when the 1st Edition DMG was first published - Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, whose first volume was published in 1982. Discworld went from a very vague setting that Pratchett joked was 'unmappable' to, after 35 main novels and various other assorted works, so detailed that the main city of the world had every single street named. The timeline is similarly muddled, and by the end there were a number of different calendars, some numbered, some using names for the years and centuries. Inconsistencies abound. The task seems...
