Thud has one player controlling a few slow but powerful trolls and the other controlling multiple fast but independently weak dwarfs (which Thud later established also have combo abilities).
The next book in the Moist von Lipwig series is Making Money. Preceded by Monstrous Regiment, followed by Thud!. Moist's rivalry with Reacher Gilt, the leader of the corporate moneygrubbers, and his budding romance with Adora Belle Dearheart note a cynical, chain-smoking young woman who has been known to drive her spike-heeled shoes through people's feet when provoked provide a bit of backdrop as Moist essentially invents a new system of currency, note by introducing stamps, which people start to use instead of coins single-handedly restores the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, rescues a cat (and two men) from a burning building, summons divine intervention, and exposes the crooked dealings of Gilt and his accomplices to the world.ĭid we mention that Moist is a really big believer in Refuge in Audacity? And that he saved a cat?Īn adaptation aired on Sky One on May 30 2010.
It helps that the Grand Trunk clacks system note a semaphore tower chain which allows messages to be transmitted great distances very quickly is under new management, a gang of voracious corporate backstabbers who are running it into the ground. Despite the complete incompetence of the existing Post staff, note (Stanley Howler, a slightly deranged boy obsessed with pins, and Tolliver Groat, an old man who believes very strongly in his homemade medicines) Moist manages to begin rebuilding the Post Office via the application of a liberal helping of Refuge in Audacity.