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''(Actually, he threatened me with assassination. But in a ''very flattering'' way.'')
|Phil Masters, [http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p{{=}}2045101&postcount{{=}}122 discussing] his (minimal) interaction with [[Terry Pratchett]] while writing ''[[GURPS]] [[Discworld]]''}}
 
{{quote|''For example, the first draft had numbers for a couple of siege engines. But then the manuscript looked to be running long, and I thought "Hang on - a ballista or a cannon will either be something in the background in a wartime siege scene, in which case it's a symbol that stuff just got real and something not to stand in front of, or as a [[Chekhov's Gun]] that will show up as a piece of furniture in scene 1 because there'll be a giant monster on the rampage in scene 3, in which case it does Enough Damage To Kill A Giant Monster. So let's not waste that space."''
|Phil Masters, [http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p{{=}}2045101&postcount{{=}}122 discussing] writing ''The [[Discworld]] Roleplaying Game''}}
 
{{quote|''Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage''
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