Through the fathomless deeps of space swims the star turtle Great A'Tuin, bearing on its back the four giant elephants who carry on their shoulders the mass of the Discworld. A tiny sun and moon spin around them, on a complicated orbit to induce seasons, so probably nowhere else in the multiverse is it sometimes necessary for an elephant to cock a leg to allow the sun to go past.
—Wyrd Sisters (1988)

Welcome to Discworld MUD

Discworld MUD is a multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. On Discworld you will meet many of the characters from those books. Terry's books are humorous fantasy and the game retains the comical, fun feel of the books.

We are a fully-featured and well-established MUD with many possibilities for player interaction: diverse areas totalling over a million rooms, the opportunity to become a member of one of 6 guilds, a citizen of one of the many city-states on the Disc, run your own shop, own your own house, write for the local newspaper, and much more!

Start Playing

There is no cost to play Discworld MUD, it is developed and maintained entirely by volunteers. You can login and create a character with any javascript/flash-capable web browser simply by clicking on the 'play now' link to the left (an option which uses websockets instead of flash is also available).

The 'playing' menu has links to a number of pages to help you get orientated.

Latest News and Recent Developments

Apr 9 - Caught Them All Again
Apr 1 - You call that a knife? II.
Apr 1 - You call that a knife?
Mar 31 - Magical Experiment Goes Wrong Again, Again
Mar 29 - Marjorie Baxter.

You can also check out our complete recent developments blog for a longer list of recent game changes!

Game Status: Driver rebooted about 14 days ago, 59 people logged in.

Quote of the Moment

His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the
Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous
phrase, "You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and
there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink."
— We meet Dydactylos the philosopher
(Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)