The Discworld was formed, drifting onwards through space atop four elephants on the shell of the giant turtle, Great A'Tuin.
Possibly, as it moves, it gets tangled like a blind man in a cobwebbed house in those highly specialized little space-time strands that try to breed in every history they encounter, stretching them and breaking them and tugging them into new shapes.
Or possibly not, of course. The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as 'Things just happen. What the hell.'
—Hogfather (1996)
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
- Jul 8 - Just Clowning Around
- Jul 2 - Giving to the group
- Jun 26 - Cloud differentiation
- Jun 23 - Panning Out
- Jun 20 - Never a kindly word.
You can also check out our complete recent developments blog for a longer list of recent game changes!
Game Status: Driver rebooted about 7 days ago, 76 people logged in.
Quote of the Moment
I always call it 'Tour Flu', because two or three weeks in hot bookshops
with hundreds of people usually produces an ailment of some kind. Going on
tour is like a box of rare diseases — you never know what you're going to
get.
— (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
