It comes into view overhead, bigger than the biggest, most unpleasantly-armed starcruiser in the imagination of a three-ring film-maker: a turtle, ten thousand miles long. It is a Great A'Tuin, one of the rare astrochelonians from a universe where things are less as they are and more like people imagine them to be, and it carries on its meteor-pocked shell four giant elephants who bear on their enormous shoulders the great round wheel of the Discworld...
...A world like that, which only exists because the gods enjoy a good joke, must be a place where magic can survive.
—Equal Rites (1987)
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 seven 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
- May 23 - Unseen University Octangle
- Oct 9 - Burgle Fixing
- Sep 18 - Mushclient users: please clean your IP cache!
- Sep 11 - What a mission!
- Aug 21 - Lightly Seared On The Reality Grill
- Aug 17 - leave poor Prinscilla alone :(
You can also check out our complete recent developments blog for a longer list of recent game changes, and our mud commentary blog for more general developments.
Game Status: Driver rebooted about 25 days ago, 62 people logged in.
Quote of the Moment
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb —
they're often *students*, for heaven's sake.
— (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)