The Discworld turned against the glittering backdrop of space, spinning very gently on the backs of the four giant elephants that perched on the shell of Great A'Tuin the star turtle. Continents drifted slowly past, topped by weather systems that themselves turned gently against the flow, like waltzers spinning counter to the whirl of the dance. A billion tons of geography rolled slowly through the sky.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science.*
*That is to say, the sort you can use to give something three extra legs and then blow it up.
—Feet of Clay (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 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
- 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 :(
- Aug 10 - Disconnection Detection
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 16 days ago, 72 people logged in.
Quote of the Moment
He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.
— Crowley listens to his favourite rock group
(Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)