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: 14 areas (domains) 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 java-capable web browser simply by clicking on the 'play now' link to the left.

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

Latest News

• Jun 16 - Password Security
• May 27 - Two things!
• May 23 - Skill tree changes
• Apr 16 - Sorry bout that folks
• Apr 13 - still going ...

You can also check out our recent developments blog for more game changes!

Game Status: Driver rebooted about 2 hours ago, 145 people logged in.

This is the Discworld – flat, circular, and carried through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the back of Great A'tuin, the only turtle ever to feature on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, a turtle ten thousand miles long, dusted with the frost of dead comets, meteor-pocked, albedo-eyed. No-one knows the reason for all this, but it's probably quantum.

Much that is weird could happen on a world on the back of a turtle like that.

—Pyramids (1989)

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Past polls

1. Discworld Polls
2. MUD Voting
3. Exposing Ourselves in Public
4. EL PEA SEA
5. Polling about Polls
6. Pulling Them In
7. CTF

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Quote of the Moment

- "You pay for it before you eat it? What happens if it's dreadful?"
- "That's why."
— (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)