In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part...See...
Great A'Tuin the Turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination.
In a brain bigger than a city, with geological slowness, He thinks only of the Weight.
Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen, the four giant elephants upon whose broad and startanned shoulders the disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its vast circumference and domed by the baby-blue vault of Heaven.
Astropsychology has been, as yet, unable to establish what they think about.
—The Colour of Magic (1983)
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
- Aug 9 - A Fresh Coat of Pain
- Jul 19 - Holy Weapon replaced by Divine Ire
- May 26 - Downtime and Maintenance
- Sep 30 - Bodhisattva
- Sep 29 - Maisey goes to therapy
- Sep 23 - A couple of QoL tweaks to coatings
- Sep 18 - A Blanket Solution
- Sep 10 - Found the thread
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 35 days ago, 61 people logged in.
Quote of the Moment
He wasn't strictly aware of it, but he treated even geography as if he was
investigating a crime (did you see who carved out the valley? Would you
recognize that glacier if you saw it again?)
— (Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant)
