They've subtitled it Adventures in Ankh-Morpork or something like that, and the quickstart is super simple. they obviously made the Narrativium Dice a d7A*, and players have all these traits (Name, Organization, Background, 2 Niche, 1 Core, and 2 Quirks from what I can tell) which are not themselves quantifiable but which have a positive or negative effect in every situation whereby they change a dice roll from er... that dice to d4, d6, d10, and d12. The quickstart is (as with all future digital material the kickstarter releases) available on drivethrurpg.

What I'm proposing is to run that game either in Ankh-Morpork, Elsewhere on the Disc, or On Another Disc per the experimentations with the especially spicy swamp dragons.  Oh and to be clear, this game is probably going to be mature, since there seems to be a propensity in the novels for fruitworthy words, and non-graphical depictions of death**. There will not likely be reason to bring it above that. Here are my ideas, feel free to vote for any of them as strikes your particular fancy:

• A Fist Full of Dibblers: CMOT Dibbler has recently died. Tear My Own Stockings Delilah (or Deborah), the granddaughter of CMOT Dibbler who couldn't hack it as a Stripper has recently come to inherit and be the sole member of the Guild of Dibblers. Since she now has to make sense of all that junk in the cart, she has taken to the streets of Ankh-Morpork and to the Mended Drum to er... drum up business in the newly accepting members, Guild of Dibblers. In this scenario, the players will be aspiring members, going about town and generally finding industrious ways to help the people of the city (read: Having Adventures in Ankh-Morpork).
• A New Stoneface: 12 years ago, Sam Vimes and Havelock Vetinari both died under Mysterious Circumstances***, which caused a Power Vacuum to implode in the city. A previously minor Noble (which one currently undecided) stepped in, and took Lady Sybil as a political prisoner. Young Sam escaped and has been living in hiding ever since^†, biding his time to live up to the legacy of a father whose family line has no truck with Kings.
• Reforming the Watch: This one would take place in a different area in the same period as A New Stoneface, and follow members of the much disintegrated watch just trying to sort everything out and make things more like they used to be before Old Stoneface died.
• Thee Other Syde of thee Dysk: The Last Hero revealed the existence of towns off the edge of the disc itself. This sort of thing provides a great backdrop for players to use the discworld setting for Original Characters in their own adventures while still being close enough to the topside that you still get that Discworld feel. Edge towners still know of Rincewind bringing The Wet back to Fourecks. Some of them probably saw that weird bird shaped thing first hand. They might even have found out a guy named Leonard of Quirm made it. On the whole though, none of that really matters because they live their own lives.
• Another Disc: Before they died, Vetinari, Vimes, Carrot, and Leonard devised a plan to seek out another disc in a ship designed based on improvements of the one in The Last Hero. That improved ship has crash landed on a second disc due to not particularly well thought out safety mechanisms, but it did have some survivors. They are the people who would be interested here.

Right, now that that's taken care of, Let me just say I'd like votes from at least 4 potential members, preferrably each ranking their preferences, and I'll weigh the positions of preference the voters give in deciding which scenario to plan for.

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^{* Which of course we can't call by its true name for obvious reasons, but it's a number between 7 and 9
** unless you count the Anthropomorphic Personification that speaks like this.
*** Nobody in the Assassin's Guild fessed up to either contract.
† in the Assassins' or Thieves' Guild}
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Would you say familiarity with the source material is important?  I ask as I read Color of Magic years ago but for some strange reason I've never picked up another of the books in the series.  Not sure why, I've heard great things about the series and it's always been on my list to continue.  I'm considering backing the Kickstarter but haven’t pulled the trigger yet.
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I dunno if this answers that question in a direct way as such, but I will say this: I will be posting wiki entries for species and guilds relevant to the decided upon era and place (provided we're not actually in Ankh-Morpork). If we're on Another Disc or on the Other Side, that's one less wiki I'll have to post since I get to make those up on my own.


A deep appreciation for Sir Terry Pratchett is preferred appreciated, but not strictly required. Some understanding of the City Watch books will help for Ankh-Morpork, at least to about Thud. This will likewise be appreciated, but not required. Our works could be regarded as blasphemy after all. Anyone who plays a  witch, wizard, barbarian, etc. should have similar familiarity with those respective subsets, but they'll likely be discussed on a linked wiki as well.


The only thing keeping me from pulling the trigger is having bigger eyes than my wallet. It's a whole thing.
This message was last edited by the user at 21:00, Sun 20 Oct.

This might be blasphemy, but I think the series starts to get good with Equal Rites, book 3 in the series. It took several goes for me to get through Colour of Magic.



The tiers are bizarre and it’s all boutique priced. I’m backing for the PDFs only as I don’t want to deal with shipping.

In reply to steelsmiter (msg # 1):

Of those, the last three are of interest. #1 Watch. #2 Another Disc. #3 Underside.

I’d prefer to do our own thing without being utterly devoted to or curtailed by established lore. The more the game stands on its own without needing to have read the books the better.

Sign me up. I think I've only read about 40 of his books. I have actually played in Discworld already: I played in a game with the author of Gurps Discworld, and we contined the campaign for maybe a dozen very fun games. Very amusing times!

Of the things you suggested... the first two are the most interesting to me, for exactly the opposite reason to liblarva. It is a rich world full of fantastic lore and I want to see it, engage with it and play with it :)  but any are fine.

I've backed the Kickstarter.

They all sound like good ideas, though I'm not fond of killing off established characters. Dibbler, Vetinari and Vimes disappearing, on the other hand...

For those new to the series, Equal Rites (introducing the witch Granny Weatherwax) and Mort (effectively introducing Death - he appears earlier, but this is where his personality is first established) are where the Discworld really starts to take shape; The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic are more parodies of popular fantasy (including Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Conan - twice!, Anne McCaffrey's Dragon stories, and the Cthulhu Mythos) and have a different tone to the rest. But they're still full of humour: thanks to TP, I can't not think of stone circles as 'silicon chunk technology' :)
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what he said

Are you proposing to run this game for players using only the Quickstart? I read (quite a lot of years ago) the novels that you mentioned (actually I read Mort in the version of the theatrical script) but I don't remember them very well in detail. Is this a problem?
If this is the case, I'm interested in participating :)

I'll keep an eye out, good luck!

Fair warning, if you're expecting GURPS you could be in for a disappointment. For those who do have the GURPS materials, this game won't be nearly as crunchy, but those materials can still be useful for any necessary traits. Some will be assumed, like people who play trolls won't need an additional trait to spell out that they are silicon based life forms whose intelligence raises as the temperature goes down.


Technically The Other Side and A New Disc don't strictly require killing anyone off, but I would prefer to have the game occur 12 years after Pterry's death. Another Disc and Other Side both have the advantage that instead of having anyone die, they just stayed behind and will be minimally consequential to the story.



Yes. I may include other things to fill in blanks but these will not be required reading by players.


per previous response.
This message was last edited by the user at 21:01, Sun 20 Oct.

When it comes to rule systems I have a line that is 'below the line I won't play'. Gurps is actually below that line, but I played because it was the author of the book that wrote it :) And then we mostly ignored the system and just roleplayed.

Ok, well at best it'll be used for trait inspiration, about the same as any wiki entries that I find. The mechanics will be purely the Modiphius game.

Another thought occurred to me re: The Other Side story, that I didn't see a Cartographer's Guild on the wiki page I found, it got me thinking about the Flat Earth conspiracy, and the concept of a Clacks Driven Impish Positioning System (which I could probably make into a joke, but it's not coming to me) where imps draw what's around them based on what they see of the Clacks towers on to a scroll and if the user deviates from the path it has to recalculate, and tape a new drawing over the scroll. In this variant, the players would be members of a Guild of Cartographers and Mappemakers assigned by the Patrician to prove the world is indeed a disc.

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This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was moot, at 02:06, Mon 28 Oct.

I can't really tell from what's presented if I have enough interested, however I can see the following are desired

1. Familiar Faces (and/or places?)™
   
2. Do Our Own Thing

From that it looks like 2 would be outright eliminated since it would require one or more deaths. A Fist Full of Dibblers and Reforming the Watch could both occur within the context of Another Disc or The Other Side, which could also incorporate the cartography idea from my previous post but I don't know if anyone's interested in that idea either. I think The Other Side would be the easiest way to incorporate both of the desires I noted, but I could be missing something. I should also probably mention my ideal is 3+ players.
This message was last edited by the user at 07:23, Wed 06 Nov.

Really if you build it they will come :)

Unfortunately I have no bandwidth at this time but I did end up backing the Kickstarter.   I agree, build it and they will come

Guess I did that :D