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INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . 5What Is a Roleplaying Game? . . . . . . 5This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6(More) About GURPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Some Warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6About the Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

1. ON THE BACK OF

FOUR ELEPHANTS . . . . . 7WHY A DISC? WHY THE TURTLE? . . . . 8

Great A’Tuin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8The Power of Story . . . . . . . . . 8Other Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Morphic Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . 9But Really . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

PRACTICAL BASICS . . . . . . . . . . 10Directions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Weather and Temperature . . 10Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Discworld Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Discworld Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

HISTORY (SLIGHTLY FRAYED). . . . . . . 12Prehistory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Human Civilisations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13The History Monks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

BASIC GEOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14The Circle Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Hubward Lands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

MAP OF THE DISCWORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Hub and Rimfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16The Far Rim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

LIVING AND ADVENTURING . . . . . . . . . 16Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Oggham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Travel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18The Position of Magic. . . . . . . . . . . . 19Caroc Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Warfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Currencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2. MAKING CHARACTERS . . 21GURPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22The Example Characters . . . . . . . . . . 22Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

CHARACTER BASICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Converting Existing Characters. . . . . 23Character Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Character Sheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Skill Bonuses and Penalties. . . . . . . . 25Example: Jemzarkiza of Krull . . . . . . 25

BASIC ATTRIBUTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Example: Jemzarkiza of Krull . . . . . . 26Secondary Characteristics . . . . . . . . 27Character Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Basic Lift (BL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Damage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

IMAGE, LOOKS, AND PHYSIQUE. . . . . . 28Handedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Example: Jemzarkiza of Krull . . . . . . 30

SOCIAL BACKGROUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Technology Level (TL) . . . . . . . . . . . 30Character Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Example: Jemzarkiza of Krull . . . . . . 32

Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32WEALTH AND INFLUENCE . . . . 33

Wealth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Starting Funds . . . . . . . . . . . 33Reputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Importance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Regarding

Female Characters. . . . . . 36Special Cases for Status. . . . 38

Friends and Foes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Example: Jemzarkiza of Krull . . . . . . 41

ADVANTAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Working for The Lady? . . . . . . . . . . . 44Example: Jemzarkiza of Krull . . . . . . 48Inspirations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

PERKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Example: Jemzarkiza of Krull . . . . . . 53

DISADVANTAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Benefits of the Barbarian Lifestyle . . 58Example: Jemzarkiza of Krull . . . . . . 66

QUIRKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Mental Quirks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Example: Jemzarkiza of Krull . . . . . . 68Physical/Social Quirks . . . . . . . . . . . 68

SKILLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Buying Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Using a Skill With

a Different Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . 69Defaults (Skills You Don’t Know) . . 70Skill List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Combat Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Magical Cheating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Example: Jemzarkiza of Krull . . . . . . 83

3. NONHUMANS AND

OCCUPATIONAL

TEMPLATES. . . . 84TRAITS FOR NONHUMAN

CHARACTERS. . . . . . . . . 85Attribute and Secondary

Characteristic Modifiers . . . . . . . 85Racial and Personal Appearance. . . 85Example: Hunchbroad

Modoscousin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Racial Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Supernaturally Powered Beings. . . . . 92Racial Perks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Racial Disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Racial Quirks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98Racial Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

RACIAL TEMPLATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Hunchbroad Modoscousin:

The Dwarf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Gargoyles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Gnomes and Pictsies. . . . . . . . . . . . 101Banshees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Elf-Kin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Goblins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Gnolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Supernatural Personifications

as Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Golems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Sapient Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Trolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Troll Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Vampires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Yetis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Werewolves and Wolfmen . . . . . . . 114Other Therianthropes? . . . . . . . . . . . 116Zombies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Mummies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Other Possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Animated Skeletons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

OCCUPATIONAL TEMPLATES . . . . . . . 119Low-Powered Characters . . . . . . . . 120Medium-Powered Characters . . . . 130Hunchbroad Modoscousin . . . . . . . 137Fairy Godmothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Other Interesting Occupations . . . . 139High-Powered Characters . . . . . . . 140Hunchbroad Modoscousin . . . . . . . 145

4. GOING SHOPPING . . . . 146PLAYER CHARACTERS AND

POSSESSIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Travel Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147What Cost of Living Gets You . . . . . 148Living Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Weapons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Improvised Monster-Slaying

Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Melee Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Thrown Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Missile Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Dwarf Bread Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . 153Shields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Armour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Artillery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155General Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . 156Magical Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Shopping (or Not Shopping)

as an Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Sapient Pearwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Example of Shopping:

Jemzarkiza of Krull. . . . . . . . . . . 159Special Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

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Example of Shopping: Hunchbroad Modoscousin . . . . 161

Shapeshifter Garments . . . . . . . . . . 162COMPLETED

SAMPLE CHARACTERS . . . . . . . . 162

5. DOING STUFF . . . . . . . 164ROLLING THE DICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Success and Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Repeated Attempts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Contests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Resistance Rolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Damage Rolls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Other Dice Rolling . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Settling Rules Questions . . . . . . . . . 167

PHYSICAL FEATS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Climbing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Hiking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Jumping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168Encumbrance and Move . . . . . . . . . 168Lifting and Moving Things. . . . . . . 168Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168Swimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168Throwing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

MENTAL FEATS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Sense Rolls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Will Rolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170Mental Stunning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

SOCIAL CONCERNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Reaction Rolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Influence Rolls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Characters With Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . 173

COMBAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Turn Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Free Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Manoeuvres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Untrained Fighters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176Range, Reach,

and Close Combat . . . . . . . . . . . 176Size Modifiers, Reach,

and Weapons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176Attacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177Mounted Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177Unarmed Combat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178Relative Sizes in Combat . . . . . . . . . 179Deceptive Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Defending. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Parrying Heavy Weapons . . . . . . . . . 181Unarmed Defence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182Damage and Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182Specific Hit Locations . . . . . . . . . . . 183Getting Inside Armour. . . . . . . . . . . 184

INJURY, ILLNESS, AND FATIGUE . . . . 184Injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Biting Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185Knockback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186Drinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Klatchian Coffee and Knurdness. . . 187

Instant Cures for Drunks and Knurdness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Fatigue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Other Hazards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Ageing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

MESSIN’ WITH REALITY

(THE MAGIC RULES) . . . . . . . . . 191Basic Abilities

for Magic-Workers. . . . . . . . . . . 191Deciding an Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Staffs and Personal Style . . . . . . . . . 193Long-Distance Modifiers . . . . . . . . . 194Other Power Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 196Mirror Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Casting the Spell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198Ritual Casting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Magical Fumble Table . . . . . . . . . . 201The Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Standardised Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203Spell-Like Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205Naming Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Nonmagical Fortune-Telling . . . . . . 212Subtle Duelling in Magic . . . . . . . . . 213Flashy Duelling in Magic. . . . . . . . . 217

PLAYING AND RUNNING THE GAME. . 218Character Improvement . . . . . . . . . 219Buying Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

6. LIFE AND LANDS . . . . . 220DISC SOCIETY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Governments and Politics . . . . . . . 221Crime and Law Enforcement . . . . 221Gender Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222The Semaphore Revolution . . . . . . 222Astronomy and Astrology . . . . . . . . 224Uberwaldian Domestic Surgery. . . 225

NONHUMAN RACES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226Dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226Dwarf Bread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227”Clang” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227Trolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228The Battle of Koom Valley . . . . . . . . 229Mr. Shine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230Creatures of the Night . . . . . . . . . . 230Minor Races. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

GEOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232The Sto Plains Region . . . . . . . . . . 232The Forest of Skund. . . . . . . . . . . . . 233Across the Circle Sea . . . . . . . . . . . 234Brigadoons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235D’regs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Over the Rim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237Toward the Ramtops . . . . . . . . . . . 237Krull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238Loko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240Widdershins Regions . . . . . . . . . . . 241The Dark Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241Oceans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242The Hub and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . 242The Lost Continent of Ku . . . . . . . . 242The Counterweight Continent . . . . 243EcksEcksEcksEcks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

7. “WELLCOME TO

ANKH-MORPORK”. . . . 246HISTORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

The Smell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247The Patricians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

CURRENT GOVERNMENT. . . . . . . . . . 248Public Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248Newspapers and Printing. . . . . . . . . 250

GEOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250Ankh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251Hubwards Morpork . . . . . . . . . . . . 252Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252The Unreal Estate and the

Thaumatological Park . . . . . . . . 252The Isle of Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252Rimwards Morpork

and the Shades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252The Port Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

THE PATRICIAN’S PALACE . . . . . . . . . 254Bloody Stupid Johnson . . . . . . . . . . 254Guards and Dark Clerks . . . . . . . . . 254

LAW AND ORDER AND DEFENCE . . . . 255The Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255City Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257Magical Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257The Regiments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

THE GUILDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258Ordinary Trade Guilds . . . . . . . . . . 259The Merchants’ Guild . . . . . . . . . . . 259Orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259The Assassins’ Guild . . . . . . . . . . . . 259Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260The Breccia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261The Thieves’ Guild . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261Disorganised Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262The Beggars’ Guild . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262The Fools’ Guild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262The Dogs’ Guild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263The Rats’ Guild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263Some Other Guilds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263Banned and Irregular Guilds. . . . . . 263The Lady Sib. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

FOOD, DRINK, AND LODGING . . . . . . 264Troll and Dwarf Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . 265Mrs. Cake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

8. THE SUPERNATURAL

SIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268THE BASICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

The Foundations of Reality . . . . . . 269Alternate Realities,

Alternate Creations . . . . . . . . . . . 269Things in Residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270The Roundworld Project . . . . . . . . . 271

WORKING SPELLS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271Types of Magic-Workers. . . . . . . . . 271Horoscopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272Uses and Abuses of Magic . . . . . . . . 273Familiars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

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Headology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274Exploiting the Laws of Reality . . . 274When It All Goes Wrong . . . . . . . . 274Magic Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275Octiron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275Ajandurah’s Wand

of Utter Negativity . . . . . 276Other Items. . . . . . . . . . . 277

MAGIC LEVELS . . . . . . . . . 277Wandering Shops . . . . . . 278

UNSEEN UNIVERSITY . . . . 279Rival Universities . . . . . . 280Administration . . . . . . . . . . 281University Servants . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281University Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282The Department of Post-Mortem

Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . 283Teaching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284Room 3B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284The Tower of Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284The Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284Invisible Writings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285High-Energy Magical Research. . . 286Emergency Responses . . . . . . . . . . . 286Non-Wizardly Studies . . . . . . . . . . . 287”Numbers” Riktor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288University-Based Campaigns . . . . . 288

WITCHCRAFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289Alchemists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

MAJOR PERSONIFICATIONS . . . . . . . . 291Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291The Old High Ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291The Other Horsemen . . . . . . . . . . . 295Fung Shooey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296The Auditors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

GODS, RELIGION, AND

RELATED ISSUES . . . . . . . . . . . . 297The Power of Belief . . . . . . . . . . . . 297The Small Gods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297Forgotten Gods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298Pantheons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298National Gods and One Gods . . . . 299Death and the Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299The Afterlife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300Nature Gods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300Life on Cori Celesti . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300Inter-Faith Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . 301Priests and the Priesthood . . . . . . . 301Hermits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302Other Legends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302Fate and The Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303Demons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303Astfgl and Vassenego . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

9. “SUICIDALLY GLOOMY

WHEN SOBER,HOMICIDALLY INSANE

WHEN DRUNK” . . . . . 305CITIZENS OF ANKH-MORPORK . . . . . 306

The Patrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306Rufus Drumknott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Leonard of Quirm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308Moist von Lipwig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309The Rusts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309The Aristocracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

William de Worde . . . . . . . . . . . . 311Sacharissa Cripslock . . . . . . . 312Otto Chriek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313Adora Belle Dearheart . . . . . . 314C.M.O.T. Dibbler . . . . . . . . . . 315Mr. Slant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315Other Dibblers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316Gaspode the Wonder Dog . . . 316

Foul Ole Ron and Friends . . . . . 317THE WATCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Commander Samuel Vimes (The Duke of Ankh) . . . . . . . . . . 318

Lady Sybil Vimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320Captain Carrot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321Captain Angua. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322Sergeant Colon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324Sergeant Detritus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325Sergeant Cheery Littlebottom . . . . 326Corporal Nobbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327Other Notable Watchmen . . . . . . . 328

NOTEWORTHY WIZARDS . . . . . . . . . . 329Mustrum Ridcully . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329Rincewind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330Ponder Stibbons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332The Librarian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333The UU Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334The Bursar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335Henry the Ex-Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

LANCRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336Lancre Castle Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336King Verence II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336Queen Magrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337Granny Weatherwax . . . . . . . . . . . . 339The Lancre Coven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339Nanny Ogg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340Agnes “Perdita” Nitt . . . . . . . . . . . . 341The Oggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342Greebo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343Other Witches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

WANDERERS AND FOREIGNERS. . . . . 344Count Giamo Casanunda . . . . . . . . 344Evil Harry Dread. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345Pastor Oats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345Cohen the Barbarian . . . . . . . . . . . . 346Polly Perks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346Susan Sto Helit . . . . . . . . . 347Twoflower . . . . . . . . 348Other Rulers . . . . . . 349

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PUZUMA. . . . . . . . . . . 351(RELATIVELY)

ORDINARY ANIMALS . . . . . . . . . 352Equestrian Equipment . . . . . . . . . . 356Disc Flora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357Troll Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

DRAGONS (OF ALL SIZES). . . . . . . . . 359SUPERNATURAL BEINGS . . . . . . . . . . 361

Bogeymen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361Dryads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362Elves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362Elfland Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365Genies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365Rarities and Unique Creatures . . . . 366Ghosts . . . . . . . . . 366Mr. Ixolite . . . . . . 366

11. BAD FOOD, NO SLEEP, AND

STRANGE PEOPLE. . . . 367RUNNING FOR YOUR LAUGH . . . . . . . 368

A Touch of Horror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368Playing the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368Plot/Campaign Categories . . . . . . . 3691,000,000-1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369Campaign Theme: Watchmen . . . . . 370Adventures vs. Stories . . . . . . . . . . . 371Sitcom Campaign Ideas. . . . . . . . . . 371To Bear in Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372Campaign Theme: The Press . . . . . . 372

SAMPLE CAMPAIGN SETTING: THE BROWN ISLANDS . . . . . . . . 373

Canon Concerns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373Fung Shooey in Port Duck . . . . . . . 374Trade and Piracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374Swashbuckling (of Several Sorts) . . 375Port Duck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376The Agatean Repeating Crossbow . . 376Llapffargoch-Wokkaiiooii . . . . . . . . 378Prop Lee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379Scenario: A Little Job . . . . . . . . . . . . 380Scenario Seeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

MORE SETTINGS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381Wadi El-Rukl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381Cart Wars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383Scenario: Rug Addiction . . . . . . . . . 383The XCDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384New Smarlhanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

SAMPLE SCENARIO: LOST AND FOUND . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Background Research . . . . . . . . . . . 386Campaign Theme:

Travelling Professionals . . . . . . . 390MORE SCENARIO IDEAS . . . . . . . . . . 391

Full Court Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391Sektoberfest in NoThingfjord . . . . 394And More! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398Campaign Theme:

Working for a Monastery . . . . . . 399Campaign Theme:

League Football. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

A BRIEF GLOSSARY . . . . . 401

BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . 402

INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

And Also Flat!It’s obvious really. Everyone1 knows it.

The Disc rests on the back of four giant elephants, who in turn stand on the back of Great

A’Tuin, the only turtle to form the basis of an entire branch of astrophysics.

For many years, events on the Discworld have been chronicled in the works of Terry Pratchett. Fans have enjoyed

the adventures of Rincewind the incompetent wizard, Granny Weatherwax (known to trolls as “She Who Must Be Avoided”), Commander Sam Vimes, Susan Sto Helit (granddaughter of Death), Moist von Lipwig, and a cast of other strange and unique characters.

Now, with the aid of this completely revised and updated edition of the Discworld Roleplaying Game (with special thanks to Mr Moist von Lipwig for his assistance with all the restructuring), roleplayers can once again venture to the far end of the probability curve and . . .

THRILL to the distinctive sights, sounds, and smells (especially smells) of Ankh-Morpork, most dubious city in the multiverse! SAIL the Circle Sea in pursuit of glory, pirate gold, or a suntan! INTERVENE in the cultural interactions of trolls and dwarves (watch out for flying axes)!

AVOID the attentions of Death, Fate, the Lady, and the Patrician! CAMPAIGN for goblin rights! WONDER why they bought a second meat pie from Mr Dibbler! RUN AWAY from an angry Swamp Dragon (two feet of mindless fury and high-explosive digestion)! LEARN why the second-greatest lover on the Disc needs a stepladder.

Complete with a brand-new Discworld magic system, Things from the Dungeon Dimensions, Gaspode the Wonder Dog, and a Thousand Elephants. (Well, maybe

we exaggerated a bit about the elephants.)

1 Except the devout followers of the Great God Om, who firmly believe it’s a sphere.

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