Discworld bros, is anyone else excited for this?

I hope they do Terry proud.

>>95877952 (OP)
Never heard of this game, but I like the books and the art looks kinda nice
I'm intrigued

>>95877952 (OP)
My wife backed the KS for me as a Christmas present. I'm cautiously optimistic about the game, but I'm very confident that it will be fun to read. And maybe I can convince enough of my group to play it with me

>>95877952 (OP)
I'm reluctant to trust anything anyone else tries to do with Discworld after the abomination that was the Watch TV series.

>>95879667
to be fair, that series only happened because of a very unfortunate series of events and timings.

Terry had agreed to a TV series being made and signed the deals for it, then the dementia got him bad, and the watch TV series was rushed to be made because various people realised the rights were about to expire.
His daughter has done a pretty good job of holding onto the discworld rights and making sure nothing comes out that she thinks dishonours her dad's legacy, but she couldn't intervene in an already-made deal that didn't include her. That only happened because of unfortunate timings with terry's death.

I am wary of most IP being doled out for cash after the creator's death, but terry's daughter seems just as angry as most fans about the watch TV series (straight up saying "this is not my father's world"). Anything that comes out with her blessing, I'm OK with it existing.

Now, whether the mechanics are any good is a different question, but honestly I wouldn't run a discworld game for one simple reason.
Getting a group together who can perform the kind of rapid fire pune-based scenes that make the disc a joy to read is hard enough, and is also requires the group to be willing to make a right tit of themselves to move the plot along.

I think it's better as novels than as a TTRPG, but if an RPG is going to exist I hope it is, in descending order of importance
>Not shitting on the books because the author of the RPG wants to "put their own mark on things"
>Not just D&D
>Not fucking up the lore in less egregious ways
>Funny and well written
>Mechanically decent

>>95879667
>>95880253
I'll never watch it, not on my (the) watch.

Me? I'm currently re-reading through Wyrd Sisters.

And you?

>>95882021
oh yeah, me neither. It does not fucking exist. It is abominable.

>>95882844
none atm but my gf's taking my copies of the science of discworld series as her work lunchbreak reading.

>>95886063
>none atm but my gf's taking my copies of the science of discworld series as her work lunchbreak reading.
Marry that girl

>>95879667
Ugh, I've been trying my best to forget about that particular dumpster fire. Whoever approved that abortion of an "adaptation" deserves to be buried next to an anthill.

>>95882844
I just finished my yearly reading of Night Watch. It's still easily one of my favorites of the series.

>>95886314
Absolutely based, thats my favourite Discworld story.

>>95886257
We absolutely plan to grow old together, yes.

>>95882844
Guards! Guards! is my favorite Discworld book and my comfy read in-between other books.
I will never play an rpg version of Discworld because for the reason >>95880253 says. The most Discworld themed game to play is WFRP 1E and importing Discworldian whimsy into Oldhammer.

>>95882844
I just got the colour of magic and the light fantastic as a single hardback, I’m almost forty and somehow have never cracked into the series. Excited to start

>>95887060
Don't start with those two. Terry said so himself.

Men at Arms was diversity done "right" imo
Monstrous Regiment was oversaturated, but I liked Polly and Jackrum's final conversation and the picture Polly received with the swords. I especially hate how Captain Carrot disappeared in favor of Captain Angua.

>>95886692
I'm happy for you but also hate you both for being happy at the same time.

I own this book and thats enough for me

>>95896883
I've been tempted to pick this up but isn't gurps ridiculously complicated?

>>95897070
bro I'm literally retarded and I figured it out its not a big deal

>>95897080
I'm double retarded though.

>>95887060
They're the first written, but some of my least favourite, desu.
Mort or Guards, Guards would be where I'd suggest starting.

>>95887060
I would read them so you get an understanding of the world. Later books are better but the first two are never as bad as most people make them out to be.

>>95887060
start with literally any of the other stories except that one to be perfectly honest
mort
guards, guards!
wyrd sisters
probably all better starters
one of my favourites is small gods, which is fine to start with but also largely disconnected from the rest

>>95877952 (OP)
Picked up the Kickstarter just for being a collector's sake. It will be a bonus if its a good game ontop of that.

>>95887211
>Started with those as a kid, in a shoddy translation noless
oh lawdy.

>>95897237
I want the collectors edition for the Paul Kidby art

>>95897199
IMO it's not that the first two books are "bad", just that they are a different style. They're pratchett writing fantasy pastiches in the style of douglas adams.
The disc finds its feet quickly, settles into a rhythm, and then evolves slowly in response to the state of the world and fantasy writing. Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic feel out of place, rather than feeling bad.

I'm a sucker for Mort and Wyrd Sisters as starting points, but Equal Rites IMO gives you a good grounding in the idea that the discworld will take established ideas and ask "but why tho?" or turn them on their head to see what falls out of their pockets.

The basic system is basically a narrative light style and the game is meant to be played as short little sessions ('palate cleansers') between more serious roleplaying campaigns.
So, if you're looking for that, you'll be better served with GURPS.
The dice mechanic is pretty interesting. Player (or a group if the group decide to do a test) describe how they do something, applying a relevant "trait" that the character posesses. Depending on how well they justify how they do the thing and how well their character should be able to do that thing they get a D4 (bumbling idiot attempt), D6, D10, or D12 (expert attempt). The GM simply rolls a D8. They compare dice rolls. Player wins ties. Failure means a "consequence" and the stakes are dilineated before dice are rolled ("If you fail this you'll stub your toe and gain the consequence 'Hopping mad'" or "Getting caught doing this will get you on the Wanted list for the Librarian guild").

It looks alright, I guess. Honestly, could have just been a 1 page RPG. I'm looking forward to playing my they/them gargoyle.

>>95877952 (OP)
Could they not have ordered new cover art for A'tuin?

>>95887211
Eh, they're fine, just not typical of the rest of them. I started with them when they came out in the US and kept going.

>>95887060
I am jealous that you get to experience them for the first time. The first two books are like a picaresque that introduce you to the world by following a bunch of crackpots around on a world-spanning adventure that sends up (do people still say that?) the conventions of the fantasy genre in the early eighties. Later books take the groundwork laid out here and use it to hold a mirror up to the world.

>>95897083
youll be fine. you have four stats, some advantages, disadvantages, and quirks, and a set of skills. If you want to do something, find a skill or a stat and roll it.

>>95903487
I may pick the book up just to have in my collection.

I think the best testimony to discworld is that my dad, not a reader and someone who left school at 15, has to my knowledge only read one fantasy series in his life, and that's the Guards books, and my mum, very much a literary reader with a lifetime spent with the classics also loved them and the other sub series too.
Sir Terry could reach people that disparate and we were lucky to have him.

>>95882844
Finishing my collection. I'm missing the city map and some of the last books.

>>95897236
>one of my favourites is small gods, which is fine to start with but also largely disconnected from the rest
My brother in Om. May your explanatory pamphlets always be plentiful and your heathens too slow to duck behind the sofa..

I agree its got advantages and disadvantages as a starting point, and it doesn't connect with the other novels as much as say the Ankh Morpork ones, but it does set out the metaphysics of Discworld and belief which is very appealing for some peoplel. I've also had some success suggesting Going Postal as a starting point.

>>95905897
I read Going Postal first and now I'm a fan.

>>95902066
>(they/them)

>>95897070
GURPS can most definitely be ridiculously complicated. It’s a toolbox. So it can also be as simple as hammer and screwdriver.

The core mechanic is 3d6, roll under stat. Very simple.
Check it out!

>>95877952 (OP)
>I hope they do Terry proud.
Yeah, its not like he went great lengths to prevent people from fucking around with his legacy or something

>>95919264
>when I die destroy my hard drives with a fucking steam roller, DO NOT LOOK INSIDE THEM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
Kinda sus Terry.

>>95880253
>Getting a group together who can perform the kind of rapid fire pune-based scenes that make the disc a joy to read is hard enough, and is also requires the group to be willing to make a right tit of themselves to move the plot along.
That problem was solved, at least partially, a long time ago. 7th Sea first edition. By indulging in your character's flaws you get Drama points that can later be used to pull your ass out of the fire. It's hard to make players to start doing it but after they get a taste for how it works most are pretty willing to roll along with it. It makes for way more dynamic games and some funny situations. Like one of the PCs during a heist noticing beautiful half naked lady through a window and derailing the whole getaway scheme to hell.

A simplified 7th Sea system would be pretty Ok for Discworld.

>>95919296
Based Terry and his transgirl collection