And most importantly, there is magic. Magic which reduces the speed of light to a slow pace, so that dawn and dusk literally take hours... Magic which allows the wizards to keep their profession alive. Magic which allows for the weirdest humor in the universe. It's the magic that adds spice to the Discworld. Without magic, the Disc's inhabitants would just be a bunch of bandits, thieves, murderers and other criminals...

Actually with magic the Disc's inhabitants are still a bunch of bandits, thieves, murderers and other criminals but, well, that wouldn't sound very fancy, would it?

OK, here ends the introduction stuff. Let me put it this way: if you like humor, and if you like a little bit of fantasy, you should go out and buy one of Pratchett's books. Or pick them up at the library if you want. As long as it isn't the multidimensional Library of Unseen University...
Oh, by the way, although the Discworld books form a series, you can easily read them separately. Although, if you are going to read a fair number of them, I do suggest you start with the first and work your way up.

Enjoy!

Stephan
DiscworldMUD@hotmail.com

• L-space - the official Terry Pratchett and Discworld site. Pretty much everything you'd like to know about Mr. Pratchett and his books can be found here, including biography, bibliography, annotations, pictures and links. Oh, and if you want to know what L-space is, and why it is so useful for librarians all around the world, look here.
• Calle's site about SF and fantasy authors - including biography and a bibliography about Terry Pratchett
• David and Chris' Discworld Site - loads of discworld info - character descriptions, info on the books, places on the disc and more
• Discworld Monthly newsletter to which you can subscribe for free.
• DOL Discworld Online
• FMA Discworld - various Discworld stuff including pictures, themes, skins and MPEGs
• Mantaray's Discworld Page - an Ecksian Discworld page
• SmartQuote Home Page - a free quotes program for Windows 95/NT, for which Discworld quotes are available
• The log file of the 5 February 1999 online chat session with Terry Pratchett is still available here. The original was at The Guardian's Web site (I guess they own the copyright).

A MUD (Multi User Dungeon) is a virtual world created on a telnet server. Via a telnet client (or a special MUD client such as zMUD) you can enter such a world, walk around it, interact with other players from around the world, fight, make money, do quests, whatever. Go to the virtual Discworld, create a new character with a nice name and start exploring! It's even more fun than reading the books because the environment is completely interactive and filled with players with the weirdest sense of humor!

To leave this universe and go to Discworld, pick a telnet or MUD client or this Java telnet applet (or if that doesn't work this older one) and connect to discworld.atuin.net...

For more information about the discworld.atuin.net Discworld MUD:

• The Discworld MUD WWW server - everything about the MUD can be found there, including:
  • how to get started
  • the FAQ
  • and a list of who is online right now

For more information about playing the MUD, such as maps, player mugshots, etc., please check the Maps and info section below...

In case you are interested, I can be found on the Discworld MUD under the character name of Berit*, who is a Fourth Level Wizard (if you wish you can check my stats). If you've read some of the books you'll know that this means that I'm further than Rincewind -who did not graduate at all- but still have quite some way to go to reach the dangerous Sixth, Seventh and who knows even Eighth Levels...)

* I took the name from a character from the books of David Eddings, not from any Scandinavian person. If you haven't read a book of Eddings, do so. They're nearly as funny as the books of Pratchett!

I have removed the list of Discworld MUD players as I don't have time to keep it updated. If you want more information about a certain Discworld MUD player, enter his or her name below and click the button:

The site will ask you for your Discworld MUD login, since you have to be logged into the MUD to finger others.

For an extensive list of Wizards, both with and without homepage, see my Wizards' Guild page...

Some Discworld MUD players have set up a Website for the Guild they belong to, or with a lot of information on that specific Guild. The addresses to these Websites are still listed below:

Assassins:

• The Nest of Kings

Priests:

• Warrax' Priests Guild

Thieves:

• Ankh-Morpork Thieves' Guild
• Discworld Pages Thieves' Guild

Warriors:

• Ugh! It's the Warriors' Guild

Witches:

• Witches of Lancre Artte Pages
• The Disc Witches Guild - information of the Witches guild for Wet Hennes and Hag's alike

Wizards:

• Sekiri's Home of Wizardry - very useful, every Wizard should visit this site
• The Wizards' Guild at Stephan's Discworld MUD Page - tips, a list of Wizards (400+!), and information on skills, Orders, and rearranging your stats

• Xxxx - the hidden continent (previously Mike's Discworld Page) - Discworld book ordering online and Discworld MUD info, including a Pishe page
• Venom's Absolutely Unofficial Discworld MUD Web Page - info on Wizards' and Warriors' Guilds
• The Discworld MUD Scrapbook - a collection of odds and ends about the Discworld MUD; home of the Discworld MUD Songbook and greeting card service
• The Discworld MUD & Infinities Book of High Magic - information on all aspects of the discworld mud, including guild information, help and hints, and a detailed spells book
• Dagdog's Guide to the Discworld MUD - including maps
• Kelwyn's Discworld Pages - info on the MUD and on the Newbie Assistance Syndicate
• MUDdy Discworld - info on the MUD, including a map of Ankh-Morpork
• Braindeed's MUD Page
• Lanfear's site with some information on her skills but also on weapons, armour, Lobo Art, and pictures of the Seattle MUDmeet 2000
• Fileys Discworld-MUD page with maps, general info, skill stats research project and some more
• Dutch Discworld Meet site
• Heather the Witch - Discworld MUD short amount of info on character, and some useful stuff found so far

• Airk says: Ugh!, but also has maps and info here
• Steve's maps
• Elessar's maps
• Eldric's maps - not updated to 3-Aug-02
• Choppy's maps
• Maps Over Discworld

• player (mis)quotes at Presto's Quote Page - what MUD players have said (and probably wish they hadn't!)
• some more misquotes plus quite some information on skill systems and the Priests' Guild at Dasquian's site
• MUDmeet pictures at the site of Sera

Artesan Don Diego Swords sells all types of swords, oriental swords (such as katanas and waki-zashis), military sabres, medieval swords (scimitars, tizonas), historical swords (Charlemagne, Roman, etc.), daggers, shields and even full armours. Visit their online shop if you want to know how all these MUD weapons are in reality!

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Yes, you are reading it correctly. There are three Webrings related to the Disc. Shame on those that started Webrings without checking for existent ones first! Actually there are even five but two seem to have disappeared.
Anyway, here are the Webrings:

Ring name	# of sites	Webring ID	homepage	list of sites
The Discworld Webring	27	discring	net.au	via Webring server
The Broken Drum	16	broken_drum	force9.net	via Webring server
Discworld Ring	43	discwrld	bigpond.com	via Webring server

And here's the first one (as it was the largest at that time I decided to join it)...

The Discworld Webring

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