On 3/4/2024 12:52 AM, gbbgu wrote:
On 1 Mar 2024, kyonshi wrote:
Source:
https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/terry-pratchetts-discworld-is-being-turned-into-a-tabletop-rpg-3594966?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=terry-pratchetts-discworld-is-being-turned-into-a-tabletop-rpg
Terry Pratchett’s ‘Discworld’ is being turned into a tabletop RPG
[snip]
I know nothing about GURPS and never played any games under that
system, but
this has been on my to-buy list for a while.
I wonder what will happen to this version? I assume there's some sort
of legal
stuff or the rights have lapsed.
https://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/discworld/
I have the Discworld GURPS game, it's not one of my favorite games. I
don't mind the GURPs rules, but the whole book seems too focused on
making characters like the over-the-top characters in the later
Pratchett books than characters that grow into a larger role (you know,
like they did in the actual books).
In any case, there were two books altogether (GURPS Discworld and
Discworld Also, as well as a 2nd ed. a few years ago that might just
have been a reissue of the first book, maybe with 4th ed. rules)
Considering SJG keeps selling a lot of stuff I assume they still can
sell and publish their version for as long as they want.
In fact a few years ago I hacked together a B/X DnD Discworld game for
use with my own group which I found much closer to the way the early
novels were written (back when it was a parody of sword and sorcery
novels and DnD, one has to remember that some of Pratchett's ideas came directly from his DnD game)
On 3/4/2024 12:28 AM, kyonshi wrote:...
On 3/4/2024 12:52 AM, gbbgu wrote:
...https://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/discworld/
Feeling a bit the same. Why do we need a whole different system to run Discworld. Seems more like something a system neutral setting
source-book would cover far better.
(I don't really like GURPS as a system, but I do like it for the tons of great sourcebooks the system has, I have been using ideas for multiple
games across multiple genres over the years)
On Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:20:45 +0000
John <[email protected]> wrote:
kyonshi <[email protected]> writes:
Source:
https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/terry-pratchetts-discworld-is-being-turned-into-a-tabletop-rpg-3594966?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=terry-pratchetts-discworld-is-being-turned-into-a-tabletop-rpg
Terry Pratchett’s ‘Discworld’ is being turned into a tabletop RPG
A Kickstarter will be launched for the game later this year
By Ryan Easby
29th February 2024
Terry Pratchett’s bestselling series Discworld is being turned into
a tabletop roleplaying game.
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Tabletop publisher Modiphius Entertainment has secured the rights to
the series, and will be launching a Kickstarter campaign for the
tabletop roleplaying game later this year. The first roleplaying
game published by them will be set in and around the city of
Ankh-Morpork, a prominently featured location in the Discworld
series.
Modiphius previously released an adventure board game based on The
Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, as well as a title based on Fallout which
allowed you to paint miniatures and take control of a faction within
the post-apocalyptic universe.
“Terry had a lifelong affection with roleplaying games and it’s an
entirely logical path along which you can follow his career from
Dungeon Maser to him becoming one of our most celebrated and beloved
fantasy authors of all time. We are delighted to be partnering with
Modiphius. We love their work and we love their ethos and we
entirely trust them to get things right,” Rob Wilkins said on the
behalf of the Pratchett Estate in a new press release.
In the same press release, the founder of Modiphius and chief
creative officer at the company, Chris Birch, spoke about how
excited the company is to start working on a Discworld RPG.
“I’m sure many of us have Terry’s unique world in our mind’s eye >>> when we’re roleplaying. Ankh-Morpork has had such a special place
in the community and is full of so much character it was a great
place to begin our journeys on the Disc.”
With the author dead, it's time for the inheritors to cash out while
the franchise is fresh.
john
well, "fresh"
lets call it timeless
On 4/8/2024 5:15 PM, Justisaur wrote:
Somewhat related, I saw the BBC series "The Colour of Magic" was on
Prime, and watched the first episode or two, but production value was
rather poor, and it felt a bit too 'high school production' overall.
I feel like it doesn't translate well to the screen.
Wasn't The Colour of Magic just 2 episodes?
Anyway, I didn't like it. It was one of those adaptions that just felt
wrong.
adaptations (with the possible exception of Good Omens, where it helped
that Neil Gaiman was involved).
I think the Going Postal adaption was decent at least, and the Hogfather adaption seems to have become somewhat of a Christmas classic in UK, but
both suffer from cutting out a lot.
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