History TabletopGame / DiscworldRoleplayingGame

* SacredHospitality: As in the novels, the Klatchian and D’reg’s Codes of Honour are serious about hospitality: “If you take in a guest or ''are'' a guest, treat the hospitality as sacred for exactly 72 hours.” The Dark Lord’s Code puts a twisted spin on this: “Provide visiting heroes who aren't yet scheduled for the death-trap with comfortable lodgings, submissive servants, and a change of clothes.”

** As mentioned below, in the opening vignette to the first chapter of the second edition, the bard's spiel to Verence is basically the opening sentence of ''Literature/ThePheonixOnTheSword''.

* ArcWelding: In the first edition's version of the adventure seed "Plumbing the Depths", mapping the Ankh-Morpork sewers was just something that seemed like it might be worth doing. In the second edition, it's all tied into the Undertaking from ''Discworld/MakingMoney'' and subsequent A-M books.

* AFistfulOfRehashes: "A Fist Full of Tunes You can Whistle" (in ''Visions'' magazine and ''Discworld Also'').

* Main/TheIgor: After the setting acquired a whole ''caste'' of Igors, with unique abilities, ''Discworld Also'' added rules mechanics for them, with, for example, the "Patchwork Man" advantage encompassing their MixAndMatchMan nature.

* [[InscrutableOriental Inscrutable Auriental]]: Lacquered Tablet, the Agatean representative in Port Duck, has heard that foreigners think Agateans are inscrutable, and has decided it's a good idea.

* SdrawkcabAlias: In fact, one of the novels mentions that this is a common foible among Discworld vampires (a joke about the {{Alucard}} trope), but the game formalises the idea in the form of the quirk-level Delusion (Spelling My Name Backwards Disguises It Perfectly).

* YouAllMeetInAnInn: In the second edition, one of the chapter-opening vignettes has the example characters meeting in Biers, where Angua is reluctantly assembling an adventuring party on behalf of the Patrician.

These books describe themselves as "officially unofficial", meaning that while they are a licensed product written in consultation with Sir Terry, he reserved the right to contradict them in the novels if he had a better idea. As such, they can be considered WordOfStPaul.

* YouAllMeetInAnInn: In the second edition, one of the chapter-opening vignettes has the sample characters meeting in Biers, where Angua is reluctantly assembling an adventuring party on behalf of the Patrician.

* LadyOfBlackMagic: Seen, while being gently parodied, in the person of the primary example character, Jemzarkiza of Krull. She's a powerful sorceress with effective offensive powers who even carries a wand to focus her powers. She's also a slightly nerdy scholar who's persistently irritated by her reputation as a lady of black magic.

* SchizoTech: Because the Disc features quite a lot of technological diversity, the cut-dozen version of the GURPS rules incorporated in the second edition of this game necessarily includes not only the parent system's mechanics for handling different TechnologyLevels, but also mechanisms such as the Cutting-Edge Training perk required by characters who are more advanced in specific fields than most of the society around them.

* ShoutOut: As frequently as the novels:

* SpellCrafting: Rather than trying to define a fixed spell for every whimsical or specialised bit of magic-working seen in the novels, the second edition of the game has a flexible magic system designed that allows characters to cobble together magical effects as required.

* SchizoTech: Because the Disc features quite a lot of technological diversity, the cut-dozen version of the GURPS rules in this game necessarily includes not only mechanics for handling different TechnologyLevels, but also mechanics such as the Cutting-Edge Training perk required by characters who are more advanced in specific fields than most of the society around them.

The ''Discworld Role-Playing Game'' is a ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' sourcebook by Creator/PhilMasters based on the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels of Creator/TerryPratchett. It was originally published as ''GURPS Discworld'' in 1998 and repackaged as ''Discworld Role-Playing Game'' in 2002 to make it clearer you didn't ''have'' to have ''GURPS Basic Set'' in order to play, because the book included a copy of the minimal "GURPS Lite" rule set. A supplement, ''GURPS Discworld Also'', was published in 2001; this updated the background information up to ''Discworld/TheTruth'', included character templates, and gave four possible campaign settings not entirely taken from the novels -- the [[ArabianNightsDays Klatchian town of Al-Ybi]], the New Town of Smarlhanger on the Sto Plains, the {{pirate}} haunts of the [[HulaAndLuaus Brown Islands]], and the cart-warrior regions of Ecksian outback -- along with some scenarios, the longest of which were "Lost and Found" (about an expedition to the Disc's counterpart of DarkestAfrica) and "Sektoberfest in [=NoThingfjord=]" (which combines {{Oktoberfest}}, HornyVikings, and [[UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} Australian]] backpackers).

* HumongousMecha: The adventure "A Little Job For The Patrician" (in ''Pyramid'' magazine and in truncated form in the second edition of the book) features a Discworld mecha, based on a design by Leonard of Quirm, adapted by a brilliant Agatean nobleman whose narrative causality tends towards anime tropes, and powered by five trolls. The trolls even go through an Invocation as the thing assembles ("Other leg troll, put it together!"), although since they're trolls in a warm climate, it's possible they'd forget which one went where otherwise.

** In the Brown Islands setting, Port Duck includes a tavern called [[Film/{{Casablanca}} Brick's Cafe Ankh-Morporkian]]. Brick is the troll doorman; the actual owner is revealed in the ''Pyramid'' version of the adventure "A Little Job for the Patrician" to be Dooley the Arranger (a CompositeCharacter of Rick and Sam).

* VehicularCombat: Ecksecksecksian Cart Wars, a parody of Steve Jackson Games' own ''TabletopGame/CarWars''.
* WackyRacing: Ecksecksecksian Cart Wars again, when there are actual races.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: In "A Little Job For The Patrician", the heavily anime-based villain insists his trolls all grow different coloured moss on their heads, so he can tell them apart, and his [[Main/TheIgor Igor]] has implanted blue hair, just because.

* CoolToy: * The ''Pyramid'' scenario "[[http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=721 Watch Academy VI: Hogswatchnight]]" features the must-have toy in Ankh-Morpork this Hogswatch, which is -- of course -- secretly part of a Sinister and Eldritch Plot. In the scenario as written they're quasi-intelligent furry things called [[Toys/{{Furby}} Burfies]], but the author recommends adapting them to whatever the Cool Toy is at the time the game is played.