History TabletopGame / DiscworldRoleplayingGame

* TitledAfterTheSong: For some reason, the subsections of the Pyramid article "Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dread: Dark Lords in ''GURPS Discworld''" are Music/BruceSpringsteen quotes: "And Remember Just Don't Smile" (from "Meeting Across the River"); "Born to Ruin" (play on "Born to Run"); "Darkness on the Edge of Town" ("Darkness on the Edge of Town"); "It's a Death Trap; It's a Suicide Rap" ("Born to Run" again).

* ExiledFromContinuity: The young adult books are explicitly not included in the licence. So there's no mention of the Chalk or Bad Blintz in the gazeteer, Tiffany and her friends don't get mentioned in the characters chapter, and more subtly, the Pictsie template doesn't include their dimension-jumping abilities, because they don't do that in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum''.

** And the article [[http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=4660 "Librarian's Love-Child in World Domination Horror"]] discusses how to bring parodies of a whole range of UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories into games.

* KnuckleCracking: A typically ''self-confident'' example from Archchancellor Ridcully in a piece of flavor text:

* PiratesVersusNinjas: The "Brown Islands" setting sets up the possibility of a pirate-ninja clash. Some flavor text in the second edition of the game features an angst-ridden ninja who has been assigned to infiltrate pirate society...

* AdaptationalContextChange: The second edition reuses as much art from both volumes of the first edition as possible, but differences between the texts sometimes alter the context they appear in. For example, an illustration of a pointing figure enveloping a snail in magical energy originally appeared next to a sidebar about giving standard GURPS spells Discworldly wizard names, and appeared to illustrate the spell Mollusk Control (or The Laskallans' Complete and Authoritative Slug and Snail Manipulation Incantation). In the second edition, the same picture is used in the completely different magic system to represent the BalefulPolymorph spell Stacklady's Morphic Resonator.

* 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.” Conversely, the Dark Lord’s Code puts a twisted spin on this idea: “Provide visiting heroes who aren't yet scheduled for the death-trap with comfortable lodgings, submissive servants, and a change of clothes.”

* RaptorAttack: The "Lost and Found" sample scenario includes a confrontation with "High-Velocity Rapacious Monstrosities" whose inspiration is obvious -- though, being derived from Discworld swamp dragons, these creatures are also fire-breathing and explosive. They ar3 not a standard Discworld species, but, well, AWizardDidIt.

* 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.

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 ''Literature/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 [=EcksEcksEcksEcksian=] 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).

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: In "[[http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=4303 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.

* ZorroMark: The Zorro-like character in "A Fist Full of Tunes You can Whistle" has the name Don Gaveroz de Varozag de la Lala, "El Aguilo del Cubo". He keeps attempting to carve all his intitals on his opponents, but since his Code of Honor prevents him from continuing to attack someone who is clearly about to collapse from bloodloss, he seldom gets very far with it.

* ThisIsReality: In keeping with the books, [=GMs=] are advised that reality should ensue ''sometimes''. Maybe swinging on a chandelier will be a dramatic swashbuckling success, maybe it'll leave the PC dangling helplessly in front of the villain in an ironic anticlimax.

* RealityEnsues: In keeping with the books, [=GMs=] are advised that reality should ensue ''sometimes''. Maybe swinging on a chandelier will be a dramatic swashbuckling success, maybe it'll leave the PC dangling helplessly in front of the villain in an ironic anticlimax.

* 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.

[[caption-width-right:245:It's a game set in a world where ''[[Discworld/SoulMusic this]]'' happens. What more do you need to know?]]
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 [=EcksEcksEcksEcksian=] 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).

There were also a number of articles and scenarios for the game in ''Pyramid'' magazine, one of which -- [[http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=2177 "A Fist Full of Tunes You can Whistle"]] -- was originally published in the short-lived UK roleplaying magazine ''Visions'' as "A Fistful of Dwarfs". (This material was subsequently made freely available on Steve Jackson Games' Web site.) Then, at the end of 2016, [[http://www.sjgames.com/discworld/ a new edition of the sourcebook/game]] appeared, updating the setting information up to ''Discworld/{{Snuff}}'' and integrating a set of customised rules based on ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' 4th edition. This included revised and sometimes abbreviated versions of much of the setting and scenario material that first appeared in ''Discworld Also''.

* ArcWelding: In the first edition's version of the adventure seed "Plumbing the Depths", mapping the Ankh-Morpork sewers was the brainchild of a lone eccentric inventor with a plan for an ox-drawn railway. In the second edition, it's all tied into the Undertaking from ''Discworld/MakingMoney'' and subsequent A-M books.

** In ''Also'' and the second edition, there's an extended riff on ''TabletopGame/CarWars'' based on the ''Film/MadMax'' parody section of ''Discworld/TheLastContinent''. The main Cart Wars arena is run by a woman called [[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome Auntie Ante]] (because she takes the bets).

* TheTimeOfMyths: The novels play with this trope, making the Discworld a fantasy world with its own Time of Myths in its distant past. The game not only picks that up, but also tends to treat the early, more SwordAndSorcery-style early novels as something of a Time of Myths from the point of view of the most recent novels (which fits with the implications of Discworld stories such as ''Discworld/TheLastHero'', after all). It even features a {{Parody}} of[=/=]ShoutOut to the classic Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian FramingDevice:

-->"A character who tries to cast himself as the [[FarmBoy Brave Peasant Lad]] Who [[GuileHero Outwits The Troll]] may find that he's actually one of the [[SacrificialLamb Twenty Poor Peasants Eaten By The Troll]] Before [[KnightErrant The Knight Comes Along]]. He might even end up as the [[TheTrickster Devious Little Human]] Squashed By [[BrainsEvilBrawnGood The Troll Hero]]. (Troll [[FairyTale fairy-stories]] [[ThudAndBlunder aren’t especially subtle]].)"

-->"A character who tries to cast himself as the [[FarmBoy Brave Peasant Lad]] Who [[GuileHero Outwits The Troll]] may find that he's actually one of the [[SacrificialLamb Twenty Poor Peasants Eaten By The Troll]] Before [[KnightErrant The Knight Comes Along]]. He might even end up as the [[{{Trickster}} Devious Little Human]] Squashed By [[BrainsEvilBrawnGood The Troll Hero]]. (Troll [[FairyTale fairy-stories]] [[ThudAndBlunder aren’t especially subtle]].)"

* RoyalHarem: The Al-Ybi material plays with this trope. It’s an ArabianNightsDays setting, so the place’s palace naturally has a harem — but [[spoiler:the hidden truth is that the harem women are a smart, practical highly pragmatic bunch who are secretly running the city via their influence over the sultan and their contacts in the bazaar]].

** In ''Also'', there's an extended riff on ''TabletopGame/CarWars'' based on the ''Film/MadMax'' parody section of ''Discworld/TheLastContinent''. The main Cart Wars arena is run by a woman called [[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome Auntie Ante]] (because she takes the bets).

* StopWorshippingMe: This is apparently how the Disc's nature gods feel. They get plenty of ''belief'' from superstitious farmers; druids and shamans seem to ''want'' something from them.