Terry Pratchett’s Discworld has been steadily garnering new fans since 1983 when the Color of Magic was first published.The books have been adapted into many different iterations: video games, television, a star-studded series of audiobooks, and most recently, Modiphius’ new TTRPG: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork. The kickstarter for the latter had a stated goal of £100,000 and currently stands at nearly 2.5 million. All of this points toward a massive audience for Discworld. But how best to reach them? There are a few places.
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is a world that holds a satirical mirror up to our own. A fantasy world where people struggle with familiar problems: growing industrialization, wars and cultural feuds that nobody’s sure which side started, bureaucracy, and assassins coming after tooth fairies*. It is a world governed by extraordinary stories and filled with memorable characters like Death and Susan, Moist Von Lipwig, “Throat” Dibbler, and the four Ws**.