I’ve gathered some of the top weird TTRPGs for your consideration here. Some stand out due to their unusual settings, forcing you to think of a new type of character. Others bring novel game mechanics to the table, forcing you to leave optimization behind. And one might not even be playable.

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**.