#but i won't smugly tut tut anyone who does

[canvaswolfdoll]

okay, as resident 'i have a how-to play trpg youtube series' guy and 'i struggle to read non-discworld fantasy' guy, i feel compelled to weigh in:

point 1:

this exists with the gurps system (in fact, this screenshot is for what's at least the third edition of gurps discworld), and my research does seem to indicate pterry was directly involved in it's production. (gurps 4e discworld was published december of 2016, after his passing, by sj game stakeholder report indicates the book was essentially finished in 2014, before his passing, and the previous two versions were published 1998 and 2002)

point 2:

so far, narrativia limited (and, by extension, his daughter rhianna pratchett) hasn't overly exploited the rights of discworld and terry pratchett's other works, choosing to let what exists stand and focusing on adaptions of pre-existing works, and publicly denouncing the one recent work that was went against the spirit of what was licensed.

so i broadly and currently trust narrativia limited, until given reason not to. they certainly haven't been making endless video games and prequels like what the tolkein estate's being doing.

i mean, the second season of good omens goes past the original novel, but that's co-written by neil gaiman, so he can do what he wants by right of being the good omens highlander.

(i have not seen the second season of good omens, for the record, so i cannot comment further)

point 3:

i don't really go for licensed trpgs, because they (personally) give me exam anxiety, so i much prefer to look at a work, say 'these are the elements i want to emulate', then use different names and not have any pre-existing canon to be called out on.

(side note: this is why i think the forgotten realms are actually the biggest millstone on d&d. just give us the mechanics and generic terms, and untether us from waterdeep and the pantheon and such. let the players create canon wholecloth as they go)

point 4:

at least modiphius doesn't endlessly churn out ___ing powered by the apocalypse games, so this game will probably actually be purpose built.

Exclusive: Discworld TTRPG in the works by studio behind Fallout wargames

Modiphius, the studio responsible for tabletop adaptations of Star Trek, Fallout, and more, is working on a Discworld TTRPG.

Having secured the rights to the beloved series with an agreement from the late author Sir Terry Pratchett's estate, Modiphius is already at work on a Discworld roleplaying game "around the city of Ankh-Morpork and the wider Disc." This will hit Kickstarter later in the year.

Read more here.