Discuss Discworld: Men At Arms ( Should i create it)

[PWNED]

I have been having thoughts about a Discworld RPG but i am not too sure about the humour that some of the posters here possess. I need some people who have read the discworld novels and also people who know a good deal about Black Humour. Just post on this thread if you think this is a good idea and I will see if a moderator will give me the good ahead.

[terra]

I've only read one Discworld novel, but not for lack of interest (I have no time these days ... or ever). I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett and the world he created because he's so good his form parody.

But I think it'd be really hard to translate the Discworld series into an RPG. It's difficult even for one writer to achieve the comedic effect that he does, and I'm sure that adding more writers into the mix would only make it more complicated. It might be feasible if the writers all knew each other well, but Pratchett often sets up something and capitalizes on it much later. I feel like in RPGs, it'd be much harder to have accomplish anything like that. In reality, though Pratchett's writing is funny and people even think it's aimed towards children, it's pretty sophisticated.

That all being said, it'd still be a fun concept :p.

(By the way, you wouldn't really need a moderator to give you the go-ahead if you wanted to create an RPG ... there's no requirement to run RPG ideas by moderators before creating them in the Adventure inn. If that's what you meant by your last sentence.)