Bulletin board
Bulletin boards can be accessed from within the game, or on the website (if you are logged in).
- There is a limit to how often you can make posts from the website.
- To post on the boards from the website you need to be active enough. If not, you can post from in game or spend more time on the mud first!
How to use in-game
- Type 'look board' to see what messages are on there.
- You can type 'read [number of message]' to see what a person has written.
- Type 'help board' to learn more.
List of boards
All the following boards are available on the mud website, though for some boards you need to gain access to them or else you don't see them.
Unless otherwise noted, everyone can post on these boards if they can see them. Some boards like the pk and council boards are restricted, those are noted below.
- General
- Announcements - available in game with the
news
command. Only creators post announcements. Recent Developments are almost always used instead. - Frog - can be found in pubs all over the Disc, including most of the ones that new players start in should they choose that area.
- Fluff
- Flame
- Equality
- Role-playing
- Philosophers - available if you are a member of the Philosophers Society (this involves a quest)
- Player killers - everyone can read it, but only playerkillers can post.
- Never wending story
- Alt.fan.pratchett
The fluff, flame, equality, role-playing, player killers, never wending story and alt.fan.pratchett boards are available in each service area.
- Guild
The various guild boards can be found at the various guilds' locations.
- Witchesguild
- upstairs in Granny Weatherwax's cottage in Bad Ass
- Old Auntie Ogg-San's hut in Bes Pelargic
- Gennie Applebottom's cottage in Ankh-Morpork
- Wizardsguild:
- Unseen University student lounge (wizards-only) and Order lounges
- board room in the guild outpost on Skund road
- dining hall of the House of Magic
- lounge east of the grand piano in the Academy of Artificers
- the upstairs lounges in the Illusionary Institute of Learning (the one in the Diplomat's Lounge being accessible to non-wizards)
- the hidden arcane lounge in the Bes Pelargic L-space Bubble
- Priestsguild:
- in Djelibeybi, all temple entrances (accessible to all)
- in Ankh-Morpork, the room above Tore Kare in the Pishe treehouse (accessible to all), the instructor rooms in the other temples (each accessible only to priests and followers of the god whose temple it is), and the entrance of the Temple of Small Gods (accessible to all)
- in Ephebe, the instructor room in the temple of Pishe (accessible only to Pishites)
- in Bes Pelargic, the religious instructor rooms in the temple complex by the palace (the Pishite one at the top is accessible to all, while the others are restricted to followers and priests of the appropriate gods), as well as the Fishite-only religious instructor room in the sunken Fish temple in Tuna Bay
- in Genua, the instructor rooms of the Gapp and Hat temples, accessible only to Gappics and Hattites respectively
- in the Ramtops, the Pishite instructor room in the woods a little north of Lancre Town (Pishite-only), the instructor rooms of the Sek and Gufnork temples in Ohulan Cutash (each restricted to their respective priests and followers), the Sandelfonian instructor room in the temple in Copperhead (Sandelfonian-only), the Gappic-only instructor room in the Temple of Cool, and the common room in the druid circle (accessible only if you've joined the druids)
- Warriorsguild
- in Ankh-Morpork, the Palace Guard message room and the Weapon Masters' Court recruitment centre
- in Djelibeybi, the commonroom of the Djelian Guard
- some ways to the west of Djelibeybi in the desert, the Klatchian Foreign Legion outpost recruitment tent
- in the Ramtops, the Lancre Hunters' recruitment room, the Lancre Highland Regiment joining office, and the Hublandish Barbarians summer camp, when it's open
- in Bes Pelargic, the Imperial Guard recruitment area and the Garden of Steel Flowers in the Samurai dojo
- in Genua, the recruiting office for Duchess Saturday's Musketeers
- Assassinsguild (note that the Assassin guilds may enforce their restricted areas lethally)
- the reading room (a non-restricted room) south and west of the foyer in the Ankh-Morpork guild house
- the entrance of the Ninja guild in Bes Pelargic
- in Genua, the restricted upstairs area of the Mana Rossa mansion
- in Sto Lat, the public inhumation office in the mansion
- in Sheepridge, the Assassins' Guild outpost
- the noticeboard room in the Hashishim caves (a restricted area)
- the private inhumation office in the Ohulan Cutash outpost (a restricted area)
- Thievesguild
- the Thieves' Guild communications room in the Ankh-Morpork guild house
- the hidden Thieves' Guild Outpost in Pekan Ford
- the Genua outpost in the room with Mariania
- Foolsguild
- Club
The clubs that have club housing with a board get a specific board that only members can see and use, for example for club Trade:
- Club trade
- Player-run
- Ankh morpork council - can be viewed by anyone, but can only be posted on by citizens of the Ankh-Morpork Player Council.
- Ankh morpork magistrate - visible only to the elected magistrates of the Ankh-Morpork Player Council.
- Djelibeybi council - can be viewed by anyone, but can only be posted on by citizens of the Djelibeybi Player Council.
- In game this board is in the first room of the Djelibeybi Player Council (which is in the Palace in Djelibeybi).
- Djelibeybi magistrate - visible only to the elected magistrates of the Djelibeybi Player Council.
There is a general board about newspapers.
- Newspaper - available in game in the two newspaper offices.
There are also specific newspaper boards. When you are hired by a newspaper you can see the board for that newspaper, and you lose access when you are fired.
There's also a newbie helper board, only visible to newbiehelpers.
- Newbiehelper - available in the Palace in Djelibeybi
Restrictions
Boards that are visible to everyone but posting is restricted:
- announcements - creators only
- player killers - only playerkillers can post
- council boards - only citizens of Ankh-Morpork or Djelibeybi can post on their respective council boards
You do not even see the following boards if you are not a member:
- Philosophers Society
- clubs
- magistrate
- newspaper staff
- newbie helper