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In addition to the main characters, there is a large cast of recurring characters, including dodgy street trader [[Honest John's Dealership|Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler]] and [[Anti-Villain|benevolent tyrant]] Havelock Vetinari ('benevolent' in the sense that he's a much ''nicer'' tyrant than his predecessors). Villains have included sociopathic geniuses, [[Eldritch Abomination]]s, and the Auditors of Reality, [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|cosmic bureaucrats]] who consider life too untidy to be tolerated.
 
As of October,Pterry's death in 20112015, there arewere thirtyfourty-ninethree books in the series, fivesix of them marketed as young-adult and another two marketed toward children, as well as several short stories. There are also [[Spin-Off|Discworld calendars, diaries, maps]], [[Universe Compendium|compendia]], three [[Video Game]]s,<ref>Four if you include the ''Colour Of Magic'' 1986 text adventure</ref> three [[Board Game]]s,<ref>One based on the Watch, one based on a power struggle for Ankh-Morpork, and the [[Defictionalised]] chess-analogue Thud</ref> and a pen and paper [[RPG]], each with [[Word of God|additional background information]] about the Disc. All the books have been adapted for the stage, two have become animated series, and three (technically four, as ''The Colour of Magic'' and ''The Light Fantastic'' were filmed as a single story under the former title, but the second is a direct follow-on) have become live-action [[Made for TV Movie|Made For TV Movies]]. A ''cop show'' based around the Ankh-Morpork Watch is in the works. Yes, really.
 
See also the [[Discworld/Characters|character sheet]] for details on the more major of the series' [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], and the fan-run [http://www.lspace.org/ L-Space Web] for [http://www.lspace.org/books/pqf/index.html quotes] and [http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html annotations] (which unfortunately haven't updated since ''Going Postal'', from 2004). There is a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120419204136/http://discworldfanatics.co.uk/discworld/reading-guide/ reading order guide] for those who would like to go through the books by internal series.
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