It's peculiar that you should start this egroup just now. I was right in the middle of revising Rough Magic, and toying with the idea of finishing up the magic...
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S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 21, 2000 10:38 pm
... Actually, I'm really really REALLY sick this week, and I created this, finally, since I didn't have the brainpower to do much else with my time ;) Well,...
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Hollis McCray
strangething@...
Jun 22, 2000 12:45 am
Well, I just made a character sheet in Word 97 that's pretty nice, but I'm having some trouble converting it to .pdf before I post it to my site. Any help to...
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ger353@...
Jun 22, 2000 12:45 am
We read you loud and clear, S. John! Hello to everyone here. I just thought I wave my arms wildly from the back of the room. I don't have much to say as of...
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S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 22, 2000 12:49 am
... exactly? What with Sparks, and the upcoming Risus e-book***, and FLY FROM EVIL, and my other commercial projects, I thought it best to pull all the names ...
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Brandon Blackmoor
BBlackmoor@...
Jun 22, 2000 12:51 am
If you e-mail it to me, I'll convert it and e-mail it back to you. But don't make a habit of it. :) BBlackmoor@... 21.june.2000...
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Vernon, Rene
Rene.Vernon@...
Jun 22, 2000 2:52 am
Heh. It's great timing for me. It's pretty cool to have a discussion group start two weeks after I discovered Risus. I hope the SEC:U tag at the front of all...
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Bonedaddy
bonedaddy@...
Jun 22, 2000 1:06 pm
Allo there. Glad to see this list. In case anyone's been wondering, the server on which Risus Magic lives (intemperance.net) has been down for a few weeks....
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Bonedaddy
bonedaddy@...
Jun 22, 2000 1:06 pm
... A Risus *character sheet*? Er.... I'm curious to see this, but we always used post-it notes or index cards. That was a friend's favorite thing about...
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S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 22, 2000 1:14 pm
... index ... character ... Well, Ghostbusters (the RPG that most influenced the design of Risus) came with character sheets ... either six or eight to the...
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Clemens Meier
clmeier@...
Jun 22, 2000 1:15 pm
Hello! ... Blaine: Hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about why you _CAN'T_ play without proper...
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Bonedaddy
bonedaddy@...
Jun 22, 2000 1:41 pm
... You know, I've got another friend who had exactly this objection to Risus... "No way, I'm not playing unless I've got pages and pages of stats! I want to...
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Dylan Craig
eyeballkid@...
Jun 22, 2000 2:39 pm
... and ... I'm going to put my hand up here and confess to being a sucker for character sheets myself. If the stats only take up 1/8 of the page, even better;...
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S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 22, 2000 2:39 pm
I've just updated the Risus page with a link to the Mailing List page, and an (overdue!) link to the way-cool _Ironsides_ page by Dylan Craig. Voon!...
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S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 22, 2000 3:16 pm
... Risus shotglasses might actually be _practical._ :) I could even package them with the Optional Drinking Rules, where instead of losing Cliche dice in...
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John Fiala
jcfiala@...
Jun 22, 2000 3:53 pm
... I can *so* see this... "Is this my dice?" "No, that's your shotglass." "Is *this* my dice?" "No, that's the cat." "Oh. Is this the dice?" "Close - those...
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Bonedaddy
bonedaddy@...
Jun 22, 2000 4:03 pm
... We used to play Trivial Pursuit this way (regular questions were worth one drink, "pie" questions were worth three, I think). Once you start losing, you...
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S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 22, 2000 7:24 pm
Since somebody's already got the full-page character sheet soon to go up, I've gone ahead and done a sheet of those "character card" type sheets, I mentioned...
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S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 22, 2000 7:52 pm
Not too long ago, I ran Dave Pulver's excellent "The Medusa Sanction" (from GURPS Cyberpunk Adventures) using Risus. This was my character-creation handout to...
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ger353@...
Jun 23, 2000 12:06 am
S. John Ross wrote: " Hooks and Tales, Pumping Dice, and Double-Pumps are all available options in this game; Funky Dice are not. Characters should be built on...
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Hollis McCray
strangething@...
Jun 23, 2000 12:06 am
... I like these-very appropriate for my next campaign. Are these posted to the Risus site? ===== The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth. The Bold Shall Get Whatever...
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S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 23, 2000 12:07 am
... inappropriate cliches. ... Neither nor. I didn't mention them because there were no special Cyberpunky rules for them in the game. They were used...
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S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 23, 2000 12:09 am
... I'll be leaving them at their current location for the forseeable future. I'll eventually get around to mentioning them on the page, but haven't yet ...
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Tim Huntley
revjester@...
Jun 23, 2000 4:01 am
Hiya, Risusites. For what it's worth, I have also put the Risus character sheet that I created and use on my website. The URL is: ...
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Vernon, Rene
Rene.Vernon@...
Jun 23, 2000 10:46 am
I'm a reformed rule-player who only discovered Risus a couple of weeks back. I've been wrestling with Risus, trying to get used to its fast and loose approach,...
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pete@...
Jun 24, 2000 3:46 am
... C17! And there's me just working on converting my (semi-quiescent) Pyrates game to Risus. Excellent! Mostly I'm looking at the conversion process from my...
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pete@...
Jun 24, 2000 3:46 am
... How are GMs managing Risus characters? I've long been keeping player sheets in my current system on spreadsheet or database for portability (and more...
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S. John Ross
sjohn@...
Jun 24, 2000 3:51 am
... An important point: I love to see "Recast Risus" pages like this, but it's important to acknowledge me explicitly as the primary author and copyright ...
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Brandon Blackmoor
BBlackmoor@...
Jun 24, 2000 4:06 am
... Check out the Characters section of my Rough Magic page (http://www.blackgate.net/roughmagic/). About half of them were PCs and have complete (for Risus)...
