... Sounds good. The Fantasy Risus I was working on had rules for armour and big weapons, but that's really just flavouring. The Magic side of things might...
Greetings, Risusites. Like many gamers, AD&D (actually, the old, blue-covered D&D) was my first RPG. I still have a certain fondness for the worlds and mythos...
just an background idea : players are Masters to the Well Famous Sect : The Golden Banana adversaries : other sects like CIA, NSA, Silver Worm, Platinium ...
Hello, everyone, I'm new…. To the list, I mean. In virtually every other sense, I'm not new at all. I ran across Risus several months ago, and knew that I...
... pretty awesome. ... Troll (5) or ... beat you ... It's mean, but it would even up a combat between a co-operative group of monster hunters and a lone beast...
Just wondering how GMs handle who goes first in a punch-up. I used to fool around with an RPG called Barony, by Better Games. Combat was divided into three...
Hello, The French Risus Lobby here (so sorry for english). In France, my group have a dream : simpsons rpg. And with Risus, ALL is possible !!! We search...
... Guaranteed. I won't approve any message unless it relates to Risus in _some_ way - questions or rules or play-aids or settings or characters or talk of...
... Nice, man, nice! This is the kind of setting that could go down well in a HoL game. I'm currently working on a set of cinematic firefight rules for Risus...
I thought this up for a quickie campaign at a con or other gathtering. No need for deep characters, just ones with the ability to drink and fight. The Bar ...
Well, this mailing list has been enlightening in several ways, but my favorite is that it's made me aware of Yet More Risus pages. While wandering some search...
... A "putz" is a jerk or a loser. But specifically: putz vi. (Yiddish for penis) To mess around. Despite its origin, this is quite a mild term (s.a. jerk,...
... (semi-quiescent) ... I must return the compliment - the work you have done is great and looks like a great deal of fun. I ran a few sessions of a Pirates...
Greetings, Well, I just joined the list. I found Risus around a year ago, and I think it's the best free system around. I'd like to point everyone to my own...
... 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 ...
Greetings, Risusites. This question is specifically for S. John, but I thought I would ask it here so that (hopefully) the legions of fanatic Risus fans could...
... game ... would ... I'm strictly tabletop. The only e-mail gaming I do is "side plots" for my table games (what the Wolfies call "Blue-Booking"), and a kind...
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...
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!...
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,...
... 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...
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...
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...
... Risus shotglasses might actually be _practical._ :) I could even package them with the Optional Drinking Rules, where instead of losing Cliche dice in...
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...
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...
... 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 ...
... 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,...
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...
