Hi! This is the hopefully not-too-annoying monthly mailer for the Risustalk mailing list, where we prattle on about Risus: the Anything RPG, by S. John Ross (a...
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Dec 1, 2004 2:02 pm
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Item 1: Do You Know Where Your Towel Is? http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/ Item 2: Has anybody seen this essay by Robert Asprin in _Wizards_ a 1980's-era...
Item 1: That will probably be better than Episode III ;) Item 2: Do you have a link to the essay? Is it online? The Robert Lynn Asprin's Aahz and Skeeve...
Bullock, Larry A
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Dec 2, 2004 2:22 pm
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I know this is like preaching to the choir, but I just wanted to let everyone know what great service I received from Mr. Ross when purchasing some of his...
I've been thinking of "writing" a kind of bowdlerized version of Risus for kids -- it would basically be a recast Risus, 'cuz I think the rules as given work...
Sounds cool to me. Especially the William Shatner part ;) ... -- Peace & Love, Stefan Livingstone Shirley (aka peregrine "bright" brightmeadow) Member of...
Hello! (Been a while since I posted--teaching's kept me busy, and my wife is expecting a baby in the next ten days or so.) Tonight my players requested that I...
... Yikes! ... Excellent! I haven't seen "Phantom Empire", but I love the idea. I'm hunting down a copy even as we speak. ... I think that "Questing Dice"...
... Hey, that sounds like a heck of a lot of fun. ... Amen. For me this has always been the primary appeal of Risus. ... I think the vanilla rules support this...
The key here I think lies in the unique method of handling difficulties. If a character is the worlds best at any thing, his difficulty for something that...
... (of ... Actually, I think unadulterated Risus is ideal for recreating the fast-pace and throttle-wide-open philosophy of the pulps. I do agree that many...
If you find that the characters are bumping the ceiling on normal dice, then you might want to allow them to gain in experience the Funky way. That is,...
I'm currently watching my new favorite TV show, "The Venture Bros" on Cartoon Network. For those unfamiliar with it, it's sort of a parody of the old "Jonny...
First of all, thanks to Guy, Tim, Stefan, and Hank for their advice. Putting it all together, it sounds like running Risus with certain chargen options turned...
... Actually, if it is genre for people to have "best of the world" abilities, lower the number of dice they have but then assume that anyone combating them in...
... I wonder, would Double Pumps be a similar way to achieve the BitW effect? I hesitate to introduce a new rule if an existing one would work as well....
... In fact, I'd argue that this is the key to really "getting" Risus for any genre. ... Though it hasn't come up a whole lot in Silverlode yet, my take on ...
... particularly ... method ... given ... <blush> Well, I really can't take credit for that one, either. Those ideas are from a series of discussions right...
... (Although this is all without playtest....) I view the BitW mechanic as a genre convention. You would only do in a game where there's such a thing as being...
... Hmm. What about simply rescaling the target numbers when a BITW situation comes up? Instead of the TN scale being based on steps of 5, why not scale it at...
It suddenly occurs to me that you don't have to be the "Best Damn' ___ in the WORLD." You could be the "Best Goldurn' Gunslinger This Side of the Mississip'",...
... This has little to do with TNs. More to do with combats or quick contests. When the BitW cliche is appropriate but not BitW is when you don't want the ...
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