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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Apr 1, 2005 3:46 pm
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... his/her actions and rolls. In that game, the rolls were of per cent dice. The best roll win the combat round and the master describes what happen. ... ...
... The average of a six sided die is 3.5. 2d6 ~= 7 6d6 ~= 21 5d8 ~= 22.5 double pumping one point would give one roll at 8d6 ~= 28 ... Is it worth modelling...
Sorry, I don't usually contribute much to this list. But I gotta just say that this one had me laughing so hard I teared up and nearly fell off the chair....
rockman_ratix <rockman_ratix@...> wrote: <<So basically, a combat becomes a single-action roll? I guess that's one way of doing it, but it seems rather...
We need to make things a bit more active and a bit more fun, I think. So, I suggest we all share some of our favorite original cliches and some comments about ...
Has anyone played Steve Jackson's "Munchkin" games? They are risus-like (in their silliness and simplicity) card games. Which begs the question, have any of...
Here's what I've used so far for my Risus Character of the Week feature at my website...6 weeks and still going... World Class Fry Cook Lovable Simpleton 98...
Bullock, Larry A
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Apr 11, 2005 11:27 am
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I've considered trying to do something along the lines of the Saga system that TSR put out (used for Dragonlance and Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game) and...
Bullock, Larry A
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Apr 11, 2005 11:28 am
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... <snip> ... No joke - Cross-Dressing Paladin [3] :) Hollis McCray "Some people have one-track minds. Mine's a rollercoaster." e-mail: strangething@......
... My current gaming group has been playing Deliria, which uses playing cards for task resolution. While the Deliria system itself isn't anything great, the...
I'll just donate the ones from my players in my Risus-IOU (Illuminati Univeristy) game: Amnesiatic Hip-Hop Genie Two-Fisted Victoria's Secret Model Inquistive...
... So what exactly would a custom set look like? Would you focus on numbers (like dice) or success/failure (like FUDGE). I guess if a person wanted a really...
... Well, as an off-the-wall idea, print cards with tables of random rolls for different cliche levels (each card would have a complete set of rolls for each...
I like Risus the way it is. I like chucking dice. But if you are interested to apply some card rules to Risus.... Well go for it. The purpose of the game is...
... Me too, for both reasons. I had an idea awhile back about using normal playing cards in Risus, though. You draw 1 card per d6 in your cliche and try to...
... I did a bit of calculating probabilities on that when I read it in the archives, using some online tables of poker probabilities, and it didn't match up...
... TN 5 Beat Jack high TN 10 1 Pair TN 15 2 Pair TN 20 3 of a kind TN 25 Straight TN 30 Flush The only important thing to remember is a 3 die cliche cannot...
... No, my basic approach was allowing one card per dice, and not allowing short straights and flushes. The probabilities weren't bad, but there wasn't nearly...
... Actually the effect of 7 cards on 5 card hands is pretty dramatic, I would assume 6 cards provides a good enough boost for Risus play. Also, remember with...
Hi all, Having GMed Risus for a few sessions and found the dice to be a hindrance, I stole the card-based binary success/failure idea from Sacred Steel. I'm...
Wow! Very impressive math skills. (I'm a humanities guy - good storyteller but lousy with the checkbook). One suggestion, why not allow the face cards to...
"Poor Thrag's Dice": I'm sure I read these at some point, and they are very similar; thanks for pointing out where credit is due. However, the rules there for...
You're right about advancement as it's listed, but you can just keep it the same as in standard Risus advancement probability progression: 1/2^n where n = ...
My favorites so far are from a dungeon crawl I came up with OTF for my D&D group: Lesser Demonic Conqueror Who Eats Light Warriors For Breakfast (5) Hell Rats...
Greetings, My name's Ken Newquist, and I write the "Summon Webscryer" column for Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine. If you haven't read it, the "WebScryer"...
-- Ken Newquist <knewquist@...> wrote: Greetings, I'm thinking of dedicating one of my future columns to Risus; a casual look around Google indicates...
Hank's got some of the biggies (and thanks for the mention, btw). Don't wanna leave off Risus Firefly ( http://webpages.charter.net/anjinm/g_risus.htm), mostly...
Hi Ken, It's hard to pick ALL my favorite Risus sites, but here are some that I think show Risus off particularly well: Stacy Allston's Risus Supers site: ...
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