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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Aug 1, 2005 4:48 pm
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This is yet another sample PC for a Weird Pulp campaign I'm writing. He's not really that weird, but I hope he's not out of place in a pulp campaign. Any...
At 07:11 PM 8/4/2005 -0500, Guy Hoyle wrote: These cliches ... do not reflect this core skill ... While Accel junkie covers the SPEED need, it lacks any...
How about Acceleration Junkie Always Tinkering To Improve Vehicle Speed (4) or some such.... ________________________________ From: risustalk@yahoogroups.com ...
... or add "Crack Mechanic" to any of them. Although, the text does seem to imply that he is only good at making cars go fast. Maybe mechanic questing dice,...
Why couldn't you have negative questing dice? Using Garrick as an example :) Fear of Flying could become Fear of Flying { }{ }{ }{ }{ } (using the }{ instead...
... Interesting concept, though I think they wouldn't be able to work side-by-side with regular Hooks. I think the GM would need to define which option he/she...
Joe, Thanks for thecomments! The cliches did give me some troubles; I'm going to take a couple of days to rework them, and your notes will help. "Allan" is a...
... I'd probably give a player character with such a fear of flying a hefty TN to overcome whenever he had to confront that fear. Once he overcame it, he...
... My Risus/MYSTERYMEN (comedy super-heroes) uses "Hook Dice" - our game was originally using the HERO/Champions rules, but I wanted something a bit simpler....
... Brilliant! I always thought Mystery Men would be a perfect fit for Risus. And your Hook Dice concept is a good one. I don't think I'd always use it (it's...
... I'd been considering something extremely similar to this lately, but to me your description seems backward. More dice in a hook should make it harder to...
... Well if you've seen The Tick (the live tv show, Saturday morning cartoon, comics), the 1960's Batman show & the movies Mystery Men and/or The Specials...
... Yup, you're right, this example is from my very first write-up of this new rule. We are still game-testing bits and pieces. I was hoping to establish...
Some other optional rules we are using are; KICKER DICE - a permanent 1d6 bonus (like Lucky Shots) to any appropriate cliche(s), that can only be used once per...
OK, how do these cliches grab you: Crack Mechanic with a "Need for Speed" Renowned Daredevil Auto Racer Taller-Than-Average Championship Jockey The "Crack" and...
Guy wrote -- ... Slang more in keeping with the times might be "Ace", rather than "Crack", but it's also kind of redundant if his dice level is big enough. As...
I'm putting together a "cheat sheet" for cliches, a list of cliches I can refer to when I'm having trouble coming up with anything interesting for a character....
A Quality is a "fragment of a cliche". It's not potent enough to be a cliche in its own right, but it can certainly help flesh out a cliche. I'm putting...
I'm not sure which of these lists it goes on, but you have to work with a heart of gold into one of them. It is one of my examples of things found in a cliche...
... I'm ahead of you there. "Hooker with a Heart of Gold" is on my latest version. Here's the latest list (which needs a bit of pruning to avoid the overlap...
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[all sorts of interesting lists snipped] This sounds like a sketch for a web-based Java application that would randomly combine the qualities and aspects from...
For those of you keeping track at home, since we are playing in this campaign this weekend, I will probably be doing updates to the Risus/MYSTERY MEN website...
Very nice site. Great concept for a Risus game. Makes me think more about doing a Greatest American Hero type of thing... ________________________________ ...
Please please please keep this up. You've got a fantastic site that looks like it will keep getting better. I can't wait for the Risus writeups for the...
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