Anyone who is feeling brave, please test out my javascript implementation of RisusGen at http://homepage.mac.com/unearthed/risus/risusgen2.html and let me know...
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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Sep 1, 2005 5:44 pm
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This is a sample character (or pregenerated PC) for my Pulp adventure. CORNELIUS CULPEPPER, WARLORD OF WAZOOM Extaordinarily Youthful-Looking "Civil War...
Here's something different - a stick figure based online graphical rpg... http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/stickrpg [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Thanks! I think that Cornelius Culpepper probably spends his Earth time writing to various government agencies trying to open diplomatic relations between ...
Oh, and when CC hears the call to battle on "Jazoom", he instinctively tries to "leap into battle". It's a lot more impressive on Wazoom, however, than it is...
... <snip> ... Whoa! I think I saw this guy at Philcon many years ago. Tall, beer-bellied, bearded, amazing gift for irritating people he had never met-...
In a game loosely based on Big Trouble in Little China, as my current Risus scenario is, would you use Inappropriate Cliches? I probably am. Are there any ...
Personally, I would use them sparingly if at all. In general, I would tend to be more leniant on what is actually appropriate. The Inappropriate rules ...
Would some of the more "serious" modifications be applicable, then? Boxcars and Breakthroughs, or taking the high roll in combat? My experience actually...
... I *love* Boxcars & Breakthroughs. Without this rule, low-level clihes have almost no-chance chance of taking on high-level cliches. It reduces the effects...
Can you help me flesh out a campaign idea? I'm working on a short campaign idea. It's a fantasy setting (though I want some non-typical fantasy characters)....
It was put out by Games Design Workshop...it was fun in it's own way... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talisman_board_game ________________________________ From:...
... <edit> ... You may simply want to let your players makeup the cliches they want their characters to have. That's one of the strengths of RISUS. That way,...
I'm with Karl on this one. You might try some non Tolkien dirivative sources: Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Neverwhere, Perdido Street Station... ... -- ...
Talisman was (maybe still is) a Fantasy board game, originally made by Games Workshop in the UK. There was a deck of character cards, and each player would...
If you are a Dr. Who fan, check out the Key of Time series (where the characters must find disquised pieces of the key; some disquised as people!). Dave ... ...
First, kudos for creating something as spectacular as this. I am a BIG fan of Pratchet (he's on my list) and his work. That said...there appears to be a...
Anybody in the DFW area or thereabouts! A friend of mine is running a Games Day on October 22 (see http://www.recgaming.com for time-space coordinates). We...
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Sep 7, 2005 4:09 pm
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... Apologies. I've removed the defective zip file and banished it to the Dungeon Dimensions. It has been replaced by an infitely superior PDF of the same...
I've made some modifications to RisusGen2 that you can check out at http://homepage.mac.com/unearthed/risus/risusgen2.html (note, there was a stylesheet update...
How does the boxcars and breakthroughs rule work with funky dice? Is it still all sixes (as it reads in the companion) or simply any time a player rolls all...
