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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Feb 1, 2007 10:08 am
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Hi guys, Not really Risus related I guess, but for some reason I can't see the content of any risustalk email unless I hit reply. Any idea what curse befell...
... in general. I was thinking of Indiana Jones (of course, and his dad too)) and although he could do many things (shootin' seducin' ridin' and so on) he...
... How are you reading this list? An email client? Web mail? From the yahoogroups web site? If "web mail" is the answer, I've noticed that Yahoo! Mail and...
Yeah. I kind of thought about that with my own players and their cliches. The answer is to allow for a 2-part cliche maximum,e.g., (Brutal Minotaur-descriptor)...
... I can't really seeing Indy indulging in too many academic debates about archaeological matters, which, I think, is what puts him at odds with his father....
... wrote: <snip> ... This is an interesting question, Jon, and if I may say so, a risky one. I think the *underlying* issues of the question have often led to...
Thanks for the response Roman. It was clear, and also respectful.... I can see what you are saying about the risk of igniting a flame war. I hadnt really...
Jon-- Your questions were good ones, completely valid and worth investigating--no criticism of them was intended. I and another "old school" gamer recently...
You are not alone in your opinions Roman. Last year my wife and I were playing D&D with another couple. Long story short, the husband was a complete munchkin...
Thanks, Susan! =) I read my mails from my yahoo account, so I'm not sure where I stand within your choices. However, it does the same at work, where I use...
... I've ... your ... of ... eliminate) ... or ... I ... sometimes ... I've ... and ... true munchkin. In fact this makes me even more susceptable to foolish...
Quick question to all members: Are you running, or have you recently run, or are you *about* to run, a Risus game / campaign? If so, what did you run? Give us...
Tonight was the second session of my Wild West (with no magic, vampire or weird west stuff) Risus game. Interesting characters, and characterisation, but the...
... The kind of things I meant were for example: not explaining sufficiently that losing a dice in a "combat" need not represent a wound, but could be a...
I've experimented with this a couple of ways in a variety of systems. Sometimes I describe *their* wounds / setbacks, and *they* describe the NPC wounds /...
I'm going to be running a Beast Wars scenario this Saturday, with two groups of players, Maximals and Predacons, in separate rooms, with me going back and...
Wow, that's freakin' cool. I love Transformers. I was interested to see how you handled transforming (like, what is the advantage for being in one form over...
Thinking about my recent first efforts at running Risus for the Wild west... I was wondering have people any experience of running combat in the Style of Risus...
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Feb 15, 2007 5:59 pm
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That's beautiful! It's the best special-purpose character sheet I've seen for Risus. Will Douglas IOR #317 risustalk@yahoogroups.com wrote: Hello, This email...
Well thank you very much! I'm sure there is scope for tweaking it, this was a bit of a rush job. My idea was that players could use a b/w or sepia photo from...
another situation cropped up in my western game that gave me pause for thought. I was using the method of giving of bonus gear dice for the various weapons...
... I much prefer "vanilla" Risus. The beauty of Risus lies in its simplicity, if you keep trying to complicate it, you get the kind of problems you are ...
It's been a while since I've prepared an RPG game (about 20 years or so). In those days you could care less about protagonizing the characters: you just got a...
Sorry for 2 questions in one day. Can anyone help me out with the Dark/Light side mechanic from CloneWars2.doc? What makes you get darker/lighter? Can you be...
What works very good vor my Group is the following: I pick an Action or Horror Movie (you can pick some other genre if you want to, but these seem to work the...
I usually just stick with a basic situation and then freeform it from there (players always have a way of not doing what you expect anyway). Larry [Non-text...
What I've done that's worked well for my group is to create the main NPCs (the ones with significant stake in whatever situation is developing), and then...
... I ran an Arcadomai game where we did Attack vs Defense rolls. It worked pretty well, with only the loser of a defense roll losing a die in a cliche. We...
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