No apologies required! Its an interesting thread; and I am not a person to take offence at any suggestions... I agree completely that Vanilla Risus can be used...
"Toon" or "Kult" speaks volumes to the true 'universality' of Risus. Some rules claim 'universal rules set' but fall far short IMO. Many require additional...
I think risus is infinitely applicable to many settings/genres/tropes/etcs, but I dont entirely agree with you on additional rules. well on one hand I do, in...
I agree 100%. We are saying much the same thing I believe. I condone additional 'optional' rules for flavor. As I mentioned, adding special 'optional' magic...
I think you're thinking too much about all this again. It's just a game. We can play it any way we want, really. No one is gonna come in and take away your...
One of my players has the following observation. Any responses? Guy Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless ... From: "Rich Fleider" <swompy@...> ...
Teams do seem a bit all-or-nothing. Either really effective, or just a mess. I would tweak the rules for them for my personal use. But then I'm working on...
This is a character for a Dark Sun campaign setting: Klak'tung, Father of the Earth Elemental cleric of earth (4) Insensitive elf-eating thri-kreen (3) ...
... and ... Why not? They're great cliches as everything :) It's all about how it's easiest for you to describe the character. If you think of him as an...
Let's say a starting character in D&D would be level 3. In Risus, this translates to a maximum of 4 dice in a character's best cliché. Now say the five...
Let me say that I think Chris summoned it up well, not much to add to it. I could say that learning myself, I tend for at least a adjective/noun/adjective. I...
... Knee jerk reaction here and can't wait for the more experienced Risus GM Gurus to put in their two cents... If I were going to design the main foe I might...
Yeah, that sounds like it could work. Or the main villain could be made less tough; you'd just have to 'soften' the heroes up a bit with wandering monsters/the...
CAVEAT: There's no wrong way to play Risus. But you are not doing this "the Risus way". (Or at least how I perceive the Risus way) Risus has cliches which is...
As written, Risus is not especially designed to be realistic, but rather entertaining. S. John has mentioned that Teaming Up is something that he wanted to...
I wrote -- ... Heh; better amend that -- I should have said "rolled all their dice, and gave their highest resulting die to the leader, no matter what it was"....
Thanks John, Since it's deadly combat in a more serious campaign setting, I'd probably be using the Companion rules. That means a party of 4 heroes at full...
I don't know if there's already a #Risus chatroom on IRC somewehre, but I'm in irc://chat.psionics.net/risus if anybody wants to join me there? Sonja...
OK I came up with the following formula, which assumes you use deadly combat rules from the Companion. Risus dice = (D&D Challenge Rating * 2.1) +1.3 To get to...
... That's because you are using D&D scaling instead of Risus scaling. Hit Dice measure raw power. In Risus, the number of dice in a cliche says how competent...
... Now I'm totally confused. ;) So if I want the characters to fight kobolds at first and that be on the same level as them... and rise up after years of...
... up ... that? ... at ... Quite easy. If they start out as beginning characters - a beginning adventurer is a cliche by itself! A Young Wood-Elf Looking For...
... Why don't the adventuring cliches match up with the Major Villain cliche? I think it'd depend on the type of combat, like the Sorcerer vs Barbarian...
LOL, usually the 'your over thinking it' stick is being pointed at me. But alas, this is even too steep a hill for me to even consider climbing. I just had a...
Funky Dice, I'd say. Here's how S. John recommends the progression: 6d6, 5d8, 6d8, 5d10, 6d10, etc. (Every time they advance to the next die level, they lose 1...
... My personal experience running a Supers game with funky dice was that they made life too difficult to be worth it. I like the other Chris' method in one...
... Rather than adding extra cliches, how about adding Questing Dice from the Companion? These would be dedicated to special purposes, such as "Archery rolls...
... Man, I thought everyone did it this way. It can be hard to understand that "Supreme Being (1)" is far more powerful than "Your Average Gnat (6)". In any...
... To each his own. "Fighter Level Eight (4)" doesn't seem to be as interesting to me as "Hardened Ex-Gladiator (4)" or "Effete But Deadly Swashbuckler (4)",...
I may be crazy, but it seems obvious to me that when it is asked "How do you convert D&D hit dice to Risus dice?" the answer is "You don't." Hit dice are but...
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