External Links - Home of John Risus' Supplements. Million: Another Fantasy City. Just to make something clear, I usually speak French, but I figured I'd reach more people with my Broken English. Hopefully you'll be able to understand everything. So, this is my humble attempt at creating a fantasy setting for Risus: The Anything RPG by S. John Ross. Though Risus really is much better than chocolate (and totally orgasmic with the Companion), you don't absolutely need to use it to enjoy this material, but not doing so puts your brain cells at risk, so I'd think about it if I were you.
Plus, you can get Risus for free here as well as all sorts of cool Free Fan-Supplements. Risusiverse is also a neat place to find fan goodies. Here are some highlights on Million: Death has been forbidden due to space shortage.A rabbit sits on the throne.Lust is not sought in the Red Light district.Pumpkins are considered a menace.Foxy smooth shower is a type of rain. House_of_risus : House of Risus. SURPRISE ROUND 不意打ち! | Get a jump on Role Playing Games! Risus Material - Daniel Suptic. The Risus RPG Fan Forum - Home. Risus Fantasy - Risusiverse. WHY KeyPhrases? It's been brought to my attention that the the keywords and keyphrases I'm using might make the game more limiting that it's supposed to be by making things harder.This isn't the intent.
I'm using them to make some things slightly easier. I'm also using them to avoid the problem of too broadly defined cliches. In non-combat situations, it less a matter of *relative* incompetency than of slightly better skill in the KeyPhrases than in the other abilities. The Short Answer You have two warriors cliches. One has the Melee Combat KeyPhrase (and what warrior doesn't?) The other doesn't. The Long Answer In the Original rules, and again in Risus Magic, S.
There is also another reason for this: restricting too broadly defined of a Cliche, and to make sure that all players get their full 10 dice of ability. Another example is the whole of Risus Magic, which is about Specialty Mages. So, now customization of a Cliche to an individual becomes easier on the GM. What ARE Keyphrases? 8 Page Worlds - engine of thwaak. Engine of thwaak. Guy-wires. Risus Monkey: Risus Monkey Cliche Generator.
Risus | BearMeadows. Our group got together the other night to play a game and we ended up deciding on a super heroes game using Risus . Snikle already did a great write-up on the game, so, instead of repeating the process, I thought I would do a little write-up on how we came up with the game and how I GMed it. First off, we started out getting together a little before our regular meeting time. Now here I need to say, we play exclusively online since we are all in different states. We use Skype to communicate and we usually just text during the week, but for game night, we use voice. Now, we like to Google up different images and something that catches our interest. The guys made very colorful characters, as you can see below: Hotel Lounge Hypnotist (4) “Insecuricist” (3) – Able to make people feel insecure through the use of backhanded compliments.
“Sorta Sleepless” (2) – Never, ever sleeps, except sometimes in times of stress. Motivational Poster Photographer (1) Mysterious Spiffy Dressing Voodoo Priest (4) Risus Advanced Options. Risus Fantasy | Risus. Raven's Prayer version 2.0. Introduction Five hundred years in the future, humanity has depleted the resources of Earth-That-Was and struck out to the stars. Led by an Alliance of the last superpowers, the United States and China, over 70 planets and moons were terraformed into Earth-like environments. The central planets are the home of modern civilization with every imaginable technological achievement on display.
Life on the borders of colonized space is very different. Without easy assess to modern conveniences, the sparse populations make due with more antiquated tools. These worlds have come to resemble the old American frontier, in look and attitude. When the border worlds declared their independence, it sparked a civil war that burned for years. Now, small bands of men and women rove the 'Verse, doing whatever it takes to stay beyond the long grasp of authority. The Rules In order to play Risus Firefly, you will need access to the Risus rules. Here are a few suggested modifications of the rules: 1. 2. RISUS Fantasy Combat House Rules - RPGnet Forums. Risus Role Playing System in the Best of the Web Directory. RPG Blog II: Need Something Quick? Check Out These Risus Resources! Long-time readers of this site will know I'm a huge fan of Risus--its my favorite beer n' pretzels/one-shot RPG, and I consider almost infinitely flexible yet absurdly simple.
This is a reprint and expansion of one of the most popular articles from my old blog, listing some of the sites that allow you to quickly mold Risus into a number of genres and playstyles, so that whatever you feel like running on short notice is within your grasp: It seems I've stumbled upon a lot of conversations lately where Risus has come up. I know there's folks out there who see it as either too light or too silly to do anything with. Although S. John Ross does tend to write with a fair amount of humor and whimsy, Risus is far from being either unworkable or an elitist tool. Just so you don't think Risus is for one-shots and tongue-in-cheek play only, here's a look at just a few of the genres people have undertaken using Risus: Supers: Risus Supers Fantasy: Belgarion's World, The Heroes of Oblend, Risus Magic.
[Risus One-shots] Improve my Game - theRPGSite. I imagine myself to be a fair GM. I've read oodles of articles on the techniqes of GM'ing. I would like, however, to be an expert GM. In order to do so, I need both more practical experience and player feedback. The players are, after all, the ones who need to be entertained. So, the way this works - I present a single, unconnected adventure scenario. Afterwards, you PM me at least one good critique - Something I could do better; an area I could improve in; something I seem to have missed.
Because improvement is a verb, not a noun. Risus in four easy sentences: You have ten d6's. Warchief Slaughter 12d/12d Orciest Of The Band (Bloood! The Army is marching on the Orcish lands. Insignificant as it is, a minor impediment to the Armies' invietable, glorious victory, Duke Fairhair has decided that it would be best dealt with by a small scouting party opening the gates. You also have Standard Gear for Privates, First Class ('The best stuff money can buy! ') Belgarion's World for Risus: Introduction. Aaronellery. Welcome To Worlds At War Submarine-like warfare in a near future. These pages are devoted describing and hashing out a hard science fiction roleplaying game which takes place during a civil war within the solar system. The players will be captains of stealth combat ships for the drastically outnumbered, yet technologically advanced, outer planets as they desperately try to hold back the Earth's brutal re-expansion into the solar system.
The setting is trying to invoke a feeling in this neighborhood: 55% Das Boot / Run Silent, Run Deep 15% The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein 15% Schismatrix - Bruce Sterling 15% Mars Trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson The pages linked on the sidebar contain lots of information explaining different aspects of the setting, as well as more Risus related stuff and sample characters. Uresius: Grave of Anything. Games: Roleplaying: Genres: Universal: Free Systems: Risus. Optional Rules for Risus - Home of John Risus' Supplements. Risus optional rules. Coloured*Skies House rules (’n’ stuff) for Risus: The Anything RPG Risus is the elegant, rules-lite, omni-utilitarian RPG created by S. John Ross. The third-best thing about Risus is that it's free; you can get it from here. Coloured Skies is an edited selection of my postings to the Risus Yahoo! Group. All mistakes, errors of judgement, attempts at humour, and foolish oversights are my own.THE GAME SYSTEMDrama diceExtended TN rollsMultiple featsSpell TNsTake twoPROPER TOOLSTools o’ the trade when travellin’ liteTHE COMBAT SYSTEMCreatures only affected by magic weapons/bonus die gearCriticals & mishapsDeath, player-character, shucking responsibility forGuns—increasing lethality High stakes combatInitiativeMultiple attacksPreparationRazzle-dazzleRegenerating creaturesWin-lose-draw probabilitiesCHARACTER ADVANCEMENTEasy Street & the Hard RoadPUMPING CLICHÉSRetro pumpsFUNKY DICE Creature sizeFunky Relativity, Law of (aka Don’t Mess with the Big Dice) Roll as many dice.
Risus : Risus. Risus Supers Version 1.1. Undefined Many thanks to S. John Ross (whom you may find here) for creation of Risus and giving it to the Web community. Risus cuts the awful Gordian knot of ever-escalating game mechanics that try to do everything except allow players to have fun. Risus is copyright 1999 S. John Ross. All material original to Risus Supers is copyright 1999 Stacy Allston. What Is Risus? Risus is a free game provided to the world out of the goodness of the heart of freelance game and supplement designer S. Risus leaves balance up to the players and referees and opens the session for game-playing and storytelling; it therefore provided an optimal model for a game based on the satirical treatment of superheroes. . . . which you can connect to Risus itself with the following snippet of code: . . . where risusbtn.gif represents the name you give to the graphic when you save it.
What is Risus Supers? These Cliches cover much of the basic idiom of superhero comics. Desperation Dice Slugfests Races/Chases Oratory. Rough Magic. Aaronellery. Welcome To Worlds At War Submarine-like warfare in a near future. These pages are devoted describing and hashing out a hard science fiction roleplaying game which takes place during a civil war within the solar system. The players will be captains of stealth combat ships for the drastically outnumbered, yet technologically advanced, outer planets as they desperately try to hold back the Earth's brutal re-expansion into the solar system. The setting is trying to invoke a feeling in this neighborhood: 55% Das Boot / Run Silent, Run Deep 15% The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein 15% Schismatrix - Bruce Sterling 15% Mars Trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson The pages linked on the sidebar contain lots of information explaining different aspects of the setting, as well as more Risus related stuff and sample characters.
1001 Adventures - Home. Rpg. What's New Fan Fiction Gallery Software Links Mail The SCORE Role-playing system was created by six talented and experienced gamers. At the time of this writing, three SCORE books are available: The Book Of Rules - The basic rules required to play the game. The Book Of Fantasy - Characters, equipment and magic for a fantasy campaign. The Book Of Creatures - Monsters for a fantasy campaign. More books will be coming. The material on this page is the creation of myself (with great help from many other persons), and not the creation of Steve Jackson Games. Caverns and Creatures Caverns and Creatures is a free Fantasy Role-Playing supplement for GURPS. I am pleased to announce the completion of the Second Edition of Caverns and Creatures! This is still a 3rd Edition game, not compatible with GURPS 4th Edition; I apologize to those who were hoping, but I have been rather disappointed with 4th Edition.
Powerstone Quirks There exists online a massive database of powerstone quirks. GLAIVE d20. Home Page. Risustalk : RisusTalk. Astromancer / Buccaneers and Basilisks. This harr be thar page farr... oh, I can't be bothered keeping up the accent... This setting started out as a one-off game session I ran after having watched Pirates of the Caribbean II. On with the show... History and Basic Setting Stuff: 80 years ago, Carban was a pretty standard fantasy world, with knights in shining armour, Elven arches, marauding orcs, and suchlike.
Admittedly, it had more highly developed seafaring tradition than most, but every world has to have something to make it interesting. Up until a group of adventurers, one of whom was an alchemist, stumbled on a secluded tribe of trolls, hidden in the mountains. The trolls had a weapon the alchemist had never seen before: magical powder that exploded when lit. The alchemist was intrigued by the powder, and endeavoured to improve on the formula (which he and his friends, being adventurers, had of course stolen). 80 years on, wars have been fought over, and then with the powder. Why are we Pirates? Speaking of Fortune… Races: Risus Tenhut - Risus RPG War Gaming. Risus. Risus Welcome to Bunnies & Burrows! B&B presents a world in which player characters are rabbits...faced with a land full of monstrous, hungry foes, with humans worst of all! B&B is a game of wits, rich in roleplaying possibilities.
A rabbit can't bully his way through the world - not usually, anyway! Characters in this game must be clever to survive. In 1976, the original Bunnies & Burrows, by B. And now, in 2004, it has been converted to Risus: The Anything RPG, By S. B&B character should be created in the normal Risus way. Rabbit Clichés Here are a few sample clichés to get you started Warren Watch (Being big and tough, protecting the warren) Hoplite (Being swift, scouting ahead) Engineer (Inventing simple contraptions, understanding human machinery) Seer* (Using ESP, having scary dreams) Empathetic Healer* (Healing other rabbits' wounds) Herbalist* (Identifying plants, preparing snuffballs) Storyteller* (Telling entertaining tales, enthralling whoever is listening) * Can be double-pumped Seer[2]
I Have No Dice And I Must Game. Undefined NOTE: This page is dead, and has been for a while. I might replace it with something else eventually. If you want to read things of mine that aren't game rules and don't suck (or at least suck less), check out My deviantArt page . Welcome to I Have No Dice And I Must Game! This webpage is devoted to games of all sorts, but chiefly ones that I write. RISUS: The Anything RPG A brilliant creation of master game writer S.
Risus Illuminati - some words and settings for running an Illuminated campaign. - a more advanced version of Risus Illuminati, adding more complex rules to enhance paranoia - a Risus campaign based on The Matrix Risus Troubleshooter - A Risus campaign set in a world on the verge of becoming cyberpunk. Risus: The Wargame - A Wargame based on the Risus rules.
Heavy Ordnance Lite - Little kids and big guns. Random Campaign Generator - A small tool for bored GM's and players planning on a one-shot adventure or just wanting a laugh. Does this rock? Risus Matrix. MrGone's Character Sheets. Freelance Traveller - Doing It My Way - Conversion Rules - Travelling Light: A Risus Conversion for Traveller. Travelling Light: A Risus Conversion for Traveller by S. John Ross with Christopher Thrash Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the Freelance Traveller web site in 1999, and was reprinted, lightly edited into this form, in the November/December 2012 issue of the magazine. Risus is a complete Role Playing Game (RPG) designed to provide an “RPG Lite” for those nights when the brain is too tired for exacting detail. Risus is especially valuable to GMs assembling a quick convention game, or any late-night beer-and-pretzels outing.
While it is essentially a Universal Comedy System, it works just as well for serious play (if you insist!). Character Creation Characters are defined by Cliché (sometimes several of them). Clichés are defined in terms of Dice (by which we mean the ordinary six-sided kind). Characters are created by naming and describing them, and listing their Clichés. Grolfnar Vainsson the Swordworlder Description: Tall, blond, and grinning. Sample Clichés 5: Simple. Risus optional rules. Risus Monkey: February 2010. Rogue Risus - Risusiverse. Options for Risus. C&C. Hawkmoor | Players. Lapsus Calumni #1 – The town of Dorthurien « . .lapsus calumni. . Risus Illuminati. Laughter of the Grognards. Risus: Silverlode 1908. Untitled Document. RISUS: ANATOMY OF A CLICHÉ | UncleBear. The Tao of Rules Hacking, Part 1 | UncleBear. Risusiverse - The Anything RPG Wiki - Risusiverse.
Doug Bolden, The Heroes of Oblend! Fantasy Mod for Risus: The Anything Goes RPG (Risus is by S. John Ross) Risus Monkey. Risus: The Anything RPG. Risus: The Anything RPG. Untitled Document. Risus Magic - Risusiverse. Risus Monkey: Converting from D&D 4e. Astromancer / Buccaneers and Basilisks.