Has anyone given any thought to esablishing a permanent Risus chat room somewhere? It would be cool to have somewhere we can log on and bounce ideas off each...
I'm kind of curios-why a six-die limit for cliches? Has anyone changed this limit? Or ignored the limit entirely? You can tell I'm sitting at work bored, can't...
... The official #Risus IRC channel has been around for years. It's on the DALnet server, and I'm there at least four or five nights a week while winding down...
... I consider larger handfuls of dice, rolled regularly (as they would be for a character's cliche) an unmanageable amount of die-wrangling and math for the...
... You might want to put that on the Risus webpage, then. ... Downloaded and installed. Thanks for the heads-up. I'm going to be sitting in there until 5 pm,...
... True. It's been on the Blue Room for ages (bottom of the main page, under Keeping Connected), but, especially with the Cumberland pages separated, now, I...
The "9th World" science fantasy setting sounds really interesting, especially as it tends to mesh somewhat with my own ideas and I'm always looking for...
SIMPLE HEDGEROW HELL To simplify my first draft of Hedgerow Hell posted earlier: * No modifiers used at all * Funky dice used to differentiate weapon classes *...
When running a Risus fantasy game, do youse guys bother with money, or do you use cliches to cover that kind of thing? Guy Guy Hoyle (ghoyle1@...) "I...
... Sometimes neither! If the characters have no cliche that implies wealth or poverty, then I treat it as entirely abstract -- characters may buy anything...
The #Risus IRC channel is no longer doomed to the apparent obscurity of the Blue Room; I've added a visible entry to the Risus homepage, complete with links to...
From: S. John Ross [mailto:sjohn@...] ... You knew someone would ask this, so I'll bite: "Tell us about the alternate combat system you use for serious...
... I covered three of them (I've toyed with several) in a previous post: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/risus/message/1095 I like the vanilla high-die option;...
Two unrelated thoughts in one message. First, anybody interested in a Risus game on IRC? I'm sure beteween the bunch of us, we have the expertise to make it...
... Hey, how about a full-fledged Risus Community then? I have a couple running on http://www.communityzero.com/ (check http://www.communityzero.com/ardagaming...
... It would be better if S. John had the time, yes, but if S. John had the time he can think of about seven hundred other things he'd do with it ;)...
Well Our 6th Grade Risus Economics simulation is on its way. So far the orcs and goblins are barely subsisting at the hunter-gather (1 or 2). The haflings are...
I'm doing some work on yet another D&D-ish Risus campaign, and was having troubles figuring out how best to define magic-users (do they still call them that?)...
This is a completely heretical and otherwise mundane combat system intended not as a replacement but rather an extra option for normal RISUS combat when more...
Randall Orndorff
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Mar 6, 2002 8:51 am
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The way I handle magic in my games is: Each "magic user" has a set amount of mana. And each spell has a certain mana cost. When the "magic user" wants to use...
Okay.. Let me start with a plea: Don't hit me. I left the Ninth World stuff up on Tripod a while back, when our play group disintegrated, due to real life...
Unfortunately, my favorite spider, Google, never got around to indexing Ninth World.. The addy was 9thworld.tripod.com, if anyone knows of a spider that might...
Just wanted to share that the chat room we have on the left menu in Risus Yahoo Group can be used for dice rolling. "/roll" will roll 1d6 "/roll x" will roll...
If you wanted to cut off your opponent's head in the middle of a fight, how would that be rolled? For that matter, any combat-ending attack (cut the chandelier...
