Happy New Year! Time for the 2025 edition of the #charactercreationchallenge

Starting the year off with deranged breakfast pastry and #Risus makes total sense.

https://gamingwiththegnomies.blogspot.com/2024/01/pop-tart-of-doom-charactercreationchall.html

Pop-Tart of Doom! #CharacterCreationChallenge

We kick-off the #CharacterCreationChallenge for 2025 with one of the concepts I just didn't get around to in my abortive 2024 go at the chal...

In which Simona protects her captive from a creature just like it.

https://shayne.powerlot.net/2024/11/scene-03.html

#blog #risus #MythicGMEmulator #writing

The Ancient Depths: Scene 3

Toast of the Town

Today I ran @S. John Ross 's adventure Toast of the Town, partially to understand what he means by "high-trust trad", and partially because it's simply a rea...

@GrumblingGM @SJohnRoss I mean, if the shoe fits...

#Risus or #Troika would be my go-to's, but RISUS is my first choice.

The first thing to know about the CHEATS System is that it's not just another gaming system. It's so much less than that!

I've used it with several different dice resolution schemes. I will tinker with that forever.

It is pretentiously and aggressively backronymed from its PC building blocks:

Core
Hallmarks
Energies
Approaches
Talents
Stuff

It is influenced by everything I've ever read but specifically by #Risus #BladesInTheDark #HarmonyDrive and #MiniBX .

#CheatsSystem #ttRPG #ttRPGdesign

@SJohnRoss (Amusingly, my copy of Excessively Deluxe Risus is shelved right next to 10th Anniversary FUDGE.)

#Risus #RisusRPG

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Welcome to the Risusiverse! The Risusiverse is a site for fans of Risus: The Anything RPG - the free pen and paper roleplaying system written by S. John Ross and published by Dave LeCompte. While this site might not set the world on fire, it may hopefully become the recognized resource for Risus

@Morgunin Ha, Palladium Fantasy was the first #ttrpg I ever played and GMed. And a lot of long campaigns in RIFTS. Many fond memories.

Wouldn't touch its horribly broken rules with a 10-ft-pole anymore, though. ;)

I think the 7 rpgs that had the most impact on me from then to now are:

#Palladium / #RIFTS
#DnD and #d20Modern
#7th Sea
#MarvelUniverse (the diceless one)
#Risus
#FATE
#TheBlackHack

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Risus: The Anything RPG - For some, Risus is a handy “emergency” RPG for spur-of-the-moment one-shots and rapid character creation. For othe

@andrew0ak I’m going to second Risus. Another game that’s almost as simply is PDQ.

Then there are several games that have a single stat like, “lasers and feeling”, “3:16”, or “Cthulhu Dark”.

“The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen” isn’t a rpg but it’s a great tall tale story telling game, fun to do with friends and a drinks.

#Risus #PDQ #ttrpg