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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!). Best of all, a Risus character takes about 20 seconds to create.



Characters are defined by Clichés (sometimes several of them). Clichés are a shorthand which describe what a character knows how to do. The "character classes" of the Neolithic Period of RPGs were Clichés: Fighter and Magic-User, Space Marine and Star Merchant. You can take Clichés like that, or choose a more contemporary one, such as Biker, Spy, Computer Nerd, Supermodel, or William Shatner (formerly an actor - now just a Cliché.)

Clichés are defined in terms of Dice (by which I mean the ordinary six-sided kind you can scavenge from your old Yahtzee set).

Dr.Bravestone ?

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William Shatner (formerly an actor - now just a Cliché.)

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@Kenshi Beg your pardon?

Jumanji. Wasn't that his name. The Rock played

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I was typing the rules intro verbatim.

I usually don't look in the Tabletop section, I certainly didn't expect to see RISUS! Any chance you'd still consider running a game?

Sounds fun, but do you intend to play it on the site?

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If this is still happening, I am still interested.

@rush99999 I mean heck I'll put up the OOC, don't need a hundred players. Just gotta get my lazy ass in gear.

I would be up to playing Risus, that is if there are still people interested. I vaguely recall running a oneshot in person years ago, so I half remember the rules. Honestly I would just want to anything tabletop roleplay related as I haven't in a long time due to COVID.

@Martian@rush99999 I'll do the OOC if you both are still in, however I have a fun idea lets come up with a scenario each and roll a d100 to decide which starting scenario we go with to set the games tone. Highest roll wins.

MY IDEA: Space prison.

Highest roll wins.

Perhaps we could vote on which idea we'd rather go for instead?

Either way, I think Risus thrives best in non-specific game scenarios with a nonsensical tone that allows for anything to happen. It is called 'The Anything RPG' after all.

@rush99999 Sounds good.

@Dark Cloud
I would be up for voting on a setting. Space Prison sounds fun, but my suggestion would be nonsensical superheroes. I've always found superhero tabletop rpgs way too crunchy in detail, so running it in something as minimal as Risus could be cool.

@Martian@rush99999 de OOC is up

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