Posted in Risus, Role-Playing Games, Uncategorized, tagged Dora the Explorer, Risus, RPG on Friday, 10 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hello all, guest poster Crazybear here again. For my Risus character compendium, I thought I would continue with my idea on Dora the Explorer Risus RPG. No RPG is complete without some bad guys, so now I give you The Grumpy Old Troll and Swiper.
The Grumpy Old Troll
Grumpy Old Troll (4)
Wellspring of Riddles (2)
Short, Hairy, and Harmless [...]
Posted in Gaming, Risus, tagged ANATOMY OF A CLICHÉ, cliché, game theory, lavinlore, Risus, rpgs, System of Choice on Tuesday, 16 June 2009 | 15 Comments »
I have had a love/hate relationship with Risus for about three years now. For the longest time I struggled to find any brave souls to attempt this unique game system with me. When I finally did, well, I hated it. This was partly due to a misunderstanding between a player and I. I wanted Risus [...]
Posted in Gaming, Hobbies, Risus, Role-Playing Games, tagged pregens, Risus, Risus Character Compendium on Monday, 15 June 2009 | 2 Comments »
Hello all, guest-poster Crazybear here. I have a one and half year old daughter that loves all things Dora the Explorer, so I get to watch it all the time. Since I watch it frequently, I began to think of it like a role-playing game. I can definately see the potential of a kiddy RPG based around Dora and her adventures. She is all the time solving puzzles or riddles, going up against trolls and other baddies, and traveling to some destination. In honor of this, I give you the Risus version of Dora the Explorer and Boots her monkey companion.
Posted in Risus, Writing, tagged Fate, Game System, game theory, Mouse Guard, Risus on Sunday, 14 June 2009 | 2 Comments »
Damn it, I am never happy. While I love Risus, I think it may not mesh well with my style or something, just having a hard time getting my head around it. Or perhaps it is my ADD that makes me constatnly want to switch this, move that, tweak that part, and remove entire sections. [...]
Posted in Gaming, Risus, tagged Burning Wheel, failure, failure mechanics, game master, game theory, Mouse Guard, participation trophy, Risus on Saturday, 13 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No, this is not a statement on our societies need to claim that no one is a failure, everyone is good and should get a participation trophy….then again, perhaps they are related. “Little Johny, you didn’t fail! You made an interesting twist!” Yeah you still suck at baseball, take your participation ribbon kid.
Instead, this is [...]
Posted in Risus, tagged actual play, klokwerk, lavinlore, MapTool, Risus, RPG, rptools, steampunk on Friday, 12 June 2009 | 8 Comments »
So I managed to get two friends together online to play a sort of impromptu game tonight. As I stated before I wanted to do something very unique and not cookie cutter fantasy D&D sort of thing, so I have this idea for a setting that I am calling Steamwerks & Klokwerks (related to, but [...]
