Herein a place to place your OOC thoughts and opinions, have at it.

Mentioned before, the thing I plan to use right now is boxcars.

When all sixes come up roll the dice again. Likewise, all 1's will be a baddy baddy thing somehow, maybe the other party gets a free roll?

This message was deleted by the player at 22:17, Mon 16 Jan 2023.

In reply to Gnorton (msg # 3):

You be gots to tell me what you mean by Scamdemic amigo.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:26, Mon 16 Jan 2023.

Maybe better in PM, feel free to delete. Sensitive subject for some. Nothing like offending folks in the third post of the game!

Hello, fellow player(s)!

I like this crits rule.  I could see all 1s meaning the opposition gets some kind of bonus (maybe an extra die on their roll?).  Or if it's against a flat target number and not an active opponent, then some other significant inconvenience (I've had fun in the past with things like "while you are struggling to climb that wall you turn the wrong way and rip the side of your backpack").

Precisely. Something ominous bad or otherwise hilarious.

Speaking of which has anyone thought of tone? Serious fantasy like on a cable show drama, or Pratchett's Discworld fun?

The Risus rulebook leans hard toward the non-serious end of the spectrum, and I'm in favor of that.

Risus does mean laughter in latin, after all.

New addition to RTJ, I would appreciate if yall would fiddle your cliches accordingly:

When you apply to our game do provide the following:

A name of the character and their cliches (4,3,2,1 format)

1 cliche should include your race (or the latest from WotC is now Species)

1 cliche should include your class (we can discuss multiclassing later)

1 cliche is totally up to you (weapon, pet, sidekick, vanity mirror)

The 1 die cliche you can fill it in or opt for 3 rerolls.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:28, Fri 20 Jan 2023.

I can see where species cliches would work for things like "roll Dwarf to recognize what type of stone that is," or "roll Elf to charm everyone with a poem about trees," but could you give some examples of when someone might roll Human?  I can't think of anything myself.

Impulsive, short-sighted, adaptable, diverse, tall, socially adept, or not, innovative, quick to learn...

Lots of circumstances where the strengths and weaknesses of humanity could be leveraged.

Yall want to go ahead with three?

Anyone else want to dance because...

https://youtu.be/FG1NrQYXjLU

Ready to rock!

Wait wassat? First post?

You will note the first post is up and dangit there are cliches IN IT!

Once again inspired by the incredible Dungeonautica, (most) everything in this dang adventure is going to have a cliche. I am going to try to give my paragraphs cliche, right off the bat.

Words have cliches that could spin off into alternate adventures. Ye Gods its like a Risus sandbox!

Now if we only had some more players to enjoy this cliche carnage!

Verily, I am up for some adventure here, but we mere players are unable to post in a Notice thread :)

Its been a looooong time since I play here.

Done.

It can be a notice thread, it just needs to be unlocked. Go to Edit Thread and deselect Closed Thread. Honestly, I prefer the current game thread to be a notice so we don't have to scroll... I'm lazy.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:12, Sat 21 Jan 2023.

Scroll? Oh the HORROR!

We got four against Risus!

Welcome Dr. Madz Eyeinsists!

Hello! I have arrived!

Oh boy, shenanigans may ensure... rivals?

I'll IC tomorrow. Nice opening scene. No foreboding at all, nope, none, nada... gulp!

We got 5 logged in. Two pending!

Feel free to copy your stats in the character sheet and use the mini sheet on the posting icons.

Awesome = more players
Not Awesome = internet down at home

I hate posting from my phone, so I'll break the ice tomorrow, sorry for the delay.

I don't see a sheet. You may need to allow me to modify it.

I think they are editable now

I need a sheet unlocked as well, graci.

I think (2) that all your sheets are editable now.

Curious how unfriendly rpol is for these things. So counter-intuitive.

I just want to throw it out there, if anyone is feeling apprehensive on the first post.

Like a regular rpg, post who your characters are or how they know each other. The road to adventure has a cliche of 1 so feel free to roll against it with your own cliche to earn the MOV (Monologue of Victory) and add to the sign.

Psst... this can be used to your advantage SHHHHH!

Hate to break this to you ol' buddy, but the IC thread remains closed and locked up like the chastity belt [5] of Her Plumpness, Princess Penelope of Partridgeshire!

Edit Thread, uncheck Closed

In reply to Game Master (msg # 16):

Hello all, just saw this game yesterday after checking back after some time away from RPOL, been gaming since the 80s and with Risus since not long after it came out -- sounds fun.

Lots of old faces returning to the site. A day or two after our GM here reared his ugl- uh... um... heh... head again, another of my original GMs on this site came back as well! I've been swamped with nostalgia!

Welcome back!

In reply to Gnorton (msg # 31):

(also as of ... now ... the IC thread is still closed and we can't reply to it)

Open! Wow it’s like gaming in the 90s. No weight IS gaming in the 90s!

This place needs a facelift to the 21st-century.

Should we agree OOC if we know each other beforehand somehow, or if we are meeting here, or what's going on? Or just sort of improvise IC?

I think improvise unless someone wants a clearer picture of whats happening.

 Im choosing to believe we dont really know each other before this, that we are a newly formed group gathered by a guild of adventurers or some sort of want ad specifically formed to raid this dungeon (assuming its a dungeon that this road is taking us to)

Off to a good start, lots of character interaction and description.

Now to the grotto, time to open up my copy of downcrawl. It feels it is going this way, steampunk and fungi all the way.

Here is a taste...

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/278571/Downcrawl

In the future please mark record each die. Remember we are dealing with highest number not dice total. In that way a D6 can beat a D8 or D6 can beat 4d6.

I let the first roll go because I didn’t mention it and it was just fun.

Oh man, I have two rough days at work and now the IC thread blows up.

Feeling kind of brain-melty today, will hopefully be all caught up and able to post tomorrow

Real life robs us of our fantasies, does it not? Not to worry, get to it, when you get to it. No one is really going to be left behind.

Is there a way to get the Dice Roller result to show in the thread?

You have rolls on your icon just underneath. Other than that it is nothing but the usual cut and paste savagery.

I might have missed this somewhere, but where is the rule for using highest die instead of total roll?

I mentioned it somewhere, back there. Either in OOC, or the Interest Check, or something. Not to worry nothing lethal yet.

It's here. Is this for everything? I don't think that's how Risus usually works...

It's one of the optional rules in Risus Companion that is used to avoid the death spiral.

In reply to Game Master (msg # 47):

Oh yeah, the Deadly Combat section. Thanks.

Ah, okay.  I've never read Companion so I wasn't aware of the modification.

Sorry for the delay in returning post for something so simple as a roll. Stacked weekend Im afraid.

Same thing again, the house renovations are still going on post-Ida no less.

Ugh.  Good luck with that.

My bad on the roll, forgot to mark it to record each roll (I believe you can change it so it does that by default, but j don't know how). I'm a bit confused at why did Madz not succeed though, since he got a 6

6 vs Snakes' 6,5. I counted it as an assist.

Do i lose a die?

"Are the snakes really befuddled? Can the vibrations and wondrous shadow magic?

Let's see who is like a snake charmer beating 2 5's

08:54, Today: Game Master rolled 11 using 3d6 ((5,1,5))."

Sankes got two 5s, no?

Was that two rounds ago?

@GM - If *you* go to the dice roller and check the box and save it as the default, then it's done and done , no more forgetting!

In reply to Gnorton (msg # 58):

TIL -- that's cool.

whoa, Mardi Gras this year was a bit more than I had expected. Getting on the track as we speak (but just don't make any loud noises).

Back full force, dang life throws some speedballs how is everyone doing (still here?)

Sound off im here

I'm here.  Had a couple brutal weeks at work myself, but I think I'm past that now...

Here. 3 brutal weeks remain until my life calms back down a little. I've not been feeling too well due to not being able to sleep during the day and then working 16 hour "nights". Light ahead however. Spring is bound to come someday!

Here too, sorry was mostly offline for a long-ish weekend

*poke* anyone still here?

I asked to be removed from this game 2 days after DM's last login, over a month ago

I'm present, more or less.

I'm still here. No flaky GM who wanders off from time to time will shake me so easily!

@GM - Yes my friend, that was a jab directed at you! ;-)