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Risus: The Anything RPG - http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/risus.htm
The official homepage. A free, simple game for late nights when the eyes are bloodshot and the pizza is cold. The game is available in Rich Text, HTML, Plain Text and Adobe Acrobat formats (and commercially as a print-on-demand softcover). By popular game designer S. John Ross, author of the Pokethulhu RPG. |
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The Risus Companion - http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/risus-companion.htm
A strategy guide/companion for Risus, available as a commercial PDF from Risus publisher Cumberland Games and Diversions. Each copy comes with a signed and stick-figured membership card. |
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Risusiverse - http://risusiverse.wetpaint.com/
A wiki-based Risus fanzine. |
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Rough Magic - http://www.rpglibrary.org/settings/roughmagic/
A role-playing game of magic, mystery, and guns in 1960s Europe, using Risus as the engine. By Brandon Blackmoor. |
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I Have No Dice And I Must Game - http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/flamingskies/
David Masad's page for Risus (with other brain-lite gaming) includes his "Risus Illuminati" rules and a Risus adaption of The Matrix. |
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Phillip Foster's Risus Page - http://www.scarletmars.com/RPGs/RisusOptions/Index.htm
A quick sampler of house rules including Risus Uno and genre "stylesheets." |
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Risus Pieces - http://www.guyhoyle.net/risus/
Guy Hoyle's collection of Risus material, including such gems as Vikings of the Caribbean and Satan's Gulch. |
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A Risus American Hero! - http://www.geocities.com/fedcomic/rah/rah.html
An adaptation of Hasbro's G.I. Joe toys (and related cartoons and comics) to Risus, by John Payne |
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Doctor Who Risus - http://www.geocities.com/karlpaananen/DoctorWhoRisus.html
Some notes on adapting the popular British SF series to Risus, by Karl Paananen. |
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Risus Cthulhu - http://www.geocities.com/qidoctor/CthulhuR.html
Another take on Lovecraftian Risus. This one includes casual touches of humor along with rules for going bonkers, thumping eldridtch thingamajigs and quaffing space-travel beverages. By Manu Saxena. |
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The Risus Monkey - http://www.velvet-edge.com/risusmonkey.html
A Risus weblog and growing set of resources by Tim Ballew, including Silverlode 1908 (set in the "last days of the Weird West") and Dragonspire (a fantasy campaign). This is also the web-home of Dan Suptic's popular "Risus Mariachi" setting. |
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Travelling Light: A Risus Conversion for Traveller - http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/convert/risustrav.html
Christopher Thrash brings Risus together with Marc Miller's space-adventure classic in this example of "Recast Risus." |
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One Risus to Rule Them All - http://mmkurko.home.att.net/
An adaptation of Tolkien's Middle-Earth to Risus, exploring character creation, magic, and monsters. By Michael Kurko. |
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Risus Tenhut - http://www.larseriklarsen.dk/lel/gamerules/risus/
Expands Risus for use as a tactical wargame, and provides a setting based in Normandy in the wake of D-Day. The site also includes a translation of Risus to Danish. By Lars Erik Larsen. |
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Mobile Armoured Fighting Team Risus - http://www.geocities.com/amazingchet/gaming/maft.htm
Risus rules for anime-styled mecha action, including both vehicle rules and a selection of character types. |
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Risus Firefly - http://webpages.charter.net/anjinm/g_risus.htm
Martin Runyon adapts Fox TVs short-lived but much-beloved space-opera-cum-horse-opera (and by extension, the feature film). Complete with statistics for Serenity's crew. |
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Flames of Risus - http://bizarnage.50megs.com/
Carl Hewett's collection of alternate methods for handling bonus-die gear, with other rules-notes. |
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Minute Risus - http://www.geocities.com/strangething/risus.html
Hollis McCray's Risus site features a Risus character sheet and a WinDOS character generation program. |
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Risus Supers - http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/webgamer/supers.html
A large collection of Superhero clichés, with expanded rules for comic-book style action, and super-wealthy characters. Written and Illustrated (via photomanipulated portraits) by Stacy Allston |
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Belgarion's World for Risus - http://unterhund.8m.com/risusbel/rintro.html
An adapton of David Edding's popular fantasy epics to Risus: The Anything RPG |
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Risus RPG Recipes - http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/MagusAndFool/RRR.html
Quick adventures in "recipe" form for one-on-one Risus play. |
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Risus Bunnies & Burrows - http://home.comcast.net/~boydmayberry/Bunnies.html
An adaptation of B. Denis Sustare's rabbit-roleplaying classic to Risus, by Boyd Mayberry. |
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Coloured Skies - http://members.iinet.net.au/~rene1/colouredskies.htm
A large collection of Risus tidbits and optional rules - the archived-and-edited versions of material the webmaster has proposed on the Risus Mailing List. |
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Wild West! - http://www.geocities.com/saedor/index.html
A set of resources for westerns in Risus, with lists of guns, period/genre clichés, and an list of critters and varmints. By David North. |
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Unearthed at Mac: Risus - http://homepage.mac.com/unearthed/risus/index.html
Several Risus items by Larry Bullock, including a Java-based in-browser character generator, assorted options, gaming tips, and "Ars Incantâtio," an alternate magic system. Many of the articles are also available as a PDF. |
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Worlds at War - http://aaron.ellery.googlepages.com/home
A briefly-described but compelling hard-SF space-adventure setting for Risus, with house rules and more, by Aaron Breland. |
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Dungeonautica - http://www.members.shaw.ca/vdiakuw/D0.htm
Vincent Diakuw explores dungeoneering in (another) unusual way, via Risus. |
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The Other Risus Probability Table - http://www.penguinking.com/?article=12&page=1
David Prokopetz explores Risus probabilities, complete with graphic charts and lots of alternate file formats. |
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Sleepwalkers - http://flintlock_laser.tripod.com/sleep/index.html
What happens when Lovecraft goes post-apocalyptic? Kenneth Coble lets us know with this mini-worldbook. |
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Smattering of Risus - http://geocities.com/kisnerp/rpgs/Risus/index-Peters-Risus.html
Peter Kisner's growing collection of Risus material, including several house rules and an examination of faeries. |
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Uresius: Grave of Anything - http://www.io.com/~sjohn/uresius.htm
An adaptation of Uresia: Grave of Heaven to Risus: The Anything RPG by S. John Ross, author of both. |
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Trapped in the Museum - http://www.destinyrealms.com/griffon/tmintro.html
A spooky supernatural Risus solitaire adventure in PDF form, courtesy of veteran designer Peter Schweighofer. |
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Pineapple Leader - http://www.angelfire.com/pq/pineappleleader/Risus.html
The home of "Hurrah" - a Risus WWI Flying Ace sourcebook, and "Die like a Liao," for Risus-ized giant robot battles. |
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Risus in Spaaaaaaaaace! - http://ereshkigal.tripod.com/risus
Campaign notes (characters and creatures) for a space-opera Risus PBEM by Liz Rich. |
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The Risus Kitchen - http://www.geocities.com/risuschef/
An all-content Risus fanpage, including a fantasy setting and a Risus-based "Red Dwarf RPG," adapting the popular SF britcom for amused gamers everywhere. |