http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/ RisusTalk Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:46:40 GMT halo_of_war http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4714 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4714 names halo of war or jon the useless druid i have to ask does anyone play anymore i would like a play by post session.haven't been able to use the old turn Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:56:50 GMT Nero http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4713 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4713 ... If memory serves, they are power dice and serve the same function as Lucky Shots. I think PDQ is more like Risus than Dice Chucker. The real difference is Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:11:18 GMT J. Scott Pittman http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4712 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4712 ... I disagree. A stormtrooper from Star Wars might be "Armored bad Guy (2), Big Blaster (3). The big gun is an iconic part of the trooper, but he is still the Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:34:58 GMT Nero http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4711 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4711 Definitely the Risus mechanics is the way to go. It is that most of the stunts are tied to the Fate mechanics and I'd have to transliterate the cliche. Sadly Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:10:15 GMT Guy Hoyle http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4710 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4710 In that case, I don't think it's a matter of making up a new Risus mechanic; it's a matter of using the Risus mechanics to do what you want. Don't get hung up Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:33:11 GMT Nero http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4709 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4709 I still need to work out the details; I never played Fate, so the system differences are theoretical. I was enamored of the stunts because most were cliches in Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:14:41 GMT Chad Russell http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4708 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4708 ... You are welcome, as always. -- Chad Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:48:58 GMT opfor32 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4707 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4707 You could also check out a game, think it was called Dice Chucker, that does some pretty neat stuff along these lines. The rules for the one of a kind dice are Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:31:26 GMT Guy Hoyle http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4706 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4706 You could use Questing Dice, and make the Quest something like "Martial Arts Stunts" only. Guy ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:05:53 GMT Guy Hoyle http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4705 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4705 Well, this is more of a workaround than a solution, but you could always search the .rtf or .txt versions of the document. Guy ... [Non-text portions of this Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:29:24 GMT Nero http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4704 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4704 Chad really got all the goodie on that. The title alone crystallized my thoughts on cliches. I usually say 'broad, not vast'. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:21:53 GMT Nero http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4702 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4702 ... http://evilhat.wikidot.com/fate-v3:fists-stunts I was thinking of Stunts as a way just to dress up bonus dice. You could be Savage Street Fighter (4) and Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:08:59 GMT guyhoyle1 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4701 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4701 Thanks for the Blast from the Past, Nero! And thanks for the advice, Chad! Guy Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:41:56 GMT Nero http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4700 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4700 Found Chad's 'Cliches: Baroque but not Byzantine' from a few years ago http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/1565 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:03:38 GMT Fred M. Sloniker http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4699 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/risustalk/message/4699 Granted, they're only six pages, and I can use my Mark I Eyeball to search them pretty quickly, but how come I can't type, say, 'team' into Adobe Reader and