Rule Elucidation

Rule Elucidation

Explaining things in plain English

Standard practice is to add a new page underneath the Rule Elucidation page for your rule elucidation. Once it's complete, add a link to it here by adding your rule elucidation to the list. Don't forget to add a brief description too.

For Players

• Appropriately Inappropriate - How the Inappropriate cliché rules can work for more serious games.

• Advancement - Some thoughts on character growth.

• Maximum Risus Fun! - An amusing way to create tales and backstories for your character. Get the handy form here!

• Oh, the Insanity! - Adapting Call of Cthulhu's Sanity Mechanic

For GMs

• The Risus Conflict Flowchart - A great thing for a Risus GM screen, both to help the newbies and to remind the old fogeys!

• Risus GM Guide - A guide for would be GMs.

• Target Number Roll - A tool for Risus GM to select the difficulty number of an action.

• Winning Players Over - Overcoming objections to Risus.

• Risus Magic - Detailed information on dealing with Magic in Risus.

• Risus Cheat Sheet - A quick rules refresher, along with some handy success percentage charts.

• Risus One-page Cheat Sheet - A cheat sheet for Risus with the author's preferred house rules and interpretations, condensed to a one-page printer-friendly sheet. Also comes in a two-column version.

For Combat

• Grokking Risus Fu - Words of wisdom about combat.

• Team Combat - An example of combat when using Teaming Up.

• A Familiar Combat Example - One most of us can quote line for line.

• Please Mind the Ability Gap - Thoughts on conflicts between characters of different ability levels.

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Death Spiral - Getting into the mindset of Risus' so-called death spiral.

• Evening the Odds - Some more thoughts on how to deal with the gap between cliché levels in combat.