Settings

Settings

Here's a collection of great settings for Risus, for GMs and players needing a world to play in. Add a link and a description to your submitted settings under the appropriate category. If you don't see your setting's category, feel free to add it to the collection.

Don't forget to check out the Adventures page, for specific adventures to run your players through.

Mythic Settings

• Risus Heroic Greece - Ancient Greece; adventure, magic, and myth.

• Vikings of the Caribbean - Vikings. Caribbean Vikings, specifically.

• Chinese Mythology - Myths and legends of ancient China meets wuxia.

• Egyptian Mythology - Myths and legends of ancient Egypt meets James Bond-style-tomb-robbing pulp fiction.

Fantasy Settings

• Something Familiar - Be an animal helping out a wizard.

• Ars Incantâtio - All about the magic... 

• Barbarian Light - A far future fantasy campaign. 

• Gears & Portals - Magic and technology collide in the fantasy Multiverse.

• Arcadomai - Another Risus fantasy setting! With it's own character sheet!

• Risus of Arabia - The Land of Fate and barely dressed harem girls! 

• Risus Fantasy - Basic Fantasy setting rules. You supply the maps.

• Fighting Fantasy - A fantasy setting (obviously) based off of the Fighting Fantasy game books.

• Dungeon Crawl: Risus - Fantasy dungeon crawling at its most lovingly clichéd and trope-tastic. 

• Harper's House of Heroes - You and your companions are an elite team of heroes working at a fast-food delivery style hero joint called Harper's House of Heroes. Your promise: deliver a hero to solve any problem in 30 minutes or less- guaranteed!

• After the Hammer's Blow - A setting based in a Martha Wells-inspired world of airship adventures.

• Million: Another Fantasy City - André Lacerte is too modest by half when he calls Million "another fantasy city." 'Cause it's groovy. You can also click here for a snazzy character sheet!

• Heroic Tales - Based off of the Redwall series of novels, this is a kid-friendly animal-focused Fantasy setting.

• Haunting Dracula - Dracula killed you. Get revenge by haunting that undead jerk!

• Brokemoon - After an apocalyptic war, humanity has struggled, but is now back to a Medieval-like civilization with the trappings of ancient technology, psionics, and other remnants of the long lost past.

Historical Settings

• Risus Mediævalis - Many guilds, professions, ranks and titles await in this look at the Middle Ages.

• Medieval Demographics Made Easy - Have a medieval place that needs demographics? This article makes it easy!  

Western Settings

• Cowboys and Indie Bands - The long awaited successor to Risus Mariachi is here at last!

• Silverlode - Fantastic adventures in the last days of the Weird West.

• Dusters and Six Guns - Follow the code of the west? Got grit? Then come test your mettle with Dusters and Six Guns.

Pulp Settings

• Adventure Street Omnibus - A (sort of) serious adaptation of various genres of Pulp Magazine Adventures for Risus.

• Silver Screen - Reliving 40s and 50s movie dramas? Here's how!

• Risus Sky Baron - Hop aboard your airship and hunt down artifacts in this steampunk, post-WWI setting.

Modern Settings

• Risus Playground - Taking it to the school yard... 

• ANACHROMERICA - It's 20th Century America with all the historical accuracy of Xena: Warrior Princess! 

• Risus Mariachi - Bring the love of Mariachi music to all. 

• Kick Ass for the Lord - There's too much evil in the world, so the Lord commandeth you to go kick some ass!

Sci-Fi Settings

• Worlds at War - The thought process behind the Worlds at War setting. 

• Eternity! - Keeping history on track with Personages of Historical Significance!

• Agents of Who in Time - Time travel and super heroes.

• Cosmiquest! - A space-faring setting where one treks amongst the stars.

• Risus: Do You Remember Macross? - Space mechs fighting other space mechs... in SPACE!

• Pink Mohawk - This is a quite thorough Risus write-up of the Shadowrun setting. For a distilled Risus Shadowrun experience, chummers can also check out Shadowrun for Risus.

• Nexus - Rifts gets the Risus treatment, so get your lasers and magic and cybernetics and mutant powers ready to go!

• Bughunters - The classic combination of Space Marines and Big Alien Bugs; what's not to like?

• Risus Ravens - Inspired by Armored Core, this mecha setting focuses on the people behind the steel.

• Task Force Tetrabot - Little bots doing big jobs on a massive spaceship.

Post Apocalyptic Settings

• UUUOOOOOHHH - Please pass the brains...a zombie campaign. 

• Dao Sheng - Martial arts and post-apocalyptic scavenging. Who could ask for more? 

• Terra Tertia - A post apocalyptic Gamma-World-to-Risus conversion.

• Hard Roads - A Car Wars/Autoduel to Risus Adaptation.

• Risus Zombie Apocalypse - Putting the 'dead' back in the undead.

Universe Write-ups

• Naruto - A setting based on the world of Naruto.

• Sonny - A mix of fantasy and post apocalyptic fun, based off of the Sonny I and II flash games.

• Avatar: The Last Airbender - A write-up of the popular Avatar series.

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail - A quick guide to adventuring in Monty Python's humorous fantasy world.

• My Little Risus - Like ponies? No? Too bad, they're here anyway.

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Suggestions on how to best use Risus in the wonderful world of JoJo.

• Star Wars - Szilárd Bokros, Darrel D. Miller, Timothy Groves, and Shenron have all given us their take on a Risus Star Wars universe.

• Risus Trek - Follow the ongoing adventures of the USS Pathfinder, complete with ship, setting, and character info.

• Risus Pokemon - Gotta catch 'em all! Revisit the classic Pokemon experience, Risus-style!

• Final Fantasy Risus - Here's a few things to help with running a game in the ever increasingly misnamed Final Fantasy series. Kupo!

• Vampire: The Masquerade - Timothy Groves gave the classic White Wolf setting a Risus makeover...

• Mage: The Ascension - ... and he also Risus'ed Mage: The Ascension...

• Werewolf: The Apocalypse - ... as well as Werewolf too! Wow!

• Risus Mystery Men - Based on the 1999 movie, get ready to play some wacky, weird, and strange super heroes!

Strange Settings

• Risus Gijika - Who loves Internet memes? 

• SHGGFTAWSGDSSFDF - Or in other words, it's the Super-Happy-Go-Go-Fun-Time-All-World-Speedy-Good-Delivery-Service-Special-Force-Delta-Five. It's time travel. It's a delivery service in space. It's the weirdest thing I've ever written. Don't say I didn't warn you.

  • STUDS - For a more condensed version of SHGGFTAWSGDSSFDF, check out the Space-Time Universal Delivery Service.

• Murphy's World - A Risus setting in a world not completely unlike our own where anything that can go wrong, will.

• Risus Elizabethulhu - Supernatural Swashbucklers.

• Dangos! - Playing a group of creatures just trying to get their next meal.

• Truckee Games - This is the landing page for Brent Wolke's settings, which are all quirky and clever in their own ways.

• Bunnies and Burrows: Risus Edition - Hop into the world of rabbits with this Risus conversion of Bunnies and Burrows!

• Dance Planet - Get your groove on with G.O. One's sci-fi world where there is no war, only dancing!

• DOOMSDAY DROP - A quick and wacky micro-setting with a mix of over-the-top craziness and bleak survivalism.

• Character Creation - This setting is fully comprised of and implied by its character creation rules, along with 4 sample characters.

• After the Serpent - A Steampunk slice-of-life worldbook where clockwork, alchemy, and unliving beings reside.

Variable Genre Settings

• Scratch - A setting built on very little.

• Paladin - A conversion of the classic Anvilwerks game to Risus rules. 

• Antibodies - This magical girl setting can be adapted to any time and place that needs magical girls to fight evil!

Settings in Other Languages

• Heldengenerierung! - German for 'A generation of heroes', part of The Dark Eye setting.

• Das Liber Cantiones - A German setting about guilds of mages, also set in The Dark Eye world.

Community Jams

• Risus Setting Jam 2021 on itch.io - Here's the two entries from the first itch.io Risus Setting Jam!