I have seen the name RISUS before, but I have zero familiarity with it. I downloaded your RISA PDF - haven’t had time to fully read it but so far it seems solid. Seems more on the narrative side, which I like.

Have you played Grok?! at all? I really like it mechanically, but one of the things I kept seeing with new players was difficulty remembering which dice had the number of sides they needed. So I simplified that. Then I took some inspiration from the old White Wolf dice pool mechanics, and probably a dozen other things I’ve seen over the years.

That’s a great mechanic! I tried to simplify this system for people who had never played before, both for ease of learning and ease of running the game. I left a lot of possible mechanics out chasing that 1page status. There’s a lot of room to expand this base system into a pamphlet sized ruleset, but I’ll leave that work to others right now.

My next work is more elaborate, more along the lines of a dice pool system with attributes / skills. It does have a “help” mechanic that works a lot like this one (or the one from the 2d20 rulesets), where one player can give their extra successes to another player. Definitely won’t be a 1 page system.

Thanks! I will mention that if you let players stack up multiple dice the odds of failing become very slim, so if a player wants to be very good at something they become very, very good at something. I’ve found that players enjoy succeeding, funny that.

Just give them a variety of goals and challenges. This ruleset is meant to work better from a storyteller’s perspective than it does from a dungeon master’s - Look at the sample characters, they’re all plot hooks with no single focus. Almost like regular people. :)

I’ll submit my own, it’s meant as a first RPG for new players who don’t have a GM available so it’s wordy for a one pager. Also I put play examples and sample character sheets on the back, so technically… I count it as one page anyway.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yGWn37AjIk-br7PagEL51fMZVVs30l4b/view?usp=drivesdk

No thanks, I choose life.

We don’t see many starter guides for Android to iOS or other OS conversions, but we absolutely should. Vast swathes of user interfaces are non-intuitive to the point of new users not knowing that options exist. Look at one in the Linux group - Ctrl + Alt + F* to get to a console isn’t intuitive in the slightest when you’re coming from WIN + type “CMD” + Enter.

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I recently got the OXO Gooseneck and it seems quite solid. Everything in contact with the water is steel, and you can dial the temperature which is quite nice for better tea and coffee.

I haven’t had any luck finding a tunic made by Hanes on Amazon, anybody got a link?