Fast, simple and fun. These four pages contain a surprisingly deep system. In some expensive, high-quality RPGs there are different systems for hand-to-hand combat, car chases and rap battles but in Risus - it's one mechanic. The presented rules for character advancement would not work for longer campaigns - characters would become too powerful too quickly. If you intend to run a campaign in this... well, I will certainly try. But it WILL require some extra tinkering.

Reads like 80s teenage boy humour, and I should know; I was a teenager in the 80s. Not my kind of thing any more and I can't think of anyone I know who I would recommend this too.

I've read through the first adventure. The author seems excited about what they've created. There's a fair amount of writing here. I just don't think it's very useful for running an adventure.

I might take the core idea (of what has happened to Santa) and make something up around that. I've got three days left until the Christmas-themed game session I promised to run. I'm sure it'll all be fine.

This game has lead to numerous evenings of laughter and comraderie. I highly reccomend it.

Simple and fun. I was able to improvise a 1-on-1 gritty Scottish-Noir lite-cyberpunk detective mystery for a friend who'd never played a TTRPG before and she got really into it!

Risus is a very barebones game system, very, very rules light. I picked it up because I wanted something quick and easy with a minimum of crunch. It proved to be pretty fun, and after a session or two, I gave the companion a look over. It has helped me immensely as an extravagent source of inspiration! It details multiple ways of utilising the rules and provides a good number of examples for characters, situations and the potential combinations of the two. It has opened my mind up to many different interpretations of an incoming conflict and provided good advice for keeping the game fun. Laced with some cheekiness and stick-figures everywhere, I highly recommend it!

I've runned this adventure several time, it is REALLY awesome. Good story, good pacing, good writng, good pre-gens... Giving its price, if you are hesitating to get it, just do yourself a favor, and get it already !

Risus is a nice simple little RPG that I think everyone should probably play at least once. I personally don't feel it fits my playstyle because of how freeform it is. It also tends toward comedy, in my experience. I don't know if I could sustain a long-term campaign Risus, but it's definitely great for a fun oneshot. RPGs are stripped down to their core here, so if you dig that, definitely check this out. Screw playing D&D in the office, play this instead!

Spectacular adventure. Ran it for two first-time players and one exeperienced one and it went very smoothly. It's small enough for one session of play, but with enough to do that the characters are never stuck, and enough moving parts that you can prod the characters as needed. Challenges are set up so that there are no right answers but you can't leave them alone, and there aren't really any problems you can just kill your way out of.

The pregen characters are also excellent, succinct but bristling with hooks and options.

Highly recommended.

I'm a big fan of setting agnostic systems, and this is quick, easy to use and lots of fun. A few pages to run anything that you please. The east-read font is handy, too.

Light and flexible and fun. You can use it with many different genres, personally I think it leans a little to the light and humourous, but I ran a medium-serious supers game with it online. The PDF is formatted very nicely and the text is good, plus there are a ton of (mostly also free) resources (but if you like this, you'll love the Risus Companion, a 64 page supplement to this 6 page RPG).

This is great in several ways. Excellent pre-gen characters who show what you can do with Risus and are very Uresian (plus all have at least one bit about them that is directly relevant to this adventure), amazing maps for something of this size including one with the key and descriptions right on it, and lots of good suggestions on how to run the adventure, plus some ideas on how to use it with different worlds or rules systems. Not to mention the writing, which is just so fun, full of flavour. There's also a secret in the PDF but I'm not telling what it is. If you like Risus, Uresia, slimes, fantasy, RPGs, or dice, you should play this adventure.

You get to learn more about slimes. I don't know how to sell it any harder than that. You want to know more about slimes, right? Then get this. Do you hate slimes? Then get this and maybe you get to murder some, I don't know how you play.

But defintely get this and play it and have fun.

I have probably run as much Risus as the various editions of D&D throughout my 20 odd years of gaming. We had a weekly horror one-shot going forever, and everyone absolutely loved it. This remains to be one of my favorite games of all time. The comedic execution and abstractness of the rules might turn some away, but I have never run a humorous game with the rules, pretty much exclusively horror, and the lack of rules is perfect for storytelling or hot-rodding the living crap out of a game until you essentially just have your own game. You can have yourself a real Frankengame. I have used Risus to emulate (some might say bastardize) countless RPGs that I find intriguing or inspiring but too crunchy for my liking. I have written more words in a review for a free game than the ones I have spent a good amount of money on, but my experience with the game, and my groups, I believe warrants it. Your milage may vary, of course, as the system is of a niche gaming philosophy, and is just A gaming philosophy, not THE gaming philosophy, and I one I happen to return to over and over, especially when I am feeling jaded.

A very simple, yet effective RPG. Good for groups with players new to tabletop games.

Risus: The Anything RPG is fun, fast and simple, and yet you can play a lot of things with it ! While written with a lot of humorous wit, it can be used (I have done it) for very engaging roleplay ! It's free, hav à look !