[HN Gopher] Big Dice Games Acquires Risus: The Anything RPG
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       Big Dice Games Acquires Risus: The Anything RPG
        
       Author : BerislavLopac
       Score  : 68 points
       Date   : 2021-06-10 10:09 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com)
        
       | wishinghand wrote:
       | I could see this being kind of relevant because Risus is probably
       | the most tabula rasa of any other RPG out there, hence the
       | subtitle "The Anything RPG". You can hack anything you want into
       | the game.
       | 
       | I knew the game was up for sale a week or two ago and it was
       | somewhat controversial. Part of the sale included obligations to
       | fulfill some outstanding Kickstarter stuff, which was sometime in
       | 2012.
        
         | HWR_14 wrote:
         | A "do anything RPG" that promises to "fit on a single page"
         | doesn't sound great to me. The reason I buy an RPG is for a
         | list of powers, monsters, etc. A really general RPG is just a
         | dice rolling (or other conflict resolution) mechanic.
        
       | JohnDeHope wrote:
       | This is weird. I thought this was a super niche tabletop
       | roleplaying topic. I would never have guessed to see this at the
       | top of hacker news.
        
         | ffhhj wrote:
         | Mods can bump any article they find interesting. I've also seen
         | 0 point articles get to the top and fall like lightning from
         | downvotes, or disappear when flagged.
        
         | ludamad wrote:
         | It doesn't have a super amount of votes yet, not sure how the
         | algo works. Do people see different front pages?
        
           | tekromancr wrote:
           | I suspect that different user's upvotes influence the
           | rankings differently.
           | 
           | I also think there is sum amount of fuzzing in the system to
           | try and expand the breadth of things that hit the front page.
        
             | moistbar wrote:
             | I have a hunch that upvotes/minute matters too.
        
       | armagon wrote:
       | I had an e-mail conversation with S. John Ross once, years ago;
       | he seemed like a great guy. I hope this sale is a good thing.
        
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