Welcome to the "Master Archive" for Risus: The Anything RPG, by S. John Ross

This isn't the game, here. This is the ReadMe file. But it's still pretty important.

This archive may be freely distributed, provided its contents are not altered, appended, removed, or otherwise futzed-with in any way, and provided the archive is always provided 100% free of charge, regardless of transmission method, medium, the involvement of the supernatural, ancient non-Euclidean alien god-things, or reality TV programs.

In the "Risus Extras" folder, there are some alternate formats, and they're cool, but they're definitely all ALTERNATE and stuff, so if you're asking a rules question on a Risus forum somewhere, remember to use page numbers appropriate to the main PDF (though, with this in mind, I took care to lay out the folding-pamphlet PDFs so the pages break at the same headers ... but there's no way to do that with free-flowing formats like the ePub, Plaintext and Rich Text versions).

The folding pamphlet versions are pretty simple: just print them double-sided on a single sheet of paper, and fold. Voila! Be sure to disable any rescaling when doing so; they're razors-edge optimized for standard U.S. Letter-sized paper (if there's much demand for folding A4 pamphlets or anything, I'll do some of those sometime, too).

Anyway, best to get onto the actual game, so here's a breakdown of the complete contents of this archive (if anything's missing, someone both messed with the archive AND forgot to mess with this ReadMe file, which makes them not as smart as you and me, right? Right):

risus2p02.zip [the actual ZIP file, contents are:]
 Risus - The Anything RPG.pdf
 READ ME AS AN ACT OF LOVING JOY.txt
 Risus Extras [folder, contents are:]
   Risus - ePub Edition.epub
   Risus - Folding Version Digest.pdf
   Risus - Folding Version Tall.pdf
   Risus - Plaintext Edition.txt
   Risus - Rich Text Edition.rtf

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