High Octane
2000 • 0-0 Players • Age 0+
Who is this game suitable for?
If you like role-playing games and enjoy playing genres like Fantasy, Modern und Science Fiction, this game is perfect for you.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Description Based, Dice, Dice Pool, Free-form und Trait / Aspect Based...
Game Data
- Publisher
- (Web published)
- Designers
- Vincent Diakuw
- Artists
- (Uncredited)
- Mechanics
- Description Based (Narrative more so than Dice), Dice (Primarily d6), Dice Pool (Roll multiple dice vs target), Free-form (minimal or no rules - think improv theatre), Trait / Aspect Based (personality affects gameplay)
- Genre
- Fantasy, Modern, Science Fiction
From the introduction:
High Octane is a slightly more serious, possibly more complicated, and hopefully still fun expansion for Risus.
User summary:
The expansion lists numerous Clichés to use during character generation. In this expansion, Clichés have three components--a name, a number of dice, and a scope. For example: Psycho Killer, 4, Butchering people with household objects.
The document includes Swords & Sorcery genre notes as well as "bonus rules" for traps and spells. Also included are Science Fiction notes. Also included are a weapons list and optional rules for modern genre gaming. For the Game Master, some notes on NPCs and locations also are included.
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