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Interested in comedy gaming? Risus "campaign" to commence shortly

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As our current game is going to be on hold indefinitely owing to the DM needing to take care of personal/family issues, the Iron Gamers Guild is embarking on a completely different "campaign" - assuming you can call it that.

I (Steve from the IGG site) am going to be running A Kringle in Time, a comedic "campaign" (if it can be called that) using the Risus: the Anything RPG rules pretty much as written.

The aim is to provide something entertaining until we can get the other game back up and running, and have some seriously stupid fun as well.

The rules are free (and can be found in the previously mentioned link) and the sorts of characters that I envision might be along the lines of the following:

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Mr. Bip - The only character done up in GURPS, he was a beautiful character sheet chock full of of Stats, skill levels, and advantages. In Risus, he's a little easier....
Mr. Bip is an intelligent talking chimp in the employ of NASA. He has genius level intelligence and is being sent to IOU on the government's dime to further his education before he completes his astronaut training. He was originally discovered as a miniature golf caddy at Chico's Putt-n-Play in San Martinez, CA. He likes to wear tweed jackets with the patches on the elbows, spectacles, a pocketwatch, and likes to keep an unlit pipe in his mouth while he thinks. He'll be driving around campus on a red moped.
Intelligent Talking Chimp (4)
Mathematical Genius (3)
Astronaut Trainee (2)
Mini-Golf Caddy (1)

"Professor" Clarence Pittleman - Full-Time Gadgeteer, (former) part-time adjunct science professor at a small community college, if Pittleman had been The Professor stranded on Gilligan's Island, not only could they have gotten off the god-forsaken island, they'd probably be able to conquer most of the world!
However, one of his experiments failed horribly, resulting in destroying the entire community college. It also transformed him into a Columbian Coffee Bush with TELEKINETIC POWERS!!!!! Why is he a Freshthing at IOU? By a quirk of bureacratic genius, almost every hard copy and electronic file with his records and transcripts in it just happened to be on campus that day, for his COMPREHENSIVE yearly review. The only thing that survived was his original high school transcript. And most colleges don't accept plants (unless they also play linebacker.) Pittleman Begin Again. To get around without his Telekinesis, he built "The Pittlecraft" , a Macguyer-like assembled hovercraft, made primarily from a 1950's style green plastic mixing bowl, an occillating fan underneath it, and a bunch of spare parts from Radio Shack.
Telekinetic Talking Coffee Plant (4)
Weird Science Gadgeteer (3)
Absent-Minded Professor (2)
Hyper-Active Coffee Junkie (1)

Hammurabi "Ham" Jones - Ham was enrolled in the Intergalactic Junior Space Cadets, hoping to live up to the examples replete throughout his family's history. Just one problem: he's more than a little bit of a delinquent, and he's very, very, very stupid (on his mother's side, of course -- at least that's what his Paternal Grandfather says). Anyway, he's been sent to IOU Junior Space Cadet ROTCas a sort of "last chance" -- screw this one up kid, and its off to Uranian Vo-Tech for good!
Imagine a striking, dashing, elegant, athletic, and highly pumped-up shirtless Kirk. Put him in a stylized Space Cadet Uniform(imagine a red and black Luftwaffe Uniform, complete with jodhpurs and piping). Next, instead of a human head, replace with an anthropomorphized horses head . . . Now you get the picture.
Armed with a Grabbit Stick, a Shat..ner...TAS..tic speechpattern, and enough tools to hot wire the Death Star, he's ready for action.... so long as that action involves "hotties"
Shirtless Alien Kirk (4)
Intergalactic Delinquent (3)
Futuretech Grease Monkey (2)
Space Cadet Reject (1)

Foobaka" - Star Wars Jawa on Moopsball Scholarship (he is the ball!) Chemistry major...
Outinni!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (4)
Moopsball Athlete on Scholarship (3)
Radio Shack Chemistry Buff (2)
Advanced Hyperdrive Trainee, Learner's Permit (1)

Gene-E-Al - Amnesiatic Hip-Hop Genie. Someone needs to rub his bottle to help him remember he is a genie. Unfortunately he also can't remember where his bottle is.. Of ourse, he also forgot that it's actually a lamp and he's wearing it as his "phat bling" around his neck...
Aspiring Chef (4)
Hip-Hop Wannabe (3) Think Seth Green's character in Can't Hardly Wait.
Amnesiatic Hip-Hop Genie (2)

Chris - Just read the effing cliches...
Ex-Hobo (4)
Aspiring Hermaphrodite Victoria Secret Model (3)
Astrophysics Major (2)