Riso, the Helper

Riso is a little app I built to help play Risus. There is more planned, but here is what it actually does:

Generates Names, City Names, Single clichés

Generates Characters

Generates Adventures

Create and edit your own worlds and adventure templates ~New!~

Import and Export worlds, and adventure templates ~New!~

Right now, it does this in two built-in settings/worlds: the first is called "Interfering Youth", intended for Scooby-Doo style mystery adventures. The second is called the "Fixit Team," which involves groups of highly skilled clandestine do-gooders, like unto the A-Team, Mission Impossible, or Leverage. There are only a couple of adventure templates in the system right now, and they are fairly basic.

Note: All data you enter is stored in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to my server. That's why importing is awkward for now. That will be more straightforward in the desktop version. To back up / move world data to a new computer or browser, you'll need to export it, then import in the new place.

Development Roadmap

Upcoming features:

Make import more elegent

Desktop version

More Content!

Comments / Questions / Ideas / Typo Corrections

I'm Bryce, International Order of Risus member #1293. I'm @BryceBeattie on twitter. You can also email me at bryce at this website.

Supporting this Software

Honestly, I'm doing this for fun and I have a good job, so I don't really need monetary support. But soon I may need some more beta testers / proofreaders, and I may put out the word to see if anyone wants to help make the lists needed to setup new worlds.

But if you really feel compelled to do something else, tell your friends to check out the little pulp magazine that I publish. It's called StoryHack Action & Adventure.

Credits and Thanks

Thanks to S. John Ross, for Risus.

Riso uses the following programming libraries (thanks everybody):

faker.js

jquery

markdown.js

html2pdf.js

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