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Originally Posted by thrash
So, Tunnel & Trolls is likely the first rpg deliberately offered as simple and rules-light. Is it also the first explicitly low-prep and/or pick-up-and-play rpg, or is that a later innovation?
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I've already mentioned
Kobolds Ate My Baby! (1999). My 1999 copy of
Risus: The Anything RPG (v1.4) states,
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Risus is a complete Role Playing Game (RPG) designed to provide an "RPG Lite" for those nights when the brain is too tired for exacting detail. Risus is especially valuable to GMs assembling a quick convention game, or any late-night beer-and-pretzels outing.
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This is pretty unequivocally the kind of thing I'm looking for. Note that the thread of comedy systems continues.
I can get back to a (c) 1998 version with identical text via the
Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The
Wikipedia entry for Risus states that Risus was first published in 1993, and a precursor (GUCS: The Generic Universal Comedy System) dates from 1989.
Does anyone have earlier versions of Risus (or even GUCS!) to confirm when this text was first introduced?
Does TWERPS have a similar statement?