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Arcadomai by Dan Suptic a fantasy setting for use with S. John Ross’ Risus: The Anything RPG Table of Contents (click on the title listed to jump to the entry) Arcadomai - Core Setting ........................................ 3 Arcadomai - Skill Guide ......................................... 36 Setting overview ......................................................... 3 Implied statistics ....................................................... 37 Character creation ...................................................... 4 Getting paid .............................................................. 37 Risus character options .............................. 4 Cliché equipment ...................................................... 37 Player info for Arcadomai PCs .................... 4 Guilds ....................................................................... 38 Combat cliché list ........................................ 5 Skill cliché abilities .................................................... 39 Skill cliché list .............................................. 5 Politician.................................................... 40 Magic cliché list ........................................... 6 Aristocrat ................................................... 41 Items ........................................................................... 7 Thief .......................................................... 42 Bonus equipment rules ............................... 7 Blacksmith................................................. 43 Money ......................................................... 8 Merchant ................................................... 44 Cliché gear .................................................. 8 Sailor ......................................................... 45 Magic cards ................................................. 9 Bard .......................................................... 46 Other items ............................................... 10 Teamster ................................................... 47 Locations .................................................................. 11 Cook ......................................................... 48 Primeria locations...................................... 11 Farmer ...................................................... 49 Sunder locations ....................................... 13 Peasant ..................................................... 50 Cicatrix locations ....................................... 14 Scribe ........................................................ 51 Bestiary ..................................................................... 15 Primeria creatures ..................................... 15 Arcadomai - Spell Compendium ........................... 52 Sunder creatures....................................... 16 Format of cliché details ............................................ 53 Cicatrix creatures ...................................... 17 Magic cards .............................................................. 53 Adventure seeds ....................................................... 18 Magic cliché abilities ................................................. 53 Character examples ................................................. 19 Pyromancer ............................................... 54 Cryomancer .............................................. 55 Arcadomai - Warrior Creeds .................................. 20 Hydromancer ............................................ 56 Cliché equipment ...................................................... 21 Aeromancer .............................................. 57 Weapons ................................................... 21 Geomancer ............................................... 58 Armor ........................................................ 22 Enchanter.................................................. 59 Non-combat situations .............................................. 23 Diviner ....................................................... 60 Strength based cliché rolls ........................ 23 Druid ......................................................... 61 Dexterity based cliché rolls ....................... 24 Cleric ......................................................... 62 Health based cliché rolls ........................... 25 Necromancer ............................................ 63 Combat cliché abilities .............................................. 25 Telemancer ............................................... 64 Fighter ....................................................... 26 Chronomancer .......................................... 65 Soldier ....................................................... 27 Stasiomancer ............................................ 66 Barbarian .................................................. 28 Chaomancer ............................................. 67 Fencer ....................................................... 29 Illusionist ................................................... 68 Guard ........................................................ 30 Summoner ................................................ 69 Mercenary ................................................. 31 Archer........................................................ 32 Unusual Skills: Alchemy in Arcadomai ................ 70 Assassin .................................................... 33 The Alchemist cliché ................................. 71 Brawler ...................................................... 34 Potion types and effects ........................... 72 Paladin ...................................................... 35 Side effects ............................................... 73 Character sheet ...................................................... 74 Closing comments and contact info .................... 76 Arcadomai is ©2006-2011 by Dan Suptic Risus: The Anything RPG is ©1993-2001 S. John Ross Arcadomai title font is Roman Grid Caps, ©2004 Manfred Klein Back page font used for the barcode word 'Free' is Shredded for You, ©1999 Dieter Schumacher All illustrations are royalty free stock images acquired from http://www.123rf.com/ Feel free to copy, distribute and print this document for any non-commercial purpose. This document may not be used for any commercial means whatsoever. 2 Arcadomai - Core Setting The world of Arcadomai Arcadomai is a high magic, fantasy world. Mundane technology “Such wonders. Such diversity. So many ideas, arts, and ways is simple and medieval, not yet to the point of reliable of life. And we spend it squabbling about city boundaries and gunpowder or steam engines. Magic is very pervasive in this taxes. My friends, or to those who hear my words, I leave to world; a decent majority of the population has at least some search for the one thing this city does not have - peace.” - last magic ability of their own, and even those with no magic power dictated words, Dakar Frost, ex-politician. at all can easily find magical equipment to supplement their normal abilities. Humans are the strongly dominant race of An old world spins in the aether. Shaped by magic, monsters Arcadomai. Other standard fantasy races do still exist in small and the hands of men, this world is rugged, worn and numbers (elves, dwarves, gnomes, etc.), but it’s possible to live dangerous. 3 great continents mark the face of Arcadomai - the even in a highly populated area and never meet a non-human reasonably stable lands of Primeria, the savage and dangerous person in one’s life. The tone of Arcadomai is reasonably lands of Sunder and the world-long strip of unearthly land serious, lightly seasoned with some occasional absurd and/or known as Cicatrix. Men work, live, fight and die to make the ironic humor. world a better place (or to make at least their own part of the world better). Aristocrats and politicians plan and plot with A note about Risus merciless efficiency. Warriors and adventurers seek fame and Risus: The Anything RPG is a free and easy to learn role- fortune battling monsters, fiends and other creatures of alien playing game (created by S. John Ross) that is used to play design. Wizards and sorcerers bend reality to their will. Thieves Arcadomai. It's available at and beggars try to live day by day, greedily hanging onto every http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/risus.htm - The whole system is spare piece of hex (Arcadomai's currency) that they can get. 6 pages long, and that’s all you’ll need to play. Download it, The gods that once watched over this world have long since print it if you want - you can even put it in a nice, fancy binder. left, and the magic that runs through the world flows freely So long as you read it too, you’ll be able to play Arcadomai. without the will of deities to direct it. 3 People Religion “She was a tall one, and a beauty too. I could tell she would be “What do you mean, ‘What do you believe in?’” - usually heard fun for a romp in the hay, if you catch my drift. Didn’t know until in any conversations about religion. later she had a jealous fiancé, and that he was a damned A long time ago, there were 3 gods; beautiful Primiar, patient pyromancer. Oh well, any tryst you can walk away from..." - Scar, and selfish Rage. Primiar created the world with her will Gulaviar Poetaro, bard. and curiosity. Scar slowly tamed and stitched the new creation into form and function, while Rage destroyed all that he felt was Character creation unnecessary. It was balance, not perfect, but workable. After Characters are created with