The setting also had an unofficial conversion in 2004 to be used in Risus: The Anything RPG by Boyd Mayberry under their " Rules for Free Fan-Supplements and Articles ".

New Risus won the 2001 inaugural RPGnet award for Best Free RPG.

S. John Ross wrote and published the Risus Companion on the 10th anniversary of Risus on the World Wide Web, in order to provide a foundation for Risus as a commercial venture.

Risus itself remains free of charge, allowing Risus fans the option to support Risus if they choose and be materially rewarded for doing so.

Risus: The Anything RPG is a rules-light generic role-playing game ( RPG ) written, designed and illustrated by S. John Ross of Cumberland Games and Diversions.

Risus is available free on the web.

The Risus Companion is the first commercial supplement of Risus.

The Risus Companion is an electronic document in PDF form, made available to all members of the International Order of Risus.

The International Order of Risus is the official fan club of Risus.

The Order is, according to their own charter, dedicated to promoting Risus and to " imposing our iron will upon an unsuspecting universe.

This gothic horror tale describes a man who has experienced a shock so terrifying that he undergoes a medical condition called Risus sardonicus, in which his face is permanently paralyzed into an exaggerated grin.

Despite the game's small size and admittedly joking nature, there are more than 30 fan-authored websites devoted to Risus, some including several rules variants, simple worldbooks, and wholly rewritten adaptations of the game.

In December, 2003, Cumberland Games began to support the free game with commercial supplements, beginning with the Risus Companion and the founding of the International Order of Risus.

* Risus: The Anything RPG ( role-playing game system )

The core systems of Risus owe their largest debt to the Ghostbusters RPG published by West End Games, and to Tunnels and Trolls by Ken St. Andre.

Several more recent games have been, in turn, influenced by Risus.

A censored English translation of Justine was issued in the USA by the Risus Press in the early 1930s, and went through many reprintings.

Risus itself has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Danish, Dutch, Croatian, Czech, Polish, and Norwegian.

In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

Latin America was once an area as `` safe '' for the West as Nebraska was for Nixon.

They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

He thus kept his hands free for any action after Jan. 20, although reaction to the break was generally favorable in the U.S. and Latin America ( see the hemisphere ).

The Latin, for example, was not only clear ; ;

The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for " south " and " Asia ", hence " South Asia ".

Algae ( or ; singular alga, Latin for " seaweed ") are a very large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

These alphabets have since been replaced with the Latin alphabet, except for decorative usage for which the runes remained in use until the 20th century.

European alphabets, especially Latin and Cyrillic, have been adapted for many languages of Asia.

The largest alphabets in the narrow sense include Kabardian and Abkhaz ( for Cyrillic ), with 58 and 56 letters, respectively, and Slovak ( for the Latin script ), with 46.

The basic ordering of the Latin alphabet ( ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ) is well established, although languages using this alphabet have different conventions for their treatment of modified letters ( such as the French é, à, and ô ) and of certain combinations of letters ( multigraphs ).

In geography and agriculture, arable land ( from Latin arāre ; “ To plough, To farm ”) is land that can be used for growing crops.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").

* The various ethnicities originating from early social factors of Race in the United States and the gastronomy and cuisines of the “ New World ,” Latin American cuisine and North American cuisine:

The word “ classics ” is derived from the Latin adjective classicus: “ belonging to the highest class of citizens ”, connoting superiority, authority, and perfection.

One theory is that it originally derives from the Latin word macula, meaning " spot " or “ opacity ” ( as in macula of retina ).

The word “ clear ” is from the French clair, and “ sentience ” is derived from the Latin sentire, “ to feel ”.

During the Roman Empire, legionaries were issued a pugio ( from the Latin pugnō, or “ fight ”), a double-edged iron thrusting dagger with a blade of 7-12 inches.

: “ No one has yet translated from the Greek into Latin the thirteen books of Diophantus, in which the very flower of the whole of arithmetic lies hidden.

The Latin clave rhythm is present in many songs, such as “ Clave Rocks ” by Amoretto.

As a comparative grammarian he was much more than as a Sanskrit scholar ,” and yet “ it is surely much that he made the grammar, formerly a maze of Indian subtilty, as simple and attractive as that of Greek or Latin, introduced the study of the easier works of Sanskrit literature and trained ( personally or by his books ) pupils who could advance far higher, invade even the most intricate parts of the literature and make the Vedas intelligible.

Since about the 3rd century CE, the Jewish calendar has used the Anno Mundi epoch ( Latin for “ in the year of the world ,” abbreviated AM or A. M .; Hebrew ), sometimes referred to as the “ Hebrew era .” According to Rabbinic reckoning, the beginning of " year 1 " is not Creation, but about one year before Creation, with the new moon of its first month ( Tishrei ) to be called molad tohu ( the mean new moon of chaos or nothing ).

References to Lykaian Pan are especially abundant in Latin poetry, as for instance in Virgil ’ s epic, the Aeneid: “ Lupercal / Parrhasio dictum Panos de more Lycaei ,” “... the Lupercal, named after the Parrhasian worship of Lykaian Pan ,” and in Horace ’ s Odes: “ Velox amoenum saepe Lucretilem / mutat Lycaeo Faunus ,” “ Often swift Faunus exchanges Lykaion for pleasant Lucretilis .”

The UN mediator Matthew Nimetz proposed another form several months afterward, proposing that the name “ Republika Makedonija ” should be used by the countries that have recognized the country under that name and that Greece should use the formula “ Republika Makedonija – Skopje ”, while the international institutions and organizations should use the name “ Republika Makedonia ” in Latin alphabet transcription, but this form was rejected by Greece.

Vellum comes from the Latin word vitulinum which means “ of calf ”/ “ made from calf ”.

The English metaphor derives from the 16th c. Old French métaphore, from the Latin metaphora “ carrying over ” from the Greek ( μεταφορά ) metaphorá “ transfer ”, from ( μεταφέρω ) metaphero “ to carry over ”, “ to transfer ” and from ( μετά ) meta “ between ” + ( φέρω ) phero, “ to bear ”, “ to carry ”.