Mausritter

Mausritter is a wonderful game that is simple to learn as a GM and Player and highly rewarding. The roll under solution for checks is truly a blast and if you are looking for a game to get players into, I highly recommend trying it.

I was so happy to run the game, I even made a Youtube video about it. Thank you Losing Games for this wonderful creation!

Just ran my first Mausritter game with some of my friends, not sure how rules accurate I was since it was a very chaotic fun romp for everyone. I had at least one player who'd never encountered a ttrpg of any kind before and got into it quite quickly. I'm a big fan of the super easy character creation and simple dice rolling rules - they made it very easy to get up and get going. Excellent for new players and picking up quickly. 

Great art, amazing gameplay. It was really easy to GM a session. It'd be cool if it was also a video game for solo games.

Mausritter has been an excellent way to introduce my kids to tabletop RPGs. They love the world, and GMing for them is an absolute pleasure. The rule book is really well thought-out and, combined with the library of third-party resources, makes for an exceptional gaming experience.

I just ran my first ever session of Mausritter (ran this scenario as a one shot) and it was an absolute blast to play. So easy to run. Lots of adventure, but we didn't have a single combat! 

I'm eager for more. Hopefully I'll have the opportunity to run The Estate sometime soon.

Hi there, have you been contacted about a Portuguese translation?

I am truly blown away by how perfect a TTRPG/ rulebook it is! The balance of theme, mechanics, detail of info & efficiency, not to mention the beautify & clean artwork/ layout is astounding! I'm genuinely lost for words. I just can't get over the depth of flavour/ GM options/ inspiration presented so effectively/ efficiently. 

I love this game! incredible stuff.

thought you'd want to know: a few of the bookmarks in the PDF (the Pages one, idk about the Spreads one) point to the wrong place. "6. Example of play - Combat" points to the combat rules in chapter 3 instead of the combat EoP. "7. Running Mausritter - Best practices" and "- Overland travel" both point to the sections by the same name in chapter 3 instead of the ones in ch7.

thank you!! going to run this asap :)

I hope I get a chance to play Mausritter someday. It channels that same sense of adventure and excitement as the media that inspires it, and that cannot be discounted.

   But for me? Mausritter nails the terror of being small. And in an RPG scene where heroes are nigh-unkillable, facing down dragons without a second thought, I think it’s good to be reminded that we live alongside real life dragons every day.

I’d love to have the physical book for this.

Great game! cant wait to run it!

Id like to say, i think it is not an improvement to remove "mad". for one thing, "drained" is a much weaker term, and it is not at all clear how it differs from exhausted, except that it involves will rather than strength. it is stated to be a "serious" condition, which exhausted is not, though if they are degrees of the same thing, exhausted sounds stronger. it doesnt give a clear idea how "drained" is to be roleplayed, while "mad" evokes strong roleplay ideas in most people.

keeping "mad" emphasizes the idea that just about everything in this world is more powerful than a mouse, which seems to be a strong theme of the game. (i suppose others may differ). "drained" doesnt at all evoke this; it seems to evoke the idea that magic is a thing not terribly taxing to the mental tolerance of a mouse.

the connection should be maintained between the "attribute score loss" section and the "magic" section. where before they said respectively "reduced to madness" and "mad condition", now they say "reduced to insensibility" and "drained condition"; there is no longer a clear mechanical or thematic connection between the two. it would sound pretty weak if it said "if WIL is reduced to zero, they become drained".

I like the cthulian vibes of having madness as an explicit possiblity, but if you are intent on excluding it, i suggest replacing the "drained" condition with the "insensate" condition (or some synonym). It maintains the clear connection to "reduced to insensibility", and is much more obviously a mental condition, a failure of will. "insensate" would mean the mouse is confused, not fully sensible, has lost critical thinking, isnt acting rationally.

alternate terms could be: senseless, insensible, witless, irrational, stupefied, panicked, stricken, spooked, shell-shocked, harrowed, perturbed, scared shitless, hysterical, stunned, timorous, frantic

These suggestions are given with the greatest respect for your work on this excellent rpg.

Can't wait to play this game!

I really love this game and am trying to put together a group to play. Thanks for making it and for all these updates and supplements.

Just a quick thanks for releasing updates and I really appreciate the clear and concise naming of the version numbers too.

This game is excellent. Especially the inventory system that get's players ton interact much more with all their stuff!

This is still the very best OSR game there is, fantastic design, great feel, a lot of love in every line of the game and you can feel it.

Só esperando uma versão em português do material básico ;w;

This RPG is amazing. The rules are simple and flexible so they allow for anything to happen and gives you tools to put numbers on it if necessary. The document is a masterpiece of design. I can't recommend it enough.

Thanks for making the PDFs freely available. I just bought the hardcover book etc and really want to print out some of those item cards.

As a beginner to tabletop RPGs, I love it.
Played it both irl and online via chat messages and storing notes, character sheets, lore and maps in a folder. Super easy to learn and really gets me into the writing mood. Would recommend to newcomers to these kinds of games.
Introducing new players to the mechanics as a GM is also very easy. Start with the inventory and Saves, get them accustomed to the idea of choosing your own way of play and open everything up once they leave the area and enter the town.

This is honestly a very beautifully done game. I am currently working on a hack of Mouse Guard with more playable species and I have to say that the amount of thought and love you put into this has really influenced me! It's incredibly inspiring work and I can't wait to run a Mouseritter game.

I took the PDF'S for free as I have ordered the box set and very excited for it to arrive. I believe I saw the review on gaming beast. 

So, uh, do you hate the number 14? 

Haha, one of my players noticed that was gone.

Mausritter is The Borrowers meets Mouseguard, with a wonderful oldschool feeling to its art and layout, some modern convenience in its deisgn, and a ruleset inspired by Into The Odd.

And let me say, if you're not familiar with Into The Odd yet and you like OSR, get Mausritter first, then buy Into The Odd next.

Basically, this game's really good. And it's a master class in economical design.

There's a background system that implies the whole mouse culture without having to spell anything out, but it's also the reference chart for getting your starting items AND the counterbalance for rolling low on your starting stats.

There's an inventory system with card-slots and charges that feels like it would be perfectly at home in a ccrpg, but which also handles upkeep on your gear ala Red Markets, and status effects ala Slay The Spire, and which lets you basically have a tactile inventory system where you as a player can pick up and put down any part of your character's current kit.

Spell-casting is item-based, flexible, easy to track, recharges in flavorful ways, and has probably the most graceful system I've seen for casting at variable levels of power. 

Somehow there's even a weather table that is a) genuinely useful, and b) not terrible.

It is criminal that this game is free.

Admittedly, there are still some minor critiques I can make of it. It likes making you calculate percentages for prices, warbands require so much money to maintain that they sorta do weird things to the inventory system, Grit is possibly abuseable and lets you hot-swap Conditions unless controlled with a house-rule, and the book doesn't use the Oxford Comma.

That's basically me being as comprehensive as I can, and it's all nitpicks.

If you're used to 5e, you'll have an easy time getting into this. There's short rest/long rest, advantage/disadvantage, and a lot of the other trappings you're familiar with. Likewise, if you're used to OSR, there's that same quick-to-build-quick-to-die mindset here, and plenty of simplicity without sacrificing too much crunch.

I strongly recommend picking this up and at least flipping through.

Tip if you can. This game is great.

Typos And Unexplained Terms:

- page 6 says "wit h"

-page 8 says "actions can anything from negotiating"

-page 13 in the List Of Creatures Example box that says "wraps the him up"

-Hit Protection And Damage on page 8 references something called "exploration turns" which is maybe meant to mean turns outside of combat but I couldn't be sure since the rules never clarify

-Warband rules are unclear how they should be rallied if they break