A downloadable game
Available in print fromGames Omnivorous andExalted Funeral.
Take up the sword and don the whiskers of a brave mouse adventurer in Mausritter, a rules-light fantasy adventure roleplaying game.
Mausritter is built on the chasis of Into the Odd, with new rules for setting, character generation, magical artefacts, and mouse-scale adventures.
Visit theMausritter websitefor resources, online generators and translated editions.
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (514 total ratings) |
Author | Losing Games |
Genre | Role Playing |
Tags | Animals,Dungeon Crawler,Exploration,Fantasy,Hand-drawn,OSR,sworddream |
Average session | A few hours |
Languages | English |
Multiplayer | Local multiplayer |
Links | Homepage |
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Great game. Which I've been playing almost every week for half a year now.
But I have some questions.
1.If the damage is aimed not at strength, but at dexterity or will, then how do critical damage work?
2.How does recovery work if the mouse is paralyzed or exhausted? I assumed that she needed to be given 6 hours of rest to recover.
Hey, glad you’re having fun with it!
My rulings for those:
I love the game. It’s well thought out and offers an interesting angle on old school play being able to play as a mouse at a tiny scale and build war camps and take on hirelings, this game has many bases covered.
My one gripe so far are the examples of play. If you plan on running the included adventure, don’t let the players read the gameplay examples. It includes solutions to the trap and reveals too much. It’s like writing a math test with the answers on the first page and the test questions on the second. Kinda defeats the purpose.
Overall, awesome game and a small gripe! I picked up the reprint boxed set at my local game store and love the details, tokens, and pad of character sheets.
So I had always heard of Mausritter but only recently had the honor of learning about this game from a huge fan! I am a huge lover of the Into the Odd system and all of it's best parts are in this game!!
The random rolling for creating mouse folk? PERFECTION! The idea of playing little rodents in a huge world going on these grand treasure hunting adventures is truly fantastic! I think this game absolutely hit it out of the park and I can't wait to run it!
Explored it on my TTRPG podcast and my guest and I just have the best flipping time talking about this game!
https://therpggoblin.buzzsprout.com/2055426/13447800-mausritter-tiny-mice-and-ep...
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.
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 combatrules 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.
Hi which link are you trying to use? The one on mausritter.com should work:https://discord.gg/v4wmKsv
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.
Please, please, PLEASE!! Tell me that you will reprint the Mausritter Box Set at some point in the future! I wanted to buy this so badly but because of Corona I just didn't have the money and today I nearly had a heart attack when I noticed not only that it is sold out now, but that it was limited to 500 copies aswell. I am on the verge of crying here, this sucks TT____TT
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.
Hey, thanks for getting the box set!
I definitely have plans to keep expanding Mausritter. Expect to see more in the new year. There’s also a great community of people in the Mausritter Discord with fan-created expansions, including a couple of custom playable species. Pop in and say hi here:https://discord.com/invite/v4wmKsv