Mausritter

You are a brave mouse, sword in paw, making your way in a world that is enormous, beautiful, and very dangerous. Mausritter is a rules-light adventure game — tactile and board-gamey, in the creator's own words — where your gear lives on a grid of item cards and a cat is a genuinely terrifying monster.

It's one of the friendliest doors into tabletop roleplaying there is: quick to learn, forgiving to run, and a hit with families (parents run it for kids as young as five). No prior RPG experience required.

Where to buy it

Mausritter's print box set is gorgeous — and it sells out constantly. Stock comes and goes, so check the official channels for current availability:

• Official site — mausritter.com — the hub for the game, the free rules, and current news.
• itch.io — losing-games.itch.io/mausritter — the digital edition (name-your-price; the free PDF is the real, complete game, not a demo).
• Exalted Funeral — the main print retailer (the box set restocks here; it goes fast).
• DriveThruRPG and EU/UK stockists carry print and PDF as availability allows.

The free PDF is legit. Mausritter's rules are free to download, and the SRD was released under Creative Commons BY 4.0 — you're not pirating anything, and fans (and tools like this one) are free to build on it.

Print stock status changes fast — the Mausritter Discord is where restocks are announced first, days before anywhere else.

Starting resources

• Stumpsville — the free starter adventure; a perfect first session.
• The Mausritter Library — a fan-run aggregator of adventures, items, and third-party content, all in the Mausritter format.

Roll some tables

Mausritter runs on its tables — names, hirelings, weather, what's-in-the-room. Roll on Mausritter's tables (and hundreds more) for free, no account needed, at the RPGsecrets tables app.

Build your mouse

There's no character creator anywhere in the Mausritter community — so we made one. Roll your mouse's background, pluck, grit, and starting gear, and keep an inventory that respects the famous item-card grid.

Build your mouse →

Licensing

The Mausritter content surfaced here (the tables above) is used under its original licence; the required attribution and notices are reproduced below.

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

This work is based on Mausritter by Losing Games and Isaac Williams, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

— — —

Independent production published under a publisher-compatible (third party) licence.

RPG Secrets Mausritter tools is an independent production by RPG Secrets and is not affiliated with Losing Games. It is published under the Mausritter Third Party Licence.

Mausritter is copyright Losing Games.