MAUSRITTER

IGames Omnivorous t’s a hard life being a mouse adventurer. Not only are you very small and the world is very big, many toothed, and extremely dangerous, but you’ve only got so many inventory slots. Welcome to the be-whiskered world of Maustritter, originally published by Losing Games, now available in an excellent if limited boxed edition from Games Omnivorous.

It’s a roleplaying game with something of the OSR about it, things can get tough quickly, and there’s a definite focus on thinking fast rather than hoping your optimised stats will see you through. Using a clever system of inventory tokens that fit on to character sheets, introducing the core concepts to new players is fast. Want to track durability? Don’t worry, there’s a place to mark off a use of your lantern. When players get scared, hungry or poisoned, the might be given a token of that effect, which has to be carried as everything else does. It’s a delightful idea to have characters carry around their burdens, and very quickly disabuses players of the notion that they really need to bring everything with them.

Short, snappy and deadly dealing with sugar cultists and cursed in the included Honey In The Rafters