The updated Mausritter rulebook comes with an adventure location called Stumpville.

I ran it as a one-off with some friends and here are some of my notes on how I packaged it into a three hour game.

The set-up

It’s the middle of winter, its icy cold but no snow has fallen yet.

Player characters are stranded in Oaksgrove when their caravan leaves without them. They were sleeping in after a night of heavy carousing on town. They are without money and need to earn some urgently if they want to avoid winding up on the street. But they’re in luck:

Agnes Butterball head of the merchant guild announces, standing on a barrel in the middle of the square, that the yearly Yule Cheese market is cancelled because the cheese has not showed up yet! She offers 500 pips to the one who can bring back the cheese to Oaksgrove (30 pip up front max). She suspects it has been caught up somewhere on the route from Stumpville.

As you know I very much enjoy the Sword-and-whiskers role-playing game Mausritter.

Recently Isaac Williams together with Games Omnivorous released a physical box of the game (that used to be PDF only for a long time).

I just got the box in the mail so let’s have a quick look at it together!

Oh boy. pic.twitter.com/C3OmnMnkyM

— Christopher (@ttrpgdad) November 30, 2020

I’ve written before concerning the house rules I use when I play with my son.

I am also running a Dolmenwood campaign right now and here are the house rules we run with.

1. The first one is inspired by the house rule I have when playing with my kid: Crits! (They’re fun) We will be using the crit and fumble tables from Dungeon Crawl Classics

2. (LotFP inspired) Knocked out on 0 HP. Death on -3 in 1d10 rounds no saves. Death instantaneous on -4.

3. Acending Armour Class.

4. (LotFP inspired) Heal 1 HP for nights rest, 1d3 for days rest.

5. Shields Shall be Splintered - sacrifice a shield to block all damage from one single hit.

6. Buy back dead characters XP (for the players new one) if they spend 1 GP per XP on the funeral.

7. The Specialist Class from Lamentations of the Flame Princess (instead of the OSE thief and skills)

8. Wrestling from Ten Foot Polemic’s House Rule Document.

9. Spell failure from B/X Options.

… will be adding to this list as more things come up.

Our youngest was sleeping so my wife joined in with my eldest son for our first session in Dolmenwood. We had such a fantastic time.

Had such a good time playing ttrpg with my wife and son today pic.twitter.com/H7Isk2PZ34

— Christopher (@kejsarmakten) November 9, 2020

Happy to see that people have been enjoying Thistle Kingdom zine!

The Order of the Green Mice gets mentioned in Berpyle, another Mausritter zine by ManaRampMatt.

I recommend checking out the zine (the alternative character sheets are very nice).

Further he put up a mouse from the Order as an entry to the Mausritter Monday art competition.

Originally from the Thistle Kingdom, Basil took up life in the Order of Green Mice. He became a tender of the flower gardens of the orchard. After several seasons, he took a post in Bernpyle at the new Order orchard there. #mausritter #tavernmice @isaacwilliams @gamesomnivorous pic.twitter.com/KQS7e00KKd

— Matthew Morris (@PsMattJMorris) November 9, 2020

White Box - Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game is an OD&D clone written by Charlie Manson.

I discovered it recently via Path Peculiar’s twitter. He displays some nice previews of the book, so linking the tweet here.

I love this iteration of #DnD. It’s so streamlined and elegant. This book can do pretty much everything I want in a D&D campaign. #ttrpg pic.twitter.com/d3sHwfyas0

— Paths Peculiar (@PathsPeculiar) October 12, 2020

Here I’ll list the different adventures we have run in our OSR and Mausritter campaign.

Our OSR campaign.

1. Winters Daughter - acquired the magic sword, set free the ghost.
2. Please go to sleep, Arthur Cobbleworth - murdered the parrot. Recruited a clerk to the group.
3. Homemade dungeon crawl of local Barrow - minor loot, had to tactically retreat.
4. Oh no, Toads! - save the village, killed the Toad King.
5. The curse of Buckthorn Valley - managed to get the evil chalice out of the water supply
6. Dolmenwood: Arriving in Lanskshorn - inherited house and an old dog in Lankshorn.
7. Dolmenwood: The House of Merridwyn Scymes - Ongoing…

Printable one page version (click for PDF)

Barrow’s Green is a massive stretch of of green hilly plains north of the Gray Lake. On these plains a small outpost is located that goes by the same name, the Barrow’s Green Outpost. The plains are named after the many ancient barrows that cover the landscape.

It’s a very rural area with small population of farmers, hunters and homesteaders.

It stands under the protection of the noble house Oldwode and they, lead by the young Baron Nicholai, operate the keep and marketplace in Barrow’s Green Outpost.

Quickly sharing how I sketch out a short OSR adventure (Old School Essentials).

It’s a simple streamlined affair that I ran with my son. About a sentient Giant Toad king who is trying to establish dominance over a local lake and thereby disrupting the fish trade.

Been running two adventures this far with my young son (almost five years old) with the Old School Essentials rule system. It’s a modern layout of the old B/X rules.

Its been working great this far and we have played both Winters Daughter and the one-pager Please go to sleep, Arthur Cobbleworth.

We added some minor house rules to make things extra fun:

• Crits: On a natural 20 on an attack dice we double the damage roll (we thoroughly enjoy the mini celebration every time you get that sweet 20 on the dice)
• 0 HP: When a character reaches 0HP we do not instantly kill him. Rather he passes out and we make him permanently injured by loss of an attribute point.

I will add to this list as we discover more things we’d like to tweak.

”Did you ‘take care’ of the demon possessed parrot?” - “no, we killed him”. Today we played the one page adventure “Please go to sleep, Arthur Cobbelworth”. As per usual my son solves everything with brutal honesty towards every NPC. #osr pic.twitter.com/9whLS1IFSo

— Christopher (@kejsarmakten) August 20, 2020