Mausritter

Mausritter is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game by Isaac Williams, with development by Andre Novoa, about adventurous mice. It won the 2021 Gold ENNIE Award for "Best Family Game/Product."

Gameplay

Mausritter was inspired by the Old School Renaissance and features dungeon crawls. It uses cards to represent each player's inventory. The simple magic system has fifteen spells.

Publication history

The prototype for Mausritter was published as a digital zine in 2019. The expanded, physical edition was released in 2020. In 2021, a Kickstarter campaign raised AU $149,041 to release a new starter box set, including ten interconnected adventures and updated art.

Related works

In 2024, the Mausritter player community combined game jam entries for dungeon crawl settings from over forty designers into a single, massive dungeon called Tomb of a Thousand Doors: A Mausritter Megadungeon. The book raised $94,305 on Kickstarter.