For 2025, I’m participating in the 2025 Character Creation Challenge. The idea is to create one RPG character per day for each day in January, for a total of 31 characters. You can find new characters as they're created here.
Character 3: Mausritter
For today's character, I've decided to go paper-and-pencil instead of digital. Mausritter is a delightful little OSR-adjacant game in which you play a mouse adventurer facing the dangers of the wild world. I got to play it at Gamehole Con in 2023 and was greatly charmed by it.
Part of what I like about the game is the way it handles inventory. The boxed set comes with little square equipment cards that you have to fit on a grid on your character sheet, much like a video game. The illustrations on each card really reinforce the flavor of being a tiny mouse in a big world. The weapons and armor are made of things like needles, buttons, and thimbles.
You can see the item cards in the photograph of this character (below).
The Character: Oliver
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| Pictured: Proof I'm not an artist |
Oliver was born to a large family of woodcutter mice. His nine siblings are all woodcutters, as was his father, and his father's father before that. The one exception to the family business was Oliver's Great-Uncle Ruben. A ranger by trade, Uncle Ruben was a hero who fought in the war against the Spiders of the Black Stump. Though he died before Oliver was born, Great-Uncle Ruben is the mouse who inspired young Oliver to trade the life of the woodcutter for one of daring and adventure. Whenever he ventures into the wild, Oliver wears his Great-Uncles ranger-coat, an overstuffed wool coat imported from the distant Kingdom of Mish.
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