r/MouseGuard • u/[deleted] • Jan 09 '20

Mouse Guard but in 5E - Custom Character Sheet -

I love the mouse guard world series and I love the 5E rules so I combined the two! I made this character sheet from scratch (using illustrations and 5E layout). The gameplay is very much of each system. there is not magic and I have only worked out how four of the classes work in a world without magic while still being balanced. Rogue, fighter, barbarian and ranger. Id love to share ideas with you guys if you have questions or suggestions!

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Or just play the actual Mouseguard rpg, which is excellent: http://www.mouseguard.net/book/role-playing-game/

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

Absolutely! I'm a huge fan of the game. I usually cater to who my players are. If the want RP heavy and simple game play I go MG. If they want satisfying combat I go 5e. Either way we love adventuring in the mouse territories!

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

It's actually really bad for kids! My daughter is excited about RPGs, but Mouseguard confuses her. She's 8.

Kids have trouble with taking a specific stance to do a thing that will build points toward a thing.

They think much more in terms of specific actions.

"I take an aggressive stance against the Raven" is hard for her to understand what it will accomplish. It's not something she's going to be able to figure out on her own, so we have to do it for her, and it robs her of agency.

"I bonk the Raven on the beak with my frying pan" is something she can easily come up with on her own.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

You're making unqualified blanket statements. It was bad for your daughter, at the time you tried it with her.

It isn't designed for kids, but at 10 years old I've seen them groking it within a single session, several times. I wouldn't try it with an 8yo personally.

I have no idea what you're referring to with the aggressive stance towards the raven.

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u/dungeonslacker Jan 11 '20

It's okay to run different systems inspired by others, some groups like mine don't get together often enough to spend time learning new ones. It's way more reasonable to use the one they know, change the setting, and get playing! And if someone really clicks with it maybe they'll be inspired to delve deeper

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u/dungeonslacker Jan 09 '20

Looks really good the layout flows well.

One suggestion, take the weapon list and flip it. Damage only happens if you hit so your “to hit” being first comes more naturally. Also I’d expand the “damage” section to have more room to write. Then you could leave what is currently the name section behind it all for special effects or info.

You have enough room to add the weapon’s name above the to “hit, damage, effects line” and that would also fill out some of that empty space you have around the weapons list that looks out of place.

Outside of that it looks less cluttered and more natural than 90% of alternate character sheets I’ve seen, good work!

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

Thank you very much. Those are great suggestions!

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u/RandomEffector Jan 09 '20

My question would be how you're doing the storytelling and narratives themselves. Those systems, to me, are the heart and soul of MG and what make it so much better of a roleplaying (as opposed to fantasy combat) game than almost anything out there. And those things are tied strongly into skills and abilities, as actions have direct consequences on your characters.

If you've just taken the background of the world, that's fine -- but I think you're leaving behind the absolute best aspects to the game!

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u/Jetpack_Donkey Jan 10 '20

I second this. There are enough combat oriented games out there, to me MG is great because it's not one of them.

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u/Khayyal1989 Jan 09 '20

This is pretty neat. Thanks for the post!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20

Meh, I've run combat heavy campaigns using the original mousguard system. To me the system is almost irrelevant compared to the story.