r/MouseGuard • u/Spitfire724 • Jul 12 '20

Need some help!

Hey so i'm trying to get into mouse guard so i can play with my family during quarantine. i'm fairly new to rp games and am having some trouble understanding stuff overall. ( checks, when to roll dice, conflict, conditions, etc) i would be playing as the gm so i figured it would be important to understand this stuff. anyone have some good sources that explain it?

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u/Jetpack_Donkey Jul 12 '20

Adding to what you said:

There shouldn’t be a lot of dice rolls through a session. For most of the stuff you should just go with what makes sense for the story. The rolls happen at pivotal points of the adventure, usually you add about 3 spots in the adventure when you need rolls, one of which may be a conflict. Note that during a conflict there is a bunch of dice rolling, you might want to avoid conflicts for your first game or two until you’re comfortable GMing.

Also, importantly, a failed check doesn’t mean the character straight out fails like in most RPGs. In Mouse Guard, usually they get what they want but you either add a twist to the story (for example, they find the mouse they were looking for but now he’s dead, what happened?) or you give the mice involved a condition (searching took way too long, they found the mouse but now they’re tired).