Comments on: Mouse Guard Diaries: Delivering the Mail, Part 3

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:03:36 +0000

I’m always curious how much time a mission will take, so it’s interesting to hear that this session’s GM Turn took 90 minutes. In the 1 on 1 MG game I ran, we could make it through about 3 GM/Player cycles in about 2 hours. I suppose it’s an exponential curve for each additional player that is participating.

By: JesterOC

JesterOC — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:46:32 +0000

Yet another interesting read. Thanks!

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:31:11 +0000

@Rafe: It was a fun GM’s turn. My players liked it a lot. I’m not quite done yet, one more post about the player turn where my part 2 intro about Mike will take its full sense.

By: Rafe

Rafe — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:20:03 +0000

Nice! The compromise was a great one, especially since it fit the BIGs (Beliefs, Instincts and Goals) so well, and meshed perfectly with the flow of all that’d happened. Sounds like a fun GM’s Turn!

How did the players react to MG, by the way? It sounds like they took to it really well. How did Mike (he’s the conflict adverse one, right?) find the play style of MG?

By: Yan

Yan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:13:17 +0000

The missing one his escape… For the Hare (Rabbit) it is written that Running, Foraging, Hiding are what is associated with their nature.

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:46:55 +0000

@Claus: I’ve read parts of it and saw the scary cartoon when I was real young. Changing the game to rabbits would essentially require a few core changes.

Each animal has a Nature ability that represents it’s core animalness. For a mouse, it’s Climbing, Hiding, Foraging and something I forget. So you’d need to define 4 new traits for Rabbits. Based on Watership Down’s strong core of security, I’d go with very close to Mice.

Then you’d have to rehack the whole setting to represent Rabbits as central characters.

Finally you’d need to create “classes” for the PCs to mirror the 4 Mouse Guard classes present in the game.

Interestingly enough, Rabbits are, with weasels, about the only other sentient creatures of the setting and make a good Proud Warrior race as is.

By: Saemundr

Saemundr — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:39:18 +0000

@Claus
http://bit.ly/74tPQh gives ideas on how to convert to a few different concepts, changing the animal type would most likely be even easier than some of those suggested in that thread. (i would imagine)

By: Claus

Claus — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:42:52 +0000

Chatty, have your read the book Watership Down? Reading these Mouseguard play reports, specially this last one, reminded me of the adventures of Hazel, Bigwig and company.

Is it too hard to re-skin mouseguard to use other animals, like rabbits?