Mausritter vs The Lost March

Compare Mausritter and The Lost March side by side. See differences in complexity, dice, genre, and more.

	Mausritter	The Lost March
Genre	Fantasy	Fantasy
Tags	Rules-Light, Inventory Management, Hexcrawl, Dungeon Crawl, Sandbox, Exploration, Deadly, Attacks Always Hit, Random Tables, CC-Licensed Rules	Classic Fantasy, Sandbox, Exploration, Hexcrawl, Dungeon Crawl, Faction Play, Domain Management, Random Character Creation, Vancian Casting, Inventory Management
Core Mechanic	Roll a d20 equal to or under STR, DEX, or WIL to avoid a risky consequence. Attacks deal weapon damage directly, reduced by armour. Items and conditions compete for limited inventory slots.	A skill check rolls a pool of d6s equal to the skill level: one to five dice, plus a die for some class bonuses. Normally a 6 is a success and a 5 is a partial success. An Ability adjustment either widens the success range or adds a critical-failure range on the lowest faces. Settlement, wilderness and combat checks are opposed by the referee's dice, where equal results cancel and a partial success downgrades a full one. In combat, successes and partial successes are assigned to attack or defend. A hit deals the weapon's maximum damage on a success or its minimum on a partial success.
Dice	d20	d6 dice pool
Complexity	Low	Low
Availability	Free core rules	Free core rules
Runnability	4 of 5 book tools	4 of 5 book tools
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); Mausritter Third Party Licence	Proprietary
Third-Party Publishing	Commercial publishing allowed — Mausritter Third Party Licence and Mausritter SRD	No verified route found
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Publisher	Exalted Funeral	Fausto Botta
Year	2020	2025
Languages	English, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Czech, French, German	English
Best For	Groups who want mouse-scale sandbox adventures where clever plans and careful supplies matter more than fighting. The rules support exploring dangerous ruins and returning treasure to a safe settlement.	Groups who want a long old-school sandbox campaign that turns treasure into faction rank, training and eventually conquered land.
Highlights	Condition cards occupy inventory slots, forcing a choice between carrying supplies and enduring setbacks. Spell tablets trade greater power for faster depletion and dangerous miscasts. Faction goals advance between sessions, letting the world change beyond the mice’s immediate adventures.	There are no hit points: wounds lower Ability scores directly, so an injured character can carry less treasure home. The lawful factions sell ranks and months of training for gold, so treasure replaces experience as the advancement currency. Each exploration turn, the referee secretly rolls hazard dice sized by difficulty (1d6 on plains, 3d6 in swamps), and each 5 or 6 adds a complication or an encounter.
Considerations	Damage beyond Hit Protection reduces Strength and can incapacitate a mouse after a single failed save. Depleted spell tablets require specific fictional tasks to recharge. Advancement improves attributes and endurance rather than offering classes or extensive ability choices.	Dice resolve only a set of defined checks, so players usually get past traps and puzzles by describing what their characters do rather than by rolling a skill. Wounds normally heal at one Ability point per day of rest, and ten or more days of healing cost a month of training. Characters begin as agents of a supremacist colonial reconquest, a premise the book states openly and asks the referee to expose through play.