Little Bill

Mouseguard/Redwall Inspired RP

Banner bearers are groovy. Will get to designing a Redwatch flag for ya.

Mouseguard/Redwall Inspired RP

@71452K We're playing members of the Redwatch, which are only mice. To the Redwatch, allowing a mole or shrew to conscript would be like accepting a Russian immigrant's CIA application during the cold war. They used to be called Gnawers as well, and are mistakenly believed to all be in the same family, but the mice are very particular about Gnaw being for the mice, especially the mice who swore an oath to protect it. Mice are kind of racist.

EDIT: Not inviting anybody so there's no intrusion, but with me, applications are an accepted/rejected thing. More like an accepted/edit until accepted thing unless a sheet has fundamental issues, but that's not a problem I honestly expect to deal with.

Mouseguard/Redwall Inspired RP

So, the OOC (save for the tabletop parts I'm still working on) should be up tonight or tomorrow night. If anybody has questions about the world they're still wondering that I can stick into the FAQ section, I'd much appreciate them.

Mouseguard/Redwall Inspired RP

@71452K The Redwatch regularly goes past the no predator zone to look for missing mice, repour the Spoorwall, and generally do ranger stuff. Therein lie gigantic snapping turtles, wolves, bears, wolverine, owls, and all sorts of ridiculously large things that either want to (and easily could) kill you, or things unaware of you that could accidentally just step on you. Either way, beyond the Spoorwall is as scary for a mouse as a forest should be.

Mouseguard/Redwall Inspired RP

For those really interested in getting a headstart, here is the WIP OOC with everything there is to currently know about the world. If nobody reads all this mice lore I wrote I will cry.

Mouseguard/Redwall Inspired RP

@Kafka Komedy So frowned upon it's unheard of. If you live on the border of the kingdoms, you regularly deal with rats raiding your village, stealing your shit, and eating your babies. If you'd like to explore this relationship (Secret enemy friendship comes to mind) I could see a lot of ways to make it work.

EDIT: Also, they mostly don't deal with other rodents. Voles, shrews, moles, and hedgehogs play the traveling merchants, dignitaries, and otherwise foreign-guy-escort-mission characters. They're there if you look (wish to include) playing minor roles, eating funny foreigner food, having accents, and not participating in mouse democracy.

Mouseguard/Redwall Inspired RP

@Kafka Komedy No magic, alchemy might be what they call chemistry. Rats, voles, moles, weasels, and most mammals are mostly anthropomorphic, but you can have a tamed toad, millipede, or beetle if you're looking for a mount. Maybe a pigeon or grouse if you have a really good sheet.

Mouseguard/Redwall Inspired RP

Excellent! Since all the details, places, and terminology needed for character creation are still up in the air, now would be an opportune time to start thinking about characters -- specifically their specialty and age/rank. The first character I'm working on, for example, is an old tailless fisherman (fishermouse?) from a swampy part of the kingdoms at a high rank. The second is a young, inexperienced mouse from the kingdom's capital who's good at whittling.

Mouseguard/Redwall Inspired RP

I don't want to write an actual interest check while I'm still working on writing the rules, ooc, and all the worldbuilding, so instead, here's a synopsis for what I'm working on, what I'm looking for, and what to expect. Figured I should cast the ol' interest line out in advance, you know?.

• This RP is completely ripping off heavily inspired by Mouseguard and Redwall. If you're completely unfamiliar with either, this means that the story (and all of our characters) will be anthropomorphic mice in a quasi-medieval setting. Not anthropomorphic mice that ride horses and are people-sized, but mice mice. The scale of the world and the things that lurk in it are comparatively Lovecraftian horrors.

• I'm looking for people to play members of the mice military order, who are braver and less mousey than the civilians. The mice will be split into as many teams of three as there are players, though I'm strongly considering having everyone play two characters to emphasize the "Your characters might die" rule GMs always have but never enforce. CS's will implement some d20 mechanics, but will ultimately be a much more simplified homebrew.

• This should all be up within a week or two, depending on whether anyone's interested, if I can find people willing to help me run this, and how long a map takes to make. Two or three weeks would probably be a more generous estimate given that I'm creating a light tabletop system to use, though I don't see this taking more than a month to make. These are tiny, tiny mice we're dealing with, and I don't think anybody cares about the nuances of their ancient history and things like that.

Is this Ethical?

Pretty sure that's why they banned @Raptorman