Mouse Guard - La Guardia Dei Topi (GDR)

A highly requested, precious, and limited reprint of Mouse Guard – La Guardia dei Topi returns, this time in a hardcover soft‑touch edition with a fabric bookmark and the advanced rules already included.

Are you ready to join the Mouse Guard? This is the Oath of the Guard:

We, as members of the Guard,
offer all of ourselves
to protect the sanctity of our kind,
the freedom of our race,
and the honor of our ancestors.
We shall accomplish these deeds
with knowledge, sword, and shield,
never placing the needs
of a single mouse above those of all,
nor the good of ourselves
above that of others.
We fight solely and exclusively
for the greater good.

Mouse Guard is a unique and distinctive role‑playing game. Developed by Luke Crane and David Petersen from Petersen’s Mouse Guard graphic novels, the game is built on the acclaimed Burning Wheel system and is beautifully illustrated with Petersen’s original artwork.

In Mouse Guard, you play a brave mouse who faces obstacles, dangers, and threats in a world far larger than himself, all for the good of mousekind. From the historic war against the Weasels, to the discovery of new territories, to protecting settlements nestled among tree roots or along the great sea’s shore, the Guard Mice selflessly give everything in service to the Matriarch, who sends them on missions of all kinds: searching for missing merchants, maintaining the Scent Border, settling disputes between cities, or confronting the aggressive expansion of dangerous animals.

Surviving in a world so much bigger than these tiny heroes seems an impossibly heroic feat, but the members of the Mouse Guard are exceptional. This is not a fantasy game where you play a mouse; it is a game where you are a mouse. A mouse hero.

If you wish to join the ranks of the Guard, this book contains all the knowledge you need: you will learn the history of the mice and the profiles of the Guardians, discover much about the Mouse Territories and the laws that govern them, and master the secrets of wilderness survival. Armed with your rulebook, WITH AN ADVENTURE ALREADY INCLUDED!, you will open the doors of your imagination and explore this wonderful and unique world.

Spread the word: the Mouse Guard calls upon everyone’s support to defend the Territories!

If you’re wondering what our shared adventure will be like, here is the answer: a role‑playing game is a type of game in which one of the players takes on the role of Game Master, creating the framework of the adventure and telling a story in which the heroes are mice controlled by the other players.

Game situations are handled through mechanics based on opposing goals (the mice’s goals versus those of their antagonists, nature’s goals versus the mice’s, and so on) by resolving conflicts. Conflicts are the key to creating intense, detailed situations that encourage cooperation among players, who are rewarded with reduced difficulty and points assigned at the end of the mission.

At the beginning of each session—usually a patrol mission—you and your teammates choose short‑term goals for yourselves (in addition to completing the mission, of course).

Along the way, various adversities may arise—gusts of wind, rough terrain, other mice, or wild animals. To overcome them, you must make tests (using six‑sided dice, where 1s fail and 6s succeed). Failure, however, does not mean the end of the adventure, but rather a plot twist, often revealing a completely different way to reach the objective. Sometimes a larger confrontation occurs, in which the mice work together to outsmart the Game Master by planning several moves in advance.