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    Borrowed Guide To Mouse Guard

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    This document provides a beginner's guide to playing Mouse Guard, with sections on running obstacles and tests, the structure of player and GM turns, using conflicts, designing missions, character creation and advancement, and tips for playing via online forums. It discusses key gameplay elements like beliefs, instincts, recruitment of new characters, and use of skills. Sample missions and characters are also included to demonstrate these concepts in practice.

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    This document provides a beginner's guide to playing Mouse Guard, with sections on running obstacles and tests, the structure of player and GM turns, using conflicts, designing missions, character creation and advancement, and tips for playing via online forums. It discusses key gameplay elements like beliefs, instincts, recruitment of new characters, and use of skills. Sample missions and characters are also included to demonstrate these concepts in practice.

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    This document provides a beginner's guide to playing Mouse Guard, with sections on running obstacles and tests, the structure of player and GM turns, using conflicts, designing missions, character creation and advancement, and tips for playing via online forums. It discusses key gameplay elements like beliefs, instincts, recruitment of new characters, and use of skills. Sample missions and characters are also included to demonstrate these concepts in practice.

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    Beginners Guide to Mouse Guard

    1. How to get the most out of your Mouse Guard Game

    Obstacles and Test


    - Presenting the Obstacle
    - Description of the Test
    - Teamwork
    - Traits and Checks

    - A simple decision flowchart

    Twist or Success with Condition

    The Players Turn


    - How to get the most out of your players turn from a GM perspective
    - - make them finish the mission
    - - give them another mission that is tempting to engage
    - - give them time to recover
    - - make them make stuff

    - Twists and Conditions in the Players Turn

    - For player
    - - Go after your goal
    - - Help your patrolmates with their mission
    - - recover
    - - gather ressources
    - - prepare tools or equipment for the next mission

    Conflicts
    - When to use them
    - How to set good conflict goals
    - Teamwork in conflict
    - Description in conflict
    - Compromise
    - How multiple teams in a conflict work (the final and definite answer to all your questions)

    The Winter Session


    - The Trait Vote
    - Unfinished business
    - Promotion
    2. It’s what we fight for

    Writing good Beliefs


    - What idea of the Guard is most important to you and why?

    Writing good Instincts


    - Fun and or Dangerous
    - Mechanical Instincts (inspiration from Dungeoners and Dragonslayers)

    Challenging BIGs
    - ​basically repeat stuff from the book and AdvBu + examples

    3. Recruitment

    General Tips for recruitment


    - diversify
    - choose a trait you can use against you easily
    - Colloborate

    The Tenderpaw
    The Guard Mouse
    The Patrol Guard
    The Patrol Leader
    The Guard Captain

    Supporting characters
    - ​Parents
    - Friends
    - Enemies
    - Mentor/Senior Artisian

    4. Mission Design

    5. Discussion of Skills

    Scout & Pathfinder


    Fighter & Hunter
    - Have simple Fighter/Hunter test to help with advancement
    Instructor&Healer
    Weather Watcher
    Orator, Deceiver, Persuader
    Science
    Loremouse
    Wises
    Craft Skills
    - Armorer and the multiple weapon-property “problem”

    6. Sample Missions and characters

    The new home of the Boatsmice

    7. Mouse Guard - Play by Post

    Problems and how to avoid them


    - conflicts take long and collaboration is difficult
    - conditions are weird with less conflicts
    - Jump into action as fast as you can
    - Obstacles need to be really clear

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