Fantasy
Fantasy exploration and survival with compact 2d6 rules, quick characters, and extensive random tables for creating magic, creatures, cities, and old-school adventures together.
Directory entry · Questing Beast / Ben Milton
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- Roleplaying game
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- Maze Rats
- Edition
- Maze Rats
- Rules licence
- Maze Rats v4.3: CC BY 4.0
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What is it about?
Maze Rats combines a very short rulebook with a toolkit for open sandbox campaigns. Characters are vulnerable, making caution as important as imagination. Its tables support preparing or improvising settlements, dungeons, treasures, and spells, encouraging creative solutions instead of relying exclusively on combat and brute force.
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At the table
Create an adventurer quickly, explore cautiously, and resolve tests with 2d6. Generate spells and locations through tables to drive dangerous, open-ended adventures forward.
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The signed notice in Maze Rats v4.3 grants CC BY 4.0, allowing creation and sale of adventures or adaptations with attribution. This conclusion is limited to that historical revision of the text.
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The verifiable document copy is hosted by a third party; it does not demonstrate that later revisions such as Revised retain exactly the same scope. Artwork and elements from other publications need their own permission.
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Maze Rats
Maze Rats — Ben Milton / Questing Beast.
Original logo design, resized for the web.