The Baron's Grip is a sandbox adventure for Mausritter set in a vibrant forest teeming with trade and development. The adventure revolves around the happenings in the town of Boroden, where the vile badger Baron Marfont has seized power from the local mice. With his gang of Henchrats, he has been taxing and extorting pips and food from the townsfolk, and he has his wicked heart set on expanding his control to the entirety of Willowshade Forest.
However, an underground resistance movement is growing. Mice that would see The Baron and his cronies run out of Boroden and Willowshade Forest for good. It is here that the players begin, setting out into the forest, visiting other settlements, exploring adventuring sites, and delving into dungeons to build the strength they need to free their home from The Baron's Grip!
A 19-hex map of Willowshade Forest. Every hex has its own description, encounters table, and points of interest.
6 full adventuring sites, each with their own characters, creatures, and stories, ranging in size from the 11 caverns of Doorway Cave to the 60+ rooms of Barndowne, the biggest dungeon in the forest. Each location has its own creatures, treasures, and encounters for your players to experience.
5 settlements, from the tiny hamlet of Ashnook to the bustling city of Blue Bird.
A host of factions and NPCs for your players to interact with, engage with, and influence in their quest to free their home.
The campaign will be presented in an A5-sized, softcover book. At 100+ pages, it will be bound using a section-sewn binding, allowing it to lay flat on the table without being held in place.
The book will also have flaps on both the front and back covers. If the flaps are extended while the book is open, the GM will have easy access to useful information, like the regional map of the forest and item tables. The flaps can also be used as bookmarks when the book is closed.
You'll get the PDF version of The Baron's Grip. This will include the digital version of the Asset Pack with all of the printable player-facing adventuring site maps and item cards.
2. The Baron's Grip Physical Edition ($28)
You'll get The Baron's Grip book, an A5-size, softcover book of approximately 110 pages. You'll also receive the digital edition, with the PDF of the game and the digital Asset Pack.
3. The Baron's Grip Game Night Bundle ($39)
You'll get The Baron's Grip book as well as the contents of the Asset pack printed professionally, including:
Oversized print of the Willowshade Forest hex map
Prints of the player-facing versions of all of the adventuring site maps.
Printed item card sheets to be cut up and used during play.
Art print of Jamie Douglas's cover art.
Note: Backing levels above do not include shipping. Shipping fees will be collected post-campaign through the Pledge Manager.
Mausritter is a rules-light, fantasy-adventure RPG where players take on the roles of brave mouse adventurers in a huge and dangerous world. Mausritter is based on Into the Odd, expanding on its rapid character creation, straight-forward dice mechanisms, and player-focused combat with a card-based inventory system and an evocative magic system. The rules can be downloaded for free here.
There are several add-ons available during the campaign. Each add-on contains previously published games and supplements by M. Allen Hall. Each add-on is available as a Physical+Digital set or as a Digital Only product.
In Ruins In Ruins is a cooperative and competitive dungeon-building game featuring the art of Jamie Douglas that funded on Kickstarter in March 2025. It is printed as a 40-page, 8.5" x 5.5", softcover booklet.
Liminal Horror Bundle A bundle of M. Allen Hall's Liminal Horror modules.
Liminal Grimoire (box set): 9 pamphlet supplements for Liminal Horror, including 6 adventures, rules summary, solo tools, a campaign guide, and character sheets.
On The Hill (A5 zine): a forest-crawl through a state park that is haunted by the Not Deer.
Elevator Game (A5 zine with 3x A6 mini-zines): an investigation into a spree of missing person reports centered around an underground music venue.
MÖRK/CY BORG Bundle A bundle of M. Allen Hall's MÖRK BORG and CY_BORG modules.
Foul (half-letter zine): a sewer-crawling funnel adventure.
The Three Towers (A5 zine): a tower-climbing cult infiltration adventure.
Tame Your Demons (A5 zine): a dungeon about facing your inner demons.
Tomb of Galien (A5 zine): brave the tomb to face off with Gnash.
The Backrooms (trifold pamphlet): hunt an assassin through the prototypical liminal space.
VIP Abduction (trifold pamphlet): a kidnapping mission that can't possibly go wrong.
Solo Game Bundle A bundle of M. Allen Hall's solo TTRPGs.
Godspark (6.7" x 9.6" zine): solo adventure game of dead gods and living saints.
Stork Raven Madge (A5 zine): solo journaling game of isolation and desperation.
Unhallowed (half-letter pamphlet): solo journaling game of suspense and unnatural horror.
Endling (A5 paperback book): tarot-driven solo journaling game about the last human
Sprinkles Bundle Sprinkles is Missing a full-featured, all ages TTRPG focused on collaborative problem solving and creative magic. Printed as an A5 softcover, perfect bound book. Includes the expansion zine, Grumpster is Missing, which adds additional scenes and items.
The text of the adventure has been written and edited. Layout is well underway. Jamie is working on some final art pieces, and I am wrapping up the dungeon maps and the text layout. Production arrangements are in place, which leaves us with the following tentative timeline:
February 2026: layout and art are complete, and files are sent to the printer.
March 2026: proofs are printed and shipped to me, and final adjustments are made.
April 2026: final files are sent to and approved by the printer. Production begins.
June-July 2026: Products are received from the printer.
August 2026: Digital and physical fulfillment begins.
If you back both this campaign and the Hell in a Hog Waller campaign, you will receive an additional supplement — a collaboration between M. Allen Hall and Fey Light Studio.
Hell in a Hog Waller is a wartime mouse setting for Mausritter. This campaign setting features two mouse communities facing an invasion from a cabal of carnivores who instrumented The Night of Thundering Squeals. The field mice of Hedgerton and the city mice of Stonewall must come together against the Many Hungry Mouths and their attempted conquest of The Forgotten Field.
The bonus supplement will be an A5 leaflet detailing how to entangle these two campaign settings. By planting rumors, items, and NPCs from one campaign into the other, you can lead your players through an expansive campaign that adds the resistance fighters of Boroden to the pitched combat of The Forgotten Field, or brings war refugees from Hedgerton to the fight against the oppression of The Baron.
This leaflet will be packed and shipped with your copy of The Baron's Grip. If you back The Baron's Grip at the digital only level, you will receive the PDF of this supplement.
We will be fulfilling all US orders in house using Pirate Ship. We have used this service for each of our prior crowdfunding campaigns with great results.
For backers in the UK and EU, we will be working with a fulfillment company to help with GSPR compliance and VAT remittance to ensure your packages arrive with as few additional fees as possible.
Shipping will be collected after the campaign using a pledge manager. In order to maintain the timeline above and our precedent of prompt crowdfunding campaign fulfillment, we are not participating in the Mausritter Month group pledge manager.
To account for the fact that this project will be an additional shipping expense for backers, we are offering the following discounted shipping rates for Tier 2 (Physical Edition) and Tier 3 (Game Night Bundle) backers:
M. Allen Hall is a tabletop game designer and author from Philadelphia, PA. He is best known for his roleplaying games In Ruins and Endling, and he has published adventures for a wide variety of systems, including D&D, Mörk Borg, and Liminal Horror.
Jamie Douglas
Jamie is an artist based in Richmond, VA, who always carries his sketchbook. He does freelance editorial illustration, teaches art classes at the Visual Arts Center and has illustrated several children's books. He loves fantasy art, monsters, cartooning, cartography — and putting it all together in his own zines and tabletop games.
Both Allen and Jamie guarantee that everything in this book is 100% HUMAN MADE.
Human Made logo by HINOKODO. No generative AI was used in the production of The Baron's Grip
Mausritter Month is a month-long celebration of the award-winning tabletop RPG Mausritter, running from November 4 – December 4, 2025. It unites dozens of talented creators releasing new adventures, settings, and zines — all set in the whimsical and sword-wielding small world of mice. Fans can explore new adventures, new settings, genre-bending campaigns, creative supplements, and support a thriving indie community. Back seven or more participating projects to earn a free pack of wooden mouse meeples — one for each featured creator — and join in a cozy, creative event where tiny heroes take on epic quests together.
