Maze Rats

An RPG and sandbox toolkit for old-school-style adventuring, by Ben Milton. Maze Rats contains a single, compact page of rules, a one-page character creation guide, and hundreds of procedural tables for generating spells, monsters, NPCs, treasure, cities, wildernesses, and dungeons on the fly. It plays with one Game Master (GM) and any number of players.

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Attribution: Maze Rats is created by Ben Milton (questingblog.com) and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Core Rules

• Core Rules — Danger Rolls, Advantage, NPC Reactions, Initiative, Combat, NPC Morale, Healing, Encumbrance, Leveling Up
• Character Creation — the 12-step process, starting gear, and generating/casting spells
• Character Sheet — Blank character sheet (printable) with interactive generator

Procedural Tables

Roll dice and consult for instant content: monsters, NPCs, treasure, cities, wilderness, dungeons, and more. Machine-readable JSON, organized to match the book’s own sections:

• magic.json — spell formulas, mutations, insanities, omens
• monsters-animals.json — animals, monster features, traits, abilities, tactics
• characters.json — NPCs, names, personalities, goals, secrets
• treasure-equipment.json — items, potions, ingredients, treasure
• city.json — city themes, districts, buildings, factions, inns
• wild.json — wilderness regions, landmarks, hazards, plants
• maze.json — dungeon forms, layouts, rooms, traps

See the tables index for the full list and how to use them.