Sweettooth is an antagonistic character designed to be placed into any roleplay setting in Mausritter. Her family of stoats called the Grimoire Clan are "Ratters", a kind of roaming mercenary group that specializes in kill or capturing rodents with their contraptions and assassins. I plan to build this as a zine that will include a variety of traps and some details on this enemy faction.
The basic layout for traps are laid out as the third and fourth page are designed here. The zine is presented like a contraption catalog with commentary that is narrated by Sweettooth. The strange spelling and words are intentional and meant to portray her people's dialect.
Traps will have a basic diagram of key parts and for scale, a mouse silhouette. When a trap is triggered, a d10 is rolled in this case which details the outcome of the trap. Be warned that results of some traps range from malfunctions to instant character death. Remember to broadcast clues to the presence of traps and ways to avoid a fatal outcome.
The top two spreads are finalized for proof of concept, though I have many more traps planned for this zine, pending illustrations and tables.
The Clap trap is another form of common snap trap but apparently dates back from ancient Egypt. Unlike the human made snap trap, this one can be built from scratch by mice. Rather than a steel spring, the trap's tension comes from a twisted twine that can be adjusted for various strengths. This can make the trap non lethal if the aim is just to capture rodents or other small creatures, including birds.
Another non lethal trap design is the basic cage trap. This however will be easy to spot by most rodents and should be deployed with careful and clever camouflaged.
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