Dark Places

This has got to be game homerun of the year. Mouse Guard creator David Petersen has hired Luke Crane to write the roleplaying game based on Petersen's wonderful Mouse Guard comics. Mouse Guard as a comic is already one of the classics, and undoubtedly the game will be as well. Expect Burning Empires-like preorder craze, at least from yours truly, when time comes.

It has to be said that Clinton R. Nixon already delevoped the basics for a Mouse Guard RPG, called Tiny Triangles, but Petersen is not a gambling man, and being a more tradidionally founded roleplayer himself he went for Luke instead, probably based on what he knew about on Burning Wheel. Petersen was probably thinking that Burning Wheel was a solid traditional fantasy game. Boy, is he in for a surprise, in a good way.

Mouse Guard is not going to be published by BWHQ, but by Mouse Guard publisher Archaia Studio Press.

Two questions remain: will this be the entry-level Burning Wheel game and WHEN CAN WE PREORDER?