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[doctorbadwolf]

Has anyone done it, over the years?

Either a setting that assumes everyone is an inch tall or whatever, or diminutive PC race, or otherwise, I’m wondering if anyone here has ever seen a D&D thing that allows players to play a little humanoid the size of a mouse?

 

[Oofta]

Only for short arcs. Mice are nuisances, rats are dangerous, cats are all evil and dogs (especially terriers) are to be avoided at all cost. There's also Mouse Guard, which is a lot of fun.

 

[gamerprinter]

I ran a session (one-shot essentially) with the adventurers visiting a wizard's manor with a tapestry on the wall of gigantic forest plants, and the party is teleported into a glade in a forest at an inch tall - so giant bugs and that sort that thing. They find a place that matches the tapestry exactly and are back in the manor at the end. Nothing more than that, though.

 

[R_J_K75]

I think Undermountain: Maddgoth's Castle from 2E has incredible shrinking PCs.

 

[DND_Reborn]

I've done it before as part of an adventure, but never for more than a few sessions.

I also second Mouse Guard, which @Oofta suggested. It was fun the few times I tried it. I don't know if I would want to play it long-term, though.

 

[Tonguez]

Yep I ran an adventure under the floorboards of a warehouse where everyone was a a few inches tall, lots of climb and dex checks. Dangers include Cats, rats, drains, giant insects and spiderweb traps

 

[Stormonu]

Has anyone done it, over the years?

Either a setting that assumes everyone is an inch tall or whatever, or diminutive PC race, or otherwise, I’m wondering if anyone here has ever seen a D&D thing that allows players to play a little humanoid the size of a mouse?

Mouseguard? (well, not D&D...)

Magical Kittens Save the Day? (not D&D either)

Tall Tales of the Wee Folk?

Humblewood?

I had an idea for a one-shot years ago where the players were transformed into mice and other small creatures by a curse on a Princess's household, and they'd need to break the curse somehow. Never got to play it, unfortunately.

 

[Loren the GM]

Check out Household (Household) which just finished their Kickstarter. Seems like it definitely would fit within what you are looking for, although not 5e.

 

[Oofta]

I've done it before as part of an adventure, but never for more than a few sessions.

I also second Mouse Guard, which @Oofta suggested. It was fun the few times I tried it. I don't know if I would want to play it long-term, though.

It's cute, more for casual games and kids. But it did give me ideas for running games from a different point of view.

 

[James Gasik]

It's not technically shrinking, but there's a classic Ravenloft adventure (The Created) where the player characters have their bodies swapped with living dolls (carrionettes) and they have to escape imprisonment while in tiny bodies, and their immediate threat is and old and cantankerous housecat.