I have a habit of creating backup characters when bored during my breaks at work. i was thinking of what miniatures i own that can be used, and i have a bunch of Skaven from the Warhammer Fantasy game, and was wondering if there is an official rat race, as a quick google search only found homebrew ones.
The closest thing that comes to my (strange) mind is the Lycanthropic Wererat.
In official 5e, they have a closed society, transferring the curse to those who are willing and accepted by the society. Which form they prefer is not mentioned, but it makes sense to hold a state of half-rat/half-humanoid most often so they can quickly shift to either complete form to escape/infiltrate with their natural aversion to combat. While 5e makes no mention of any time-discount/penalty for changing between extreme configurations, it makes sense story-wise.
Yet upon death, they return to completely humanoid. So, they're technically not a ratperson race.
A Wererat that has lost the trust of the society (or was never intended by any society to become a Wererat) will be marked for death and hunted by Wererat societies.
As 5e has suggestions for creating Lycanthropic PCs, it would not be unheard of a Wererat as a party member. Whether that Wererat is loyal to its society or is without any society and hunted would be part of the character's backstory.
EDIT: Heroforge includes rat-faced humanoid configurations for its miniatures if you want to play around with their looks.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
thanks for this, i did have an idea with the lycanthrope aspect of blood hunter to use a warhammer rat ogre as the transformed mini for a different character.
I can always create one from the homebrew stuff i found, it would just depends on if the dm allowed home brew into the campaign when i tried to use it.
5e merely specifies "humanoid". A Halfling is just as viable for a Wererat as any other Humanoid. Its half-rat form will definitely be based upon its "true humanoid" form since its humanoid form is its true humanoid form according to 5e.
I was attempting to provide something that's 5e-official, pointing out the gaps in RAW for allowing a more ratling-like race
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
There is a rat race just like there is a gecko race several diffrent cat type races and dog type races home brew isn't always required and there is even a miniature cat person race that used to be familiars thus they have an affinity for smelling magic like a blood hound
No official ones, Tasha's is always an option, as is reskinning an existing race (with your DMs approval). If I was DM'ing someone who wanted to play a Ratfolk I'd go with a reskinned Tabaxi:
Replace the ABIs with a +2 to CON and +1 to INT (or WIS)
Change size to Small, and speed to 25 Ft.
Replace Feline Agility with Rodent Agility: You can move through tight spaces easily. You can move through any space larger than 1' wide without squeezing
Replace Cats Claws with Rats Bite: 1d6 + STR on a hit, you don't need free hands to make this attack.
Replace Cats Talent with Rats Talent: Keep Stealth proficiency, change Perception to Investigation
Add Rats Resilience: Immunity to the effects of disease (intended to balance out the size change and speed reduction)
I have a habit of creating backup characters when bored during my breaks at work. i was thinking of what miniatures i own that can be used, and i have a bunch of Skaven from the Warhammer Fantasy game, and was wondering if there is an official rat race, as a quick google search only found homebrew ones.
This is exactly why I found this post.
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there is one, is called "Pantegano" and is part of the spaghetti fantasy expantion Brancalonia, more precisly you can found it in the "Macaronicon" wich is besically the monster manual
I have a habit of creating backup characters when bored during my breaks at work. i was thinking of what miniatures i own that can be used, and i have a bunch of Skaven from the Warhammer Fantasy game, and was wondering if there is an official rat race, as a quick google search only found homebrew ones.
There are none on the D&DBeyond list of races so I assume not.
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The closest thing that comes to my (strange) mind is the Lycanthropic Wererat.
In official 5e, they have a closed society, transferring the curse to those who are willing and accepted by the society. Which form they prefer is not mentioned, but it makes sense to hold a state of half-rat/half-humanoid most often so they can quickly shift to either complete form to escape/infiltrate with their natural aversion to combat. While 5e makes no mention of any time-discount/penalty for changing between extreme configurations, it makes sense story-wise.
Yet upon death, they return to completely humanoid. So, they're technically not a ratperson race.
A Wererat that has lost the trust of the society (or was never intended by any society to become a Wererat) will be marked for death and hunted by Wererat societies.
As 5e has suggestions for creating Lycanthropic PCs, it would not be unheard of a Wererat as a party member. Whether that Wererat is loyal to its society or is without any society and hunted would be part of the character's backstory.
EDIT: Heroforge includes rat-faced humanoid configurations for its miniatures if you want to play around with their looks.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
thanks for this, i did have an idea with the lycanthrope aspect of blood hunter to use a warhammer rat ogre as the transformed mini for a different character.
I can always create one from the homebrew stuff i found, it would just depends on if the dm allowed home brew into the campaign when i tried to use it.
A re-skinned Stout Halfing or Tabaxi is probably the easiest way to go. There's a reason halfings are called ratlings in WH40K. :)
5e merely specifies "humanoid". A Halfling is just as viable for a Wererat as any other Humanoid. Its half-rat form will definitely be based upon its "true humanoid" form since its humanoid form is its true humanoid form according to 5e.
I was attempting to provide something that's 5e-official, pointing out the gaps in RAW for allowing a more ratling-like race
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Tell you this. It’s a race that isn’t covered and should be. So I’d welcome a new darling race vs other UA content lately.
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Nerp. Find some homebrew, or make some yourself.
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There is a rat race just like there is a gecko race several diffrent cat type races and dog type races home brew isn't always required and there is even a miniature cat person race that used to be familiars thus they have an affinity for smelling magic like a blood hound
Rather than "no" I will just say "not yet"
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Sure there is. It’s called “custom lineage,” and its published in Tasha’s, go wild.
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I'm going to make this way harder than it needs to be.
No official ones, Tasha's is always an option, as is reskinning an existing race (with your DMs approval). If I was DM'ing someone who wanted to play a Ratfolk I'd go with a reskinned Tabaxi:
Replace the ABIs with a +2 to CON and +1 to INT (or WIS)
Change size to Small, and speed to 25 Ft.
Replace Feline Agility with Rodent Agility: You can move through tight spaces easily. You can move through any space larger than 1' wide without squeezing
Replace Cats Claws with Rats Bite: 1d6 + STR on a hit, you don't need free hands to make this attack.
Replace Cats Talent with Rats Talent: Keep Stealth proficiency, change Perception to Investigation
Add Rats Resilience: Immunity to the effects of disease (intended to balance out the size change and speed reduction)
Interesting
Not YET, but there absolutely should be...
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Drow Shadowblades are so good! Give them a Google!
I would use the Jerbeen from Humblewood.
Drow Shadowblades are so good! Give them a Google!
In 3rd Ed the nezumi as PC race appeared in Oriental Adventures.
If WotC wanted to create a new ratfolk specie, I guess they would recycle the tari from Dark Sun.
there is one, is called "Pantegano" and is part of the spaghetti fantasy expantion Brancalonia, more precisly you can found it in the "Macaronicon" wich is besically the monster manual
here the link to buy it https://www.amazon.com/Board-Games-GEBR002-Brancalonia-Macaronicon/dp/8832198576/ref=pd_bxgy_d_sccl_1/139-6891172-7889816?pd_rd_w=IzWAu&content-id=amzn1.sym.52395280-70da-442b-acda-fca52ac79a0b&pf_rd_p=52395280-70da-442b-acda-fca52ac79a0b&pf_rd_r=N3H1MBCV3HPMQQ1Z4264&pd_rd_wg=XxZRO&pd_rd_r=45772ae0-9870-4d38-9f11-8540efc2a8b1&pd_rd_i=8832198576&psc=1
There are the Jerbeen....they are mice tho. Closest official thing i know of.