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Returning 35 results for 'wererats'.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Goldwhisker Warrens The svirfneblin wererats of the Goldwhisker clan don’t remember having lived anywhere but in the ruins of Blingdenstone. They descend from survivors of the drow invasion who
became infected with lycanthropy after an unfortunate encounter with a pack of wererats. For decades, the Goldwhisker svirfneblin have lived and thrived in these caverns, avoiding drow and crazed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
23. Main Entrance The svirfneblin installed locked doors to close off this section of the warrens. West of the doors, the wererats have installed a trap (see the “Traps” section in the “Goldwhisker
Warrens: General Features” sidebar). Four svirfneblin wererats (see “Random Encounters in Blingdenstone”) attack when the characters trigger, disarm, or avoid the trap. The wererats avoid biting their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
M4. Wererat Den Scattered about this cave are pickaxes, shovels, and other mining tools. The northeast section contains four giant rats. The southwest section contains wererats in human form: one
as leader as long as any of them survive. The wererats invaded the mine after orcs pushed them out of their previous lair — an old shrine near Conyberry (see “Shrine of Savras”). The wererats say
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Quest Goals To complete the Mountain’s Toe Quest, the adventurers must escort Don-Jon Raskin safely to the mine. Once he sees that wererats have infested it, Raskin urges the characters to eradicate
the “varmints.” If the characters refuse, Raskin is left to negotiate a truce with the wererats on his own — and is quickly turned into one.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Drow and Wererat Gang A drow mage in league with the Zhentarim has set up a hidden base on this level (area 14). The drow, Rizzeryl, has eight wererats in his employ. The Xanathar Guild is aware of
the wererats, but not their drow master. Rizzeryl has the stone key that the wererats stole from the Xanathar Guild. He thinks it might unlock a Melairkyn vault hidden somewhere on this level, but he’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
M10. Overseer’s Office The wererats ransacked this cave, whose furnishings include a desk, a chair, an empty wooden chest, and a cot.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
20. Dark Harvest Market Food harvested from the Underdark is sold here by 1d6 duergar, who employ an equal number of wererats as bodyguards.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
27. Secret Tunnel The wererats use this secret tunnel to enter and leave their warrens. Oozes have also been using this route to enter Blingdenstone and join the Pudding King’s court. The secret doors are well hidden and require a successful DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) check to spot.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
15. Dusty Throne Ruins. Much of this room collapsed long ago, and what remains is covered with dust.
Footprints. Footprints (left by wererats in human form) crisscross the dusty floor.
Throne. A
plain stone throne stands against the south wall. Beyond it, heaps of rubble fill a collapsed tunnel.
A search of the throne and the surrounding room yields nothing of value. The wererats in area 14 have already searched the area thoroughly.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
M1. Guard Post This cave is guarded by two female wererats in hybrid form. They offer to escort new arrivals to the mine’s overseer, Zeleen Varnaster, in area M4.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
14. Base de Résistance These two chambers have been claimed by a drow mage named Rizzeryl, his summoned quasit minion, and eight wererats. At least for now, Rizzeryl and the wererats are staunch
levels of Undermountain. Rizzeryl has begun haranguing the Xanathar Guild forces on this level with the help of the wererat gang, which hails from Skullport. The drow wizard and the wererats have no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the highest spell level a spellcaster in the party can cast. “Operation: Exterminate?” The wererats of the Goldwhisker clan are a point of contention among the Diggermattocks. Dorbo wants them out of
the warrens to free up living space for hard-working svirfneblin. He also wants to recover the House Center he believes is still in the wererats’ grasp (see area 28). Senni argues that the wererats
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
a murder, take out a gang of wererats or doppelgangers, or protect a settlement under siege. When creating a settlement for your campaign, focus on the locations that are most relevant to the adventure. Don’t worry about naming every street and identifying the inhabitants of every building.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Wererat Wererats are cunning lycanthropes with sly, avaricious personalities. They are wiry and twitchy in humanoid form, with thin hair and darting eyes. In their humanoid and hybrid forms
, wererats prefer light weapons and use ambush tactics rather than fighting as a pack. Although a wererat can deliver a nasty bite in its rat form, it favors that form for stealthy infiltration and escape
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Don-Jon Raskin to sort things out. But neither Raskin nor the owners know that the troubled mine has recently been taken over by a band of wererats calling itself the Whiskered Gang.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the Martyr is an infamous spot in North Market. It is dedicated to a crusading priest of the Silver Flame who uncovered a group of wererats in the early days of Sharn. Fathen was torn apart by the
wererats he had exposed, and in his honor the Church of the Silver Flame raised the shrine on this site. It’s said that any lycanthrope that enters the shrine will be forced into its true form. Pilgrims
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
southern watch post at area 20. Wererats recently stole a stone key from the southern outpost. Shunn believes that the key unlocks something important (though he doesn’t know what that might be) and
wants to reclaim it. He intends to capture a wererat and ransom it for the safe return of the key. He offers 50 gp to anyone who brings him a wererat captive or the location of the wererats’ hideout (area 14).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
, has now returned to restore her family’s prestige. In truth, the family fled because its members became afflicted by lycanthropy. They joined a clan of wererats and delved into smuggling in a
merchant in town — someone to whom even the prince must yield. Assets. Marina has a small fortune in gold; her abilities as a wererat, alchemist, and necromancer; a group of wererats dedicated to her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Richemulot Map 3.12: richemulot View Player Version Domain of Disease, Isolation, and Wererats Darklord: Jacqueline Renier Genres: Disaster horror and gothic horror Hallmarks: Contagion, crumbling
infrastructure, martial law, rats and vermin, wererats Mist Talismans: Plague mask, rat’s tail, snake-oil curative Like a pendulum, Richemulot swings perpetually between hope and despair. Some days, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
hobnails, then. You were sent by the Diggermattocks ’cause they want us out, right? Right?! Well, they might get their wish soon enough, but in a way they ain’t likely to cheer about.”
The wererats face
about the Pudding King until he has secured a meeting with the Diggermattocks. If there is any hint of violence, he calls for help. If the characters decide to fight, all forty svirfneblin wererats in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the Shard Shunners, a gang of halfling wererats with which he has had nefarious dealings in the past. He pays the halflings to hinder the characters’ efforts while he works feverishly to manage his own
Hilltopple. These halflings are wererats, with these changes: Each wererat is Small and has 27 (6d6 + 6) hit points. It has these racial traits: It can move through the space of a Medium or larger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
saving throw reduces the infected creature’s level of exhaustion below 1, the creature recovers from the disease. Immunity. All forms of rats and wererats are immune to the Gnawing Plague. Wearing a mask curtails the plague but not wererats
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
surrender the mine to a bunch of “filthy rats.” The wererats assume these miners will flee or die of starvation eventually.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
adventurers here. Characters might also visit the shrine after hearing of it from the wererats in the Mountain’s Toe Gold Mine.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
S8. Visitors’ Sanctuary Guests of the shrine were housed here. Later, the wererats used this area as a lair. The room contains six beds with moldy mattresses, the shattered remains of a wooden table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
rogues make an honest living as locksmiths, investigators, or exterminators, which can be a dangerous job in a world where dire rats — and wererats — haunt the sewers. As adventurers, rogues fall on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Wererat Changed by the Deviousness of the Rat Habitat: Forest, Urban; Treasure: Individual Wererats can shape-shift from their humanoid forms into giant rats or humanoid-rat hybrids. These creatures
can transform voluntarily, but some are magically compelled to shape-shift when exposed to complete darkness or during nights of a new moon. Often, wererats’ nature results from a divine curse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
spiders 16 1 ghost 17 Mephit gang 18 Roaming ooze 19 1d4 + 1 svirfneblin wererats 20 1 xorn Animated Drow Statues Once part of a expedition from Menzoberranzan, these drow were petrified by a medusa
described in the Monster Manual) 4 1d2 ochre jellies Svirfneblin Wererats These wererats belong to Clan Goldwhisker and are searching for new places to settle within the ruins of the former city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
into wererats, but first they must prove their worth by helping him slay the characters. If either the swarm or the two thugs are defeated, Mushika tries to flee the battle. Neither he nor the thugs have any treasure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
lowborn turned instead toward non-wererats. Her first major act consisted of conferring the gift of lycanthropy upon her family. Only her twin, Louise, resisted, for which Jacqueline disfigured her and cast
her out. Next, she bent her wererat allies to her vicious pursuit of control, unifying the country’s verminous hordes. Within the sewers of Pont-a-Museau, the wererats concocted a roiling pestilence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
used as a base by the Shard Shunners, a gang of halfling wererats. They are aware of the Xanathar Guild hideout, and the two gangs are tenuous allies. Roscoe Underbough, a Shard Shunner in hybrid form
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
rogues make an honest living as locksmiths, investigators, or exterminators, which can be a dangerous job in a world where dire rats — and wererats — haunt the sewers. As adventurers, rogues fall on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
,” the big wererat says. He takes a step forward, arms extended and hands open. “Chipgrin’s the name. I’m chief of the Goldwhisker clan. Shall we talk?”
Forty svirfneblin wererats (see “Encounters in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Giant Rat Giant rats roam in packs through sewers, caves, and other dank places. They are often found in the company of wererats (see page 64). Giant Rat
Small beast, unaligned
Armor Class 12
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
occupied the shrine. Most recently, a gang of wererats laired here until they were driven out by orcs displaced by Cryovain the white dragon. Recently, ogres wandered by the shrine, saw the orcs, and decided to join them.