The wererat adds its proficiency bonus to the damage rolls for its bite and claw attacks (included in the attacks). Not just a hack fest, but things to DO and explore. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Bryce’s Adventure Design Forum – Featuring… Book Talk! The Rat King never takes disadvantage on melee attack rolls (though disadvantage may cancel out any advantage the Rat King obtains). A focus on “Difficult Terrain” and other vocab that is clearly a callback to rules. Speed 30 ft. I even named one of the NPCs in the game, Bryce, after you — which now sounds very creepy as I type this … err. They don’t know what to expect, it’s full of mystery. Actions. It’s a weird feeling and more than a little misplaced. There’s are things to explore and do! In this case the dungeon has a couple of potions of rat control. Oops. Cleaver. | Starjammer SRD (Well, besides the stat block, obviously.). That whole “enter room and have a fight” type of thing. +2 Hand Crossbow (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only). Medium humanoid (human, shapechanger), lawful evil. There’s too much text like this and gets in the way of the interesting text about interactivity, in spite of the bolding and paragraph breaks. It does a good job of showing the color highlighting, bolding, and use of paragraphs to help organize and orient the DM.https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/183874/Madness-of-the-Rat-King?affiliate_id=1892600, “The Rat King works tirelessly on his various experiments here, hell-bent on his delusional plans of world domination. Traveller SRD I bought these adventure and review them so you don't have to. Latest 5th Edition Products in the Open Gaming Store! If you follow the link and buy the product, I make some money. Statues holding out their hands. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. I like it when these small adventures do that; it adds an element of depth and continuity to them that others don’t have. The link to the product in this review is probably an affiliate link. I agree it can be useless DURING play…but for a DM who reads and plans ahead, this sort of stuff is useful in my opinion, if done once in awhile, and doesn’t clog too much of the adventure. There’s a good example of this in one entry: Nipples the rat. Natural Weapon Mastery. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. | GumshoeSRD A satchel hidden in the ceiling. New Pages | Recent Changes | Privacy Policy. When the wererat reduces a creature to 0 hit points, it can make one additional melee attack against a creature within reach. Just thought you should know. Challenge 10 (5,900 XP). Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. | Dungeon World SRD Thank you so much for taking the time to read my adventure, Bryce! The wererat can communicate with rats and rat-like creatures as if they shared a language. Rat-Bear-Pig. Actions Multiattack: The Rat King may make two dagger or two hand crossbow attacks when they take the attack action. | d20PFSRD But it makes up the gaps with some creativity. | 5th Edition SRD Bite. The wererat can reroll damage dice and take the higher of the two rolled. Shortsword (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only). This is a 28 page adventure (plus a dozen battle maps) in a fourteen room cave complex with a rat theme … with about half the 28 pages being appendices for new monsters and magic items. Armor Class 13Hit Points 44 (8d8 + 8)Speed 30 ft., climb 10 ft. It’s trivia, useless during play. As a DM, I would take that opportunity to add some notes on some weird made-up potions, maybe with a random effect table, or other strange inventions (which maybe the designer should of considered in the first place). The poor monster descriptions have been brought up before, even the wielding comment, so I’ll try and take that to heart and improve in the future. Shapechanger. It’s not going to win any awards in that category, it’s still not great, but there was clearly an effort made to help the DM locate things. Keen Smell. New monsters keep players on their toes. I appreciate the feedback and all the reviews you do! But it’s … not right? There is no end to his tinkering and half-baked schemes.” “That doesn’t add anything to the room. We think of back stories, make up voices, make friends, or at the very least know what we don’t like. Hit: 15 (2d6 + 8) piercing damage. It’s that interactivity that won me over and elevates this adventure. 5e It let’s us live in another world and in another person’s shoes if only for a few hours. | FateCoreSRD Telepathy encouraging you to “Mix the blood!” Black Lotus floating the water pools. | OGN Articles Languages Common (can't speak in rat form) By Tomer Abramovici This is PWYW at DriveThrough, with a suggest price of … $0. Bite (Rat or Hybrid Form Only). He is constantly coming up with (and often discarding) new alchemical brews or rat mutations to build an unstoppable army. Further, they are a resource, in some cases, to exploit. Hit Points 97 (15d8 + 30) Keen Smell: The Rat King has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that involve smell. Wonderful! Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. It’s trivia, useless during play.”. The king rat has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the king rat’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn’t incapacitated. | 3.5e SRD He is constantly coming up with (and often discarding) new alchemical brews or rat mutations to build an unstoppable army. The king rat makes one attack with its Bite and one attack with its Claws. Skeletons holding notes. But I think once in awhile, a description like that can help get the creative juices going for a DM before play, that would then be useful during play. Maniac Brews Thanks again, Bryce! Laser-Rats. There are a lot of battle maps, about one per room, I think. They, along with the writing style and vocabulary used, tend to give this a 4e type of vibe. This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. The text is formatted better to allow the DM to find things easier. I can’t believe I missed this review! Low Levels. Or maybe it’s a toned down 4e that is them mixed with a lot of older-style interactivity? Multiattack. Hit: 9 (1d6 + 6) piercing damage plus 14 (4d6) poison damage. | 13th Age SRD I don’t think they add much. It can be wordy in places, and has a kind of 4e … Wererat lords are deceptive and sneaky. Hit: 11 (1d6 + 8) slashing damage. | d20 Anime SRD Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. My Favorite of the new old school adventurers, Echoes From Fomalhaut #07: From Beneath the Glacier, Neverland, a Fantasy Role-playing Setting, review. I also agree that I’ll try to tighten up my descriptions in the future, perhaps even hire an editor to give it a critical look. It turns a great feature of the dungeon, the new rat monsters, explicitly in to a tool for the party to exploit to overcome other challenges! It reverts to its true form if it dies. Ranged Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, range 30/120, one target. When the DM flips to the monster appendix it needs to be easy to find the most important info, which is almost always the description & demeanor. Watching my players actually play out their characters is a real treat, especially when they do it well. Claw (Rat or Hybrid Form Only). Claw (Rat or Hybrid Form Only). Multiattack. If the target is a humanoid, it must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with wererat lycanthropy. The preview shows you five pages, which allows you to see the first five rooms. It’s free! Hit: 15 (2d6 + 8) piercing damage. They are the rogues of the lycanthropes. | Here Be Monsters Melee … The wererat makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws or hand crossbow. The adventure also has a half page to a page of suggestions for follow ups. This feels more exploratory than that, although the map is simpler. I’m a huge fan of your reviews and they’ve taught me so much; I always hoped one day you’d read something I published and you did! The description starts with “Albino with a large cranium.” Perfect! The first couple of sentences need to be what the DM immediately needs, the looks and demeanor, and not their creation history or some such. | Swords and Wizardry SRD | PF2 SRD. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. It’s also got a format that helps mitigate the wordiness and steers closer to interactivity than most products. Yeah, it’s a DM thing, but I’m all about the designer throwing the DM a bone to work with. Aegis of Empires 4: Legend of the Burning Star (5E), D&D: Spellbook Cards: Druid Deck (131 Cards). It was a miss, however, to not put “wielding” rules in to the description of the Laser Rats; that’s the first thing I would do if I saw one. Here’s the first paragraph for one of the rooms, which occurs in front of the read-aloud: “The Rat King works tirelessly on his various experiments here, hell-bent on his delusional plans of world domination. | d20HeroSRD Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) piercing damage. Explody rats. | Fudge SRD Bite (Rat or Hybrid Form Only). The wererat has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell. Back to Main Page → 5e Homebrew → 5e Creatures, https://www.dandwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Wererat_Lord_(5e_Creature)&oldid=1366961. This is a 28 page adventure (plus a dozen battle maps) in a fourteen room cave complex with a rat theme … with about half the 28 pages being appendices for new monsters and magic items. Speak with Rats. Saving Throws Dex +8, Con +6, Wis +5Skills Animal Handling +9, Deception +9, Perception +5, Stealth +12, Survival +5Damage Immunities bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't silveredCondition Immunities charmed, frightened, paralyzed There is no end to his tinkering and half-baked schemes.” That doesn’t add anything to the room. Armor Class 14 in humanoid form, 16 in dread rat or hybrid form (natural armour) 5e Low Levels. The first encounters reinforce this, with a rat ambush straight out of a “this is encounter” 4e textbook. If the target is a humanoid, it must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with wererat lycanthropy. Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive perception 15 This is the sort of creative play opportunities that I’m looking for. Dungeons & Dragons is a great game of role play. Things that the DM could riff on regarding prisoners released, treasure gained, and so on. Savage Attacker. The writing gets loose in places. The wererat can use its action to polymorph into a Large rat-humanoid hybrid or into a dread rat, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. It can be wordy in places, and has a kind of 4e “enter room/face challenge” vibe going on in places. Skills Stealth +5Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11Languages —Challenge 2 (450 XP), Tegel Manor © 2019, Frog God Games, LLC; Authors: Bill Webb & Thom Wilson with additional material by Gabor Lux, Check out our other SRD sites!

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