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Creature Profile: Rats

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By Jay Watamaniuk

My great aunt Bertha used to say "Son, you can't have a filth-ridden part of town stacked high with oozing wads of human misery without a good healthy supply of rats big enough to pay rent". Wise words indeed. We thought that there was an important element of urban decay missing from Neverwinter's muck encrusted sewers and corpse strewn back alleys and that was big, bloated rats. Known as the invincible furry cockroaches of the mammalian world, rats have a special place in our hearts as a staple of urban living and unstoppable disease vectors of modern living. The value of rats cannot be underestimated in their utility for the modern adventurer such as sword pointyness tester, less-than iron rations, doorstop, noxious gas detector, angry guard dog pacifier, and mobile napkin.

Dire Rat Level: Animal 1 Size: Small Hit Points: 5 Armour Class: 15 Abilities: Str 10, Dex 17 Con 12, Int 3 Wis 12, Cha 4 Favourite Weapon: Very pointy teeth CR: 1/3 Alignment: True Neutral	Rat Level: Animal 1 Size: Tiny Hit Points: 1 Armour Class: 14 Abilities: Str 3, Dex 15 Con 10, Int 3 Wis 12, Cha 3 Favourite Weapon: Pointy teeth CR: 1/8 Alignment: True Neutral