So, the only ratfolk races to ever come into D&D were the Nezumi, who originated in 3e's Oriental Adventures because WoTC somehow got rights to do a Legend of the Five Rings tie-in. Likewise, our most likely hope of ratfolk in D&D 5e is if we get a Plane Shift Kamigawa.
So, how would you design an Oriental Ratfolk race?
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No, I have no particular ideas for the topic myself, I just like the image of a daintily groomed and lightly perfumed geisha ratwoman suddenly revealing hidden daggers and proving she's actually an ass-kicking ninja-warrior.
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>+1DEX/+2CON
>Can Bite for 1d3+STR or DEX piercing damage
>Darkvision
>Advantage on Disease and escaping Grapples
>Stealth or Deception Proficiency
>Ability to speak with rodents
>Can wield Light weapons with tail, and can make two attacks as a Bonus Action when wielding a weapon in both hands (one with the off-hand weapon, one with the tail weapon)
Just going off the picture and with some elements shamelessly stolen from Scarred Lands Slitherin.
I actually know fuck-all about eastern interpretations of Rats and Mice, so I can't help you there.
But I do know some helpful fellows who can help with the whole ''ninja' thing...
How lonely are you?
>Daintily groomed and lightly perfumed giesha
>Posts Ink-Eyes
My dude, my man, my guy.
It's like you don't even ratfolk properly.
Anyone have Kamigawa's Nezumi stories and books?
My biggest problem with that is that I'm pretty sure 5e is against allowing races to have extra attacks built in. Tail Fighting as a feat? Sure, that might swing.
They actually have them? I though they were just bit-part characters in the Kami Invasion (or whatever it was called) trilogy?
I got you covered dude.
God, I'm super happy ratfolk threads are back.
Ink-eyes has a story and Marrow-Gnawer appears in the main books.
They went somewhere?
People just stopped doing them. Same as the gnoll threads, goblin threads and kobold threads.
>A female ratfolk stood at the side of the road, a worried expression upon her face
>Her face lights up as she sees you walking up the road and flags you down
>"O-oh thank goodness... I need some help. I have just recieved a letter. My father had past away and I am supposed to inherit his fortune of 500 gp. I don't have enough gold to handle the paperwork...but I have this ring. Its a priceless family heirloom. Ill give this ring to you for 50gp, and then Ill come back later to buy it back for 250 gp. Agreeable, yes?"
What do?
>All the fun and cheeky threads have been gone
Tell me about it.
Tried an Elf worldbuilding thread not too long ago and it was memed to death before 100 posts.
Try to put aside my suspicion that I’m being fleeced, and hope this is some kind of ratfolk marriage proposal.
>The ratfolk's eyes widened
>"O-oh my, I forgot about manfolk mating culture...A-apologies, no. I just need a small, er...loan for this transaction."
I don't know what the hell the deal is, honestly I don't. What's wrong with trying to talk about our appreciation for certain races or to worldbuild with them?
Huh, really? In that case, seconding request for Kamigawa books.
Then Steal or Use Item as a Bonus Action, then, with the feat available to those interested.
I am slightly arroused by this, and slightly ashamed.
Thanks Veeky Forums
I always feel like that Ink-eyes little 'tail ladder' would clatter horribly while providing little to no protection against any regular attacks.
The thigh boards serve SOME purpose at least. At the very least people usually get backstabbed in, you know, in the back, not the ass.
At this point it's better just to rape her and move on.
Y'know I never really thought about that.
Shit, move it too her chest and get her looking like TUROK.
This reeks of a scam.
Probably wave her off and walk on if I'm being honest.
Needs more plague.
>you want to marry me?
>no? Time for rape
Veeky Forums diplomacy at its finest
According to the chinese zodiac, rats are cunning, cheerful, adaptable and down-to-earth. On the downside they can be timid and greedy.
So basically how I have run my ratfolks since ever?
Shit that's convenient.
But Plague Rats aren't as cute.
Says who, user?
>Those nasty-ass dreads
Snip those off and you have a pattable rat.
Sorry, user, it's a plague rat; got to have nasty hair of some kind.
Repeating a question from last tjread plus the addition of a new one.
What are some spells rat kind has contributed to the halls of magic?
AND/OR
What are some Artifacts rat kind has contributed to the world?
Tell her that if she wants money there's only one way to earn it.
Adventuring and monsta slayin', right?
Uh, no. Something a little easier.
It should take about an hour.
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That's the ticket. Hope she knows the job better than the person she looted that scythe off of, though-a proper war scythe has the blade angled outward, not inward.
>an hour
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Ohhh I get it now.
Some cheeky cheese chemistry!
Those labs turn that stuff out fast!
I mean, most prostitutes would charge a lot for an hour, so I'm pretty much treating her as an escort.
Speaking of, I might write some smut about this.
The world improves a little bit for every piece of ratfolk smut in it.
Godspeed user.
I'm offering money to fuck you.
Shouldn't they have like six titties or something? How many ratlets are in a litter anyway?
It's fantasy dude. If I want my rat ass to come with one pair of 2 titties, that's what I'd want.
But user multibreast is gross and I dunt liiike it
I honestly can't think of any existing rat-related artifacts. What sort of things WOULD intelligent ratmen imbue with great and terrible powers?
Skaven unironically are probably the best interpretation of how rats would operate as a civilization.
But user, healthy rat populations are actually very chill.
It's been said before, Mice are psychotic little midget-cannibal-rapists, not rats.
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If we're going off of the "Gutter-rats" theme present in these threads, I'd say a cloak that makes you so painfully generic to casual onlookers that they can't actually focus on you, letting rats walk around in plain sight among the human population.
Other possible items and artifacts could include a fang that condenses poison on it's surface over time, poisonous candles, candles that replace rat-scent with the odor of smoke, lanterns that reveal gold through all non-magic obstacles, and bells that cause those around you to lose their focus and other sneaky-sneak items.
O-oh.
I see.
Those are actually some very reasonable and useful items. I think plenty of adventurers would want to get their hands on rat-made lanterns in particular.
I've actually been contemplating a bit of smutfic between a human blademage and his "pugilist" kangaroo ratfolk partner in my setting's analogue to Sharn. Does that count?
Also had a one human guy/multiple ratfolk girls orgy smutfic from the same setting, which is probably more likely to count. Never wrote it, though...
The items from are actually really good ideas. I think Pathfinder has a variety of ratfolk inventions and magical items too?
Smut when?
Soon. I'm working on it.
The board fun police will shut your thread down and get you banned if you're not careful.
Any idea where I can upload it?
Two titties but a nipple buffet.
One of my favorite bits of lore from Pathfinder's Golarion ratfolk: the Warp psychic discipline.
>Ratfolk mythology claims they were appointed by the gods to sniff out the ragged edges of creation. Whether the art of ranatagi descended from this glorious role or formed the source of such myths, this psychic tradition among the ratfolk of Vudra and eastern Casmaron unlocks the psychic potential in trainees, teaching them to sniff out folds and tears in reality. Ancient practitioners of ranatagi even claimed that the art once allowed ratfolk to guide great caravans to the stars.
Some powers:
Planar Scent - Detect Magic that only functions for conjuration and Illusion (shadow) magic
Rift Reach - Now you're thinking with portals! Creates a portal that you can reach through for attacks or stuff.
Sidestep - You can push your way through holes in reality, crossing vast distances in a single stride.
Turn Aside - You can compress or inflate enough space around you to turn aside ranged attacks.
Vudra is India and Casmaron is the middle east. And the great caravans to the stars is true, but in reverse, ratfolk originate from the settings notMars, which is a John Carter of Mars style place.
so are u guys furries
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Get in the car, we're going to Altdorf.
>Psychic Indian space manipulator rats from the John Carter planet
I'd be lying if I said I didn't think that was kind of cool. Also, that rat is impeccably dressed-and the katar on the belt is a nice touch.
“I am Norse, little mouse.”, Bjorn said distastefully.
A little something from the smutfic.
Pastebin?
It'll be done soon. I'm at the moment where they meet. I'll probably have it done by tomorrow.
If there's a ratfolk thread, it'll be in there.
Splinter from TMNT.
Or just play the Usagi Yojimbo game.
exactly like the RL orient
>reading a civ quest to pass time
>one guy playing ratfolk
>literally names everyone and everything in nihongo
>literally invents kimono, geta, ninjas, noh theatre, ondol, etc without even changing the names.
>actually ended up being the most successful player.
Not sure if he was a that-guy, turbo-weeb or just not very creative.
Have you played it? How is it?
Guess these smutfics are of no interest to Veeky Forums. Ah well.
Not if you're gonne act like that now user.
What are the odds of me finding a cute rat husbando?
So, long story short, my setting's actually going to have ratfolk in it that are fairly important; can I maybe tap Veeky Forums's collective wisdom here to figure out their racial statblock for PCs?
D&D 5e, before anyone asks.
Given that one of Fritz Leiber's novels - The Swords Over Lankhmar, precisely - had a city of ratfolk who regularly interbred with their human allies, with protagonist The Gray Mouser getting it on with a half-ratfolk who looked like a human girl with eight breasts and, I think, a tail?
Fairly high odds, personally.
This guy keeps being brought up, and he scares me.
Actually good books and one of the big inspirations for D&D. So ratfolk are oldschool, and awesome!
Shit I clicked the wrong post.
Maybe skavens are actually mousemen, and they pretend to be rats to give them a bad rep.
In warhammer monthly, there was a fun comic where witch hunters chasing a nurgle cultist encounter two ratmen that are just chilling go "what's going on with all that running in the sewers, dude?", and then they eat a volley of lead.
Rats deserve pats!
One side-side, breeder-thing.
Looks more like Mrs. Frisby.
HOLY SIGMAR
>Those rats coming off of him
Skaven throwing-rats confirmed.
But rats in overly densely populated communities behave in a depressingly skaven-like manner.
I mean, so do people.
Thanks my dude, those were off the top of my head.
Nope. You're still thinking about mice.
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Nah man, severe rat overpopulation leads to nasty shit.
/d/
pastebin it, and then post it here under a spoiler.
She looks miffed.
Are rat-paladins not treated all that well?
Well, that kind of depends what you want to do with them in your setting. What kind of ro.e do they generally play in the world?
Oh, don't be that way, user. There are people interested.
You'd be miffed too if people automatically assume that you're dirty and disease-riddled solely from stereotypes.
Ironic as rats are one of the few animals with a grooming instinct.
>You will never be turned away at the door from a temple you dutifully serve because the caretaker assumed you were a filthy vagrant rat
Feels pretty swell.