What They Don't Tell You About Wererats - D&D
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1st Edition Monster Manual
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Dragon Magazine #251
Dungeon Magazine #62
Van Richten's Guide to Werebeasts
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Hey could you do a video on Ixitxachitls? Also amazing video!
Yo where the one about orcs !
Thank you for your amazing videos. I would love to watch one about Weretigers.
Natural-born Lycanthropes can be cured of Lycanthropy via a Wish Spell. Afflicted lycanthropes can be cured by Remove Curse.
"You cannot cure a human from being a human"
Necromancers disagree.
*Laughs in vampire*
[Yawgmoth joined the chat]
@@philipearakaki Yes. XD
@@philipearakaki Phyrexia would like to: know your location
Death - the ultimate cure
I love how the art in this video swings wildly back and forth from "official DnD/warhammer art" to "clearly someone's fursona"
Kek
For real tho
To be honest, I was half expecting to see one of my commissioned pieces, once the first furry character popped up. :P
Mtg too
So.. this video is wierd for me. It dropped last year on my birthday.. and includes art of my character in it. The wererat at 9:05 is my Ratkin (WereRat) character from a World of Darkness game!
"What about the WROUS's?"
"Were-Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think we exist."
"We?"
"What?"
Princess Bride reference! Love it! Do you think a werewolf video is on its way?
@@acarnivorouslizardfolk1033 He did mention making lycanthrope videos next, so yes, absolutely. Along with werebears, weretigers and wereboars, most likely.
@@Harrowed2TheMind To be fair, even though they're rare, you should beware the werebears there!
Harrowed2TheMind thanks.
The Three Hazards of the Fire Swamp.
I am thoroughly amused by all the pictures of the Skaven in this video.
Yes-yes!
I mean its basically what it is...
@@EncontheCrow Skaven are very different.
@@PhoenixRevival00 rat people is rat people their lore and the why maybe different but its essentially...rat people.
Skaven? I dont see any skaven in this video, what do you mean?
It's funny that this comes out just now. My current game has a criminal street gang of wererats.
Same, i'm running a dragon heist in elder scrolls universe, 20 years after skyrim, and this guys are one of the factions
I think he's omnipresent, Right before his Treant video came out we had some confusion about treants and their reproduction in a game where a druid wanted some seeds
Same, my players just took down one of the Wererat mini-bosses.
I had a wererat clan who worked as assassins. It allowed them to attack without being swarmed by the Townwatch who's normal weapons couldn't harm them.
Mine too. They have a major feud with the local gang of "former" pirates who control the dock district, of which who ironically go by the name "the Wharf Rats".
So in short, it's rats vs Rats.
The best campaign I've ever seen with wererats had a colony making use of the fact that natural born wererats are stronger and have better control than infected lycanthropes. For pathfinder mechanics this was DR 10 instead of DR 5, faster shapeshifting, and allowed to have any alignment instead of forced into being evil. They even get to avoid rampages on a full moon if they're natural born. How does this matter? Wererat brothels, setting themselves up in a whorehouse and using the place as a baby factory for natural born lycans. Got to live in lush opulence, got to grow in power, got to merge seamlessly into human society, and generally stopped being evil because being lewd was just left them all so much better off.
RIIiiiiight up until they accidentally infect someone, in which case they've got an evil wererat they need to hunt down.
Cue a war between the sewerrats and the bedrats that us players ended up involved in.
You can be evil and not need to murder every time you are given an opportunity. Wererats cannot do what is described in your comment because one, they reek and two, they have an insatiable craving for human flesh.
@@jonathanwells223 As per pathfinder lore, that flesh craving was inevitable for infected rats (You know, the whole REASON they were forced to be an evil alignment) and wasn't innate to natural born wererats, though still tended to persist as a cultural artifact because inevitably you'll have infected rats raising and instilling their virtues into the natural born ones. The smell likewise is entirely because they tend to live in the sewers. Don't bathe in shit? You stop smelling like shit.
Worth noting that a Ratling was also something completely different for older DnD settings and had nothing to do with lycanthropy whatsoever.
@@jonathanwells223 If they *do* have a craving for human flesh, could they have fed off of amputated limbs, and corpses of people who'd already died? If not the entire corpse, then only parts that wouldn't be visible?(like underneath the skin?) Granted, not everyone would be up for that; but a large city would probably have a lot of dead, and there would probably be people who wouldn't care what happens to them after they've died(i'm not really too worried about it myself). Even someone who wants something of themself left behind could probably be hollowed out(kinda like what's done with taxidermy)
After watching this I want to finally get into DnD even tho I don't know anything about it and I want to do a naturally born human wererat who while young some homeless street kids actually befriended and would feed and play with them but one day he finds the clan killing the kids and forsakes his kind and flees and having another player in the party hopefully find a young child being hunted by 3 wererats and killing them taking in the young kid who doesn't seem to have any injuries and have this young kid grow up never showing or telling what he is thinking of this player as a parent type figure loving them as the closest person to them and actually being a friendly person who just loves all human species they can befriend hoping to one day be forced to transform to save their adoptive parent as a plot twist for the story to see what happens... But I've never played DnD and don't know what I'd need to play so I just joined the discord for the youtuber Taken20 to try to find out 😅. A really against the natural thing for their race I know but I just love this idea of a wererat who comes to want to protect people while hiding what he is and hate his kind that's why I was looking to see if naturally born ones get forced to transform during the full moon
@@s12y6o24 Which would lead to those more civilized wererat clans like the one mentionned above to also infiltrate and/or take over the businesses and institutions handling dead people, such as morgues, funeral homes and cemeteries in order to sneakily handle their craving for humanoid flesh whilst avoiding both detection AND killing people? SMART!
Excuse me Citizen but there are no civilizations of ratmen in Warhammer, please present yourself to your local witch hunter for summary execution.
No
They were some kind of Beastmen, abnormally large rats do not exist.
@@thechillcorner504 *BLAM*
@Jack Snow Okay… so about those Chaos Dwarfs in the Darklands…
were-rats, were-rats, we're were-rats, we sneak at night, we stalk at night, we're were-rats. I'm the Great Horned Rat that makes all of the rules. Let's see what kind of trouble we can get ourselves into!
THANK YOU.
Skaven
Tho gotta say Rhexx, I've been following you for like 4-ish years and you are my single most favorite lore youtuber, for the single and simple reason that you *ooze enthusiasm*. I mean genuinely, your love and interest for the history, culture, and flavour of world-building is palpable. Never stop doing what you're doing, love you man.
Edit: holy shit, 140 fking likes, never had this fkin many, y'all are makin me blush ;-;
Off to *ooze enthusiasm* harder than last time ;)
My favorite too!
He still hasn't covered Gem Dragons and Sardior yet so, meh.
Alex Kardula for real though. Between him and aj from the mighty glue stick, they pretty much cover the bases for me. For the simple reason that I can tell they love the subject matter as much as I do. DMing a new game tomorrow, huzzah!
I feel like most people don't realize how much editing you do for these videos and I just wanna let you know I appreciate all the effort you put in these videos :)
I'd appreciate it more if he did Gem Dragons
@@razzelmire2008 dude, say please
Ratmen? Under the city? There's no such thing.
*said the Witch Hunter, sweating and desperately trying to scrub away the triangle markings through out the sewers.
@@jaelee1996 Yeup, we're on the same page on this
Yup
It's strange that this would be labeled as "lycanthropy" when lycan specifically denotes wolves. Wouldn't therianthropy be more apt, as that denotes any time of "beast"
It's lycanthropy not lycan-thropy. Instead of using a single noun to label these creatures perhaps we should call them "people who are people, sometimes rat people and occasionally rats but also sometimes rat like entities that are sometimes human."
I still don't know why fantasy worlds use real life words with clear dictionary meanings to explain things in their world when they could just simply explain things with a sentence or two. Instead they give us a single word and expect us to just know what it means despite most of us only having access to a dictionary for 1-3 decades.
My humble response is go shout questions like this into a well.
@@mrguppys761 lycanthrope is Greek for werewolf, lýkos meaning wolf and ánthropos meaning human. (also, "were" in werewolf is old english meaning man)
@@Merrsharr That was rather culturally insensitive of me, I'm sorry. I forget there are other cultures and languages out there.
I can see now that if you spoke Greek then you would have a high chance of applying the Greek meaning to the word instead of the English meaning.
A copy paste from Britannica
Lycanthropy, mental disorder in which the patient believes that he is a wolf or some other nonhuman animal.
Why Britannica? Because they acknowledge that humans are animals also.
Great Horned Rat day has come early this year.
Yes-yes.
I read the last part in M. Bison's voice.
Skaven without the hell infused crack cocaine addiction and rampant narcissism.
Also somehow even less competant.
@@Sara3346 but much harder to kill
Been here since skyrim then you started moving to dnd stuff and I got into dnd soon after and have always enjoyed your content thank you for all the work you put towards these videos.
Same.
Same
"You cannot heal a human from being a human"
Lich: That's a matter of perspective
Read the lich part in the voice of Death from discworld
@@jameskaazaeros7087 Lich: "THAT'S A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE" says as he pets a kitten.
Illithid: not with that attitude you can't
Liches are altered humans and thus human.
@@michaelhowze8198 No, it's kind of similar to Mindflayers, each Lich is it's own thing... it's like saying vampires or werewolfs are human... except they don't think the same way as humans
There are so many questions from this video about lycanthropy in general!
How much is their minds affected? I'm what way? Where did it all come from? Are there any especially notable lycanthropic strands? Etc. Etc.
If you'd like some video ideas, I, at least, would really enjoy a lycanthropy video. Your videos usually do an astounding job of covering even large concepts, so I think a video like that would be great!
Lycanthropy in general or therianthropy in general? The mention of strands confused me.
@@Eanki_ I believe that in D&D it's all called lycanthropy, regardless of what the word lycanthrope actually means.
All hail the horned rat yes-yes
lmao
Let's celebrate by eating the dead corpses of the non existent Chaos Gods!
Great Horned rat day came earlier this year, I see
Kill-kill the hero-thing!
SKAVEN! YES-YES!
Tho i'm impressed on how many races are in D&D. How damn humongously huge is that world. Like twice the earth bare minimum.
There is a few earths such as knoen world and hollow word and space stuff
I think I saw someone mention that there are 43 or so playable races listed on D&D Beyond. And of course I assume that list grows as more official supplements are made.
Though also to be fair theres all sorts of weird magic/extra dimensional/extra planar doohickery going around, like mind flayers once being a space empire.
Also now that Magic the Gathering is technically officially also part of D&D, that adds in bucket loads of more planes to play around in.
@@arkurianstormblade4109 Yeah, they do really need more space there to stuff all those people in it. As it seems like there are tons of apex races, apex named monsters like dragons etc. And many complex societies of different races. Like, D&D shall become S&D, space and dragons, in few years :D
There are as many races in D&D as there are genders in our world.
@@f34r0r There is more than 1 race in D&D
And I'm using these guys in my next "offical" campaign.
A group are living in the tunnels under the city, saving children and lonely/ abused people, while the cityfolk have these bizarre practices of summoning and sacrificing that unknowingly turn their children into were-rats, and the two groups are constantly fighting over the rituals: the humans trying to do them in hopes of preventing the curse, the WRs trying to stop them from making more share their fate.
The party can do as they wish, but each outcome has predetermined rewards.
"The Rats In The Wall"
16:00 that werewolf's kinda cute
also SUPER not liking the whole "were-rats have to steal, incapable of making anything of their own" considering pretty sure rats are about as smart as ravens and crows and...we do have ravens that have started making their own tools out of materials we didn't teach them to use
rats typically get shafted by stereotypes and tropes when it comes to fantasy, there was once an experiment ran where one rat was trapped in a transparent cylindrical tube and another rat on the outside of it was trying to free it. can you imagine say, a Skaven from warhammer showing that much concern for one another?
don't get me wrong i love my sociopathic ratmen with all my heart, yes-yes. but it is funny how drastic the differences are between them.
I love all the skaven images in this video. I should totally make wererat clan one time, have undercity yes-yes.
Hey MrRhexx, I love the "What they dont tell you lore series" Your video on the Shadowfell and Kobolds is really helping me add alot of flavor to my Sunless Citadel into Curse of Strahd Campaign. I picked up the first grim hollow after you said nice things about it in a previous video. I have a question about the kickstarter. I'm curious if they have the rules for fey transformation available yet.
Fey transformation sounds fun
All I can think of is "rats, we’re rats; we’re da rats. we prey at night, we stalk at night we’re da rats
*I’m the giant rat that makes all of da rules!*
let’s see what kinda trouble we can get ourselves into ~"
Skaven in a nutshell
Great minds think alike! Looks like you beat me to it
poor innocent Rhexx using deviantart transformation fetish art without realizing
I really hope you do wareravens next!😀
Wereravens, Jackleweres, and Weredragons would be dope.
Especially because, tis the season
There are wereravens? Wow
@@Envengerx it was in Curse of Strahd
Wereraven Gang.
@@Heroism4499 I didn't know this existed, so I looked it up. Apparently, they can't speak in raven form, but still have the mimicry trait. IRL, ravens can totally copy human speech, much like a parrot, so I don't know why wereravens can't speak in raven form. Also, I'm surprised they're Lawful Good.
this is pretty cool my favorite were beast is the werehouse.
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(Spooky warning for the above comment.)
@@jonathanwells223 I 100% agree with that
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Love this, digging matt mercers were rat character in pirates of leviathan at the moment. :) interesting to learn about this.
Kill kill the man-things, yes yes!
Wait, wrong franchise
It might just be the same franchise, the way WoTC is driving the product into the ground with the new errata they going the right way for D&D end times
@@jonathanwells223 And according to recent news, said end-times will feature Unicron and Lord Zedd
We're getting 5ED-compatible Power Rangers and Transformers RPG books
The 'Rasslin Theatre everything after 3.5 was a mistake
I'm using wererats as skaven stand in, with a few changes to their stats and society. Glory to the Great Horned Rat, yes-yes.
@@jonathanwells223 Everything not starting with Advanced... was a mistake.
Is cool just recently I had a pathfinder adventure where we found a colony of were rats who where driven in to the dungeon by a magical weapon that was the Sin of Wrath. So they where specially angry and ravage when attacking at all times at first sight or sound we or even they did through out the dungeon.
There was an old 2nd Edition called “Fighter’s Challenge”. It had a pretty good story line about your character getting caught in the middle of a war between wererats and a duegar exploration force.
You cannot cure a human from being human. Laughs in true polymorph
I really impressed by the amount of lore that D&D have, I only started to play this past year and your videos makes me fell more in love with this world.
Thank you for your vids and your hard work
I love the idea of a huge wererat colony in the underdark
I absolutely love this video! I love the amount of knowledge in every video you go faaaaar beyond any one else I've seen cover these things! I cant wait for the rest of the lycanthrope video!
*As someone who's played as a Wererat I can confirm all of this*
Yes. Yes I am considering making a were-rat character now.
Chances are so are you
Chances are most of us are looking to drop an axe on them.
Yes-yes no-fur. Join the rats-skaven empire! We-we treat everyone good-equal.
@@Sir_Bucket
You mean everyone gets their share of ticks and some mire?
@@TheKing-qz9wd No-no. Ticks are-are on stormverminds, painless-not deadly parasite.
You-you get the WARP-WORMS!
I don’t think I’m the kind of asshole who would enjoy playing a character that claims ownership and rank by urinating on everything and everyone!
I now fully expect a series on lycans and especialy an episode on the lycanthropickle
Every time you make a video I make up a whole campaign or session based on what you said.
You are a great inspiration, thank you
"YOU CAN CURE A HUMAN FROM BEING A HUMAN", Good sir, i think you just commited a heresy, the inquisition will know about this.
Hellboy as a medieval/renaissance witch hunter would be the greatest thing
He said:
"You *can't* cure a human from being a human"
16:01
That werewoman is kinda...kinda...oh no...NOOOOOOOOOO
THEY GOT ME!
Welcome to the pack. :D
@@Roshiyu 2 months later, I have no regrets.
I don't know why but bushido burrito stands out EVERY TIME you say it in your patreon supporters.
It’s because you’re listening for it
The power of alliteration! that's why all those superheroe names stuck with you
I like medi-ogre at best
I went and found the Grim Hollow Kickstarter, and put some money towards it because of you, and this amazing channel. You've helped me enhance my D&D games, and my players love it. Thank you for everything. I can't wait for it to come out, my players are super excited.
Watching this video the only thought going through my head was a wererat raising four monk tortles
My friends, cousins and I enjoy you videos they help greatly when planning out characters and encounters.
"You can't cure a human, from being a human."
Murder Hobos everywhere: "You sure about that?"
History clearly demonstrates that humans are murderhobos
Always been VERY curious about how weres work in DnD. Why do specific ones have specific alignments? Do all were beasts of that type always have that alignment? How do their societies work and how do they interact with human societies? All these are fun questions.
I love the way you did the whole video about the wear rat. I would love it if you would make some more videos about the other weird creatures like the werewolf, or a wear bear or even a wear boar
I have an idea for an adventure: You are hired to catch live wererats and release them under an orc city.
Orcs do not build cities, let alone sewers.
@@jonathanwells223 Ok well evil humans.
@@jonathanwells223 Pretty sure they do if the DM want them too ;-)
Rat men? Queek is pleased yes-yes.
Hey man I've been watching your content for a while now. I got burned out on dnd about a year ago. Then I started watching your videos before bed. Now I'm playing every other week again
i really appreciate the long videos, 20 minutes is nice, 30 minutes is great, 50 minutes is amazing. keep up the good work MrRhexx and thank you for all you do
ran a game where one of my players was a paladin minitour and was cursed to become a wererat and ended up leaving the party because she was afraid of hurting her friends. she then became the leader of the wererat clan that turned here and looks like the horned rat from Warhammer.
AHH I wish this video came out 1 week ago when I ran my first wererat encounter haha good stuff!
YES! I SO NEEDED THIS!
Also lycanthropy vid!?
Hell yeah!
my crime syndicate full of Lycanthropes will be the best thanks to you
i only want to say that this video inspired me to write a entire short adventure and i wanna thank you for this
Your are doing such a awesome videos, loving it rhexx !
its cool that im watching all your vids without even playing dnd just because i love your story telling so much! thanks for this awsome content
Everybody likes Master Splinter til they realize he covered in poopoo
A question related to the Dark Arts in D&D;
If you have a limb removed and don't have it reattached or regenerated, but keep it nonetheless, do you have a part of your corpse? Or does it only become a part of your corpse once you die?
I’d say semantically a corpse would have to be an entire dead person (obviously still counting of an arm or leg is missing) but an arm that got chopped off whether regrown or not I would say doesn’t count as a corpse and is just a chunk of dead flesh
Can you make your arm a murderer's hand if you're still alive? Can you rip your arm off, raise it as a murderer's hand, and then tape it to your arm and then rip it off and throw it at people as an attack? These are questions that need to be answered.
A limb? No.
A head? Yes.
Context please
Okay, so let's ramp this theoretical up to 11.
If you got bisected horizontally, and were magically healed in a way that you get to keep living for a long time, what to you call your lower half? "The rest of my body", "Half of my corpse", "A fraction of my body that is currently dying", etc?
It's solely a question of when does the term "corpse" apply to a lost limb. Demon lawyers are the worst.
I wasn't planning to watch a Baldur's Gate Let's Play until I played the game, but now my plans have been changed.
The LorePlay will be awesome!
Narrator: "Trying to find a wererat's actual weakness is a task in and of itself!"
Wizard: "Are they alive?"
Narrator: "...yeeeeeees?"
Wizard: "Hmmm...that wasn't so hard."
I'm shocked Mr Rhexx didn't like this.
Damage resistance is just a challenge thier weakness is irrelevant
Excellent work. Now I'm really looking forward to a full lycanthrope series! Especially if you do a segment on the Lythari!!!!
I really hope werebears are next. My character is a slight homebrewed werebear. For campaign purposes he was nerfed (his clan cursed and stuck in hybrid form, and did not have immunities or resistances ) and in the homebrew world he comes from a clan of natural born werebears that were guardians of the great forest.
Druid werebear with barbarian mentality is alot of fun.
His side quest of lifting the curse got completed 10 levels early though by one of the other players getting 3 wishes from the deck of many things.
Gained all stats and ability to shift again at lvl4 and was kinda game breaking but fun, even for the DM who had to get more creative with game balance.
You got me. After one of your books I purchased the grim hollow campaign guide, and I love it, so I will join in the Kickstarter. Great Video by the way, as always :)
I could listen to this guy for hours
Wererats, yes-yes!:
Time to spam-write this comments with skaven speech, brother-kin. Yes-yes-yes!
GO SEEK-FETCH THE DOOMSPHERE!
Every day is Great Horned Rat Day if you believe-think!
Engineer of DOOOOOM
Clan-clan go to spam-write! To do the horned rats will , yes-yes!
So much information that it can't fit in only a book, thank you for doing these videos
Deathmaster Snikch heads a ratman guild in my homebrew campaign. Cant wait for my players to find that out lol
On werebeast, I home brewed a pureblood variant. These are creatures that were not born or turned by a bite, but contracted the curse by divine interventions. They are chosen of said god, they are typical 5 CR higher then the normal variant as a base. Also the weapon has to be both magic and silver to not be resistant.
My players had just travelled into the biggest city in region. They had not checked the sewers yet. This video could not had been better timed.
this is going to be very useful. I'm making my own giant ass city campaign and thought of having wererats as a possible enemy or allies (depending on how the party goes) need to beef up the were rats effect on the city.
also what other were creature are there officially? when i wanted to make a werebat i had to make it myself and the dm.
Woah a werebat at sounds awesome
@@DragonsRocks017 it is. but you need to take note on where you tranform do to the wing spand and what your wearing cause again the wings. had to spend a bit extra on amor and cloths so i coudl freely transform. and a fun plot device for were-anything is the emerald dagger. this dagger is a magical item made of off emreals and has animals carfed inot the hadnle. and depending on what animal is carfed into the handle will curse any one stabed/cut with the dagger. randome by a nom magicl person or a spesific one if a magic person can forcus enough. and who eveer holds the dagger can command any of the were's made by the blade.
my character was cursed that way and was looking for the dagger to destroy it since he didnt want to be inslaved.
please never stop making this kind of stuf man, i love adding this to the game im running
A collective of rats is called a mischief and a collective of crows is called a murder. Both are up to no good.
Oh so that's where mischief of mice got his name from
The main thing they don't tell you is that they suffer from rattanthropy, not lycanthropy. "Lycos" refers to the wolf part, FYI.
Been watching your video playlists lately since I got back to D&D.
Keep up the good work, and thanks for all the effort you put in.
All hail horned rat, yes-yes!
This makes me want to make a homebrew Wererat race. I'd imagine they'd have a +2 to Dex as opposed to the 'take 15 if it's lower', probably a +1 to Con considering their preferred environment, possibly resistance to poison as well. I could imagine them being able to learn Fein Death and cast it on themselves with no somatic, verbal, or material components once per short rest, and maybe at 5th level they could maybe learn Conjure Animals and can cast it at will as long as the creatures they summon are rats(not giant rats, not rat swarms, just regular rats), and then finally they'd have Darkvision, Sunlight Sensitivity, and maybe a 10 ft. blindsight. And I'd imagine their size would be variable from small to medium
This is a great video. Now I want to build a Wererat PC for my next game.
Got here pretty quickly!
I LOVE your videos they're some of the best D&D edutainment there is!
I know Forgotten Realms is your thing, but I think you would really like to take a look at some of the monster lore from Ravenloft. There are some interesting tweaks in the wererat society, among other things, and some incredible wererat characters.
Ravenloft would be an interesting read before the lycanthropy video, and it is one of the most influential settings when it comes to new DnD monsters.
Could you elaborate on those wererats?
Isn't Ravenloft a demiplane in Forgotten Realms?
@@draxthemsklonst Ravenloft is, or was, a demiplane, but not tied to any particular world. It was its own setting until 3rd edition, then its concepts were adapted into the Shadowfel from 4th edition onward. It was officially located in the Deep Ethereal in 3rd edition, a blurred transitory space between the Ethereal Border of all worlds.
In Ravenloft natural wererats do not have a bane common to their entire family, instead each one have a unique allergy at first unknown even to it. But more important than that, although they're still thieves and parasites, they are less bound to the sewers and more involved in the affairs of the city, although always in secret, passing as humans.
There are entire wererat families with ties all around the world. While minor families or less talented individuals can live as the sewer beasts of common description, the more powerful ones become nobles or rich merchants, using the wealth of information they gather as and from rats for advantage against their political enemies.
Among them the most powerful family is the Renier, and the matriarch Jacqueline Renier is both the tyrant and local hero of one of the most advanced nations in the setting, Richemulot, a place where, among other things, she encourages the legends about wererats as filthy beasts to ease things for her brethren and the population is mildly obsessed with cleanliness.
As a warhammer player I have to say it: Die-Die Man-Thing! That has been your skaven reference for the day.
Not gonna lie, when I run games, I basically just have wererats be Skaven
Love this! Cannot wait to see Werewolves and Werebears.
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1st love your wrk and watch every d&d video multiple times, this one was great I now have to rework my wererats, I had a dilapidated ghost town, with what seems like maybe 2 to 3 humans still living there poor scavenger type, with the whole sewer system underneath being the true kingdom of rats
Thanks for making 2020 suck less. I really appreciate these videos. Its been a rough year.
MrRhexx this was another great video! I've been watching since I found your great videos on the Dragons of D&D. I would like to point out though Wererats and Skaven have big difference though. One is by curse (Wererats) and the other are just a different kind of humanoid in a different universe. Though a big question is why hasn't there ever been a kind of Skaven like beings in any D&D world. I see the difference like a werehyena and a Gnoll.
This was exactly what I needed to know to connect the dots on my cmapaing start... Thank you
Dragon Magazine 251, Pg 82-85. Reading the Ecology of the Wererat, lots of good info there.
Grim hollow is great. Has some really cool fears that I love.
Another great video bro. I do have one request. We need a MrRhexx video on Manticores lore. It would be awesome.
I love every type of lycanthropy lore from most games and works if fiction especially dnds and elderscrolls fucking fascinating
Love your videos and learning how there is so much more to this than just the 5th ed where I joined.
Really would love one about weretigers.
They are awesome and would like some help for a character concept with things that aren't told.
As a DM who loves these lycanthropes and one who is familiar with actual rats on a great level, I love this video and have my own spin on Wererats. Wererats are generally kind of jealous of both humans and rats... both are far more adaptive to absolutely everything than they are. They get along with rats because of the affinity with them but prefer Giant Rats, the huge evil versions of actual rats.
In every campaign I create, the best rogue (Thieves' and-or Assassins') guilds are deeply involved with there Wererat population.
I hope in a future episode that you refer to "Van Richens" guide to Lynthropes. It is a great sourse for this kind of stuff.
I once had a character raised by wererats. Though they weren't a thieves' guild, they were actually enemies of the thieves' guild and lived as beggars, gathering information instead of stealing things.
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