Made a ratfolk investigator with the Cartographer archetype. owns a little map and alchemy shop (basically an adventurers shop) in a desert city. Occasionally ventures out to explore and make new maps of the area
Ratfolk are going to get pidgeonholed as rogues and thieves, which honestly just made it all the more fun to run a Ratfolk noble who wore fine attire and got into fits of anger when people didn't understand that. Something about tiny fussy boys is just cute.
We have a homebrew race here called the Campagnol, which are essentially the same idea as Ratfolk, just voles instead. A buddy of mine played a Campagnol swashbuckler for a long time, and tiny fussy boy he certainly was!
Well, Im making artificer ratfolk alchemist with simic scientist background where he was doing super soldiers to hold humans from destroying their "kingdom" lol
If you wanted to dip back into Japanese folklore, there's also a youkai called the Nezumi-Sennin (one of many that are essentially mutant Buddhist hermits) that had bones like iron and could punch through walls with impunity. Great concept for a monk build there.
I was a ratfolk alchemists that was an experiment gone right? by the parties wizard and I learned social norms by watching people so when the barbarian licked a can of drink and claimed it as his. I saw that and in the weapons shop down the way they had to buy my character some stuff so I liked a poisoners dagger and stuffed it in my cheek poutches. Also that same character found out after having the dagger in his mouth for so long became immune to poison.
Mesmotamia and Egypt had a creature called a dorma that was described as a rat person. The belief was gods would send them in times of famine and they would regurgitate a feast for a household.
I know that Paizo is trying really hard to push the "ratfolk are clean and friendly, please don't be mean and call them stinky" thing, but if I were to play one I would lean in really hard to the fictional examples I love, like the Skaven from Warhammer, or Twitch from League of Legends, or the rats from Secret of NIHM. I like it when they're sinister. I like it when they're pestilent. I like the viciousness and terror of something so small filled with such malevolence. A ratfolk character I played would have the motto: "You think we're nasty? You don't know nasty, but you will. Briefly."
This is the core image I have of Were-Rats. Rats in nature where NOT over crowded tend to be cleaner than most other animals. Getting tagged for the black plague doesn't help their reputation even if current understanding the fleas with the plaque reached Europe from hamsters more than from mice and rats.
My Ratfolk Gunchemist I'm playing in Curse of the Crimson Throne is by far my favorite character. It's so fun being my crazy little Skaven ripoff. Plus sniping with bombs is OP AF.
@@BlackDragonGamingOfficial Alchemist archetype. Incredibly fun and I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking to play a Gunslinger with a little more flavor... and boom.
@@BlackDragonGamingOfficial Exactly! My Ratfolk, Doctor Fidget, is a childish, selfish, coward (but he has his reasons) and prefers to snipe people from his Dire Bat he found in Kaer Maga.
I'm currently playing a Ratfolk Packmaster. She has two dire rats as animal companions, my GM has allowed me to have another dire rat solely as a riding animal, and she can summon a swarm of normal rats. It's not the best or most efficient combo, but it's just a lot of fun to play as horde of rats all on my own.
@@BlackDragonGamingOfficial The swarm is just a ranger spell she uses, and the two dire rats get a bonus on AC and attack from some teamwork feats, so overall they can take a few hits. The damage is pretty underwelming though, because you sacrifice levels in your companions to have more.
Tommy, there are two sources you missed: Warhammer FRPG is the first source for humanoids rats, i.e. Skaven. Though these followers of Chaos (Evil) are nasty, filthy and cruel versions of humanoid rodents. .:. In literature, read a book from the Borrible series. Still a rodent humanoid with very negative traits, yet still a source to enjoy. .:. There is a Native American story of rodent-men yet I cannot recall much beyond they were wrongly seen as filthy, cruel beings. Though rodent like, they weren't rats as these didn't exist in the Americas when the myth originated.
I have indeed gotten a lot of flack for this over the time this video has been out. I sorta just missed it because I was never a huge TMNT guy. I know, I'm the worst.
Made a ratfolk investigator with the Cartographer archetype. owns a little map and alchemy shop (basically an adventurers shop) in a desert city. Occasionally ventures out to explore and make new maps of the area
Gotta pay the bills somehow!
Ratfolk are going to get pidgeonholed as rogues and thieves, which honestly just made it all the more fun to run a Ratfolk noble who wore fine attire and got into fits of anger when people didn't understand that.
Something about tiny fussy boys is just cute.
We have a homebrew race here called the Campagnol, which are essentially the same idea as Ratfolk, just voles instead. A buddy of mine played a Campagnol swashbuckler for a long time, and tiny fussy boy he certainly was!
Sapphire Crook I love my ratfolk witch. She runs more spells for good luck than bad
Well, Im making artificer ratfolk alchemist with simic scientist background where he was doing super soldiers to hold humans from destroying their "kingdom" lol
If you wanted to dip back into Japanese folklore, there's also a youkai called the Nezumi-Sennin (one of many that are essentially mutant Buddhist hermits) that had bones like iron and could punch through walls with impunity. Great concept for a monk build there.
Oh neat! That's pretty interesting, and yes, I did roll around with a pair of ratfolk monks for a time. They do work!
You had a video on a build using the ratfolk in a build could I find that?
I was a ratfolk alchemists that was an experiment gone right? by the parties wizard and I learned social norms by watching people so when the barbarian licked a can of drink and claimed it as his. I saw that and in the weapons shop down the way they had to buy my character some stuff so I liked a poisoners dagger and stuffed it in my cheek poutches. Also that same character found out after having the dagger in his mouth for so long became immune to poison.
Not a bad way to go!
Now Tommy don't forget Splinter (TMNT) and the Redwall series
Fair enough! Splinter definitley fills the niche as well
Mesmotamia and Egypt had a creature called a dorma that was described as a rat person. The belief was gods would send them in times of famine and they would regurgitate a feast for a household.
Huh. Nice!
I know that Paizo is trying really hard to push the "ratfolk are clean and friendly, please don't be mean and call them stinky" thing, but if I were to play one I would lean in really hard to the fictional examples I love, like the Skaven from Warhammer, or Twitch from League of Legends, or the rats from Secret of NIHM. I like it when they're sinister. I like it when they're pestilent. I like the viciousness and terror of something so small filled with such malevolence. A ratfolk character I played would have the motto: "You think we're nasty? You don't know nasty, but you will. Briefly."
This is the core image I have of Were-Rats. Rats in nature where NOT over crowded tend to be cleaner than most other animals.
Getting tagged for the black plague doesn't help their reputation even if current understanding the fleas with the plaque reached Europe from hamsters more than from mice and rats.
My Ratfolk Gunchemist I'm playing in Curse of the Crimson Throne is by far my favorite character. It's so fun being my crazy little Skaven ripoff. Plus sniping with bombs is OP AF.
Yeah it sounds really good! Is that a gunslinger or alchemist archetype?
@@BlackDragonGamingOfficial Alchemist archetype. Incredibly fun and I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking to play a Gunslinger with a little more flavor... and boom.
Gotta get that boom! So it's bombs from a gun I'll take it?
@@BlackDragonGamingOfficial Exactly! My Ratfolk, Doctor Fidget, is a childish, selfish, coward (but he has his reasons) and prefers to snipe people from his Dire Bat he found in Kaer Maga.
Seems really powerful! Does it work with a blunderbuss too? Everyone needs a 15ft cone of bombs!
I'm currently playing a Ratfolk Packmaster. She has two dire rats as animal companions, my GM has allowed me to have another dire rat solely as a riding animal, and she can summon a swarm of normal rats. It's not the best or most efficient combo, but it's just a lot of fun to play as horde of rats all on my own.
I mean, swarms are always pretty effective. Do you lose lots of the pack in combat? I feel like that would happen a lot to that archetype.
@@BlackDragonGamingOfficial The swarm is just a ranger spell she uses, and the two dire rats get a bonus on AC and attack from some teamwork feats, so overall they can take a few hits. The damage is pretty underwelming though, because you sacrifice levels in your companions to have more.
Boon Companion seems like a staple feat for sure!
mouser lets u get some sneak attack, underfoot feat too. im currently building a called shot underfoot spawn slayer ratfolk.
Mouser does seem like an....appropriate choice of archetype for these guys. I dunno, sorta cheesy.
I'm definitely making a rat folk as my main d&d guy now
Hurray!
I thought GW owned the first IP for ratfolk not wizards.
I always thought ratfolk as an under people like thieves bands and ninja groups etc
iirc that's how they function in Goka.
If anything I’m making the resourceful rat from gungeon
Well there ya go! Ratfolk Gunslinger asap!
Yoski and rat folk are different. Rest folk are bigger and don't have cheek pouches.
I believe they come from a similar ancestor though. It's been a long time since I've read through Distant Worlds
Tommy, there are two sources you missed:
Warhammer FRPG is the first source for humanoids rats, i.e. Skaven. Though these followers of Chaos (Evil) are nasty, filthy and cruel versions of humanoid rodents.
.:.
In literature, read a book from the Borrible series. Still a rodent humanoid with very negative traits, yet still a source to enjoy.
.:.
There is a Native American story of rodent-men yet I cannot recall much beyond they were wrongly seen as filthy, cruel beings. Though rodent like, they weren't rats as these didn't exist in the Americas when the myth originated.
No props to Master Splinter...
I have indeed gotten a lot of flack for this over the time this video has been out. I sorta just missed it because I was never a huge TMNT guy.
I know, I'm the worst.
Completely disregards skaven
An earlier comment brought that up, actually. It's been addressed!