Giant rat

Giant rat Level 1 Family Rat family creatures Body Type Quadruped Area(s) Found Catacombs Icemule Environs Kobold Village Sea Caves BCS Yes HP 28 Speed

Attack Attributes Physical Attacks Bite 34 AS

Defense Attributes Armor None (natural) ASG 1N Defensive Strength (DS) Melee 4 Ranged 2 Bolt Unarmed Defense Factor UDF 32 Target Defense (TD) Bard Base 3 Cleric Base Empath Base Paladin Base 3 Ranger Base Sorcerer Base 3 Wizard Base 3 Minor Elemental 3 Major Elemental 3 Minor Spiritual 3 Major Spiritual 3 Minor Mental

Treasure Attributes Coins No Gems No Magic Items No Boxes No Skin rat pelt Other None

Larger than a domestic cat, the giant rat stands over a foot high. Dark brown in color, shading off to white on the belly, with naked pink ears and narrow glinting eyes, the rat glares with unrestrained bloodlust. Known to exist in great packs, the rat has brought more than one over-eager adventurer to an early grave.

Hunting strategies

There are rooms in the rat hunting areas in the Wehnimer's Catacombs where the creatures and the adventurers are given a +10 DS bonus.

Giant rats can disease you if they bite you. The disease is typically weak, initially taking 3 damage per round.

A giant rat tries to bite you!
  AS: +34 vs DS: +30 with AvD: +33 + d100 roll: +86 = +123
  ... and hits for 10 points of damage!
  Diagonal slash to your weapon arm.
  Strike misses but bruises a few knuckles.
You suddenly feel deathly ill as your body is wracked by a virulent disease!

Other information

Historically, the area in the sewers beneath Wehnimer's Landing was the first hunting ground for quite a lot of adventurers, and they would frequently rest at the Cul-de-Sac entrance to the catacombs. This faded away a few years ago, after the opening of Ta'Vaalor and the diversion of most new players there, as well as the node status being removed from the Cul-de-Sac. In that era, the Cul-de-Sac was often among the five busiest sites in the Landing, and was almost exclusively populated by non-titled adventurers.

References

• Giant rat on Play.net bestiary
• Rats BCS update

Near-level creatures

Level 1 black rolton black-winged daggerbeak carrion worm fanged rodent fire ant giant ant giant rat kobold lesser ghoul mountain rolton rolton skeleton slimy little grub spotted gnarp young grass snake zombie rolton Level 2 big ugly kobold brown gak cave gnome coconut crab fanged goblin ghost goblin lesser frost shade lesser shade Mistydeep siren moaning phantom pale crab phantom rabid squirrel sea nymph spotted gak thyril Level 3 Bresnahanini rolton cave gnoll cave nipper dark vysan fire salamander greater ghoul greater ice spider hobgoblin ice skeleton kobold shepherd mountain snowcat relnak spotted velnalin striped gak striped relnak troglodyte velnalin white vysan Level 4 black urgh cobra fanged viper mongrel kobold revenant ridge orc spotted leaper urgh water moccasin whiptail Level 5 bobcat coyote dark apparition mist wraith mongrel hobgoblin nasty little gremlin night golem water witch