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2.2 KiB

Wererat

Medium Humanoid

  • Armor Class: 12
  • Hit Points: 33 (6d8+6)
  • Speed: walk 30 ft.
  • Challenge Rating: 2 (450 XP)
  • Source: A5e Monstrous Menagerie, page 314
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
10 (+0) 14 (+2) 12 (+1) 10 (+0) 10 (+0) 10 (+0)
  • Skills: perception +2, stealth +4
  • Damage Resistances: damage from nonmagical, non-silvered weapons
  • Senses: darkvision 60 ft. (rat or hybrid form only), passive Perception 12
  • Languages: Common

Special Abilities

  • Keen Smell: The wererat has advantage on Perception checks that rely on smell.
  • Pack Tactics: The wererat has advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of the wererats allies is within 5 feet of the creature and not incapacitated.
  • Wolfsbane: Lycanthropes are repelled by the wolfsbane flower. A lycanthrope in hybrid or beast form is poisoned while within 10 feet of a living or dried wolfsbane flower that it can smell. If wolfsbane is applied to a weapon or ammunition, lycanthropes are damaged by the weapon as if it were silver. An application of wolfsbane lasts for 1 hour.

Actions

  • Shortsword (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only): Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage or 12 (3d6 + 2) piercing damage if the attack is made with advantage.
  • Hand Crossbow (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only): Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 30/120 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage or 12 (3d6 + 2) piercing damage if the attack is made with advantage.
  • Bite (Rat or Hybrid Form Only): Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage. If the target is a humanoid it makes a DC 11 Constitution saving throw. On a failure it is cursed with wererat lycanthropy.

Bonus Actions

  • Shapeshift: The wererat changes its form to a giant rat, a rat-humanoid hybrid, or into its true form, which is a humanoid. While shapeshifted, its statistics are unchanged. It can't speak in rat form. Its equipment is not transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
  • Frenzied Bite (While Bloodied: The wererat makes a bite attack.