General Rules: Monsters - Ratman, Brown Gorger

Ratman, Brown Gorger (adapted from the Creature Collection)
Medium Monstrous Humanoid (Slytheen)

Hit Dice: 1d8+3 (7 hit points)
Initiative: +2
Speed: 30 feet, climb 15 feet

Armor Class: 20 (+2 Dexterity, +1 dodge, +1 natural, +4 scale armor, +2 large steel shield); touch AC 13, flat-footed AC 17

BAB/Grapple: +1/+1

Attack: Bite +1 melee (1d3, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing, 20 x2) or scimitar +1 melee (1d6, slashing, 18-20 x2) or barbed spear +3 ranged (1d6, piercing, 20 x4, 20 feet x5)

Full Attack: Bite +1 melee (1d3, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing, 20 x2) and 2 claws -4 melee (1d4, slashing, 20 x2) or scimitar +1 melee (1d6, slashing, 18-20 x2) or barbed spear +3 ranged (1d6, piercing, 20 x4, 20 feet x5)

Space/Reach: 5 feet by 5 feet/5 feet
Special Attacks: None
Special Qualities: Darkvision 60 feet, speak with rats
Saves: Fortitude +5, Reflex +2, Will +0
Abilities: Str 10, Int 10, Wis 10, Dex 15, Con 16, Cha 8

Skills: Escape Artist +6, Hide +4, Jump +2

Feats: Dodge
Environment: Any except arctic

Organization: Warband (15 - 120 ratmen, plus one leader of 5^th - 7^th level per 30 warriors), nest (120 - 1,200 ratmen with leaders as above, plus one 8^th - 10^th level cleric per 100 warriors)

Challenge Rating: ½
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually neutral evil
Advancement: By character class

Brown gorger ratmen are the most ravenous and gluttonous of all Bål's broods, made in his image. Their priesthood is composed of grossly obese ratmen who must be carried in order to preside over a regular schedule of holy feast days, yet their most powerful priests are skeletally thin and eternally hungry, unable to ever eat enough and in constant, gnawing pain.

These ratmen are raiders and pillagers, sending war parties and caravans farther and farther from their settlements in search of food. entire villages of humanoids have been enslaved and dragged beneath the earth to serve as cattle for the gorgers. Such is their all-consuming hunger that only metal and such inedible things as gems are worn by these Slytheen - all clothing, wood, and leather is inevitably devoured. Unlike other nests, the gorgers keep no common or dire rats, seeing them as rivals for food and as food in themselves.

Brown gorger ratmen speak Slytheen, a language of chittering and sibilant hisses similar to that of rodents, and they can also communicate with rats and dire rats.

Combat
Brown gorgers fight as typical ratmen, although their exclusive use of metal armor gives them a higher level of protection. In addition, they generally use barbed spears as missiles. After a battle, the gorgers feast upon the remains of both their enemies and their own dead. Even more horrific than this battlefield banquet is that which occurs at their warren, to which the remaining, tatter-skinned dead are dragged.

Speak with Rats (Su): Brown gorger ratmen have the ability to speak with rats and dire rats as if they were using the spell speak with animals.

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