Rat Dog
- Armor Class
- 5 [14]
- Hit Dice
- 3
- Attacks
- Bite (1d6)
- Special
- disease
- Move
- 12
- HDE/XP
- 3/60
Description
A Rat Dog is the size of a large dog with a rat-like face and long hairless tail. It runs and otherwise moves like a canine, and its front paws have opposable thumbs and are thus able to grasp objects. Despite the name, it is not clear if this creature is a rat, dog, or some sort of magical hybrid.
A rat dog's bite may carry disease, much like a giant rat's bite. A rat dog bite has a 5% chance of causing disease. Anyone who suffers one or more bites that results in disease will sicken in 3d6 hours. While sick, the victim loses 1 hit point per hour and suffers a -1 penalty on attack rolls. After each hour of fever, the victim may make a saving throw, adjusted by Constitution bonus or penalty if the Referee uses such adjustments; success breaks the fever and ends the disease. Cure (Cause) Disease also ends the disease. A victim reduced to 0 hit points by the fever dies; otherwise, normal healing may begin once the disease ends.
Source note: This creature is converted from The Basic Fantasy Field Guide of Creatures Malevolent and Benign – Omnibus Edition, 1st Edition Release 4, © 2010–2025 Chris Gonnerman, R. Kevin Smoot, James Lemon, Matt Sluis, and Contributors. The Basic Fantasy Field Guide textual material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International; this page adapts that creature to White Box.