I plan to start playing a ratfolk rogue with a tailblade in an upcoming campaign. Do you guys have any suggestions for a ratfolk rogue that fights with two claw attacks and a tailblade? He's wearing one of those 1 AC armored cumberbunds (forget the item name) from Ultimate Equipment, as well as a traveler's outfit and a masterwork backpack. Ratfolk is a small creature.
Metal minis are preferred to plastic.
So, basically, any suggestions for a ratfolk with a tailblade?
i second snorters Skaven suggestion. The kits come with all kinds of adaptability. Just needs a bit of work putting it together.
I think the GW Skaven would be just the thing.
(Check out the taiblade on the center figure)
Skaven Gutter Runners
And for the ultimate Ratfolk rogue/assassin...
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THIS shows the kind of critter I mean. View the second picture.
On the Rat Ogre sprue, top right, there's a smaller (immature?) Skaven, in robes, pointing. He's about half the height of the Packmaster, next to him.
Other kits have similar spare bits, especially the ones for war machines, which often have a few scampering about, carrying things.
Have you looked at Reaper's "mouseling" minis? I'd think they'd make good ratfolk.
I looked at them, particularly because Skaven are medium creatures, but I don't know how I feel about them. They're a bit to pudgy for how I imagine ratfolk, and they don't really have legs so much.
Right now Skaven are the closest I've seen. I've taken a look at some of the older metal Skaven since I do want a metal mini.
I also looked at a Reaper were-weasel mini, but it also annoys me because it, like the mouselings, sits on its haunches rather than standing on legs. And it has a bushy tail.
I'm probably going to end-up going with a metal Skaven or possibly a dire rat or some kind. I'm actually kind of surprised at how little there is in the way of small-sized rat-man minis.
The thought also occurred to me that I might try modifying a halfling mini with a skaven head, but I'm no sculptor so that idea doesn't appeal to me too much when it comes to the idea of adding the ratfolk's tail.
I already have a plastic medium wererat rogue mini from the D&D Miniatures line, so if my options aren't any closer than it, I'll probably just stick with it.
The thought also occurred to me that I might try modifying a halfling mini with a skaven head, but I'm no sculptor so that idea doesn't appeal to me too much when it comes to the idea of adding the ratfolk's tail.
I already have a plastic medium wererat rogue mini from the D&D Miniatures line, so if my options aren't any closer than it, I'll probably just stick with it.
As long as you're not OCD, its a good solution. I did the same thing to make the two kitsune models I own.
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I had a Blood Bowl Skaven player, who was rewarded with a mutation to smaller size, and I used one of the old hairy GW Chaos familiars, and added the head from a plastic giant rat.
Conversions are much easier with plastic, but sometimes metal is what best fits. I'll see if I can dig him up for a photo, but be warned, he doesn't wear pants.