---
title: "Rat Swarm"
obsidianUIMode: preview
noteType: pf2eMonster
cssClasses: pf2e
aliases: "Actor.Ca7EWuZRmpwS8qGp" 
tags:
  - pf2e/creature/type/animal
  - pf2e/creature/type/swarm
  - pf2eMonster
  - pf2e/creature/level/1
  - remaster
statblock: inline
name: "Rat Swarm"
level: 1
license: ORC
---

```statblock
columns: 2
forcecolumns: true
layout: Basic Pathfinder 2e Layout
source: "Pathfinder Monster Core"
name: "Rat Swarm"
level: "Creature 1"

alignment: ""
size: "Large"
trait_01: [[animal]]
trait_02: [[swarm]]
modifier: 5
perception:
  - name: "Perception"
    desc: "+5; Low-Light Vision, Scent (Imprecise) 30 Feet"
languages: ""
skills:
  - name: "Skills"
    desc: "Acrobatics: +8, Athletics: +4, Stealth: +6"
abilityMods: [-2, 3, 1, -4, 1, -3]
speed: 30 feet,  climb 10 feet
sourcebook: "_Pathfinder Monster Core_"
ac: 14
armorclass:
  - name: AC
    desc: "14; __Fort__ +2, __Ref__ +7, __Will__ +4"
hp: 14
health:
  - name: ""
  - name: HP
    desc: "14; __Immunities__  precision,  swarm mind,  grabbed,  prone,  restrained; __Weaknesses__ area damage 3, splash damage 3; __Resistances__ physical 6 (except bludgeoning)"
abilities_top:
  - name: ""

abilities_mid:
  - name: ""
  - name: "[[Bestiary Ability Glossary/Swarm Mind|Swarm Mind]]"
    desc: "  This monster doesn't have a single mind (typically because it's a swarm of smaller creatures), and is immune to mental effects that target only a specific number of creatures. It is still subject to mental effects that affect all creatures in an area."

attacks:
  - name: ""

  - name: "Putrid Plague"
    desc: " (disease) The [[Conditions/Sickened|Sickened]] and [[Conditions/Unconscious|Unconscious]] conditions from putrid plague don't improve on their own until the disease is cured.\n\n**Saving Throw** DC 14 Fortitude check\n* * *\n\n**Stage 1** carrier with no ill effect (1d4 hours)\n\n**Stage 2** [[Conditions/Sickened|Sickened 1]] (1 day)\n\n**Stage 3** Sickened 1 and [[Conditions/Slowed|Slowed 1]] (1 day)\n\n**Stage 4** [[Conditions/Unconscious|Unconscious]] (1 day)\n\n**Stage 5** dead"

  - name: "Swarming Bites"
    desc: "`pf2:1`  Each enemy in the swarm's space takes 1d6 piercing damage and must attempt a DC 17 Reflex check save. A creature that fails its save is exposed to putrid plague."
 
```

```encounter-table
name: Rat Swarm
creatures:
  - 1: Rat Swarm
```



A swarm of rats can cause total chaos within a household or business. Contracting putrid plague is all the easier when dozens of these agitated or hungry vermin gather to bite victims en masse, making rat-hunting a viable career in many parts of the world as desperate townspeople seek relief from the disease's spread.

* * *

Rats are a ubiquitous menace, scurrying through the sewers and on the streets of nearly every settlement in the world. Though a regular rat darting underfoot might startle or even frighten the average passerby, giant rats and rat swarms are far more dangerous.
