Ratling Equipment

In the minds of most people, ratlings have two defining characteristics: ingenuity and mischief. Those traits are on full display with their choices of equipment.

Food Cannon. Named for its most common ammunition, this tube-shaped weapon uses black powder charges to fire whatever is packed into it. When loaded with foodstuffs or dirt., the food cannon blasts everything in a 15-foot cone with the contents of its barrel. Each creature in that area must make a DC 13 Dexterity save or be blinded until the end of its next turn. A creature can use an action to scrape off the debris from an affected creature, ending the condition early. The cannon isn't powerful enough to deal severe damage, but if hard debris is packed among the soft shot, each target also takes 1d4 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, depending on the nature of the debris.

Thing-Thing. One of the most distinctly ratling pieces of gear is the thing-thing, a generic name for two items combined into one. Examples include the quarterstaff-ladder (a quarterstaff with pop-out rungs) and a dagger-lockpick (thieves' tools on strings packed into the hilt of a dagger), but the possibilities are endless and frequently seem nonsensical to non-ratlings. A thing-thing costs as much as both items combined and weighs as much as its heaviest component. If one item is smaller than the other, the smaller item may be unobtrusive, requiring a DC 18 Perception check to find. Neither piece of a thing-thing can be consumable.