Monstrous Lair #66: Wererats' Sewer

A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Monstrous Lair #66: Wererats’ Sewer

Monstrous Lair #66: Wererats’ Sewer by Robert Manson is a role playing game supplement published by Raging Swan Press. The supplement is stated to be system neutral, but also compatible with any version of Dungeons & Dragons, and is therefore covered by the Open Game License with some parts considered to be Open Game Content as a result.

The supplement is available for $1.65 from DriveThruRPG but was purchased at a reduced price thanks to a special offer. The supplement comes in two versions, a plaintext file and a PDF. The PDF has eight pages, with two pages being the front and rear covers, two pages are ads, about half a page the front matter and Contents and one page the Open Game License.

Using this Monstrous Lair is a standard piece of text for the series and explains what the tables are and that the supplement makes two assumptions; the GM has a map of the lair and stats for monsters and details of any treasure.

Monstrous Lair #66: Wererats' SewerThere is an introductory sentence on wererats, followed by a series of d10 tables.

1: Outside the Lair has descriptions for the sewer around the lair.

2: What’s Going On? is what’s happening, which may or may not involve wererats.

3: Major Lair Features has more important or larger pieces of dressing for the lair.

4: Minor Lair Features is similar but with generally smaller dressing.

5: Wererat’s Appearance has different features to make a wererat distinctive.

6: Treasure has a number of items that might be considered treasure, though no values are given.

7: Trinkets & Trash is more effectively described as trash than trinket.

Monstrous Lair #66: Wererats’ Sewer in Review

The PDF is bookmarked with major and minor sections linked. The Contents are to a similar level of depth and is hyperlinked. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. There is a single piece of black and white stock art. Presentation is okay.

How close this series stays to a theme can vary, and truthfully some monsters are easier to do this with than others. This one stays pretty close to the theme – as long as the wererats are in a sewer. Sewers are, for a number of reasons, popular with wererats, but not every wererat clan is going to live in them, and at this point how useful this supplement is declines. Monstrous Lair #66: Wererats’ Sewer is a decent supplement, but not so good outside a sewer, and it can be found by clicking here.


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