Chapter 1 - Class - Character Kits - Dwarven Kits
Pest Controller
Pest Controllers keep a stronghold free from rats, giant spiders, centipedes, carrion
crawlers, kobolds, and other pests. They are experts at setting traps and in eradicating
minor animal and monster nuisances.
Role: Pest Controllers are members of the Pest Control Guild. Through experience
they learn all of a stronghold's tunnels, passages, and sewers. Although they perform an
invaluable service keeping underground settlements habitable, their true worth becomes
apparent when a stronghold is under attack. Then they use their expertise to rig traps
along passages of expected enemy advance to slow and kill the invaders. Enemies
entering a dwarf stronghold are likely to find their way beset with deadly traps.
As members of an adventuring party, Pest Controllers are useful to protect the party's
camp area and to find and disarm traps set by others.
Secondary Skills: They should have the secondary skill of Trapper/Furrier.
Weapon Proficiencies: Pest Controllers usually carry daggers and darts, but may use
any type of weapon normally permitted to thieves.
Bonus Nonweapon Proficiencies: Animal Lore, Pest Control.
''Recommended Nonweapon Proficiencies: Alertness, Blacksmithing, Blind-fighting,
Carpentry, Direction Sense, Set Snares, Sign Language, Signalling, Stonemasonry,
Tracking, Underground Survival, Weaponsmithing.
Equipment: Pest Controllers should equip themselves with cages and other traps. If
one has the blacksmithing or weaponsmithing proficiencies it can be assumed he has built
1d4 traps before starting play.
Distinctive Appearance: Pest Controllers wear shiny black leather armor and black
leather helmets.
Special Benefits: They gain a +5% bonus to their Move Silently and Find/Remove
Traps abilities.
Special Hindrances: They have a -10% penalty to their Pick Pockets ability. Other
dwarves, except Vermin Slayers and Wayfinders, consider them to be unsavory
characters and react to them with a -2 penalty.
Wealth Options: They start with the standard 2d6x10 gp.
