Sigil is full of a multitude of creeds, religions, factions and

wanderers.
It also happens to have the best damn cheesemongers in all
the multiverse.
Chant has it the Dustmen have just opened a new cheese house
called Cheddar Off Dead and it is the rage of the Hive. It takes
a skilled cutter to make off with the best product in Sigil. Who
better to take up the cross-trade than the creatures created to spy
by the Illithid?
That’s right, berk, you’re a goddamn cranium rat, and you’re
about to bob the Dusties.
Name your cranium rat, if you want. No pressure or any-
thing. You aren’t a talking rat, that would be silly. You can go
ROLE
“squeak, squeak”. You do have psychic powers though, so 1. Muscle - Doors need chewing or other rats need to
talking to each other is fine. be dropped? You’re the rat for the job.
Roll 3d6 to determine your descriptor, skill and your
role. 2. Brains - Every job needs a good planner and you’re
the BEST.
DESCRIPTOR
3. Navigator - Sewers and the inside of walls and
1. Rookie - You’re new to the stealing game. Maybe roofs can be claustrophobic and a maze. You don’t get lost.
you fell in with the wrong swarm or wanted a better life outside
the Hive Mind. Either way, you’re trying out new things and 4. Thief - You can find the way into Baator through a
are green as Baatorian steel. crack in the ether--or at least find your way into a cheesemon-
ger’s shop in the most clever of ways.
2. Washed-Up - You’ve tried stealing. Spent all your
jink on small puddles of gross ale on the floor of the seediest 5. Face - Run into some trouble with other critters or
taverns and have nothing to show for it. You’ll probably fail-- need to really know the best way to sweet talk or use your
but maybe your failures can become your new victories. chutzpah to dominate a particularly hard headed individual?
That’s your specialty.
3. Retired - You’ve had your share of the trade. Your
experience and successes are invaluable. Time has caught up 6. Demolition - Sure, any cranium rat can mind
to you though, but maybe you have one last job left in you. blast a poor sod, but who can do it in the most effective way
or bring down a very loosely laiden stone in the wall? That’s
4. Unhinged - You want that damn cheese and you right--you know how to destroy things and destroy them to the
don’t care who you have to crush or blackmail to get it. Noth- best of your group’s advantage.
ing is too large a sacrifice in the name of good eats.

5. Slick - You can talk your way through anything and You have two stats. Each starts with 3 points.
are as sly as they come. You might not belong but you sure
act like you do. You’re crafty, tricky and oh so clever. RAT: Use to chew through walls, run and climb, escape
traps, scare berks or skitter away before taking a boot to the
6. Incompetent - You have no idea what you’re head.
doing. None. You fake it till you make it (spoiler: you most
likely don’t make it). HIVE: Use to do anything not related to being a plain ole
rat such as casting spells (comprehend languages, confusion,
SKILL domination, detect thoughts), becoming a bunch of rats in a
trench coat, or mind blasting a poor berk.
1. Terrify 4. Climbing
2. Swimming 5. Smell Cheese When you act and the outcome is in doubt, roll a d6. If it’s
equal to or less than the relevant stat, you succeed. If it’s over
3. Psychic Savant 6. Chewing the stat, you fail.
If you’re using your rat’s role or skill,roll 2d6 instead and
take the lowest.
 Anger: When the plan fails and you run into difficulty, If your Hive stat ever reaches 6, you are lured off to
move one point from Hive into Rat. become one with the Hive Mind, abandoning all hope of a life
filled with delicious stolen cheese, melding with Many-As-One
Gluttony: When the plan goes off without a hitch, and turning on your fellow cranium rats to give up this silly
move one point from Rat into Hive. game.
You can voluntarily move one point from Rat to Hive by If your Rat stat ever reaches 6, you become a full fledged
communicating with the hive mind as you and the other rats ordinary rat and disappear off into some trash pile to never be
seek guidance from the surrounding city and plan out the seen or heard of again.
heist.
You can voluntarily move one point from Hive to Rat by
eating cheese. Delicious, delicious cheese.

Cheddar Off Dead’s Manager But Little Do Our Cranium Rats

1. Cunning Know…

2. Wicked and Unforgiving 1. The Harmonium are alerted and on their way!

3. Completely Clueless 2. A delayed blast fireball has been cast as a

contingency should the cheese be claimed!
4. Easily Excitable 3. The cheese is not only wax coated, but completely
5. Easily Scared and Paranoid made of wax and fake!

6. TOO obsessed with Cheese 4. A rival group has set you up!
5. You’re not the only ones planning to

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steal the cheese!
Other Spoils in the Cheese Shop
6. An elder brain actually runs the shop!
1. Arborean Asiago, so heavenly it should be, and
probably is, illegal.
Security Features (Roll 1d6, Twice)
2. Cheddar Off Dead’s complete cheese mon-
gering recipes. 1. The excess stench off the limburger has been funneled
into a poisonous gas.
3. Carceri Cheddar not only steals the show, but
steals away your taste buds into an eternal prison. 2. There is a massive scrying spell cast on the cheese hold-
ing chamber.
4. A miniature flask of the finest Baatorian’s dev-
ilishly delicious otherworldly, six hundred and sixty six hooved 3. Rat traps enchanted with magic missiles are set in ran-
goat’s milk. dom places laced with the most tempting cheese.

5. A portal key to the Demiplane of Gouda. 4. The cheese resides in a near impregnable vault.
6. A snuff box full of the finest parmesan, grated 5. The Dusties have hired the best rodent exterminating
through the tunnels of Pandemonium by the most fiercest, guards the multiverse can provide.
maddening winds.
6. A very elaborate series of pressure plates threaten to
send off an alarm spell.