Dungeons & Dragons Swarm of Rats Miniature

This is a highly detailed miniature of a Swarm of Rats.

This model was created by Yasashii Kyojin Studio who makes amazing models of the Monster Manual creatures and provided by Commercial License.

This miniature is made with Resin and comes unpainted. It will need to be Primed before painting. 

In Dungeons & Dragons, a Swarm of Rats is a low-level creature often used to challenge beginner adventurers or to create a sense of unease and chaos in urban or subterranean environments. Rather than representing a single creature, it embodies a mass of tiny beasts acting as a unified entity. Mechanically, a Swarm of Rats is treated as a single monster with its own set of statistics, hit points, and actions, but thematically it consists of dozens or even hundreds of rodents scurrying, biting, and overwhelming their target.

Swarm creatures, including rats, follow unique rules in combat. They cannot regain hit points through conventional healing and are immune to being charmed, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained, or stunned—conditions that wouldn’t logically apply to a mass of tiny creatures. Because the swarm is composed of numerous rats, it can occupy another creature's space and even move through it, creating a claustrophobic and dangerous encounter. As the swarm takes damage, it loses effectiveness, with its damage output decreasing as its hit points drop below half.

The Swarm of Rats typically deals piercing damage through its Bite attack, which represents dozens of rats gnawing at an enemy at once. Its relatively low armor class and hit points make it vulnerable to area-of-effect spells or attacks, which align with the idea of disrupting the swarm rather than targeting individual rats. However, its resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks reflects the difficulty of swatting away so many tiny creatures with conventional weapons.

Narratively, Swarms of Rats often appear in dark alleys, plague-ridden cities, haunted dungeons, or abandoned sewers. They may act independently as vermin drawn to filth and decay, or they could be under the control of a necromancer, vampire, or other sinister force. This versatility makes them a memorable encounter that highlights both mechanical nuance and flavorful horror.