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.
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.
Class
Attribute Requirements
None
Barred Beliefs
None
Race Requirement
Bonus Weapon Proficiencies
None
Required Weapon Proficiencies
None
Recommended Weapon Proficiencies
Pest Controllers usually carry daggers and darts, but may use any type of weapon normally permitted to thieves.
Barred Weapon Proficiencies
None
Bonus Non-Weapon Proficiencies
Recommended Non-Weapon Proficiencies
Alertness, Blacksmithing, Blind-Fighting, Carpentry, Direction Sense, Set Snares, Sign Language, Signaling, Stonemasonry, Tracking, Survival (underground), 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.
Wealth Options
They start with the standard 2d6x10 gp.
Homeland Terrain
None
Economic System
None