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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Gumphrey" data-source="post: 4283197" data-attributes="member: 12872">Maybe you could be less condescending, please?Just a thought.This is fun! Your turn.Actually, the rest of your post kinda proves that you can. It's just that the prior comment sounded a lot like "my friends are better than yours". Especially the captial "people YOU play with".I tend to agree with virtually all of this post. The thing is, though, in most games, DMs don't have useful on the fly information available for completely unexpected situations. My first comment was actually humor; although, now it's completely wasted. If a DM has decided in advance how you're going to come across specific information, asking rats about it isn't going to get you that information. Now, a great DM would put in a few situations were asking rats for information was the only way to get it, but those aren't going to be exactly common. And if your wizard forgets about his (useless) familiar all the time, why is the DM going to go the extra mile to even bother caring about it?Plus, rats are freaking dumb. They're not going to know a lot anyway. You can't ask them if specific people walked by, because rats identify others by smell, just like nearly all animals. About the best you could hope for is if, wandering in a sewer, you asked some of them if there's any really big nasties living down there and one of them said "yes, further down the tunnel."</blockquote>