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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5678095" data-attributes="member: 2011">I think this is disingenuous as a DM. It doesn't take much to just stay put as a rat or to scurry across the floor. I wouldn't use Insight vs. Bluff unless the rat was doing something unusual. A rat in the king's palace? Yup. Someone will notice. A rat in many parts of the city or sewers? Nope. An everyday thing. Nobody would give the rat a second glance in many scenarios.How often do you have an important conversation where you move around a lot and go into different rooms and close doors behind you. Typically, someone goes somewhere quiet, closes the door behind them, and then starts an important conversation.Yes sometimes, the NPCs might do something unusual which makes it tough for the rat PC. But if the DM often runs the NPCs as if they have an omnipotent deity whispering in their ears in order to create challenges for the rat PC, then he's just either doesn't understand how normally intelligent beings behave, or he's being a dick. IMO.Maybe not, but a player gives up a lot playing a Changeling race.</blockquote>