What can a rat do.....

[Larrin]

The theme dead rat deserter lets you turn into a tiny rat, and in D&D encounters my scout has that theme:

Effect: You change from your humanoid form to the form of a Tiny rat, or vice versa. When you change from rat form to humanoid form, you can shift 1 square.
While in rat form, you cannot attack. You retain your game statistics, but gain a climb speed equal to half your normal speed, and a +4 bonus to Stealth checks. Your equipment becomes part of your rat form, and you drop any other items you are holding. You continue to gain the benefits of the equipment you wear, except shields and item powers. While equipment is part of your rat form, it cannot be removed, and anything in a container that is part of your rat form is inaccessible.
Special: You can use this power only once per round.

The only penalty is that you can't attack. So last week I realized that I could still make heal checks in rat form, so when the cleric went unconscious I went into rat form and made a heal check, flavoring it that i climbed into the clerics mouth and massaged his uvula. Even with a -1 due to my 8 wisdom, i still made the check. It was much more fun than just making the check in normal form.

Since then I've been trying to think of fun things to do using:

* tiny (can enter others space)
*climb speed 3
* humor

My first idea is to climb up on allies, and let them move me around, then popping back to human form on my next turn. this morphed into a couple of further ideas:
*do this with the defender, to make it impossible for them not to trigger his anger if they try and mellee me
* aid another with defense or attack by grabbing their hair, a la rattatouille

I wouldn't spend a lot of time doing this, but as a scout I'm often the first one down to low health, so i'm interested in safe ways to use my rat form defensively and funly.

Anyway, Any suggestions? I'm not trying to power game as much as use the power uniquely and amusingly.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Climb inside the bad guy's backpack? Heck, you could just wander around in the bad guy's lair and probably not even be noticed. Who's going to pay attention to a rat? They're probably everywhere.

 

[Shadus]

Crawl inside a large or bigger creature's mouth, the re-size and and slash away.

Tie the enemies shoe laces together. Or even crawl up an enemy and take off their armor.

Crawl through cracks in the wall to get to the other side and spy/open locked doors.

In town, dance around with little clothes (like a top hat and cane) on for money.

The power doesn't say anything about not being able to talk. Go into hiding and play mind games on your enemies while the other prepare a sneak attack. ("Ovvveeerrrr Heeeerrrreee.")

 

[On Puget Sound]

Intimidate cats.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Spread disease and kill millions?

 

[the Jester]

Get fleas?

 

[marelion]

I`m still waiting for the option to turn into a miniature giant space hamster before I would consider turning into a tiny creature: Go for the eyes, Boo, go for the eyes!!!

No, seriously, being a tiny creature and having a climb speed should help tremendously while scouting ahead to spot potential ambushes or enemies weaknesses: How about climbing the ogre`s back to check for signs of rust in his chainmail? Or how about foiling the BBEG`s rituals by gnawing out the most important parts of his ritual scroll?!^^ Help your party members to get better prices at inns: "Hey, look at this! There is a rat in my chamber!"."Please, good sir, keep your voice down. I am terribly sorry for the invconvinience. Might a free beer help you recover from your shock, whilst my maiden cleans your rooom? "That`s a good start, but not nearly enough, do you see these scratches I got here?! This thing nearly bite me!... But maybe a little discount could persuade me to lower my voice a little."

The possibilties are virtually endless

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

Rat your allies out to save your own hide?

 

[chitzk0i]

Keep in mind that a Tiny creature is the size of a housecat or an American football, so you'll get some attention for being a fairly large rat.

 

[Traveon Wyvernspur]

Keep in mind that a Tiny creature is the size of a housecat or an American football, so you'll get some attention for being a fairly large rat.

Perhaps the size of the Mexican water rat?