Quote Originally Posted by KorvinStarmast View Post
Brilliant plan (though the rat from one's usual bag of rats may be good enough, or one's familiar ...)
With the chicken, you also get a nice dinner out of it...
It's true bag of rats is the traditional answer in D&D, but black roosters also have a long history in being used that way. And you can buy chickens for 2cp, you have to catch rats on your own. Unless you use your own familiar. You monster.