With “kill 10 rats” already being a trope, developers have this habit of trying to be coy and meta by actually putting quests in their MMOs where you, yup, kill 10 rats. I get the feeling that they think they’re doing something clever and cheeky, even though practically all of their competitors have done the same. So here we go: ten literal “kill 10 rats” quests that you can find in your games today.

Webster’s Dictionary describes “kill 10 rats” as “something nerds do, now shut up and read a few intelligent words.” I think the editors are getting a little lazy there at Webster’s, but that’s nothing compared to the OED crowd that routinely slips in paragraphs of cut-and-pasted Hunger Games fan fiction just to pad the volumes.

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Anyway, we all know that “kill 10 rats” is a derogatory term for those quests that make you slaughter a certain number of things to make life happier for the quest giver. Why that quest giver has a very specific number in mind has always fascinated me, but never mind. It stems from a long-standing RPG tradition by which lowbie characters typically start their career by doing a little rodent culling in the basement of a tavern. That’s how all great people got their start, Abraham Lincoln included.