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<blockquote data-quote="Gruns" data-source="post: 2137446" data-attributes="member: 10312">Hey all...More of a &quot;How would you handle this situation&quot; than a rules question...I believe my new campaign(starting tonight) is going to have a Druid in it. (Players havent actually created characters yet, but have been throwing some ideas around.) Anyway, an early encounter I have planned involves a bear occupying a place the PCs need to go. The bear happens to be the pet of an ogre, who will not be present when the PCs first encounter the bear.Now I assume the druid would try to Animal Empathy (or Wilderness Lore) the bear into at least a neutral state until the PCs do what they need to do. If this happens, and the ogre comes home to see the shenanigans going on, what are the chances the bear will turn on the PCs, should the ogre tell it to do so? Would you just have some sort of opposed Animal Empathy check? The ogre isn't a druid or anything, just had the bear for a while. On the other hand, the druid IS a druid, and this is what they do best so... I'm leaning toward giving the ogre a +2 to the roll, simply because it's more familiar with the bear. The bad side to this: This is my first time DMing with 2 of the 4 party members, and I just hope they have enough sense to have their 1st level characters run away if faced with the bear AND the ogre... Any thoughts from the vets?Later!Gruns</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gruns, post: 2137446, member: 10312"] Hey all... More of a "How would you handle this situation" than a rules question... I believe my new campaign(starting tonight) is going to have a Druid in it. (Players havent actually created characters yet, but have been throwing some ideas around.) Anyway, an early encounter I have planned involves a bear occupying a place the PCs need to go. The bear happens to be the pet of an ogre, who will not be present when the PCs first encounter the bear. Now I assume the druid would try to Animal Empathy (or Wilderness Lore) the bear into at least a neutral state until the PCs do what they need to do. If this happens, and the ogre comes home to see the shenanigans going on, what are the chances the bear will turn on the PCs, should the ogre tell it to do so? Would you just have some sort of opposed Animal Empathy check? The ogre isn't a druid or anything, just had the bear for a while. On the other hand, the druid IS a druid, and this is what they do best so... I'm leaning toward giving the ogre a +2 to the roll, simply because it's more familiar with the bear. The bad side to this: This is my first time DMing with 2 of the 4 party members, and I just hope they have enough sense to have their 1st level characters run away if faced with the bear AND the ogre... Any thoughts from the vets? Later! Gruns [/QUOTE]

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