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Message: <blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7336598" data-attributes="member: 12377">I'd use the variant Loyalty rules in the DMG, with slight modification.Increasing Loyalty takes training time and successful Wisdom (Animal Handling) checks -- as an initial guess, 1 check per week with DC = current Loyalty + 5. Losing Loyalty would work as normal. Max Loyalty would be equal to your passive Wisdom (Animal Handling).An animal would then need 10 or more Loyalty to effectively defend you in combat or attack a superior foe at your command. Loyalty 1-9 means the animal will do normal un-frightening animal things at your command -- which might include attacking a non-threatening target if that's the kind of thing the animal might do (for example, predators might do that, but most herbivores won't, except certain ornery ones). Loyalty 0 or lower means the animal doesn't really cooperate with you.I've used the Loyalty rules to manage NPC henchpeople and it's worked reasonably well.</blockquote>