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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6782042" data-attributes="member: 6669384">My own character owns/is-partnered-with a Pegasus.  Her name is Oich Alaine (Lovely evening in Gaelic, or so I'm told).When it looks like it will be plot-inconvenient for the party to have a flying scout, or for my character to have that kind of aerial mobility, I ask the DM if she (the Pegasus) should get left behind or sent away.It's a basic courtesy, the kind of thing that DMs recognize and appreciate.  It's also the reason why DMs let characters like mine own/ride Pegasus. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The player in question was running this Wyvern rider for a session, sort of a test drive, and we reached one of those moments.  It was decided that Oich Alaine needed to carry a message back to an army camp, warning them of an enemy force on the march.  The other player decided that two such messengers were better than one (in case one doesn't get through), and sent his Wyvern off with a duplicate message.So he gets it.  He understands that, to be trusted with an unusual resource in a game, you have to know when to ease off.  He understands that we're not in a competition, not trying to "beat" the DM.  That is an important difference between this player and the departed Problem Child.</blockquote>

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