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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Titus_Manlius" data-source="post: 4327179" data-attributes="member: 70588">On my groups first session they succeeded in binding a Guard Drake with rope at the end of the third encounter of Kobold Hall (Skull-Skull!)  At this point the session ended and they excitedly talked of how they would begin to train the Drake for their fighting pet in the next session.According to the Monster Manual, Drakes are to fight to the death for their masters.  However, this drake did watch his master and fellow drake being slaughtered by his present captors as well as receive quite the beating himself.The question now is how to handle my PC's trying to train their new Drake.  My current thought is to allow my PC's to train it through healing it from the previous battle, my elf's high skill in Nature, and other forms of positive reinforcement.  I've decided to privately judge each character's actions in the training instead of doing a skill challenge since I believe the challenge would muddle the process and come up with unfair results.If the PC's train the Drake by positive reinforcement I believe it should go to their side since it was beaten to do the bidding of its previous masters.  If the PC's, however, act negatively towards it I believe it will just attack anything that comes near it or run back to the Kobold's side in the next encounter.Just give me your thoughts on what to do in this scenario.....Also since the Drake's speak no language except a series of "clicks" would they be understood by the ritual "comprehend language"?Thanks for your thoughts!</blockquote>

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