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Message: <blockquote data-quote="epithet" data-source="post: 7354307" data-attributes="member: 6796566">Where's the fun in that? If there's just a blood hawk going after the hobgoblin chieftain, then I (as DM) have to deal with it (realistically, just adding average damage every round.) My way, a player gets to roll an attack and damage once a round on the hawk's turn, and gets to shout new targets to it if she wants to. Meanwhile, the caster can do whatever else--it's not his bird any more.A blood hawk is not a powerful thing. It gets one attack and minor damage, and does not (in my opinion) justify concentration. If the spell required concentration my party would use it once (from the scroll) and never consider learning it. If I were to make it a concentration spell, the hawk would need to be able to do a lot more stuff.</blockquote>