| ZacWilliam |
I discouraged her, and used her knowledge nature check to let her know they were non-domesticatable and really mean, but my wife still *REALLY* wanted to keep and train the baby Owlbear, as I expected she would. (For the record the rest of the party would have slaughtered it where it peeped, but weren't gonna mess with her when her domestic instinct put a Ranger and a Barbarian in front of it with swords drawn.)
We came to a compromise. I know it's strictly against the rules, but her Ranger had just hit level 4 by killing the mother bear so the deal was this: She could keep the baby owlbear and bond it as her animal companion, but that's all she gets and it IS a baby: useless in battle and needing much care.
Basically she gets to keep her baby owlbear but she loses having a useful animal companion for a good long while till it grows up some. Does that sound like a passable trade off?
Right now she's leaving it penned up in Diamond Lake. I think by the time we start the 2nd adventure of letting it have matured enough to come along with her but still not be very useful. 'Course now I have to come up with a stat block for a baby owl bear. Any thoughts/suggestions?