Jin Re Sco, a character of mine that I am currently playing in a campaign has recently come into contact with a flock of Dire Bats. Normally this would be cause for Exp. However thanks to some lucky rolls, Jin has managed to restrain the bat he was fighting with only a point of damage (to the bat!). The rest of the team would usually come over and finish it off but, this time around, I felt like doing something a little different. Jin is a Lv2 Ranger, among the clutter of multi-classing that makes up the rest of him, and I figured that he may as well make use of those two levels for something neat. Specifically; Wild Empathy.
While attached to the bat via grapple rules, I asked my DM if I could make a Wild empathy check to make the bat friendly towards me (bearing in mind this thing is 5ft bigger than me with a 15ft wingspan). He agreed and I took some ten minutes staring at it and nodding or whatever it is that Wild Empathy looks like and rolled. I allowed him to roll for it since it was an unusual situation and guess what came up...
While attached to the bat via grapple rules, I asked my DM if I could make a Wild empathy check to make the bat friendly towards me (bearing in mind this thing is 5ft bigger than me with a 15ft wingspan). He agreed and I took some ten minutes staring at it and nodding or whatever it is that Wild Empathy looks like and rolled. I allowed him to roll for it since it was an unusual situation and guess what came up...