Sort of related, sorry if it isn't but...
>playing 5e
>playing NG Paladin
>friend is playing CG Wizard
>find mounds of dirt in a field
>turns out they're all connected tunels
>Wizard decides to go down the mounds to explore the tunnels
>he's a fucking gnome, by the way
>messes around for a bit while we deal with the kobolds and a drake popping out of the mounds
>break the drake'si back, killing it
>friend is STILLALIVE in the tunels taking treasure and killing sleeping kobolds
>finds a den of a handful of kobold eggs
>friend takes one and lights the rest on fire
>doesn't bother to discuss this with the party
>I deem it unreasonable and talk him down for it
>says it was justified
A couple of sessions later...
>CE Barbarian in our party manages to steal the egg and decides to try and smash it
>I roll athletics and managed to snatch it out of his hands without damaging it
>remembering how we got the egg, I roll sleight of hand
>crit
>hide the egg safely on my person
>no one except me and the DM knows where I hid it
I'm kinda worried, did I do the right thing? It's gonna be weird trying to raise a kobold either way.