Quote Originally Posted by Admiral Squish View Post
It's all nature vs. nurture, isn't it? Whether we are born evil or become that way. The greatest question of the ages. But then, I suspect you're not here for philosophy.

Logically, they'd respond like most reptiles or birds who just hatched. Imprinting. But you wouldn't want to make it handle animal to teach them things, as they'd still be sentient. Diplomacy checks, with a +5 bonus for being the perceived 'mommy'. Of course, if the character's male, you could have fun making the dragons always refer to him as 'mommy' and let the other characters mock away.

Maybe they could be sort of thoughtlessly destructive? Like eating squirrels or dogs without really thinking about it, put forth an interesting psychological question to your PCs of if they should kill them now to prevent future evil, or try to discourage the natural evil of them.
IIRC, the Draconomicon seems to suggest both. You CAN nurture the nature out of them, but for chromatic dragons, you more often than not end up with the nurture side.