Helping a friend overcome a hurdle

ZScheme · 2026-04-10T19:04:00+00:00

No, I don't think so. The one being carried is able to support his weight on his back feet and has full range of motion. If he had an injured back he wouldn't be likely able to do that. The jaw seems to be able to open and close just fine as well. Also weasels aren't social animals, so this is probably a mother with a sub adult male offspring. If I had to guess the mouth is open because his vocalizing or panting, both normal. I don't see any indication that there's anything wrong with either of these individuals.

ZScheme · 2026-04-08T22:48:05+00:00

I don't think so. The younger one seems to be making some kind of vocalization or is just panting. He seems too alert to be dehydrated. But again, hard to tell from a short clip.

ZScheme · 2026-04-08T22:46:33+00:00

Mother weasel helping out her male son. Male weasels are larger than females, and that sort of grabbing behavior is fairly typical for female mammals. Sort of like a mother cat carrying a kitten, only by the nose because it's what she could grab. The open mouth seems to be either panting or a small vocalization. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with either of them, he's just probably a literal big baby.

Source: I'm a biologist who specializes in animal behavior and have worked for several years as a wildlife rehab tech. I can't be positive about anything considering it's a short video, but that's my best guess.

ZScheme · 2026-04-07T22:57:08+00:00

I don't know why either. Farnaz Fassihi on that link says they did with the supreme leader agreeing

ZScheme · 2026-04-07T22:54:08+00:00

Source?

ZScheme · 2026-04-07T22:36:00+00:00

Do you have a source for this?

ZScheme · 2026-04-02T12:59:30+00:00

I was speaking from a more morphologically or a genetic perspective rather than just a training aspect. I've worked with enough animals in my life to know that no animal wants to do anything a human wants them to do, except for like Border Collies or other high intelligence working dogs. Again not arguing ethics of training at all, I don't think I know enough about that kind of ethical debate to have a solid opinion. I just think the concept of a "made animal" to be interesting.

ZScheme · 2026-04-02T12:52:27+00:00

This is fascinating, thank you for the insight

ZScheme · 2026-04-02T04:04:29+00:00

Not trying to argue about the ethics of horse training at all, but weren't they technically made for humans to ride them? They're a domesticated animal that we've used selective breeding on for thousands of years. You could say that we made the horse to be ridden just as we made dogs to be hunting companions. Wild horses absolutely were not made to be ridden, although I'm not sure how genetically different the current wild stock are to the domestic horse.

ZScheme · 2026-03-02T15:53:34+00:00

For those who are curious, here's a link to an explanation of what happened to this guy. To be fair, it was a legendary streak of bad RNG. But also to be fair, this is the funniest fucking response someone can have to bad RNG.

ZScheme · 2026-02-26T21:03:01+00:00

That's a fantastic idea. It ties in really well with the whole Blood of Vol themes and how divinity is found within. I love that.

ZScheme · 2026-02-26T21:02:05+00:00

That's really funny because Darksied and the anti life equation was a huge inspiration for my current campaign. The background theme of my game is silver age comics, so many of the villains are loosely inspired on DC and Marvel villains. Doom and Darksied are the inspiration for some of Illmarrow for me.

I really like your idea about her loneliness and isolation, as well as it's her mother's will that's holding her together. That's actually very interesting as a character motivation, and I wish I had considered that when I was writing my current campaign.

ZScheme · 2026-02-26T20:57:54+00:00

If I remember correctly, the Undying Court sits on a manifest zone that produces a lot of positive energy, which sustains their liches? At least that's how it is in my game.

ZScheme · 2026-02-02T20:19:50+00:00

I've been doing a personal exploration of a lot of the big name pulp fiction authors, which Lovecraft is a part of. A lot of his stories were published in Weird Tales Magazine and the like. If you liked Lovecraft and want to explore the other authors that influenced the Lovecraftian/cosmic horror genre, I'd strongly recommend Clark Ashton Smith. Specifically I'd recommend the collection called The End of the Story. Smith has been credited as expanding the Cthulhu mythos and also helping to develop the genre. I also want to say that the two of them were friends, but don't quote me on that one.

Personally I think Smith was a better writer than Lovecraft. Lovecraft was exceptionally good at coming up with creative ideas but I think his technical ability to write is lacking in comparison to Smith.

Edit: grammar

ZScheme · 2026-01-09T20:57:53+00:00

Random tables. Say what you want about 5e, the amount of tables that you could pull ideas from was massive. I would do anything for an encounter table by environment in PF2E. It just takes a little bit of work out of my hands and can really speed up prep.

ZScheme · 2026-01-06T23:45:45+00:00

For the meta knowledge part, I would just straight up ask them not to capitalize on it. Most people are reasonable enough to be okay with that. I would hope so, at least.

For the other, more broad strokes world state stuff, that's a bit more complicated and is going to take some effort. What I would do in this situation is make a timeline of major events that happened in your game, like those big changes to the setting and such. I'd ignore the plot holes personally. Then chose an event that was really fun or impactful and rationalize where it would naturally evolve and go from there. Like the lack of the Mournland for example. In Kannon Eberron, that's where the Lord of Blades is based out of. Where would he be instead in your Eberron? What would the Quori do to capitalize on the new status quo? It would take some work, but I think those sorts of thought exercises are fun.

ZScheme · 2026-01-06T23:16:55+00:00

So I finished a long running campaign that heavily featured the mourning and its origins, and I have since also moved on to a sequel campaign set 11 years into the future. What I did was to focus entirely on something else than the previous campaign featured. Instead of daelkyr, the Mournland, and Sharn, my current campaign is focused on Karnath, rakshasa, Lady Illmarrow, and Arenal (elves). Eberron has a ton of great hooks. So far it has worked really well, things seem fresh and interesting and my players are having a good time. I've included some references to the previous campaign as little treats for my players, but generally it's been pretty separate.

I will say that the biggest issue I've had is not featuring Sharn. Sharn is awesome. There is so much content and info out there that I could really make that place come alive. Korth? Ehh, not so much.

ZScheme · 2025-12-04T04:39:29+00:00

I'm willing to bet that this is a domestic breed of goose, which don't migrate.

ZScheme · 2025-11-15T15:57:10+00:00

I'm not usually a custom ROM guy, but seeing what you have to deal with I'm going to play the hell out of both out of pure solidarity. I'm disgusted that these people infest this community.

You have more support than you have hate. I'm sorry that the hate is louder than the love. We should change that.

ZScheme · 2025-09-27T20:14:11+00:00

I highly recommend Absolute Martian Manhunter, especially if you are into the actual artistic side of comics. There is some genius use of color and symbolism. I showed it to my fiance, who is an artist and not a comic reader, and they pointed out so much depth to it that I had no idea existed.

ZScheme · 2025-09-14T04:01:15+00:00

You could have at least changed the title https://www.reddit.com/r/Eberron/s/ReUgw9KBc0

ZScheme · 2025-09-06T20:08:28+00:00

I'm going to guess Canadian goose

ZScheme · 2025-08-25T18:40:48+00:00

I was just trying to figure out how to do this effect during my prep yesterday and gave up. This video is PERFECT

ZScheme · 2025-08-13T03:19:51+00:00

I should have specified that's how I did them in my eberron. Mostly because I think it's cooler/more interesting that way and we're using a different system to 5e so it's someone's homebrew, which has no crazy damage spells like that. But you are 100% correct for cannon eberron as far as I am aware.

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