to celebrate 25k followers, I thought i’d do a little something
3 reference sheets are up for grabs!!
Rules are as follows:
winners will be contacted on the 23rd of march :>
I wanna do one of those “if you’re lgbt put your orientation, sign and favorite tool in the tags” but I know most of The Gays have never touched a tool on their life. I’ll be left with 15 lesbians, one gay dude and a handful of bisexuals and they better all be tagging screwdrivers
Eh. Doing it anyway.
If you’re lgbt put your orientation, sign and favorite tool in the tags”
When you spot one (1) constellation and you instantly feel like a sea captain looking for the North-West passage
There’s some videos on youtube about people who capture wild hawks and train them for falconry.
I’m not sure how I feel about that. If they were raised to be falconry birds then that’s different but capturing a wild hawk for it does not sit well with me.
Hello! I’m a bit out of it this morning so I’m gonna make it a bit brief, but if you want more detail, feel free to ask or message me privately, I love to talk about this stuff.
My post will be very US centric, as i’m located there.
Anyway, in the united states, to trap a raptor for falconry, you have to be permitted. This means you have to have a mentor, an enclosure that has been inspected by the local fish and wildlife service, and have passed a written exam about bird of prey husbandry and training. It is not just anyone trapping a bird willy nilly.
The bird you trap has to be a juvenile, which means it has already left the nest but is still within its first year. The mortality rate for these birds is high, between 80-90%. What people don’t understand is the wild is hard. It’s grueling, its brutal. Very few of these birds survive, and as humans press more into habitats, that mortality rate goes up. In some ways, we owe it to these birds to do something.
The bird is then trained. The bird hunts. The bird is free to go whenever it wishes. With a falconer, the bird is given a steady source of food, water, medical care. My first bird actually had malaria, something my vet predicts he got while still in the nest. He would have died in the wild if not for me.
Most falconers do not keep these birds past two years. It is unfair to the bird to do so. When released, these birds are smarter, better hunters, and will go on to raise better young. With a falconer, they are given the chance to fail without the consequences of failing. From there, they can learn where most of the other juvenile birds do not have that luxury.
Falconry, done properly, has shown to have no ill effects on wild populations. These birds aren’t trapped to be pets. They’re trapped to be hunters, and will eventually go back into the wild to raise better hunters.
Very well stated!
we’re almost in the ‘20s and dadaism is thriving, europe’s in a shambles, everyone is broke and the right wing is on the rise so i guess we really don’t learn a goddamn thing huh
This is really the post I was looking for
Fun D&D rule for your home games: If you’re out of spell slots, you can keep using spells, but at your own personal expense - it will cost you points of exhaustion. A level 1 spell will cost you 1 point of exhaustion, level 2 will cost 2 points, etc… up to level 6, at which point you die. So you can sacrifice yourself to do one final level 6 spell, but nothing higher. This way you could give your party one last clutch spell, but you have to spend days recovering afterwards.
I actually use a system like this in my homebrew games. It hasn’t really come up as they’re pretty good at not overusing their resources to start with, but it works really well and feels a lot more satisfying than just… not being able to cast when you’re still up and about. Especially dice a good portion of casters can’t do a lot else in combat situations.
take notes friends. This would be cool for the muldoon game, as it lends itself to how exhausting and damaging magic can be. Maybe the threat is a chance at corruption? Loss of hit points? I’ve never loved how drastic the exhaustion system works in game, but for something like this I think its fitting.
You know what fantasy writing needs? Working class wizards.
Anyway, think about it.
There are so many possibilities outside of “stodgy academic who wears ugly robes” and “Very good holy man who helps everyone and the fact they’ve never had a job is never brought up” and “evil wizard toiling away on great evils in his evil tower in the evil country.”
Intern wizards who spend all their time grinding diamonds, gathering bat guano and baking tiny tarts for spell components so that their masters can cast the really cool spells.
