Fright Checks and Stress and Derangement for pets and wild animals

[Plane]

Originally Posted by The Colonel

True - although if you needed to explain a modern assault rifle to an hand cannon user, you would at least have terms to work in: "like a handgonne, but can fire once every heartbeat or so - and can actually hit things you aim it at". It might seem implausible, and indeed provoke skepticism, but it might not be a completely alien concept.

true though they're closer TL so doing a TL-based penalty to the IQ skill to understand?

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Plane

regarding the permanent pyrophobia of a horse maybe that's because you can't use psychology to treat them like with humans you want to re-acclimate to fire?

You can train animals to overcome natural or learned phobias, but it takes time and lots of effort. Animal Handling skill replaces Psychology for this purpose, since it necessarily includes applied animal psychology.