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Tom Kalbfus1 12-23-04, 11:57 PM	On the D20 Modern Board I have been talking about creating a D20 Dinosaur Monster/Menace Manual. Dinosaurs can fit in with either game system, so why not create a supplement listing Dinosaur stats for both? For instance dinosaurs can be listed by terrain type and the era they lived in. In addition, at the back of the book a brief campaign setting could be included called "The World of T-Rex" which is basically a map of late Cretaceous Earth, with a focus of the continent of North America on the other side. All the usual terrain features found in most D&D maps would be included except there would be no towns, cities, roads, or ruins shown. Some sort of time travel or plane shifting plot hook would be required to get intelligent characters into this setting. There would also be encounter tables for each terrain type. Several set ups for adventures would be included. One would be for D20 Modern characters, and the other would be for D&D characters. This would be a dual use supplement. Any comments on this idea?
TemporalEnergon 12-24-04, 01:55 AM	In the MM they already have about 5 dinos
cwslyclgh 12-24-04, 02:17 AM	MM2 and MM3 each have several more dinos...
Raymond_Luxury_Yacht 12-24-04, 04:32 PM	MM2 and MM3 each have several more dinos... All of which are crap. The designers watched JPIII one to many times. (Once)
The Happy Gank 12-24-04, 04:45 PM	All of which are crap. Ouch...I actually like the dinosaurs from the Monster Manuals. If I have any complaint, it's that there aren't enough examples. I mean...how many draconic, arachnid, ooze-like, or fey creatures do we have? More than enough, from my perspective. I'd love to see more dinos...
Tom Kalbfus1 12-24-04, 11:21 PM	The only trouble was some of the dinosaurs were tailor made for D&D, the riding animal dinos for instance, some dinosaurs have magic powers etc. I think we need a dinosaur manual based on just the fossile evidence for what dinosaurs actualy existed, with some thinks added such as skin colorization, but nothing that could only fit in a magic world. We have a good idea of what the world of the dinosaurs looked like. If some product could include a map of North America with terrain features useful to a D&D campaign, and Random encounters charts of what dinosaurs would be encountered where, that would go along way towards aiding the DM. Its up to the DM to add the other stuff that would make it relevant to a D&D campaing or a D20 Modern Campaign. Dinosaurs are basically large animals, they aren't intelligent opponents, in some ways dinos are part of the scenery. Most dinosaurs won't try to eat the PCs, the occasional T-Rex being an exception. Mostly a dinosaur world is an empty world, that the DM has to add NPCs to in order to make interesting. In a D&D campaign, you need to add some magic using or capable creatures to challenge the PCs beyond the occasional random encounter with a dinosaur. In a D20 Modern campaign, you need a time machine, intelligent opponents, perhaps a big game hunter, a mad corporate executive, or some criminals get into the act to make things more interesting, but the commone denominator to it all is the dinosaurs and the world they live in.