02-12-2019, 09:38 PM | #21 | |
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Re: Jurassic Park
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Part of the issue is that there aren't that many real world carnivores which are large enough to be useful as mounts or draft animals. |
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02-12-2019, 09:59 PM | #22 |
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Re: Jurassic Park
I once had a setting where dinosaurs survived in Americas and sauropods domesticated by ancient Native Americans. The tribes traveled with the herds of sauropods and hunted the dinosaurs that followed the herds. The Europeans were easily repulsed when they were incapable of dealing with sauropod cavalry.
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02-12-2019, 10:09 PM | #23 | |
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The introduction describes it as a sourcebook for human/dino adventuring. For 4th Edition, it runs about 43 pages and was published in 2006. You can play a character indigenous to the "isolated" world or introduce cross-dimensional travelers to the setting as part of a multiverse. The last chapter of about five pages introduces the "World of Banded Night" as a default starter setting. |
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02-12-2019, 10:27 PM | #24 |
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Re: Jurassic Park
I think a more serious obstacle to realistic training of dinosaurs is not the herbivore/carnivore question, but general intelligence. Reptiles (which dinos are not) aren't really smart enough to be trained. Some species of dinosaur may be smarter than that, but still not equal to the typical mammalian species. I suspect you could slap a saddle and tack on a dino, and it would ignore you, for the most part, and do as it pleases.
To my not-so-expert understanding, anyway. YMMV.
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02-12-2019, 10:33 PM | #25 | |
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Ornithopods like Tenontosaurus, Iguanadon, or the various hadrosaurs might also be reasonable choices. Luke |
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02-12-2019, 10:35 PM | #26 | |
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Personally, for a riding dinosaur, I would go with some of the smaller iguanadon relatives, like camptosaurus or tenontosaurus. They are about the right size range for mounts, and lack the obvious weaponry that could be a danger to a potential trainer. Without those, one can easily imagine them using speed and numbers as their primary defense, just like horses.
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02-12-2019, 10:48 PM | #27 |
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One thing to keep in mind about Lands Out of Time is that it deliberately errs on the side of dramatic expectation rather than current science (or, rather, the twelve year old science that was current at the time of publication). Velociraptors are man-sized, stegosaurs have a subsidiary brain in their hips, sauropods spend most of their lives submerged in water, and there is nary a feather in sight.
It usually calls out any major violations of reality, but I think you should be aware of it when making a purchase decision.
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02-13-2019, 06:18 AM | #28 | |
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02-13-2019, 06:28 AM | #29 |
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The damage is given in the description, based on "Damage for Animals" on p. 460 of the Basic Set. They attack by rolling vs. their DX, unless they have a listed Brawling skill.
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02-13-2019, 07:05 AM | #30 |
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