Jarassic Park

[lwcamp]

Originally Posted by Gurpspadawan

So I'm about to GM my first gurps campaign in a few months. Obviously by the title I'm doing a JP campaign set in the book continuity. I know we have dinosaurs in lands out of time, which helps believe me, but I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for ones not listed. Possibly some suggestions on building them. Thanks

I have stats for two groups of dinosaurs on my animalia site
http://panoptesv.com/RPGs/animalia/animalia.html
Dromeosaurs (raptors)
http://panoptesv.com/RPGs/animalia/d...meosaurid.html
Allosaurids
http://panoptesv.com/RPGs/animalia/d...meosaurid.html
I haven't gotten around to filling out the species accounts yet, but hitting the submit button will give you the stats of the listed species.

There entries were written with an eye toward real-world paleontology, using some of the more cutting-edge science from the Lionang formation discoveries and recent analyses on biomechanics. If you want a more traditional view of dinos, you might want to modify these a bit. The Jurassic Park franchise started out using paleontological science in transition between an older "traditional" view and the more modern understanding held today (it was quite cutting-edge for its time), but as the sequels dragged on the science became more and more dodgy. A Jurassic Park "velociraptor" (which could be based on my Utahraptor stats), for example, would not have wing assisted incline running (and might have higher IQ and Ground Move).

Luke

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Gigermann

There's also the PD+DR to convert

You can ignore PD up to 3 (it's already included in the way that Active Defenses are calculated in 4e). For PD 4+ I'd just make sure they have Combat Reflexes. It generally doesn't make sense for animals to have a Defense Bonus. DR hasn't changed at all (it's still DR 75 per inch of RHA).

[Gigermann]

Originally Posted by lwcamp

I have stats for two groups of dinosaurs on my animalia site

I would definitely prefer to use yours. If you're feeling industrious, what I need is Late-Cretaceous (~70mya) North America, probably starting with wetlands

[Phantasm]

There's always GURPS Update on e23 which is a guide for converting 3e characters (and critters) to 4e. It's a a free download, too, so don't be shy about grabbing it!

[Gurpspadawan]

Thanks to all of you guys I'll be definately using the animal site that was suggested and I'll try and pick up Dinosaurs and start some conversions. Any creature suggestions. I plan on going a rout that was almost taken in what would have been the third novel of splicing creatures with Dino's for a side campaign. Ay ideas for that one.

[CraigM]

Originally Posted by Gurpspadawan

Thanks to all of you guys I'll be definately using the animal site that was suggested and I'll try and pick up Dinosaurs and start some conversions. Any creature suggestions. I plan on going a rout that was almost taken in what would have been the third novel of splicing creatures with Dino's for a side campaign. Ay ideas for that one.

Jurassic Park meets The Island of Dr Moreau?

Are we talking human-dino hybrids here, dino-dino hybrids, or the more realistic "we took some recovered Wooly Mammoth DNA and used that to replace the modern DNA in an African Elephant egg, but because DNA is not the only thing that influences development the resulting creature shares some characteristics of both ancient mammoths and modern elephants..."?

If you're going with cinematic hybrids, you can give them any stats you feel are appropriate; they're essentially fantasy monsters.

[Gurpspadawan]

Originally Posted by CraigM

Jurassic Park meets The Island of Dr Moreau?

Are we talking human-dino hybrids here, dino-dino hybrids, or the more realistic "we took some recovered Wooly Mammoth DNA and used that to replace the modern DNA in an African Elephant egg, but because DNA is not the only thing that influences development the resulting creature shares some characteristics of both ancient mammoths and modern elephants..."?

If you're going with cinematic hybrids, you can give them any stats you feel are appropriate; they're essentially fantasy monsters.

Some dino with dino others dino with modern animals