Evening, gents

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How fantasy are we getting with this? Are we trying to stay somewhat in the realm of reality or are you just still in the whatever-sounds-cool planning phase?

Two words: Dino Riders.

A horned monster (triceratops) in a labirinth.
Siren$ (feathered pterosaurs) eating sailors.
Hydra (a titanboa nest) in the swamp...

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I can dump armor OP, I also might have some things from other Bronze Age cultures you may want to use.

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I envision a vast but shallow inland sea, where large brontosaurii and duckbills graze plant material. The nations trade across this sea in their bronze-age Greek ships, wary of attacks by pliosaurs and ichthyosaurs (sea monsters). But the sea gets shallower every year, exposing new islands and allowing divers to explore wrecks and caves they previously could not reach, along with the ruined towns and cities that used to inhabit this plain before the sea formed, many years ago.

also very tall dinosaurs peeing on people in your magical realm

Here's a ship if you need it!

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FUck that sounds like fun.
Really wish my friends were in to tabletop

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OP here, it's D&D 3.5, so reality is very relaxed.
Awesome stuff.
Basically, if it wasn't in Jurassic World, they won't know what it is.

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>Thinking about ice-themed stuff, like he's trying to send the world into a new age to make, essentially, an ice age.

youtube.com/watch?v=qQRWfxkCdU4

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If you're going with adventures involving dinosaurs I'd recommend you add in a bit of Aztec/Mesoamerican cultural aspects to your world. Perhaps have the characters stumble into an colony of villages where the natives worship the dinosaurs as gods.

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I can also supply some meso-American art!

Why is that guy taking a shit on the battlefield?

You could make it so that your characters eventually go traveling to distant regions of the globe where they deal with different, evolved dinosaurs (which gives you an better excuse to use old school RPG enemies but as dinosaurs which instantly makes it better).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ica_stones

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This interests me. What sort of enemies would you suggest, and as what dinosaur?

If you choose to incorporate these Meso-American elements to your table you could also use this chance to have Pterosaurs play a role in the story since it's very likely the indigenous tribes would look up to the larger, more carnivorous pterosaurs as gods.
Quetzacoatlus (the biggest pterosaur of all time) is literally named after an Aztec serpent god and he probably fed on baby dinosaurs. Who's to say he wouldn't feed on baby humans, and these primitive humans would eventually sacrifice their babies to the mighty god of the skies ?

South America had lots of interesting dinosaurs back in the mid stages of the Cretaceous period. You probably heard of Giganotosaurus and Argentinosaurus at some point. You could use those as table bosses.
I'm going to dig through my old dinosaur books and come back with ideas. I've actually had the same idea as you, except for the story of a movie or a television cartoon..
I'll be back soon enough.

Map Idea

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Greek mythology from Orphism to Hesiod is already pretty high on drugs.

Imagine Sophocles with a trex, or maybe Alex companion cavalry riding a Deinonychus ya know velociraptor.

Or Theseus fighting the Minotrex.

Would play with you op.

I made a similar thing with the age of discovery and real sea monsters.

Hey OP, I got something for ya. Was just at conference in WY for paleontology, this guy Nizar Ibrahim was the keynote speaker. He painted a pretty neat picture of a place he called the "River of Giants." Even if what he proposes is BS, it'd still be a cool area to set some playtime.

Essentially, it's a river system that runs that runs through a vast desert. Even if most of the land is like the Saharan desert, along this river runs an ecosystem unlike anything we have on earth.

Something similar could have happened sometimes in pre history, there where some pretty shallow seas. Not sure about a river.

In the Kem Kem fossil beds that they've been digging out of, they've pulled out fossils from multiple massive predators. Allosaurs, four types of crocodilian, spinosaurus. Pterosaurs with upper estimates of 35' or greater wingspans. The predators aren't all that's big - there's 25' sawfish. Coelacanth the size of VW beetles. Car sized turtles.

The guy is a NatGeo Explorer and a TED fellow. He's had some monumental finds and he's digging in a place where there hasn't been a lot of infrastructure scientifically so even if it's bunk, his is really the only formal opinion from which to go on.

Here's some more pictures.

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>those stupid humans will never see us coming

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OP, if you need more inspiriation, I would check out Dinosaur Lords and sequels, by Victor Milan.

Not that great writing, but interesting none the less.

I came here for the Dinosaurs, OP.

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>selfie stick

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IA good way for you to run a dinosaur-focused story would be to watch dinosaur documentaries or movies and see how they inspired you to write things related to them.
I made a list on Letterboxd with a few useful documentaries and movies for you to watch.
letterboxd.com/arthurveiga/list/list-of-dinosaur-media/
Let's keep this thread alive OP. Post what you can come up with as well and I'd be very willing to help.

Post results and updates on your story so we can keep the thread alive.

youtube.com/watch?v=VTzfaY2kx0U

that's the shittiest looking intelligent dinosaur I've ever seen, except for that one dinosauroid...

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OP here, had to go into work, but I'm back and taking notes.

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Egyptian (they interacted with the Greeks fairly regularly) dinosaurs necromancers.

>Basically, if it wasn't in Jurassic World, they won't know what it is.

In that case it's easier, just search for some feathered dinos

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Bought this a while ago and it seema like some good rule changes for a greek themed low magic campaign
paizo.com/products/btpy84e8