Greetings gents, continuing a thread from yesterday, I'm working on a campaign setting for my group that revolves around bronze-age civilizations where most of the wildlife is various dinosaurs. To that end, I'm looking for images of bronze-age armor and weapons, as well as some more exotic dinosaurs for a party that mostly only knows the stuff from Jurassic Park. (Pic related) Any ideas for dinosaur-related plot hooks would be appreciated as well.
Greetings gents, continuing a thread from yesterday...
Jason Rivera
Dylan Fisher
>Postosuchus
>Dinosaur
I guess my advice for making "accurate" dinosaurs is to remember most were small. And the big scary macropredators were actually pretty rare and usually acted in ways the movies wouldn't usually show.
Spinosaurus, for example, behaved basically like a modern crocodile. Good for a river hazard.
Evan Gutierrez
tvtropes.org
TVTropes' page on dinosaurs is wonderfully extensive. Read the whole thing
Bentley Long
True, it's not really a dinosaur, but it certainly makes for a rather interesting surprise when the party stumbles across it. Basically, I'm trying to avoid some of the more obvious choices in favor of the bizarre and scary.
Austin Sullivan
Not a bad idea. There are a lot of great, freaky-looking dinosaurs and similar creatures which fit a lot of good roles.
But there's a beautiful simplicity to the T-Rex.
Dominic Perez
Right now I'm reading the novella the Dinosaurs lords.
Imagine late renaissence era warfare but with dinos. A bit hard to read but it's interesting, specially about the breed of dinos used for war and that stuff.
Liam Baker
Everybody expects the T-rex, Triceratops, and Velociraptor. So I figure I'll give them a bunch of things from the Triassic and Jurassic periods, stuff they've never heard of.
And then just when they think they've got things figured out, I'll have the T-Rex guarding the BBEG's lair.
Parker Gomez
I'm working on that kind of setting myself.
>Dinosaur hunt for food
>Hunt for leather claws and bones to make armor
>Trying to tame a mount
>Tempel dinosaur is stuck in quicksand and doesn't cooperate well with rescue attempts
>big dinosaur died in the middle of the village, a large pack of predators were tailing it
>take the brachiosaurus to the cliffs, only with his help you can reach the high caves
Gabriel Ramirez
Play ARK
Jonathan Garcia
Why not have a Giganotosaurus instead, if you're using the stuff that people probably won't recognise?
By the way, have you got all your players yet, or do you still have some spots open?
Samuel Evans
It's a face-to-face game, so I've got all the players. But I would be open to the possibility of something done online.
Also, gotta give the T. Rex his due.
Bentley Gray
>It's a face-to-face game, so I've got all the players
That sucks, sounds like it'd be fun.
>Also, gotta give the T. Rex his due.
I guess. Maybe you could set it up so that they could lure another predator over to distract the Rex?
David Moore
Carnotaurs are pretty neat & intimidating looking.
Wyatt Howard
I can't recall, weren't they thought to be pack hunters?
Austin Gutierrez
Problem with throwing in things like the Giganotosaurus is for all intents and purposes it is a T-Rex.
It isn't really gonna act any different than a T-Rex. It's not all that larger than a T-Rex. Hell, it even looks like a T-Rex and unless you're really into dinosuars you're not gonna know/care enough to notice the difference.
Show players a Giganotosaurus, and they'll go "What's that? Oh, it's kind of like a T-Rex? Oh shit, better run I guess."
But tell players they encounter a T-Rex, they'll immediately go "Oh fuck! A T-Rex!"
I'd take a look at the Jurassic Park books. The Raptors and the Rex still dominate the show, but he does throw in a few other dinosaurs. Like he proposed Carnotaurus was a chameleon with Predator-level abilities. Even the raptors were afraid of the island's Carnotaurs.
Blake Bell
Make sure to include bro-tier iguanodons
Eli Rogers
You just have to love old dinosaur illustrations.
Oliver Butler
Dinosaur illustrators are the best
Sebastian Robinson
Have a nice comparison of Spinosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and Baryonx.
Alexander Nguyen
You also could retool the traditional image of an animal into something else to make it more interesting.
Benjamin Young
Who'd have thought the T Rex would be so fluffy.
Aiden Torres
Case in point. All someone who's never heard of Gigano will just think "oh so it's like a T-Rex?"
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Wyatt Ramirez
My favorite dinosaur. I actually have fossilized tooth of one sitting on my desk. The name comes from the latin name for great whites since they have similar teeth structures.
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Grayson Wood
For more primitive tastes. I need more bronze age stuff for my folder.
Logan Garcia
Forget dinosaurs.
You need buzzsaw sharks.
David Perry
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Colton Ortiz
Also his cousin, scissor shark.
Nathaniel Peterson
What kinds of insects would the PC's run into?
Jason Watson
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Jackson White
Y'know, I'm sure that these have to be because of someone misinterpreting the fossils or getting them mixed up or something.
Nathan Jackson
Not an insect, but arthropleura was a prehistoric precursor to millepedes that was roughly the size of a minivan.
Joseph Cox
They discovered the jawbone of helicoprion or something like that, and the spiral tooth actually fits. It uses its unique teeth shape to chew up squid.
Thomas Brown
There's also meganeura, the dragonfly as big as a hawk.
Hudson Sanchez
OP, if you don't include kaprosuchus aka boar croc, then I will be disappointed.
Julian Martin
Careful with them though, the period they came from had the highest oxygen levels the Earth ever has.
Probably too high for humans to survive, at least for an extended period of time.
Easton Adams
The Carboniferous is pretty much the most metal prehistoric time period.
>Giant bugs everywhere
>Air is toxic due to so much oxygen
>In fact, so much oxygen there's a high amount of forest fires
The only more metal time period I could think of is the Permian due to the Permian-Triassic and the dino-dogs running around everywhere before then.
Matthew Bell
*Permian-Triassic extinction
Isaac Ward
>Velociraptor
haha
>You hear steps fast approaching
>the bushes to your left shake
>It's the Velociraptor!
>*small chirp*
>Party laughs
>the Pack mobs them
Grayson Miller
Ah, nothing like talking about pre-history with my elegan/tg/entlemen at five in the morning after a night with no sleep.
Jonathan Reed
The kind that would get your ass permabanned for posting faggot shit like that picture. Sick of people like you spamming that shit.
Jack Rodriguez
Pic related is my preferred reconstruction of Helicoprion.
Nathaniel Garcia
This is going really far back, but what about Anomalocaris?
I mean, sure it's only a half-meter long, but back then, everything else was couple of inches long at most.
Brayden Mitchell
Although that reconstruction has been debunked as inaccurate, I still like it too. A shark with a whip jaw sounds too awesome to exist.
A pterygotus would be a better creature if we're talking about predators that the OP's party will run into and have to fight.
Mason Cruz
These aren't quite dinosaurs but they're still cool.
Jace Sanchez
Also, I hope you have a wizard with a compsognathus familiar at some point.
Owen Howard
Fuck I hate you.
Colton Parker
eurypterids baby
Eli Garcia
Here, have a Sarcosuchus. That'd be fun to meet in the swamp, right?
Michael Baker
And Utahraptor. Think raptor, but the weight of a polar bear.
Nicholas Rivera
That was more Allosaurus. Carnos may or may not have hunted in pairs though.
Use this, OP. Nothing puts fear into someone's heart quite like dodging a croc as it lunges at you from the water's edge only for it to get up and start fucking GALLOPING after you.
Therizinosaurus is another good option if the group isn't all too familiar with it. Just have the party be hired to get rid of one that's taken over a farm and killed off some of the livestock. If they're truly unfamiliar with its looks then be certain to forbid googling an be as vague as possible outside of "it's a large herbivore". Only mention the big ass sickles on its fingers when they get a full view of it. Also be sure to make them assholes like canadian geese and use pic related as a reference picture if possible.
Juan Martin
Just for fun, OP should include Sarcosuchus's harmless, plankton eating cousin.
Isaac Gutierrez
>Sarcosuchus
Now comes in purely aquatic version.
Jaxon Russell
Here's a Deinonychus skeleton molded to the Utahraptor silhouette they put out a while ago. Absolute nightmare fuel.
Tyler Adams
OP, you should include this armored bastard.
>First predator of its kind to reach such size and power.
>Strong as fuck bite force, putting T-rex's to shame
>Has no teeth per say, but sharp edges built into its exoskeleton skull that is basically an organic guillotine.
That's right. This bastard has an EXOSKELETON.
The "feathers are lame" argument needs to die. Utahraptors are badass.
Adrian Miller
Apparently the force of the bite comes from the speed. They could take a bite in 60 milliseconds.
It takes 300 milliseconds to BLINK.
Zachary Kelly
Also:
>Livyatan melvillei
>Named after Moby Dick
>Teeth roughly 36 cm long, larger than any whale's
>The only rival that the legendary Megalodon ever had.
>Unlike Megalodon, it had mammalian intelligence
It's no wonder why this fucker was named after Moby Dick.
Grayson Brooks
Fuck man, people think the water is scary now. Back then it was just a whole different game. 13m crocodiles like Sarcosuchus and Deinosuchus. Shit like Mosasaurus (pic related). Sharks like Megalodon. And giant pliosaurs too- pliosaurus macromerus could have grown to 18m long, and evidence suggests there could be even larger species (for instance, there were pliosaur teeth marks on the bones of a 15m pliosaur found in Aramberri).
Thomas Thompson
Fuck. That's terrifying. It can turn you into mincemeat before you can even think.
This just makes me like Dunkleosteus even more.
Easton Williams
>Even its fucking EYES are armored
See, shit like this is why I fear the ocean. I know this thing is long extinct, but it's only a matter of time before something comes from the abyssal zone that resembles it just a bit too much. There's a reason that the ocean isn't fully explored. Sure everyone says it's about funding, but I like to think that secretly we're all just terrified of what might end up being found down there.
Ryder Hall
Hey, if OP is running something where people fight dinosaurs, can someone else run something where we hunt prehistoric marine creatures?
Cause reading about these things is really pumping me up.
James Russell
Well that, and their closest modern relatives are sperm whales.
Justin Bennett
>See, shit like this is why I fear the ocean
Don't open this link:
youtube.com
OP, if you are still here, here's another creature for you.
Gigantoraptor, aka an oviraptor-type creature that is 26 feet long and can pretty much pick up a full grown person in its beak like a toy.
Juan Price
>can someone else run something where we hunt prehistoric marine creatures
That would be fucking RAD. Prehistoric Moby Dick would be godly.
Caleb Sullivan
>Prehistoric Moby Dick would be godly.
Or prehistoric Jaws, fuck yeah.
Imagine trying to harpoon one of. That'd be fun.
Any more takers?
Daniel Cooper
Ethan Lee
Read Dinotopia.
Austin White
That is so god damn retarded looking.
It would never have that much feather.
William Lopez
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Mason Flores
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Hudson Morales
Bruh look at dis dood
Grayson Rodriguez
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Tyler Evans
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Ayden Perry
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Colton Bennett
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Ryan Wood
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Daniel Sanchez
Giant dragonflies which let you ride them
Tyler Nguyen
Well we really have no idea. It probably didn't look quite like that. But blindly insisting whatever dinosaur that is didn't have feathers like that is like saying "wha, T-Rex wasn't ever green!"
Caleb Rodriguez
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Leo James
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Chase Campbell
Admittedly Crylophosaurus probably didn't have a feather arrangement used by OWLS. Although its entirely possible Troodontids did have something similar.
Jonathan Cooper
Speaking as someone that is both fascinated and by and existentially terrified of the ocean, yes please.