How do you use dinosaurs in your campaign?

[Tonguez]

No dinosaurs but the Frozen North campaign I am putting together has an Ice Age vibe and animals to match.

P.S. Not THAT Ice Age - no Sid the Sloth in this campaign.

Dinosaurs of the Arctic Ice

 

[Eltab]

Dinosaurs of the Arctic Ice

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One of the Walking With Dinosaurs episodes was the Polar Forest of Australia (at something like 80*S) - big migrators and small hibernators, no permanent ice cap because the South Pole was in open ocean a ways offshore.

 

[C-Moon]

I've always liked the idea of having dinosaurs be kept to a region of the map, brought back by necromancy magic initially then bred/maintained back into the wild but also use (flintstones style) them as work animals/beasts of burden etc.

 

[Wolfram stout]

You may want to check out a Fantasy Novel, The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milan. It is billed as a cross between Jurassic Park and Game of Thrones. I have not read it so can't say if it is good or bad, but it was at Barnes & Noble not just a self-published book. Not that guarantees quality of course.

 

[aco175]

All this begs the question on how all the druids know what a t-rex looks like to be able to shapeshift into one.

 

[Eltab]

All this begs the question on how all the druids know what a t-rex looks like to be able to shapeshift into one.

Secret trip to Chult to see Wild Nature.

 

[Aldarc]

All this begs the question on how all the druids know what a t-rex looks like to be able to shapeshift into one.

Zoobooks.

 

[JohnSnow]

In Michael A. Stackpole's "DragonCrown War" series, he had a type of large feathered velociraptor called "Frostclaw" as a regular (albeit dangerous) animal in the world.

 

[Dillon]

I am thinking of using undead dinosaurs (Lichosaurs) as a Buffalo replacement in a weird west setting.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I am thinking of using undead dinosaurs (Lichosaurs) as a Buffalo replacement in a weird west setting.

How?
That would screw up the ecosystem. What use is an undead dino to a Plains Indian style culture? Definitely not a good food source.