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Reviewing, Revising, and Finalizing Prehistoric Animals and Dinosaur Ecology
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<blockquote data-quote="xidoraven" data-source="post: 4981670" data-attributes="member: 60187"><p>I'm afraid I must not have subscribed to this page, because I have been checking my subscription list for days now with no activity, and then I come here and realize that I missed a whole load of postings!</p><p></p><p>I will review and respond as I can soon enough. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p>-will</p><p>---</p><p>Update: I love Deinocheirus - I included it in my own list of needed creatures, I believe - or else I decided halfway through my research that it was a therizinosaur and ruled it out against Therizinosaurus - which is incorrect, after reading around a little more.</p><p></p><p>I like the idea of Deinocheirus as a ant-mound-destroying ornithomimosaur with omnivorous traits and an herbivorous lean.</p><p></p><p>I have never heard of Deltadromeus, however it looks in many ways similar to other carnosaurs - what is the largest "Super Predator" size and HD? Thanks for joining in! I appreciate all the help we can get. Make sure I know which creatures to begin crossing off our list for being reviewed and revised, including all applicable stats such as familiars, companions, mounts, training/rearing, etc. I love your format, Cleon - the MYA and era entries are excellent.</p><p></p><p>I would like to do away with the word 'Nova' now that I get what you were hinting at, and simply call them homebrew or else some other term to show that they have been created (or else revised from a half-written or poorly written previous version). Redux is a good way of pointing out that we know it was published once and we are re-writing it in our own balancing system. I like that term - I don't see that the other one is necessary. We don't really have to call them anything at all other than their species/family, or variations on another more common named animal (such as a Gigantosaurus being <strong><em>similar</em></strong> to a Tyrranosaurus is most ways possible); variations from popular named animals are fine, and might deserve their own formatting layout (such as with minimal changes noted) or some other change to show their similarity to another race. I am not trying to push too hard on this one - I just don't think we need a bunch of extra names for these critters when they are all animals, and the reader will never need to know how it is that we composed them based on previous versions, etc. If the creature they are looking at is different from their SRD versions, I think it deserves the 'Redux' label - everything else is seemingly trivial with naming conventions; it's definitely more important to think about how they will be organized, not only here, but in a series of pages within a publication as well.</p><p></p><p>I am thinking either by category (dino/prim, and categories of those) with similar creatures listed as you have them here (like variations on a base creature), or else alphabetically (with no type/category separations). In any case, fictional creatures based on these creatures (Giant, Dire, etc.) will need to be placed in another category no matter what, I fear - it may work well here on the web forums, but in print it needs to be as indexed as possible. Small versions (children, adolescents variations) might reside with the original creature post without confusion quite well.</p><p></p><p>I promise I will be keeping better track of this thread from now on - I AM SUBSCRIBED now. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xidoraven, post: 4981670, member: 60187"] I'm afraid I must not have subscribed to this page, because I have been checking my subscription list for days now with no activity, and then I come here and realize that I missed a whole load of postings! I will review and respond as I can soon enough. :P ;) -will --- Update: I love Deinocheirus - I included it in my own list of needed creatures, I believe - or else I decided halfway through my research that it was a therizinosaur and ruled it out against Therizinosaurus - which is incorrect, after reading around a little more. I like the idea of Deinocheirus as a ant-mound-destroying ornithomimosaur with omnivorous traits and an herbivorous lean. I have never heard of Deltadromeus, however it looks in many ways similar to other carnosaurs - what is the largest "Super Predator" size and HD? Thanks for joining in! I appreciate all the help we can get. Make sure I know which creatures to begin crossing off our list for being reviewed and revised, including all applicable stats such as familiars, companions, mounts, training/rearing, etc. I love your format, Cleon - the MYA and era entries are excellent. I would like to do away with the word 'Nova' now that I get what you were hinting at, and simply call them homebrew or else some other term to show that they have been created (or else revised from a half-written or poorly written previous version). Redux is a good way of pointing out that we know it was published once and we are re-writing it in our own balancing system. I like that term - I don't see that the other one is necessary. We don't really have to call them anything at all other than their species/family, or variations on another more common named animal (such as a Gigantosaurus being [B][I]similar[/I][/B] to a Tyrranosaurus is most ways possible); variations from popular named animals are fine, and might deserve their own formatting layout (such as with minimal changes noted) or some other change to show their similarity to another race. I am not trying to push too hard on this one - I just don't think we need a bunch of extra names for these critters when they are all animals, and the reader will never need to know how it is that we composed them based on previous versions, etc. If the creature they are looking at is different from their SRD versions, I think it deserves the 'Redux' label - everything else is seemingly trivial with naming conventions; it's definitely more important to think about how they will be organized, not only here, but in a series of pages within a publication as well. I am thinking either by category (dino/prim, and categories of those) with similar creatures listed as you have them here (like variations on a base creature), or else alphabetically (with no type/category separations). In any case, fictional creatures based on these creatures (Giant, Dire, etc.) will need to be placed in another category no matter what, I fear - it may work well here on the web forums, but in print it needs to be as indexed as possible. Small versions (children, adolescents variations) might reside with the original creature post without confusion quite well. I promise I will be keeping better track of this thread from now on - I AM SUBSCRIBED now. :P ;) [/QUOTE]
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