D&D General Tyrannosaurs were pack hunters. Stay away from the Isle of Dread.

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I mean either way, the issue with T rexes on the Isle of Dread is that Tyrannosaurus lived in either the subtropical flood-plain that was Hell Creek, or the semi-arid plains at their southern reaches.

Meanwhile the Isle of Dread is mostly jungle which is just, not Tyrannosaurus rex territory at all.

The fantasy version of the Dharma Initiative (OK, the medieval fantasy version) brought them there. Problem solved.

(In this case, they could be guard dogs for the kopru.)

 

[Zardnaar]

Based on @Whizbang Dustyboots post, The Isle of Dread is 39,600 square miles. New Zealand (which is probably the minimum you'd need for Jurassic Park) is over 100,000 square miles. The Moa weighed around 500 lbs. The mammoths that lived on Wrangel Island mammoths were smaller than most mammoths, although not small enough to be considered island dwarfs, so probably around 10,000 pounds give or take.

So yes, some large animals lived on relatively small areas, but the big sauropods like apatosaurus weighed around 40,000 pounds and T Rex weighed around 15,000 pounds. Even a triceratops probably weighed around 20-24,000 pounds. Dinosaurs were huge.

An island close to the size of The Isle of Dread did exist in the late Cretaceous, Hateg Island. However, except for pterosaurs it could only support dwarf versions of the dinosaurs. So yes, I think The Isle of Dread is too small.

It's around 20% smaller than NZ South Island which supported the largest moa and Haast Eagle.

It's plausible I don't think we had any large dinos but it was also cut off and far from prime fossil locations.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There would be no one living on the Isle of Dread. They'd all die from being paralyzed by the brown note, then get eaten.

"Paralyzed" is a nice way of encapsulating the effects of the brown note. Note or no note, I think that would be an appropriate reaction to realizing you're in the vicinity of a T. Rex.

 

[Flamestrike]

No party of normal sized people is going to kill a T-Rex with hand weapons and a bow in the typical D&D combat fashion..

Doesnt that tell you something about the expectations on the abilities of Martials in DnD?

The game assumes they can take one down with a pointy stick. Heck a single 11th level battlemaster could take one down with a sword inside of 6 seconds.

 

[Steampunkette]

"Paralyzed" is a nice way of encapsulating the effects of the brown note. Note or no note, I think that would be an appropriate reaction to realizing you're in the vicinity of a T. Rex.

I mean, the idea of a note capable of producing that reaction in humans is almost absolutely certainly impossible...

But that T-rex Roar would -train- you to poop yourself on command, as you noted!

 

[Mecheon]

The fantasy version of the Dharma Initiative (OK, the medieval fantasy version) brought them there. Problem solved.

Just bringing them there isn't going to mean they'd thrive. Wouldn't go jamming a lion in the jungle and expecting it to do as well as a tiger did

 

[Flamestrike]

An island close to the size of The Isle of Dread did exist in the late Cretaceous, Hateg Island. However, except for pterosaurs it could only support dwarf versions of the dinosaurs. So yes, I think The Isle of Dread is too small.

You've made the Isle of Dread the Continent of Dread

It would take three months of daily walking, averaging 40kms per day (8 hours of walking at 5kms per hour as per Naismiths rule), to walk from Perth to Sydney, a distance of over 3,600 kms.

And thats mainly flat ground, along a road the whole way.

In the Jungle (which the Isle of Dread mainly is), while navigating, you're doing well to average 1km per hour, before factoring in mountains.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

That's it, T-rexes in D&D now have Pack Tactic.

Screw you, CR8!

Now, where's that half-dragon template....?

 

[Oofta]

You've made the Isle of Dread the Continent of Dread

It would take three months of daily walking, averaging 40kms per day (8 hours of walking at 5kms per hour as per Naismiths rule), to walk from Perth to Sydney, a distance of over 3,600 kms.

And thats mainly flat ground, along a road the whole way.

In the Jungle (which the Isle of Dread mainly is), while navigating, you're doing well to average 1km per hour, before factoring in mountains.

Well, I don't do hex crawls so it's not an issue for me.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Just bringing them there isn't going to mean they'd thrive. Wouldn't go jamming a lion in the jungle and expecting it to do as well as a tiger did

Just wait until you hear about the rest of the stuff happening on the Isle of Dread.