1920 Pulp Dinosaurs?

[Marc_C]

In a 1920 pulp campaign, where on Earth would you put an unexplored area that still has living dinosaurs?

 

[Umbran]

Antarctica. Some remote island. A huge plateau deep in unexplored places.

 

[Marc_C]

Antarctica. Some remote island. A huge plateau deep in unexplored places.

They are cold blooded. Could they survive there? Or it doesn't matter because there is micro-climate (because of a volcano)?

 

[Retreater]

The hollow earth. (There is a whole game system about this.)

 

[J.Quondam]

Maybe the Congo or Amazon river basins, or the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa.

How "wahoo" is the campaign? You could also hide dinos underground, accessed through, for example, a deep pit in Siberia (maybe the Tunguska event punched a hole in the Earth's crust?) or volcanic crater in Iceland or something.

 

[Marc_C]

Maybe the Congo or Amazon river basins, or the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa.

How "wahoo" is the campaign? You could also hide dinos underground, accessed through, for example, a deep pit in Siberia (maybe the Tunguska event punched a hole in the Earth's crust?) or volcanic crater in Iceland or something.

Great Rift Valley could be great.

I want to avoid underground locations.

 

[Doug McCrae]

The Lost World (1912) Arthur Conan Doyle	A South American plateau
At the Earth’s Core (1914) Edgar Rice Burroughs	Inside the Hollow Earth
The Land That Time Forgot (1918) Edgar Rice Burroughs	Caprona, an island near Antarctica heated by vulcanism that undergoes much slower evolutionary processes than the rest of Earth
King Kong (1933)	An uncharted island known as Skull Island
Marvel Mystery Comics #22 (1941) The Land Where Time Stands Still	A valley in Antarctica heated by vulcanism. Later known as the Savage Land in Marvel Comics.

 

[Doug McCrae]

They are cold blooded. Could they survive there? Or it doesn't matter because there is micro-climate (because of a volcano)?

There seems to be a lot of debate about whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded, warm-blooded, neither, or both. But I wouldn't have thought a pulp game would care about scientific realism.

 

[Marc_C]

The Lost World (1912) Arthur Conan Doyle

Mont Roraima could definitely be a good location.

 

[Marc_C]

There seems to be a lot of debate about whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded, warm-blooded, neither, or both. But I wouldn't have thought a pulp game would care about scientific realism.

Indeed... but my players might. I have one player who is more concerned with realism than the others.