Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
And any reptile is technically a living dinosaur too, especially the alligator and crocodile, which are basically unchanged for millions of years, except maybe smaller than their ancestors.
D&D General Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes and Halflings of Color
And any reptile is technically a living dinosaur too, especially the alligator and crocodile, which are basically unchanged for millions of years, except maybe smaller than their ancestors.
slobster
Hero
Not to get too nerdy, but reptiles aren't very closely related to dinosaurs at all, despite some of them having been alive in very similar forms at the time dinosaurs were around.
Birds are totally dinosaurs, though. Every time I see the turkeys running around in front of my office I'm reminded of that! I think the T Rex wrestler from King of Fighters probably owes a little more to extinct dinosaurs than living Mexican parrot species, but then I ain't no dang ornithologist.
Something I've taken to doing instead of "Subraces" is "Cultures" which are generally based on Regions of the world.
You wind up with a lot of variety while still retaining flavor. And people of various ethnicities from a given city, too. Because once Hispanic Elves exist in the game, you can have a Hispanic Elf born in England, just as a form of example.
Works wonders!
You wind up with a lot of variety while still retaining flavor. And people of various ethnicities from a given city, too. Because once Hispanic Elves exist in the game, you can have a Hispanic Elf born in England, just as a form of example.
Works wonders!
Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
Nope. Talking about reptiles. The crocodile is an archosaur, so not quite a dinosaur by classification, but they were around at the same time as dinosaurs.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Sure, what I'm sayin is that it's arguable whether a thing we consume that causes effects on the body and mind is necessarily a poison. I think it's an overbroad definition of the term, that causes my welbutrin to count as a poison. In general, when a definition causes a common thing to be defined in a way that feels completely wrong on a colloquial level, the definition has gotten off track.
Tumeric may have some harmful properties to some creatures, but it isn't a poison for humans, and is generally fairly beneficial (though it's healing properties are much overblown by so-called naturalists and herbal remedy salesfolks). Still, a spice whose primary purpose in nature is to make a creature sick when encountered, I'm fine with defining it as a poison in that context, but alcohol doesn't fit that. Inebriation isn't even a negative effect unless it is extreme, and light alcohol inebriation has both recreational and situationally practical benefits, and alcohol itself is a very common part of medicine. Not to mention the non-consumption uses of alcohol.
What's more, there are fruits and other foods that aren't harmful at all to humans but will kill other animals, even other mammals, and even some which are harmless to some humans but lethal to others. Not all of them are even dangerous to the creatures they're dangerous to as a defense mechanism, a lot of it is just random traits appearing in the billions of species that have spawned and developed over the eons.
Anyway this is a tangent. There is a lot to mine in the realm of substances that effect humans strongly that might not do so for dwarves, and perhaps stuff that goes the other way.
For instance, if dwarves digest and gain nutritional value from things like moss and lichen and perhaps even fiber, what does that mean in terms of how easy it is for a dwarf to overeat, and in terms of how much energy they get from their food? When a dwarf drinks bear, are they eating from a nutritional standpoint? If so, does that mean that they really need to work those calories off in order to stay healthy, and have a natural instinctive imperitive to physically exert themselves that takes rather a lot of work from a human perspective to get out of their system?
Just how many hours a week does a wealthy dwarf spend in the gym? Just how good at marathons are dwarves? Would it be appropriate to give them some sort of benefit against exhaustion or when spending hit dice? That could help keep them vigorous and tough in spite of +2 con becoming optional.
Mecheon
Sacabambaspis
Nope.
'Dinosauria' is a particular group of archosaurs only represented today by the many, many species of birds.
Crocodiles and alligators are very different to their extinct relatives, especially when we start looking at such extinct relatives as the plant-eating Pakasuchus, the tusked land-dwelling Kaprosuchus, the fully aquatic Dakosaurus, the pancake crocodile, or the terrestial Australian crocodiles. Crocodiles and alligators are very, very changed from their ancestors.
Reptiles is a stupidly large out-group that is basically "Everything that isn't a synapsid" at this point (At least from the other various out-groups like, y'know, amphibians). Dimetrodon? Not a reptile per this definition, despite being (most likely) covered in scales
Vaalingrade
Legend
Just because we and other intelligent mammals like it doesn't mean it's not a negative effect. Being tipsy is a sign that your body isn't working right anymore because you hurt it for the pleasant-feeling side-effects of almost dying.
We evolved not to die from consuming alcohol, and then as tool users abused that fact.
Lots of medicines are basically intelligently applied poisons/chemical weapons. Anything that numbs pain or messes with your blood for example. Just because we discovered dosing doesn't mean the intent on the plant's part wasn't to murder you, weaken you so others can murder you, make you think you are being murdered, or in the case of tomatoes--summon wasps to murder you.
Aaaand you definitely CAN die from alcohol consumption.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Feathered serpents, the Yucatan jungles - makes perfect sense to associate Mexico and lost dinosaur tropes
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