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OOTS strip 0715 up. Giant In the Playground Games

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Hornets Black and orange patterning, a bit like the Japanese hornets, would be an interesting look.

The nanoraptors are interesting- a bit like Jurassic Park 2 "compys" but with feathers. The recent report on dinosaur pigmentation is also interesting- suggests that some of the smaller deinonychosaurs had striped tails. Though, given that colour can be distorted by fossilization, we don't...

Mini-raptors The mini-raptors look pretty good. The thread seems to have been a bit quiet for a while.

The ability to spit poison long distances was in the Crichton version- but Spielberg made the poison sticky and gooey as well, rather than like the way spitting snakes spit it- squirted through tiny holes in the front teeth. Going by the description though, a poisoned bite rather than...

Venom Now that looks interesting. Looks like the ideas of poisonous dinosaurs may not be so far-fetched, even if Spielberg overdid it a bit. Also, going by this- http://www.world-science.net/othernews/091210_tawa Herrerasaurus looks to be a theropod after all- so it works as the type...

Raptor stats The raptor stats look pretty good. Though, going by weight and length, I'd say Achillobator, at least at full 16-18 ft size, probably works better as a low-end Large creature, with Utahraptor also Large, but with a bit more hit dice. Still, it can be used to represent...

main reason I said large was weight- usually estimated at around 1500 pounds. Even for a 21 ft Utahraptor, it's chunky. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utahraptor Unfortunately it's only known from very scanty remains- so all weight estimates are pretty speculative. Maybe the similarly sized...

Speed The small ones might be pretty fast, but I got the impression that the larger ones (Deinonychus, Utahraptor) were, in fact, pretty short-legged compared to many other coeleurosaurs- like the ornithomimids. With a ratio of lower leg to upper, somewhat lower than most high speed sprinters...

SRD squid I figure the SRD giant squid represents the classic movie and book monster- Mama Squid from Peter Benchley's The Beast, the creature in the movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ("Giant squid astern, sir!") and so on. What changes do you think need to be made to the existing (errataed)...

yes- rename "Colossal+" "Epic" and it avoids confusion. I've been using "-and-a-half" formulations because it is easier to keep track of for me than 5 or 6 variants of "pretty durn big" Also- the next size up from Architeuthis should maybe be Mesonychoteuthis, the Colossal Squid, due to it...

Genus/Species names for creatures in each size class I must admit that I haven't provided much, besides suggestions and one statblock (Deltadromeus). However- possible list of creatures for each size class. Gracile tyrannosaur: Medium: Raptorex, Guanlong Medium-and-a-half: possibly...

therizinosaurs The therizinosaurs look pretty good- seeing as they are more upright than average theropods, and long in the arm as well, a reach equal to their space, as is given, looks pretty good. The whale stats were interesting as well. Apparently there are quite a lot of interesting...

This one looks pretty good for exceptionally robust/formidable animals- sauropods, whales, etc. Maybe it could be used for chunky theropods- a T. rex with 20 HD? Medium and Large sizes match those of the errataed Deinonychus and Utahraptor (called Megaraptor). The gap between Large and Huge...

For "gracile creatures" in general, like crocs, slim theropods, etc, multiples of 5 work for the larger sizes, and midpoints (rounding down) are just about passable for the smaller ones. 2 HD: Medium 3 HD: Medium-and-a-half 5 HD: Large 7 HD: Large-and-a-half 10 HD: Huge 15 HD: Huge-and-a-half...

I'd have gone with 15 HD as the midpoint between 10HD Huge and 20HD Gargantuan for crocs, but otherwise, its good- smaller Deinosuchus work for 30 ft croc, largest specimens of Deinosuchus, Purussaurus (giant caiman), and Sarcosuchus all work well as 40 ft crocs. Sauropods currently follow 24...

Robust vs Gracile Come to think of it, the Robust advancement (multiples of 6) vs the Gracile advancement (multiples of 5) can be used to distinguish the carnosaurs, and the sauropods, as well: Diplodocids- gracile- Diplodocus as a 15 HD Huge-and-a-half creature, and so on...

I like. However, under this system, an adult male orca might be closer to Huge-and-a-half, than Gargantuan. It might work well for other cetaceans- possibly with an extension to Colossal for the biggest blue whales- 60 HD "Colossal+" Makes for an interesting Animal Companion in a high level...