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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trolls" data-source="post: 5108461" data-attributes="member: 60798">I know you mentioned Eberron, but I'm going to expand on that setting a bit. Dinosaurs there aren't spread over the whole world, but are nevertheless well integrated. Like other animals, they are limited to certain environments, with different species appearing in different places.So they're not as common as in Dinotopia, but they do exist in a way that makes sense.Broadly speaking, there are two distinct ecosystems in which dinosaurs are common: Eastern Khorvaire and Xen'drik.In Eastern Khorvaire (Talenta and Q'barra) you have the smaller theropods, such as velociraptors and their relatives. In the much more dangerous and wild jungles of Q'barra, you'll probably start to see the larger species. The crutial thing, though, is that you don't have the giant herbivores and apex predators messing with the civilisation that's grown up on Khorvaire.Then you have Xen'drik, where everything is huge. A tyrannosaurus isn't nearly as much of a problem to giants as it is to humans, and if the land can support cities full of 20ft. tall humanoids, I'm sure it can support a few herds of sauropods.Eberron also ticks another box: it renames the dinosaurs. The names are like (but not the same as) translations of the Latin names (swordtooth titan for T-rex, clawfoot for raptors), with a few unique ones (like the Fastieth).</blockquote>