"Beast" not in 3.5

[Wippit Guud]

I'm hoping this isn't another case of me posting a topic that's already been discussed to death.

http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rs/20030304a

Some of them become animals... boon for druids?

 

[Nightfall]

Sure cause now they can have dinosaur animal companions.

 

[Darkness]

I want an awakened T-rex.

 

[jaldaen]

My only complaint with the change is that they should have dropped the "Animal" category and kept the "Beast" category... I kinda think that it should be broken down as beast/magical beast instead of animal/magical beast, but that is probably just me...

Jaldaen

 

[Wolfspider]

Sure cause now they can have dinosaur animal companions.

Exactly! My lizardfolk druid Sedek will finally get his wish.

Nyah to all of you folks who said that dinosaurs weren't "historical animals" way back when....

 

[Crothian]

Nyah to all of you folks who said that dinosaurs weren't "historical animals" way back when....

Well, they still aren't. Hopefully wizards removes that Historically bit from the description as it seems few people knew what they were talking about.

 

[Mark]

Nyah to all of you folks who said that dinosaurs weren't "historical animals" way back when....

I believe that they said that dinosaurs weren't "hysterical animals."

Nothin funny bout the T-Rex, my friend. Nothin funny, at all...

 

[KDLadage]

My only complaint with the change is that they should have dropped the "Animal" category and kept the "Beast" category... I kinda think that it should be broken down as beast/magical beast instead of animal/magical beast, but that is probably just me...

Not just you, my friend. Not just you.

 

[Nifft]

I like this. I'd already house-ruled something similar (but it hasn't come up IMC yet).

Dinosaur Wild Shape. Yummy!

-- Nifft

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I always thought the distinction was whether or not the creature was fictional or it actually existed.

Now, everyone knows that dinosaurs never really existed, and that God planted fossils in the earth as red herrings to fool the unfaithful-- but does that make dinosaurs fictional or not? Can something qualify as fictional if it springs from the ultimate source of Truth?