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<blockquote data-quote="Star Gazer" data-source="post: 192582" data-attributes="member: 2611">The thought did indeed occur to me, but I figured that the advantages of greater differentiation between weaker/smaller dinosaurs and stronger/larger ones greatly outweighed the cost of keeping to a definition of them as Beasts.&nbsp; Besides, a strict interpretation of the MM almost requires that they all be classified as Animals anyways:MM (pg. 5, col. 2, pp. 2, heading: Beast)&quot;A beast is a nonhistorical, vertebrate creature[...]&quot;To the best of my knowlege, dinosaurs are historical.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Done this way, the monsters of the dinosaur world (like Allosaurus' or Diplodocus' ) are truly impressive, with the equivalent of a +2 hp per HD bonus built into them from the start...[insert evil DM cackle of your choice here]This is an enhancement of what was presented in the MM, which was done by a very intelligent group of people on an extremely tight deadline.&nbsp; Consider what's been presented and what's to follow the 'full treatment' as opposed to a 'good once over'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Star Gazer, post: 192582, member: 2611"] The thought did indeed occur to me, but I figured that the advantages of greater differentiation between weaker/smaller dinosaurs and stronger/larger ones greatly outweighed the cost of keeping to a definition of them as Beasts. Besides, a strict interpretation of the MM almost requires that they all be classified as Animals anyways: MM (pg. 5, col. 2, pp. 2, heading: Beast) "A beast is a nonhistorical, vertebrate creature[...]" To the best of my knowlege, dinosaurs are historical. :D Done this way, the monsters of the dinosaur world (like [i]Allosaurus'[/i] or [i]Diplodocus'[/i] ) are truly impressive, with the equivalent of a +2 hp [i]per HD[/i] bonus built into them from the start...[insert evil DM cackle of your choice here] This is an enhancement of what was presented in the MM, which was done by a very intelligent group of people on an extremely tight deadline. Consider what's been presented and what's to follow the 'full treatment' as opposed to a 'good once over'. [/QUOTE]

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