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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 4004886" data-attributes="member: 149">All this is true, but at the same time "not everything published can be found in every region." does not have to equal "Anything published cannot be found in any particular region." Dinosaurs covered a wide range of environments and thus can plausibly be found in an equally wide range of environments. Especially when you consider that most settings are in temperate regions without an extreme environment of one sort or another (IE. most campaigns aren't set in deserts/arctic wastelands/isolated islands).Let's not forget we're talking about a druid who does not have to have been native to the area for the campaign. Nor does he have to have obtained the animal companion in the area the campaign was located in. We are talking about a 10th lv druid. Tree stride might not quite offer the mobility of "Transport via Plants", but it isn't too far off with a several thousand foot range and a 10 hr duration. Not to mention teleportation probably being available.Yes again this is all true, but also again we aren't talking about "Three Musketeers : The RPG for Late 17th century France". D&D is at it's default designed to be flexible and comprehensive and largely setting neutral. While it's possible that the DM had created a highly specific and detailed campaign of the sort you describe. I'm guessing that this probably isn't the case since a large percentage of DMs never bother to. Especially considering that the OP didn't give any indications that it was such a highly specific and detailed setting. In fact the only indication we have that there is even any reason to believe that such dinos are out of place is the fact that ONE player had a hissy fit over it and that player is at least according to further posts by the OP, one who is difficult and fussy in his own description of himself.Yes, this is true. Except that there is no indication on the DM's part that there is some reason why a moderately high level druid cannot have a dino as an animal companion. They are in the basic MM. They are in the SRD. They show up on the Summon Nature's Ally spell list at 5th level (which the druid is perfectly capable of casting). So aside from the preconceptions of most westerners that they are "strange" creatures there's no inherent reason they can't show up.I'd also like an explanation of why they are so much more beyond the pale than any number of clearly unnatural and supernatural creatures that are far stranger and encountered far earlier than dinos are. Is a Thoqqua really that much "more" believable than a velociraptor?</blockquote>

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