D&D General Dinosaurs in your campaigns

[Mind of tempest]

I mean, DnD has eagles, and large eagles.

A medium eagle would work pretty well. Though that runs the risk of small characters riding one!

a halfling is too heavy and how would you even train it?

 

[OptionalRule]

I've always found it amusing that Dinosaurs have been ever present in D&D. But I'm wondering how common or rare are they in your campaigns, for something that's extinct in our world.

Are they everywhere, or only live in secluded places?
Based on some more recent findings about Dinosaurs, do they have feathers or not on your campaign worlds?
Is there a Pleisosaurus that lives in a lake somewhere?

I've run them in distant jungles. Usually as a pocket in an area of the globe. In Eberron on the Plaines and Xen'drik or Chuld in The Realms.

 

[Gradine]

I mean, this is a pretty good indicator; do you have nomadic halflings riding dinosaurs in your campaigns, or do you play a lesser, more boring form of D&D?

 

[Shades of Eternity]

I mean, this is a pretty good indicator; do you have nomadic halflings riding dinosaurs in your campaigns, or do you play a lesser, more boring form of D&D?

I stand by the Forgotten Realms became much crappier when they decided to retcon Saurials.

bring back the dinosaur folk!

 

[Richards]

I mean, this is a pretty good indicator; do you have nomadic halflings riding dinosaurs in your campaigns, or do you play a lesser, more boring form of D&D?

I actually do. I realized I'd probably never get to DM an Eberron campaign, so I ported the dinosaur-riding halflings into my current campaign. (It helps that I generally dislike halflings but make an exception for those who ride dinosaurs. The PCs are currently being led by a halfling ranger riding a dinosaur.) Halflings and dinosaurs are both restricted to the one continent.

Johnathan

 

[Voadam]

I mean, this is a pretty good indicator; do you have nomadic halflings riding dinosaurs in your campaigns, or do you play a lesser, more boring form of D&D?

I guess lesser form of D&D

Though I did have an insane AI monster truck demigod, jet pack orc ninjas, and a full robot PC in my last D&D campaign.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I an contemplating about at some point running a new campaign set in the Diamond Throne (3E era setting from Monte Cook, Arcane Unearthed/Evolved), and I haven't really made up my mind. But I am thinking about their being an island with some stranger or rarer creatures, among them a Tarrasque. But it could also feature some Dinos!
Not sure yet if I also want them part of the regular fauna, maybe, maybe not. I don't think the setting description has a clear decision on this, and it wouldn't really matter, since I am doing with it whatever I want in the end.

 

[Voadam]

I an contemplating about at some point running a new campaign set in the Diamond Throne (3E era setting from Monte Cook, Arcane Unearthed/Evolved), and I haven't really made up my mind. But I am thinking about their being an island with some stranger or rarer creatures, among them a Tarrasque. But it could also feature some Dinos!
Not sure yet if I also want them part of the regular fauna, maybe, maybe not. I don't think the setting description has a clear decision on this, and it wouldn't really matter, since I am doing with it whatever I want in the end.

Page 93 in Chapter Four on other creatures includes explicitly dinosaurs (all) from the MM.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

Depends on the setting, but yeah as far as I can tell, all official settings just have everything created by magic.

I've actually gone a bit too full nerd and designed a tree of life for my setting, as all the creatures classed as beasts or humanoids are naturally evolved in it. Which is why there ends up being no dinosaurs and no birds.

Does your world not have gryphons or perytons too?

 

[radiothief]

in my home brew world, which is pretty mucht he only setting i run, dinosaurs exist, I would say they are more common in the more remote areas, and take form more as mounts rather than vicious predators, but they are there for sure! I think they add a familiar yet unfamiliar element to the game.