My Wife Has Befriended a Tyrannosaurus Rex!

[barsoomcore]

Dinosaur geek steps in again....

If I remember rightly, Tyrannosaurus rex's arms were a teensy six inches long, which would make them very awkward to use for wielding weapons or tools that weren't specially designed for them.

More like a foot and a half. Still, I agree that they would be almost useless for most purposes. Certainly the animal could never wield a sword.

The small size of T. rex's arms is one of the arguments some have used in theorizing that the big dino may actually have been a scavenger.

I don't believe that theory has much to recommend it. You don't evolve powerful jaws, massive slicing teeth or flexed-knee leg structures built for very high speeds if you're going to just eat dead things. I've never seen any evidence to suggest that T. rex was primarily a scavenger. This animal was clearly built to attack and devour the large ceratopsians of its time.

Oh, and if you're keen to play a dinosaur bard, consider Parasaurolophus. Computer simulations suggest these swamp dwellers had lovely, trumpet like voices.

That is a brilliant idea.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Sauriana d20!!

Deinonychus rogues (sneak attacks with sickle-feet)!

Elasmosaurus traders! (who better to sail the seas delivering things?)

Megaraptor thugs! (They're the Orcs of the world!)

Triceratops paladins! (Noble beasts who smite evil!)

Tyrannosaurus rangers! (sophisticated hunters)

Cryptoclidus Druids! (Honor the nature...)

Allosaurus Monks! (Perfection of hunting...)

Ankylosaurus clerics! (Strength, protection!)

Quetzalcoatlus sorcerers! (Mastering the forces of nature!)

Seismosaurus bards! (Oh, the low rumblings of the sauropods!)

Spinosaurus Fighters! (fancy fighting arts!)

Hm....anybody want to write up some stats of a duck-bill or two? (Anatatotitan, Parasapholosaurus, etc.) Maybe some of the smaller ones?

Probably fits in well with the recent discussion on dire animals being awakened, and a dire barnyard and stuff. Neato!

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

SHARK: I congratulate your wife on her imagination.