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Reviewing, Revising, and Finalizing Prehistoric Animals and Dinosaur Ecology
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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 4953602" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>A good way to start would be reworking the SRD Dinosaurs (Velociraptor, Megaraptor, Elasmosaurus, Triceratops & Tyrannosaurus) since they are pretty poorly designed - especially in their abundance of useless Toughness feats. The Megaraptor is both redundant (being an upscaled Velociraptor) and inaccurate (since they're killing claws were on their hands, not their feet).</p><p></p><p>I whipped up some "revised" SRD dinosaurs a while back and I might as well share them. Most cleave reasonably close to the official 3E stats, so some are arguably not all that true a reflection of the real life animals.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That wouldn't seem very useful unless you're having a dinoworld with creatures from different geological ages in different areas - e.g. a "Cretaceous Continent" were all the Triceratops and Tyrannosaurs live.</p><p></p><p>Plus, there's probably a lot of overlap statwise with some of the dinosaurs. <em>Triceratops</em>, for example, only lived at the very end of the Cretaceous (65-70 million years ago or 'MYA'), but its 3E stats could easily be used for any other Ceratopsian of equivalent size.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and I like MYA over BCE or writing "65 million years before the modern age".<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 4953602, member: 57383"] A good way to start would be reworking the SRD Dinosaurs (Velociraptor, Megaraptor, Elasmosaurus, Triceratops & Tyrannosaurus) since they are pretty poorly designed - especially in their abundance of useless Toughness feats. The Megaraptor is both redundant (being an upscaled Velociraptor) and inaccurate (since they're killing claws were on their hands, not their feet). I whipped up some "revised" SRD dinosaurs a while back and I might as well share them. Most cleave reasonably close to the official 3E stats, so some are arguably not all that true a reflection of the real life animals. That wouldn't seem very useful unless you're having a dinoworld with creatures from different geological ages in different areas - e.g. a "Cretaceous Continent" were all the Triceratops and Tyrannosaurs live. Plus, there's probably a lot of overlap statwise with some of the dinosaurs. [I]Triceratops[/I], for example, only lived at the very end of the Cretaceous (65-70 million years ago or 'MYA'), but its 3E stats could easily be used for any other Ceratopsian of equivalent size. Oh, and I like MYA over BCE or writing "65 million years before the modern age".:confused: [FONT=Arial][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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