Stormwrack- Anybody got it?

[Richards]

Quick hijack: If I remember correctly, the velociraptors in Jurassic Park were increased in size to make them more scary-looking and to seem like more of a threat. Shortly after the film was made, paleontologists actually discovered a larger version of the velociraptor, dubbed the Utahraptor (since the bones were found in Utah), which would have been pretty much what were depicted in Jurassic Park.

End hijack.

Johnathan

 

[BryonD]

I don't have the MM handy, so I can't answer the question, but I'd bet that this is a holdover from Jurassic Park, the movie. The velociraptors in those movies are much closer to being deinonychus than being actual velociraptors.

Yep, popular fiction is well above science in the D&D priority list.
As it (mostly) should be.

 

[Aeolius]

I have been playing D&D since 1979 and have yet to understand the whole "dinos in D&D" fascination. Besides, in an aquatic environment we have dragon turtles, sea drakes, dragon eels, megalodons, leviathans, etc etc... no need for dinos.

 

[Psionicist]

Thanks for the info everyone, this is surely an interesting book.

Say... Can anyone please give some information about the Scarlet Corsair prestige class? I play a Dread Pirate right now and it'd be nice with some comparison between the two.

Cheers!

 

[Psion]

Quick hijack: If I remember correctly, the velociraptors in Jurassic Park were increased in size to make them more scary-looking and to seem like more of a threat. Shortly after the film was made, paleontologists actually discovered a larger version of the velociraptor, dubbed the Utahraptor (since the bones were found in Utah), which would have been pretty much what were depicted in Jurassic Park.

Actually the Utahraptor was larger, but that lead to some to speculate at some time a middle-stage creature existed between the two which was essentially the Jurrassic Park Velociraptor.

 

[Knight Otu]

Thanks for the info everyone, this is surely an interesting book.

Say... Can anyone please give some information about the Scarlet Corsair prestige class? I play a Dread Pirate right now and it'd be nice with some comparison between the two.

Cheers!

The Scaret Corsair is up as a preview on the Wizards site.

It seems I wasn't misremembering on the Deinonynchus/Velociraptor thing - at least the old MM says so.

 

[JPL]

It would be interesting to do a whole campaign that mixed the Caribbean/pirate/swashbuckling stuff, the pulpy South Seas / cannibal islands / dinosaurs stuff, and the Atlantis / Lemuria / Mu lost world stuff.

Hell, this could be a good resource for a Dinopirates of Ninja Island campaign...

 

[Antara]

Is there anything useful for a paladin? Like substitution levels?
What kind of spell are in Blackwater domain?

 

[Psionicist]

The Scaret Corsair is up as a preview on the Wizards site.

Nice, thanks! Slightly embarassing because I did check wizards site yesterday for previews.

 

[Ashanderai]

It would be interesting to do a whole campaign that mixed the Caribbean/pirate/swashbuckling stuff, the pulpy South Seas / cannibal islands / dinosaurs stuff, and the Atlantis / Lemuria / Mu lost world stuff.

Hell, this could be a good resource for a Dinopirates of Ninja Island campaign...

Meh. I dislike the potential ECL adjustment for players in a campaign like that. I would prefer the Ninja-Pirates of Dino Island myself. Of course, that could be an even bigger ECL adjustment...