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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 6149477" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>"Monster-lizard from the Lands of Silver" - rather an evocative name, worthy of any campaign world.</p><p></p><p>I've always felt that dinosaurs owe their special fascination to being one of the few "mythical" concepts we're introduced to as children that remain "true" as we grow up. We initially read and hear about them right alongside tales of elves and dragons and magic, but as those other concepts are discarded as fiction in the course of our childhood, dinosaurs remain true. I think that's why their scientific names have stuck in popular culture - as kids, we look to those scientific details and big, factual books as reassurance that they're not just made up.</p><p></p><p>Using more 'common' names in the Monster Manuals may make them more suited to campaign worlds, but it's never going to convey that thrill that a kid will get when he pages through a D&D book for the first time and sees a Tyrannosaurus and a Velociraptor.</p><p></p><p>So my own vote would be to use the scientific names primarily, but feel free to add 'common' names for them for in-character usage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 6149477, member: 40176"] "Monster-lizard from the Lands of Silver" - rather an evocative name, worthy of any campaign world. I've always felt that dinosaurs owe their special fascination to being one of the few "mythical" concepts we're introduced to as children that remain "true" as we grow up. We initially read and hear about them right alongside tales of elves and dragons and magic, but as those other concepts are discarded as fiction in the course of our childhood, dinosaurs remain true. I think that's why their scientific names have stuck in popular culture - as kids, we look to those scientific details and big, factual books as reassurance that they're not just made up. Using more 'common' names in the Monster Manuals may make them more suited to campaign worlds, but it's never going to convey that thrill that a kid will get when he pages through a D&D book for the first time and sees a Tyrannosaurus and a Velociraptor. So my own vote would be to use the scientific names primarily, but feel free to add 'common' names for them for in-character usage. [/QUOTE]
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