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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loonook" data-source="post: 4793408" data-attributes="member: 1861">Yes, they could have lower metabolic rates... but they're still having to feed them ready sources of meat.  Though there were large herds of buffalo in the Plains, those tribes which hunted them for meat usually followed the herds during the period. . . and didn't have to supply meat to themselves and large hungry dinosaurs.Hunting dogs require little meat and can be fed on a mixture of grains, meat, and basically anything available... and they also will forage for small animals and be willing to eat carrion.  A dinosaur the size of a horse with the same amount of activity will have a much faster metabolic rate than most reptiles, who are a.) smaller, b.) slimmer, and c.) mostly sedentary.  Monitor lizards don't travel over large amounts of terrain for their prey; crocodiles and alligators gain the benefit of being close to water and able to cool/heat themselves when needed without further issue.Hunting dogs are great, and horses are also pretty good.  The moa idea isn't that bad either; they fill a similar ecological niche to horses, they supply useful materials (decorative or fletching feathers, molting down which could be preserved for clothing, good source of protein) and with their herbivorous nature and birth cycles they can be used as herd, pack, and riding animals.  The smaller varieties (heavy-foot) were compact enough to be highly useful for a herding animal, and perhaps such creatures lay in large communal nests and pad them with materials (like eiderdown.)  This could provide for a reason for travel (the collection of young and their nests) and provide for an interesting cityscape.  Moa excrement may be similar to guano, and the human tribes may have a pretty heavy connection to fire due to the prevalence of this Fireball 'ingredient'. There's honestly no need for a mana-based magic system for the humans to have site-based magic.  Touchstone feats and similar, combined with the maintenance of ancient magics (akin to mythals or other epic magic) would allow for such things.  Again, there may just be ties to locales, or specific rites which are performed there due to ready access to cheap foci.  Indeed, they may have a cave where elders bring their greatest slain warriors to be raised from the dead.  The cave is surrounded by a natural diamond node, and elders keep the area secret for fear of its loss.Just a few examples.Slainte,-Loonook.</blockquote>

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