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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5797169" data-attributes="member: 32536">I'm not exactly fond of WotC's new names for dinosaurs either. I'm perfectly fine with using the modern scientific names, but if that is off the table then I really would much rather see the direct translation of those names, rather than made up names and terms like &quot;Behemoth&quot; (which, as a Final Fantasy fan, has totally different connotations for me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ). Heck, the term Behemoth isn't even appropriate for smaller dinosaurs. Also, pretty much anyone will know what a Tyrant Lizard King is supposed to be, but it takes a bit to remember what its 4E name refers to.That said, is using a latin name really so weird? The English language uses an incredibly huge amount of latin as it is (it is one of the top three sources of loan words). I mean, we don't question words like hippopotamus as being weird, even though it is just greek for &quot;river horse&quot;. I don't see a big drive to rename many other recognizable creatures with greek and latin names, so it seems odd to do that for dinosaurs simply because their scientific and common names are the same thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 5797169, member: 32536"] I'm not exactly fond of WotC's new names for dinosaurs either. I'm perfectly fine with using the modern scientific names, but if that is off the table then I really would much rather see the direct translation of those names, rather than made up names and terms like "Behemoth" (which, as a Final Fantasy fan, has totally different connotations for me :) ). Heck, the term Behemoth isn't even appropriate for smaller dinosaurs. Also, pretty much anyone will know what a Tyrant Lizard King is supposed to be, but it takes a bit to remember what its 4E name refers to. That said, is using a latin name really so weird? The English language uses an incredibly huge amount of latin as it is (it is one of the top three sources of loan words). I mean, we don't question words like hippopotamus as being weird, even though it is just greek for "river horse". I don't see a big drive to rename many other recognizable creatures with greek and latin names, so it seems odd to do that for dinosaurs simply because their scientific and common names are the same thing. [/QUOTE]

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