Why are dinosaurs so cool and fit into games so easily?
>>92607933They don't. Explain to me why velociraptors are in the middle of a generic European medieval village where the peasantry reeks of shit and survives off carrots and rock stew.
That's the power of love, OP.
Old good. Dino much old, very good.
>>92607933They are nature's monster. Like the terrifying hybrid of a grizzly bear, crocodile, and a goose.
>>92608028No. You're not important enough to deserve it. Just enjoy your low fantasy games anon.
>>92608219Explain to me why we have chickens but also dinosaurs in the same setting.
>>92608229Who the hell is "We"? What setting?
>>92608229>Astroid hits earth>Kills a lot of dinos >impact causes a tectonic shift causing a break away continent>All remaining Dinos are on !notAmerica>Evolution happens normally in !noteurpoe
>>92608229Because ground dwelling fowl and dinosaurs lived at the exact same time in real life. What were basically chickens were running under the feet of Tyrannosaurus.
>>92608229>explain to me why we have homo sapiens and chimpanzees running around at the same time
>>92607933Because their bones inspired the tales of dragons: Instant awesome, just add wings
>>92608229Because they occupy different niches. We also have salamanders, chameleons, and emu in the same setting. It's called Earth.
>>92608360>chimps are real
>>92607933I just read a short story about an arena fighter in a gonzo setting magic arena, where she won (and killed her master) by tricking the tattoo artist who gives magic tattoos into giving her a tattoo of an "arm lizard" that she would be able to summon later.Story ended with her now being a slave master, and also leading expeditions into dinosaur infested areas, because the aliens who run the arena now love dinosaurs
>>92608028Why wouldn't they be?>reeks of shitWhy do your peasants reek of shit?Is it the stegosaurus-manure?>>92608254In my setting, an asteroid hit not!Earth as part of a war of sorcery and it slammed a continent so hard it shifted into another reality.
>>92608028There's a reason no-one plays games with you, you joyless tool. For fuck's sake, I run *LotFP* and I think you're a disgrace.
Because bitches love dinosaurs.
>>92607933Because they were always a fictional mythological creature to begin with, except this time it’s the mythology of “science” and it’s attempts to discredit Christianity
>>92608397Enough of them post here don't they?
>>92609134Christianity is a magical larp designed to discredit last thursdsy
>>92607933Because they are 8.6 on the Snazzy scale and fit everything.
>>92609134Christianity discredits itself, you don't need science for that.
>>92609406It was airtight till those damn dinosaurs showed up...
>>92608254Not to "akshually" at someone who encourages dinosaurs, but a big reason the asteroid impact was deadly was because of the rapid climate change it induced. Not the physical shockwave of the impact itself.That said maybe a time traveling wizard, in an effort to save dinosaurs, went back and built a climate contained bubble for his favorite dinosaur ecosystem
>>92608028>all games are generic pseudo-medieval european fantasy
>>92609134Behold, a fictional mythological creature!
>>92609528I mean, anon himself is probably trolling but with the recent resurgence of Flat Earth and similar hardcore creationist nonsense the "dinosaurs aren't real" meme is gaining ground as well.
>>92608028>They don't. Explain to me why velociraptors are in the middle of a generic European medieval village where the peasantry reeks of shit and survives off carrots and rock stew.A goat accidentally broke a hole through to the hollow earth.
>>92608360Humans aren't chimps. Birds are dinosaurs.
>>92609974Fucking goats, I swear
>>92610513>Species A isn't species B, but Clade X is [a part of] much bigger Clade YWhat kind of moronic dichotomy is that? What is this statement supposed to prove? Is the implication here that birds can't exist at the same time with non-avian dinosaurs? Because that's dead wrong, dipshit, birds have already existed since Jurassic. Other anons have already told your stupid ass that and the fact that most birds have ecological niches completely different from non-avian dinosaurs. Same way as humans, chimps, gorillas, baboons and macaques and tons of other primates can all exist at the same time despite belonging to the same order (just like chickens and velociraptors). And even IF species are occupying similar ecological niches, nothing stops them from existing independently on different, isolated territories. Just like nothing also stops humans from bringing them to territories they never occupied historically. But you know, coming up with that would require imagination or at least a rudimentary knowledge of biology, neither of which you seem to possess.
>>92610842Shut up if you can't bother to read a couple of replies fro context, retard.
>>92610869Sounds an awful lot like "p-please stop BTFOing me" to me.
>>92610906You're mixing up several anons together in your delusion, only thing you're btfoing is the remnants of your sanity. I honestly don't even know whatever point you're trying to make here and I care even less.
>>92607933You go first. And be specific.
>>926109431. Take a game, say, Warhammer 40 0002. Add dinosaurs.3. Game is now better.
>>92610935>makes a retarded post>gets called out>now pretending he didn't make it while also being pissed that he's conflated with another retard who made similar retarded postsThere's a very easy solution to your problem: stop making retarded posts.
>>92610970But enough about your posting history!
Do you give your dinosaurs supernatural abilities?Like Sauropods can just negate force fields and magic armor by being near them.Or T-Rexes have an aura that prevents ranged attacks from penetrating their scales so they can only be killed in melee?
>>92611005>n-no youYou already got btfo twice or thrice, it's never too late to stop broadcasting your retardation.
>>92611044I think I will stop feeding your delusions for now. It was clear from the start you don't have everything together, tell your orderly I'm sorry for increasing their workload.
>>9261096740k already has dinosaurs. The elves ride them.
>>92611177Yes, and the setting became better for it. You could always add more, tho.
>>92608229Explain to me why we have humans but also apes in the same setting.
>>92607933because they are adorable.
>>92611768
>>92611177He didn't say that WH40k didn't have them. Just add and it becomes better. Just add more.That said, exodites were criminally underused for the entire run. I wish they'd featured more while WH40k was a thing.
>>92611768>>92611776Penguins fear him.
>>92607933>fit into games so easily?The fuck? The first time I played 5e and one of the players turned into a T-rex, that kinda took me out of the game. I was confused that they had dinosaurs in it. How the hell does a creature from a billion years ago in a different world "fit so easily" in a fantasy world?
>>92612020>a billion years ago
>>92610513Humans are chimps. There are three members of Pan: troglodytes, paniscus, domesticus. Humans are neotenous chimps and the only reason we pretend at the relevancy of Homo is because of the cultural inertia of Christian myths of being the chosen ones of human-like God and therefore higher and more singular than any other being. Humans have more in common genetically with the bonobos than can be explained any other way: we are chimps that domesticated each other.
>>92609134That's wrong you dummy, humans and dinosaurs lived alongside one another before the Flood.
>>92611038I like that idea, could be used to keep them threatening at a level where normal animals aren't.
>>92608028>>92608229>ERM, EXPLAIN TO ME--No. There's a velociraptor here, I don't give a shit if you accept it or not. I'm not justifying shit anymore.
>>92607933But anon, velociraptors would be totally OP in chess.
>>92612020>The fuck? The first time I played 5e and one of the players turned into a T-rex, that kinda took me out of the game. I was confused that they had dinosaurs in it. How the hell does a creature from a billion years ago in a different world "fit so easily" in a fantasy world?Yeah, he should have turned into a normal fantasy creature, like a human, or a horse.
>>92613495No. There is strong consensus that humans are not part of the order Pan. You're free to disagree, but you're at best part of a fringe school of thought, a pseudoscientific nonce at worse.
>>92614463Cool how "strong consensus" isn't an objective quality, faggot. Or even contradicting what I said.
>>92607933The fact that Strixhaven got a setting book and Ixalan didn't is criminal. I'm running a game there now and the dinosaurs there are partially magical so you can do whatever you want with one. Here's one that can hypnotize you, here's one that summons earthquakes, here's one that shoots goddamn lasers. It's a blast, my players never know what's up next.(Actually that Strixhaven book is really goddamn good and I think it might be a high water mark for 5th edition releases)
>>92609422I kinda want to do the scooby villain-reveal meme, but it probably wouldn't work as well on paper as in my head, and I really need to go home. so I'll just have to settle for thinking about it and chuckling to myself.
>>92608028You're on Ixalan dipshit, the raptors got a surprise round on you, roll for initiative.Yes I am samefagging sue me.
>>92614592those velociraptors are really enjoying themselves
>>92614478Trumps your empty assertions and poisoning the well. We're never defined chimps as you suggest for a reason and probably never will.
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>>92607933Because life, uhh... finds a way.
>>92614681>lifeWeird way to spell 'wizard'
>>92614707Tell me you haven't seen Jurassic Park without telling me you haven't seen Jurassic Park.
>>92607933I've been having a fuck ton of fun running a cowboy game where all animals are replaced with dinos or other ancient animals.>ridingIguanodon PachycephalosaurGallimimus>draft animalsAnkylosaursVarious ceratopsids>food animalsParasaurs for meat like cowsSmall neorthinscians bred for egg production>predatory wildlifeCarnotaurus Velociraptors (real life sized)Various pterasaurs from Quetzal that can snatch a man to Anuroganthus who swoop in and steal jerky out of your hand>prey animalsMoschopsEdmontosaursSmattering of others when relevantMy friend group is mix of dino nerds and western fans so I slammed them together and everyone seems to like it. Its also fun to autistically world build shit that my players don't care about but I love like how cooking changes without access to milk or stuff like the ranchers who drive parasaurs to market are all deaf because their constant bellows destroys their hearing after a season or two.
>>92610842I love these WW2 faux posters
>>92608028>Explain to me why velociraptors are in the middle of a generic European medieval villageSame reason wolves or bears would be?
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>>92608028The Beast of Gevaudan gives it historic precedent.
>>92608028explain why dragons are in your setting.
>>92615331This. They're naturally occurring here because I say so. Which isn't to say you shouldn't put further thought into what a creature might need to live in an environment and the further effects this might have on both the creature and its surroundings, but it is fundamentally a fictional world and not an accurate simulation of 14th century europe.
>>92608028https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=428IyxSfsls
>>92613994BAHASED
>>92610513I want to slap you even harder than >>92613739
>>92607933because they are fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNeAINi9omo
>>92614910>nooo, you didn't repeat the meme correctlyI hate people like you.
>>92608028Josh Kirby: Time Warrior.
>>92609464>was deadly was because of the rapid climate change it inducedFun fact from a paleoclimatologist. You basically just had the impact nudge the growing greenhouse climate into a full on hothouse climate of mass extinction. This is usually done by long term large igneous provinces venting, but the thing hit at exactly the right time to fuck everything.
>>92617856Don't slap the messenger, dinosaurs survived the flood.
>>92608028>velociraptorsthey are called ground-hawks, their personalities are like a blend of cat and chicken They usualy are a nuisance unless properly kept and trained by a competent falconer
>>92607933They are the Dragons of the real world.
>>92631177No, that would be monitor lizards
>>92631571Another raptor apologist in making. Groundie-mommies and their beasts are a menace to the society.
>>92631759>muh nanny lizards!
>>92607933>why do fantasy creatures fit into fantasy so wellBecause they are mostly just bullshit made up by paleontologists.
>>92631593You think they're bad, what about the pterodactyls? I'm off to YouTube to watch some Cadillacs & Dinosaurs...
>>92640169Flying scale rats
aw shit
>>92607933They're well designed and diverse, so you can always get a handful to fit your setting
>>92640557>largest talons not replaced with KA-BARs
>>92607933Because dinosaurs are cool.
>>92640150Why don't you dumb niggers stay on /x/ instead of shitting up other boards with your conspiracy theory bullshit
>>92648510Because that flavor of retard is now "based"
>>92607933Because fantasy games already have a bunch of weird megafauna like ankhegs and dragons, but unlike those, dinosaurs have a built-in "it's plausible because it's real" factor.
>>92608028those are chickens, they're everywhere in a medieval setting
>>92648510What an absolute NPC. I bet you believe in round earth, space and nukes too.
>>92653397Nukes are real. That's how they kickstart the Sun every morning before it makes its daily passage.
>>92607933Dinosaurs are rather hot, especially around the Chicxulub Holiday Season, and they fit nicely in my gas tank.
>>92653397You can literally buy a nuke right now
>>92608028>>92608229why are you assuming the setting in question is generic European Medieval?
You can do so much shit with them
