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In the papers that the PCs and Lavinia find in her family vault there are drawings of strange creatures from the Isle of Dread. I am not familiar enough with the Isle, so what strange creatures beyond Tyranasaurs and Velociraptors can be found there and be sketched out in Lavinia's mom's notes. My players will want to know, and I would like to be prepared. Thanks.
Tam
Dragon 351 includes excerpts from Larissa Vanderboren's journal. Dungeon 143 includes wandering monster charts for the island and adjacent waters. Dungeon 114 also provides a good bit of information on the Isle of Dread, but some of that will conflict with the version of the island presented in Savage Tide.
Dinosaurs of about any type are appropriate, as well as a few Pleistocene Era creatures. Vermin and reptiles are frequent, as are dangerous plants. Aranea, Phanatons, Lizardfolk and Olman Humans are the main races of the island. Through the Olman Zombie Masters (the Olman "Clerics"), skeletons, zombies and mummies are found.
You can also look at it like Skull Island from King Kong, if you need some visual assistance.
The art book from weta, is a relative goldmine for this adventure path! Recommend it indeed!
The mother's diary did mention something killing a T-rex without much effort. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking a dragon maybe, but that feels a little too predictable.
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The largest dinosaur predator on the isle are the tyrannosaurs. The larger dinos (while cool) aren't present on the island. Likewise, there aren't any King Kong type apes on the island (that island exists elsewhere, although it does have links to the Isle of Dread). What killed the T-rex in Lavinia's journal was probably a big demon, most likely a retriever or bebelith.
The wandering monster charts in issue #143 are certainly the best guide as to what lives on the Savage Tide Isle of Dread.
And the Skull Island art book is actually an excellent source of inspiration for Savage Tide. A lot of the illos in there can certainly be used as "This is what you see" shots to show the PCs, in fact. And handilly; the art styles even match, since we've got the same artists who helped do that book working on Savage Tide.
Dinosaurs of about any type are appropriate, as well as a few Pleistocene Era creatures.
Eocene Epoch, certainly... and even as late as the Miocene (terror birds, etc.) is OK (anywhere in the Tertiary Period exc. Pliocene), but definitely not the (later, Quaternary) Pleistocene Epoch (not era, btw; the Eocene, Miocene, Pleistocene, etc. are part of the Cenozoic Era, as is the present day). Eurasia and N America were under ice age conditions in the Pleistocene, and woolly mammoths and the like would die of heat exhaustion within minutes on the Isle of Dread.
Sorry, I'm a geologist. Rocks are my bag, baby.
Unless I'm being rather tarded, I do beleive the T-Rex in Larissa Vanderboren's journal was never killed. In fact, he's still around and kicking: Temauhti-tecuani
One eyed, one armed old angry bastich of a rex. Sounds like the wanker Larissa ran into. Ergo, apparently he ran into another rex, who took advantage of his recent blinding. The choked off roar wasn't him; it was the other rex receiving his retribution for biting off his arm.
I'm already building up the reps of the Legendary Monsters (See Dragon Magazine issue for Febuary, man I love subscriptions) and have done so with Temauhti by giving him a rep as a man-eater-eater. The villagers talk of the great thunder lizard who sweeps through the jungle, snapping up megaraptors and even other t-rexes as they hunt Olman warriors. Mechanically, I'm swapping out his four improved natural armors for Roll With It, and Improved DR x3. So he has DR 8/-. Kind of helps with the legendary status when the average Olman warrior can't hurt him with a thrown spear!
Weta?
The special effects house that worked on King Kong and Lord of the Rings.
