No Dinosaurs Allowed


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I don't use dinosaurs in my current campaigns. Not because I don't like them (I have much love for the terrible lizards) but to me they seem so over used. I throw in a lot of other prehistoric beasts though, especially ancient mammals.

But lately I've been itchin' to run a campaign in Edgar Rice Burrough's inner world setting of Pellucidar, which abounds with dinosaurs (and other beasts and strange beings). I'm having a moral quandary over this, as my players would browbeat me to the ground for going back on my word to keep dinosaurs from the game. What do I do? What do I do? Woe.. oh woe...


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call everything kaiju instead


Sit down with the Players and explain your quandary? I would think if you were playing in a dinosaur focused setting they would probably have less a fuss than a velociraptor showing up in a random dungeon.


DungeonmasterCal wrote:

I don't use dinosaurs in my current campaigns. Not because I don't like them (I have much love for the terrible lizards) but to me they seem so over used. I throw in a lot of other prehistoric beasts though, especially ancient mammals.

But lately I've been itchin' to run a campaign in Edgar Rice Burrough's inner world setting of Pellucidar, which abounds with dinosaurs (and other beasts and strange beings). I'm having a moral quandary over this, as my players would browbeat me to the ground for going back on my word to keep dinosaurs from the game. What do I do? What do I do? Woe.. oh woe...

There is a lot of evidence being found that dinosaurs most resembled birds rather than lizards. Have some giant 30' long chickens attack them with their razor tooth filled jaws.

Scarab Sages

Yes, call them giant birds, stress the feathers, and give them teeth as well as beaks. Or, have a 60' gorilla instead.


I could try the bird angle, but my guys all have a fairly scientific bent to them and they'd know what was up lol.


Tell them you want to play such a campaign. Explain to them that this would mean going back on your promise.


Remind your group that the reason you didn't use them was because you felt they were overused, and that using them for an occasional one-off game is exactly how to use them properly. "Never" is taking it to the wrong extreme, and you've now realized this :)


Good advice all around. But ohhhhh....the ridicule I'll be subject to! LOL


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Tell them your previous rigidness was a result of modron mind-control, and thankfully you have broken free of such awful lawful influences.

Then I'll turn off the lights and egg any ridiculers with slaad larvae. Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!


You, good Slaad, are welcome at my table anytime!


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The solution is painfully simple, good sir. Let me put it to you this way:

T-Rex? Giant Kobold with vestigial arms.

Scarab Sages

Players are like children. If they're being annoying then you're not beating them enough.


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DungeonmasterCal wrote:
Good advice all around. But ohhhhh....the ridicule I'll be subject to! LOL

Rocks fall, everybody dies is still a valid option if it gets too bad!

Liberty's Edge

Why does it matter what other people use, unless your group in particular is tired of seeing dinosaurs, don't be afraid to use them.

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