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On June 12th, 2015, the Animal Races series goes Jurassic.
More on that a bit later.

Epic Meepo RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16, 2012 Top 32 |
The Lizard Tyrants and their subjects died thousands of years ago...
...but not all of them plan on staying dead.
And even if they did, their descendants have ways of reliving the past.

Eric Hinkle |

The Lizard Tyrants and their subjects died thousands of years ago...
...but not all of them plan on staying dead.
And even if they did, their descendants have ways of reliving the past.
Now I'm even more eager to read that PDF.

Warhawk7 |

Warhawk7 wrote:Would I perhaps be able to make a young infant dinosaur that yells out "Not the Mama!"?Heh. Go for it. :)
Heh, I was hoping someone got the reference. I love all your recent race books. The bear one had me wanting to make a bush pilot, the frog one had me wanting to make intergalactic mercenaries, and the turtle one had me wanting to make sewer ninjas. ;-)

Itchy |

Eric Hinkle wrote:Now I'm even more eager to read that PDF.Actually, there are two PDFs:
Animal Races: Dawn of the Carnosaur and Animal Races: Dawn of the Cerapod.
As a dinosaur lover who has spawned a dinosaur lover, I have a question on your spelling. Dawn of the Cerapod?
Do you mean Sauropod, the family that includes all the long necked giants including Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus and Argentinosaurus?
Or are you referring to the Ceratopsians, a family of horned/frilled dinosaurs to include Triceratops, Protoceratops, Styracosaurus, and Montanaceratops?

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As a dinosaur lover who has spawned a dinosaur lover, I have a question on your spelling. Dawn of the Cerapod?
Do you mean Sauropod, the family that includes all the long necked giants including Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus and Argentinosaurus?
Or are you referring to the Ceratopsians, a family of horned/frilled dinosaurs to include Triceratops, Protoceratops, Styracosaurus, and Montanaceratops?
I am referring to the proposed Cerapoda clade, which includes Ceratopsians, Ornithopods, and Pachycephalosaurs.
The same PDF also covers Cerapoda's sister clade, Thyreophora, so it would have been more accurate to call it Dawn of the Ornithischian, but "Ornithischian" didn't sound as cool as "Cerapod" (and wouldn't have fit on the cover even if it did).
Saurapoda, meanwhile, make an appearance in both PDFs as a race of reptilian giants.

Epic Meepo RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16, 2012 Top 32 |
Non-scientific translation of the previous post:
Animal Races: Dawn of the Cerapod lets you play Bird-Feet, Bone-Heads, Horn-Heads, and Shield-Bearers, all of which are different but related groups of humanoid dinosaurs.
That officially makes cerapods the most diverse race to appear in the Animal Races product line so far.

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To expand upon the previous post, Dawn of the Ceratops divides the cerapods into four castes:
- Bird-Feet, fast-moving saurians who smack things with their whip-like tails;
- Bone-Heads, thick-skulled saurians who smash things with their heads;
- Horn-Heads, ceratops-like saurians who gore things with their many horns;
- And Shield-Beaerers, armor-plated saurians who clobber things with their heavy, spiked tails.

Itchy |

I am referring to the proposed Cerapoda clade, which includes Ceratopsians, Ornithopods, and Pachycephalosaurs.
The same PDF also covers Cerapoda's sister clade, Thyreophora, so it would have been more accurate to call it Dawn of the Ornithischian, but "Ornithischian" didn't sound as cool as "Cerapod" (and wouldn't have fit on the cover even if it did).
Saurapoda, meanwhile, make an appearance in both PDFs as a race of reptilian giants.
You had me at Ornithischian. I may pick this up, just to play a mini adventure with my dinosaur loving child. Perhaps I'll use the Age of Reptiles: Omnibus as a plotline.

Warhawk7 |
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Warhawk7 wrote:Agaaiin!Epic Meepo wrote:Heh, I was hoping someone got the reference.Warhawk7 wrote:Would I perhaps be able to make a young infant dinosaur that yells out "Not the Mama!"?Heh. Go for it. :)
Incidentally, the show is on Netflix now. :-D
To expand upon the previous post, Dawn of the Ceratops divides the cerapods into four castes:
- Bird-Feet, fast-moving saurians who smack things with their whip-like tails;
- Bone-Heads, thick-skulled saurians who smash things with their heads;
- Horn-Heads, ceratops-like saurians who gore things with their many horns;
- And Shield-Beaerers, armor-plated saurians who clobber things with their heavy, spiked tails.
Three horns never play with long necks. ;-)

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Epic Meepo wrote:But thyreophorans weren't Cerapods...
And Shield-Beaerers, armor-plated saurians who clobber things with their heavy, spiked tails.[/list]
Every Animal Races product includes options for playing characters based on both the title animal and on close relatives of the title animal.
Dawn of the Carnosaur, for example, won't limit itself to Carnosauria; it will also include character options related to coelurosaurs like maniraptors and megaraptors. Tyrannosaurs are also included in the form of two lizard tyrant bestiary entries.
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Which, I suppose, gives away my next spoiler: Dawn of the Carnosaur includes a short bestiary with stats for both living and undead lizard tyrants.

Warhawk7 |

So, are these rules for playing as a dinosaur or are they humanoid races that look dinosaur-ish? Or BOTH?
I'm watching for these, depending upon price point, I'll probably get at least one of them because Dinosaurs. are. awesome.
As with the rest of EM's 'Eric Morton Presents' race books, they are humanoid animals. He even puts a little bit of pop culture references into his products, such as the mutant turtle racial variant for the Clan of the Turtle (get it?). And I'm pretty sure (assuming here) that the Clan of the Frog's futuristic 'from beyond the stars' stuff is a reference to the Battletoads... well, at least Battletoads were the first thing I thought of when I saw the Clan of the Frog book... heh.
And yes... I agree... Dinosaurs ARE awesome!!