#dinosaur rpg

[jorgeburgos8]

In a land far away in the seas, Hatzegopteryx rules like a cruel king of the skies, incinerating any rival who dares to stand up to this prehistoric wyvern.

[urlknight]

Having a silly little conversation

[shadefish]

March Of Robots Lancer Edition

Day 7

Ceratopsian Minotaur

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[jellisdraws]

“Speak softly lest my fangs find you.”

Recent comm of a badass Saurian character and his signature weapon, Mancatcher. Lineart is below the cut!

I have a few slots available for commissions!

Anything I can’t post here is on my Patreon, Patreon.com/JellisDraws

[oldschoolfrp]

Time Travel Ninja Turtle Style -- Ad for Transdimensional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a 1989 sourcebook for the TMNT RPG by Palladium Books, with James Lawson art (in Dragon magazine 145, May 1989)

[2minutetabletop]

The Monster Bone Map Assets

Just one of these monster bones assets will reshape a battle map, and we’ve got over 200! What sort of encounter do they inspire, GM? :)

→ Download them here!

[pytonbies]

So, for past two weeks I've been working on a game for Dinojam4. It's a short adventure made in rpgmaker xp, inspired by showa era Ultraman & Kamen Rider series.

It's a bit crudely made and is pretty short but I also never made any game before so I am rather proud of it. Def made me hungry to make more small games in the future, now that I've dipped my toes in.

[wormdramafever]

Concept art of Jeff the Cheff, the character played by Sage in the tabletop rpg "Legends & Lore" from Goodbye Volcano High, by Oriana Carletto.

Interestingly, the second design is the "powered up" form that doesn't appear in the game, making Jeff the only character without one. One can speculate he would have transformed in the library, as that's the only place without a transformation and where he finds the nerconom-nomicon shown here.

Lucie Viatge's page also has a chibi version of this unused form (along with the others) meant for a cut battle mechanic:

Strangely, the design was finalized for the game, as seen at the end of this demo reel by animator Jeffrey De La Nuez:

#justiceforjeffthecheff

[demi-shoggoth]

2024 Reading Log, pt 2

006. Gardening Can Be Murder by Marta McDowell. I honestly thought that this book was going to be about something else. With the subtitle “how poisonous plants, sinister shovels and grim gardens have inspired mystery writers”, I thought it was going to be about, you know, that. True crime themed to gardens, discussions of poisonous plants, that sort of thing. The book is actually about the mystery books that have gardening as a theme. And while the author’s dedication to not spoiling anything (seriously, anything, even 150 year old stories like The Moonstone or “Rappacini’s Daughter”) is admirable in its own way, this leaves the book feeling like endless buildup without any payoff. Big fans of murder mysteries might enjoy this—especially the last chapter, which interviews writers about their gardens—but I found it more boring than anything else, and finished it only because it was very short.

007. Antimony, Gold and Jupiter’s Wolf by Peter Wothers. This book is about how the elements got their names, and most of it deals with the early modern period, as alchemy transitioned to chemistry and then into the 19th century, when chemistry was a real science, but things like atomic theory were not yet understood. The book goes into fascinating detail, and has a lot of quotes from primary sources, as scientists then were just like scientists now, that is, opinionated and bickering with each other over their preferred explanations. And names! Many of the splits between elements and their symbols (like Na for sodium) are due to compromise attempts to appease two different factions with their preferred names. A book covering arcane minutia of history always has the risk of feeling like a slog, but this is a fast and fun read.

008. Doctor Dhrolin’s Dictionary of Dinosaurs by Nathan T Barling and Michael O’Sullivan, illustrations by Mark P Witton. This book is an odd concept, but one that I was immediately on board with—a D&D book written by paleontologists with the intention of bringing accurate and interesting stats for prehistoric reptiles to the game. The fact that it’s mostly illustrated by Mark Witton definitely clinched my backing that Kickstarter. And this book is a lot of fun. So much so, that I read it all in a single sitting. I don’t know how accurate the stats are (like, a Hatzegopteryx has a higher CR than titanosaurs or T. rexes), but they seem like they’d be fun in play, and the writing does a good job of combining fantasy fun with actual education. Even for someone not running a 5e game, the stuff on how to run animals as not killing machines, and the mutation tables, could be useful. There are multiple types of playable dinosaurs, all of which seem like they’d work well at the table and avoid typical stereotypes, and a lot of in-jokes and pop culture references (like the cursed staff of unspared expense, which looks like Hammond’s cane in the Jurassic Park movie).

009. Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day by Judith Tschann. I’m a sucker for books about etymology. And this one, on food etymology, is a pretty breezy read. I had fun with it, and it even busted some misconceptions that I had, etymologically speaking. Like, there’s no evidence that “bloody” as an explicative originated from “God’s blood”? Wild. Etymology books tend to be written in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style, where talking about one word may lead down a garden path to the next one. The book also has a couple of little matching quizzes, which is something I haven’t seen in a book since like the 90s.

010. The Lives of Octopuses and their Relatives by Danna Staaf. I was previously a little disappointed in The Lives of Beetles, another book in this series, but I knew I liked Staaf, who wrote the excellent book Squid Empire about cephalopod evolution and paleontology. I’m pleased to report that this book is also excellent. Staaf takes the “lives” part seriously, and the book is arranged by ecology, looking at different marine habitats, the challenges that they pose to living things, and the cephalopods that live there. Cuttlefish get slightly short shrift in this book compared to squids and octopuses, but that’s about the biggest complaint I had. I like how the species profiles cover more obscure taxa, and information about the best studied (like Pacific giant octopus and Humboldt squid) is kept to the chapters.

[jorgeburgos8]

What is that in the distance? an island? land finally….but that island moves!? It is the Shonisaurus, with its colossal size it crushed everything in its path. Traces of prehistoric times seem to be engraved on their skin.

[viperpitsfilly]

(👉Went thrift shopping the other day and found these old movies that peaked my interest. Anyone else seen them before? 👈 )

(👉 Can't find a childhood favorite you've been looking for? Let the thrift store know and I'm sure they'll search it for you 👈 )

[makenna-made-this]

8Bit leghorn coming for your toes now with 100% more head flopper action

[videogamepolls]

Requested by anon

[shadefish]

March Of Robots Lancer Edition

Bonus Day 32

Carnosaur Barbarossa

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[brettneufeld]

Dinosaur Dragons. Commission work for Samurai Sheepdog.

[desertdruidcrafts]

Finally finished out the rest of the dinosaurs. Also some selfies, including the selkie goddess Surminare. And Milil and Ubtao. My planescape campaign sure brings the party to a lot of divine realms.

(though they actually bypassed Selkies' Grotto...)