Paul V. there are three blog posts at http://www.skeletaldrawing.com/ that talk about it. Basically, it seems the back legs are too small and there's some dispute about spinosaurus arms being strong enough to support it as a quadrapedal walker.
But I thought this new reconstruction looked really cool from a D&D point of view. Like some kind of river dragon.
Random idea for high-lethality D&D campaigns: Character death unlocks new classes and races. Maybe useful in “special snowflake” campaigns where no one reads your carefully crafted setting material. Instead you roll it out piecemeal as PCs bite the dust. “I really want to play a saurian warlock…sure, I’ll take a drink of that mystery potion.” Someone probably thought of this before.
Hey, I'm using Jeff and Brendan's 20 questions to help me get a feel for my upcoming Perdition campaign. Never done it before. Highly recommended. http://jrients.blogspot.com/2011/04/twenty-quick-questions-for-your.html http://www.necropraxis.com/2012/02/24/20-quick-questions-rules/
Awesome!
ReplyDeleteI still don't understand why the idea of it looking a lot like Baryonyx is controversial.
Do local laws prevent you from feeding the dinosaurs? Like geese that are hand fed bread crumbs, I bet that could get of hand pretty quickly.
ReplyDeletePaul V. there are three blog posts at http://www.skeletaldrawing.com/ that talk about it. Basically, it seems the back legs are too small and there's some dispute about spinosaurus arms being strong enough to support it as a quadrapedal walker.
ReplyDeleteBut I thought this new reconstruction looked really cool from a D&D point of view. Like some kind of river dragon.
Oh, all right then. I thought people were just mad that it didn't look like the old-school "carnosaur with a Dimetrodon fin" look.
ReplyDeleteThe guys on the Tet Zoo podcast were wondering if it maybe walked like a pangolin, with it's hands just above the ground.
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