From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
I'll just tag Jack Shear and Paul Vermeren right away.
ReplyDeleteThe timing on this is uncanny, I was just checking the tracking info on some dino-related stuff coming to me in the mail.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually not that crazy about dinosaurs in D&D, believe it or not. I don't think I've ever had one pop up. I threw them into Rifts a lot, but usually just as background flavor, and they often weren't real species.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of including a couple of dinosaurs in GRIDSHOCK, but they're probably going to be fictional or misinterpreted taxa, like the butt-ugly theropod Teratosaurus that used to show up in old dinosaur books.
Too bad a lot of this art is apparently traced.
I am all for anachronistic dinosaurs when the creator is riffing on the views of a certain time. Like a planetary romance version of Venus where the dinos live in swamps.
ReplyDeleteCasey G. Yeah, GRIDSHOCK might have some very 80s dinosaurs. Like Syntarsus with a feather crest (and nothing else), or scaly, tiger-striped Deinonychus.
ReplyDeleteWait until you need my unauthorized supplement, DINOSHOCK
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ReplyDeleteCasey G. One of the characters in the art for the Import template (the one used for characters from other dimensions) should probably be a Dale Russell dinosauroid.
Yes, it should.
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