spectacular, you spared no expense!

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

Precisely! :)

In my world I simply made a continent that was basically reptile themed. The major powers were a dragonborn empire and a yuan-ti empire with some advanced lizardfolk cities here and there. And on that continent the dinosaurs were simply the local wildlife. So instead of packs of wolves there were packs of velociraptors.

I know this is an old video but the whole time watching this I couldn't help but think that you would make a wonderful John hammond. Your voice and general look about you just seems to remind me of prof. hammond.

@judebotfilms2217

3 жыл бұрын

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@judebotfilms2217

3 жыл бұрын

listen here dood i didnt really mean it I JUST DONT KNOWWWW bye.

@expeditionlife9627

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing!

Lovely video, and one I was pleased to see! I have been building an AD&D 2E world over the last few months and this video was a nice relevant surprise. It is a world populated by dinosaurs, psionic Saurial folk based on the parasaurolophus alongside other reptilian races like Lizard Men, as well as the descendants of human refugees who came to the planet a millenia ago on their arcane (coughspelljammercough) airships. So (as always) it was nice to sit down and hear your thoughts. You always manage to reflect my own back at me in a much more comprehensive way, which helps me to make headway when I hit a block. Thanks for the topic!

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

Glad to be the mirror! 2nd Edition - I didn't think anyone played that anymore, good grief, that would bring back memories lol. Your world sounds interesting. As I mentioned though, you'll need more than dinosaurs and lizardfolk - in my opinion. But you've got it in the form of a different human species that grew out of the original colonists etc. Let us know how it goes!

@AuntieHauntieGames

7 жыл бұрын

Ever since I discovered the 2013 re-print (three years after the fact) it has been my go-to D&D edition again. I like 5E a lot for its simplicity and cleanliness but I feel like magic is much too proliferated. Almost everyone has it. 2E has nice separations between classes as far as magical abilities go - only giving healing to priests, spellcasting to spellcasters, etc. Plus all the classic material (like Dragonlance or classic Dark Sun, Spelljammer, et al) that can be played without having to go through all the work of converting rules. I will be sure to keep you updated. ;-)

Additional sources of inspiration: There was a 'Lost World' TV series loosely based on the Conan Doyle story. Also the British series 'Primeval' which had dinosaurs and creatures from other prehistoric periods arriving in the model world through space/time anomalies. They got around the effectiveness of modern weapons with a need to return the creatures to their own time so as to avoid changing history.

I would love to see a TTRPG like Tavosky's Primal where you play a badass cave man fighting to survive in a world of dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, giant bugs & other horrors! That could be a harsh but wicked game

Brilliant! I'm running a dinosaur island game Sunday. Thank you Guy.

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

Absolutely pleasure! Glad the timing worked out!

I like to use dinosaurs on isolated islands, or hidden valleys un reachable from the outside. Although, I have not yet considered a mad scientist unleashing them upon the world. That's something to think about for some upcoming games

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

That's a great location for them in my opinion. Mad scientists always make for interesting options!

I got the Dino-Riders reference. ;) The best cartoon series of my childhood. ^^

Excellent, I think to see Papo on the table. Excellent company for this stuff!

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

What an inspiring episode ! Finally I have a scenario for my next game... which is tonight... #Bettergettowork Thanks !

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

My gratitude. Please let us know how your scenario turns out!

“Strapping lasers into a dinosaur’s head is rather silly.” Ark players: haha tek saddles go pew pew.

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is also a solid reference... Also, here I was thinking I was the only one who remembered Dino Riders was actually a real thing.

Something I’ve been toying with is a fantasy type setting where dinosaurs are just another common type of animal, so there’d be a lot of diversity of reptilian and bird like animals, with relatively few mammals. In a standard dungeons and dragons type fantasy setting, there’s a bit of a strange dichotomy between normal things like deer and wolves, and magical fantastical animals that make the world feel like you’re exploring, and those two don’t always mesh super well. It sort of makes you wonder why there are regular wolves when there are also dire wolves filling the same niche, and why average villagers seem to have no cultural or ecological relationship to these magical animals. I think using dinosaurs could be a fun solution to this, because they’re animals and it’s clear how they live in an ecosystem with a real sense of place like having deer and cows would, but they’re also impressive, fantastic, and potentially dangerous just like an owl bear or a dire wolf.

The campaign I am in currently has dinosaurs... and I think my gm has taken your advice on the topic and I'm also sure he hasn't even seen your channel before

I loved this, very helping in the atmosphere, goals, and fun that should be considered in the setting. I can't help but thinking there's more to it, so these are ideas I was storming while watching the video. You spoke of an enemy and focused heavily on aliens and antlantians, but I was waiting for you to say elementals. Other worldly elementals who are capable of influencing dinosaurs (maybe by simply making their climate uncomfortable), who seek a sort of destruction in the natural world. Very intelligent beings in more human-like states who may be revered as gods to the other local homosapiens. My mind also went to troglodytes, the first sentient creatures driven to madness. I can only wonder what they would be like in a session as the main villains with more intelligence and the same savagery. Perhaps they live underground already in savage cities. I very biasly play medieval roleplaying, so your mentioning of the modern setting offset me. You could have a medieval world that tries to grow as the dinosaurs still roam, with their cultures more crude and living in the mountains to fend off from most of the dinosaurs. I believe Aztec civilization would be near what I'm talking about, or something along the lines of a more threatening setting based of the Monster Hunter series. The last thing that I though of from this video was a strange 3rd party class for Pathfinder I found. The description alone gives an idea for a villain. www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-prestige-classes/bastion-press/dinosaur-cultist It would be really neat to see more videos on setting in the future.

If anyone is looking at a game that includes dinosaurs, Palladium has their Rifts title. It has the advantage of being something you could spend time with, then travel to a different area and you're in magical kingdoms or bandit infested wastes.

You could have a region where all the other creatures stay out of it. Because its ruled by a dire T-rex with resistances to all elements and flesh like stone. It has intellect on par with a dragon. Maybe there is a story about how a red dragon tried to make a lair in this place and his bones are in the middle of the valley as a message to and would be usurpers.

In one if my settings there is a place called the savage plains where roaming nomadic Tribes if barbarian orcs fight the dinosaurs in the area to prove themselves and some even tame them as beast partners, pets, and mounts.

@snarkback

3 жыл бұрын

Orcs raiders riding raptors is a cool image for the party.

Hi, I'd like to see an episode about how to deal with a PC dying, and how to replace him/her with a good balance between being punitive and allowing the player to feel good playing a new character, I've seen the episode about introducing a new character in an adventure, and it gave me some ideas already, but I would like your tips and tricks about dealing with a dying PC. Keep on the great work.

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

Hello, thanks for the great suggestion. I'll see if it's on the list already because I think it is, but I'll check. If not, I'll add it for sure!

I love your videos, but this is the first I've heard of you having experience with large animals. What's the story there? Or is it detailed elsewhere online?

The TV series Terra Nova was ok and I loved the comic Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

This would be a great way to present lizard folk... straight up have their own continent on which they ranch various herbivores, kill carnivores like coyotes.

I am writing a campaign where players are Martians and their goal is to save dinosaurs from extinction. Except dinosaurs, they will have to fight with things that came to the Earth from Mars - radioactive creatures, revolted AIs and spiders.

I always figured, in this world of dragons, interdimentional (technically and literally) portals, and just plain old magic, why would dinos necessarily go extinct? And assuming they did but were rediscovered in some out of the way place, there's NO way someone's not going to breed these things like horses and spread them around. So yeah, in my stuff dinos are akin to any other animal. Some places have wolves. Some lions. Some drakes. Some velociraptors. Some have a mix. Sometimes there's wild cattle, sometimes triceratops.

Never thought about this one before - though i have used dinosaurs in dnd.... halflings flying pterodactyls. Maybe i shall expand.

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

Super cool!

@stitchthealchemist1520

7 жыл бұрын

Ludovico Street expand away. I'm curious :)

@ChrisVisser

7 жыл бұрын

Ever read Windriders of the Jagged Cliffs for 2nd ed DnD? The halflings there might be great inspiration

@lysander1

7 жыл бұрын

no i have not - but i shall take a look! marci

I wish dinosaurs were PC's.

you expect many and oddly specific things.

"Zombie Dinosaurs" I do have a setting with zombies and dinosaurs I made, though there aren't zombie dinosaurs unfortunately. Basically there's a war between technology worshipers and necromancers, with some medieval-fantasy themed factions (who've domesticated dinosaurs) caught in the middle.

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

Now that sounds awesome! How are your players responding to that?

@MatthewCampbell765

7 жыл бұрын

How to be a Great Game Master I haven't quite started the campaign just yet (still gathering players and such). I made the setting for a computer game that I'm building with RPG Maker, but I like the setting enough that I wanted to try converting it into a pathfinder setting and running a campaign in it. The setting's a bit like a less dark 40K, I'll describe it in more detail here: The sun was gobbled up by a sentient black hold Cthulhu monster called Apollyon, but before it could humanity built a super AI deity known as Metatron. Metatron invented FTL travel and evacuated the human race. They formed a technologically advanced republic known as Zion with Metatron as the deity of their state religion. They also discovered magic and aliens (who are usually feudalistic and most of them worship aspects of nature and what have you). Unfortunately, some humans became disgruntled with Zionite society for various reasons so they started practicing necromancy and demon worship and rebelled. They eventually ceded half of Zion and formed The Enigma, a brutal psuedo-communist dictatorship. The two have been in conflict for centuries, and the aliens keep getting dragged in.

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

Sounds interesting. A rather cool mix really :)

Can we have a video regarding how to make a campaign focusing on time travel? The movie Predestination as the theme

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

I think time travel as a setting is on the list to be done. I'll check and add it if not! Thanks for the question!

I'm in the process of creating my own d and d world using your videos to guide me. This world originally had no dragons but now I'm thinking instead it will have ancient dragons in the form of fairly intelligent dinosaur like creatures with breath weapons. Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions?

@garrettlich7140

2 жыл бұрын

Look at magic the gathering and world of Warcraft dinosaurs and the people who live amongst them O and don’t forget war hammer fantasy lustrias lizardmen

Dinosaurs?! Oh yeah that's how it starts... but then it's just the running and screaming".

Mix it up by setting in 1980s that never existed with technology far more advance than what we have. (I might just be describing Tales from the Loop.)

dinotopia was a movie

@ThePhiRexian

6 жыл бұрын

Ooh yeah, I'd forgotten about that

I think lots of people overestimating and underestimating dinosaurs at the same time...Because,if you really think about it,dinosaurs in a modern city? It's not that big of a threat,really.Yes,there would be an initial shock,because,lets face it,it's a friggin' dinosaur!, in reality,what is it? Just a big animal,really.I think even police have some big enough guns.Or you can get one somewhere.Yes,it could eat 2-3 people (if it is a meat-eater),and cause lot of other death and destruction,but nothing catastrophic.On the other hand,if you are somewhere far away,and there are dinosaurs,you can have the best gun available to you...if you don't have ammunition.Or you can have a truckload of ammunition...but your truck ran out of fuel.The thing is,you have limited resources.And there are hungry carnivores around.Sooner or later,you will run out of stuff.Then,you will have a problem.Then again,it's just another "survive in the wild" type of thing... A completely different type of question:Could something like Transformers be a setting..? In sci-fi,yes,but in fantasy..? Maybe some kind of sentient golem/construct? Maybe combining dinosaur and transformers...? (Beast Wars came to my mind recently...) Just think of it..."oh,it's just a raptor...-Bigclaw...Transform! - Oh sh**

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha. So in a fantasy setting yes I think it could work beautifully. We have so many options - Polymorph, Alter self, and golems and constructs as you mention. So yes could be fun. I remember beast wars - wow. That was at the dawn of computer graphics!

@Jake007123

7 жыл бұрын

There is a thing in D&D called mimics and doppelgangers. Check it out, I love them. Also when magic is involved, you can create intelligent constructs with the power to transform themselves, for example.

If you can have a wizard half orc. Why not give the Dinos some spells and lazer beams?

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

A dinosaur with spells is really just a Lizardman shaman? Or a dragonkind mage? I think the thing about dinosaurs is what makes them special is that they are just big, scary beasts. Adding things to them either reduces them to cattle, or makes them a fantasy creature. I could be wrong.

@TheTechnatron

7 жыл бұрын

I feel that Lizardman and Dradonkind are too humanoid. And with keeping dinosaurs more beast-like is a good way to go. Have them break into a potion shop and eat all that is in there, or have a group of them trapped with a enchanter testing all type of stuff on them. Big Shocker Lizards to Godzilla never a bad way to go.

@HowtobeaGreatGM

7 жыл бұрын

Can't argue that! :)

Google; Valley of the Gwanji

half dragon dinosaurs

One million B.C the setting.

OO Why even bother to play RPG when one goes to Japan and is chased by rhino and lions IRL ?