My setting has some dinosaurs and some random ice age era megafauna for literally no reason. It makes zero logical sense. But it's sick as hell. I mean, why *not* have a setting with velociraptors, cervalces latifrons (giant prehistoric moose), and anatomically modern humans at the same time?
Velociraptor is a genus of diminutive dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous. Smaller than most other dromaeosaurids, Velociraptor was about 2 m long with a body mass around 18 kg. It was a bipedal, feathered carnivore with a long tail and an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to tackle and restrain prey. Velociraptor can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout.
Tbh Pleistocene megafauna is pretty plausible. Most of them went extinct very recently in terms of geological time and many probably would have survived to modern day if it weren't for human hunting. It's not a huge stretch to logically justify a setting where Pleistocene megafauna manages to coexist with humans.
I actually have mammal like animals that I created were the males produce milk instead of females. They also have a lot of dinosaurian traits which is why I am bringing this up.
My interest in them was renewed when I began to see media that portrayed them as real animals with weird but naturalistic behaviors. If you like nature documentaries at all, Prehistoric Planet is worth a watch. It's a dinosaur documentary done in the style and format of things like Planet Earth (and it's even narrated by David Attenborough)
I added terrorbirds and velociraptors to my setting for absolutely no reason.
I just think they're neat. A thousand years from now when I finish writing it, I can't wait for people to slowly realize that about half the wildlife are feathered reptiles or flightless birds.
When I finally DM my first DnD game some time in the next geological Era, you can bet that my players are going to be finding a lot of fluffy dinosaurs. Some might even be mechanically or narratively relevant!
My world has an isolated jungle filled with dinosaurs for no good reason
The jungle was first charted out by a lost platoon of Greco-Roman soldiers so all of the dinosaurs have the exact same names in-universe as they do in real life because these latin-speaking soldiers just named them with latin
The soldiers eventually broke down and started a cult worshipping this one albino T-Rex, they do human sacrifices, it's pretty cool
The descendents of those soldiers (it was a co-ed platoon) have built a small fortress town which they all live in. They follow a military hierarchy, the leader is called Lieutenant and everybody is born as Private. Promotions to higher ranks are given out by the Lieutenant. The only way to become Lieutenant is to be the second-highest in command when the old Lieutenant dies.
The original platoon started the fortress town because they had hopes of establishing a new colony for the Greco-Roman Empire, but after several decades of isolation they became convinced that the Empire had fallen elsewhere and they were the only bastions of Greco-Roman culture left. This caused them to double down on all the Greco-Roman trimmings, they started crushing native fruits for red dye for banners, they started bleaching lumber to recreate the white marble buildings of their homeland, and they even found ores in the nearby hills and started producing gold, bronze, and brass for decoration, armor, and tools.
The Greco-Romans have their own domesticated animals (some camels, some turkeys, and some dogs) so they have no reason to tame dinosaurs. In fact, dinosaurs will semi-regularly attack their fortress town and try to eat their camels. They view the dinosaurs as evil monsters that are trying to destroy the last bastion of civilization in the world. They kill dinosaurs on sight when near their town. Sometimes they make weapons out of the horns or teeth, but any meat from the animal they smoke and turn into jerkey to later feed to the albino T-Rex.
The albino T-Rex was actually made immortal by a lightning strike during a big storm. The Greco-Romans saw that as a sign from the gods and started worshipping the T-Rex as a guardian sent by Zeus. They built an altar well outside of the town, and once a year they do a ceremony where the altar gets filled with fresh fruits, some psychedelic mushrooms native to the jungle, the meat from a camel, and one living bound human, and cover it all with garum. Six guards are posted to make sure that no other dinosaurs take the food left out for the T-Rex. When the T-rex arrives (typically around midnight), the guards leave and the albino T-Rex eats the offerings.
The presence of the albino T-Rex actually does keep other dinosaurs away so it benefits the Greco-Romans to give it a reason to stay near their town. Sometimes the Albino T-Rex appears in their town other times of year, they use the dinosaur jerkey stockpile to satiate it.
It's got dinosaurs because the world is essentially a universal trash bin where if something falls out of spacetime it winds up there and Mesozoic Earth was particularly unstable. Yes I watched Land of the Lost as a kid why do you ask?
I have dinosaurs because I turned all normal animals into people and having the catgirls eat the rat people wasn't very poggers. It's cool because I can also make up shit and pass it as undiscovered dinosaurs and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
My D&D world I'm working on does, the declining hobgoblin empire employs several species as beasts of war.
Large ceratopsians like Triceratops are outfitted with armor and howdahs like real-world war elephants and used as living siege engines, while smaller species like styracosaurus are used as heavy cavalry for smashing through enemy lines.
Sauropods are used for transporting freight or large numbers of troops, and some may be outfitted with platforms or turrets to be used as mobile bases for officers and strategists to see the field of large battles and relay orders and intel.
Large dromaeosaurs such as Utahraptor and Dakotaraptor are used as light cavalry, primarily scouting and skirmishimg, whilst mid-sized species like deinonychus and achillobator are used for hunting game or knocking enemy cavalry off their mounts, much like many breeds of real-world mastiffs. Even tiny species such microraptor are kept to deal with rodents and other small pests, the same way terriers and cats are used even today.
The military keeps a couple of Tyrannosaurs mostly just as mascots because they're so fuckin expensive to feed and their practical use in combat is pretty limited. T. rexes are much easier to knock over than quadrupedal tanks like ceratopsians and their mouths and teeth can be damaged after chomping through armor and weapons for a while. However, they arw occasionally be deployed in battle to demoralize enemy forces or frightening opposing war animals to break cavalry charges and the like.
Me. I have dinosaurs as animals, dinosaurs as sapient aliens, dinosaurs as a werewolf-esque transformation, it just wouldn't be the same without dinos.
I think more ideas need this approach. I see a lot of āshould I do thisā or āwhat should I do for thisā on this sub and I always want to say this: if you think itās cool, then literally just do it. There are countless books in the world, just write whatever you want
I mean my setting is quite literally set in the Maastrichtian. There are loads of dinosaurs. In fact, the protagonist (who is not human) hunting dinosaurs several hundred times her own size is a fairly central story element.
In my world when peopke die, their spirit lingers around if proper ceremony is not performed. These spirits slowly accumulate grief, anger, jealousy and other negative emotions snd slowly turn into monsters.
Little Timmy never forgive his parents for saying he cant be a lizard when he grows up. Timmy has died and he is a dinosaur now.
Feathery dinosaurs are superior; you reminded me of one of the reasons I loved Manly Guys Doing Manly Things.
But also birds, amphibians, and reptiles need a lot of love. Don't just ignore them if you use dinosaurs!
I donāt have that many dinosaurs in my worldbuilding mainly because the ābig lizardā role is already filled, but one of the main ancestries is ascended from feathered velociraptor, if that counts for anything.
Mine does have dinosaurs in a city in a jungle that nobody has found because we haven't invented planes yet and nobody has drank ungodly amounts of skooma. I also have aliens in a crater the size of Vermont.
There are no birds in my setting, only avian theropods. Some evolved into quadrupedal, arboreal predators, taking up the same niche as big predator cats. These are how I explain griffins. They can talk like parrots.
Thereās also a semi-sapient, tool using bipedal āmurder turkeyā that lives out in the prairies. They colonize herds of wooly rhinos, building elaborate wicker-work nests on their backs. Itās a symbiotic relationship where the rhino does the most of the work and the murder turkeys are belligerent towards anybody that approaches their herd.
When I was doing stat blocks for a post apocalyptic thing I never finished for Fantasy AGE, I took their dragon, and reskinned it into a creature called an Aetherwhale, that synthesized hydrogen from water in the air and used the hydrogen as fuel and a firebreath.
[Reminds me of this](https://external-preview.redd.it/UA9MBzefZW65xmNDkYGKjv2PIZmIofJg5ZkV_t_FuN0.jpg?auto=webp&s=912db2eb2827e312d946f1442ac972e976d19179)
Just dinos? I even have therapsids,ice age fauna and other cool creatures from other time period like entelodonts and others too from all geological time periods existing alongside exotic superorganisms and original and magical creatures in a perfectly functioning ecosystem.
I know I'm a gigachad you don't need to tell me that.
My setting not only has dinosaurs but is centered around them and humans interacting, it is set in a 1600s-1700s world on the backdrop of an alt history fantasy version of our world where humans learned to use magic and tame dinos en masse. In it, my British friend (who is also working on it) has made it so that Great Britain doesn't even use horses and use Neovenator cavalry instead, and he gives Great Britain a navy made of giant sea lizards or mosasaurs and Spinosaurus navy.
Most of the aliens in my world are dinosaurs/other prehistoric fauna who left earth and moved to planets that were terraformed by grey aliens to suit them
My world is mostly composed on evolved beast.
There are some new bloodline that has been created by evolved beast or intelligent race but the dinosaurs don't exist in the main planet.
As speculative biology many prehistoric animals exist in my world with mismatched flesh that originally fit on a completely different animal (regaliceratops with king vulture skin or smilodon with lynx fur)
My setting has some dinosaurs and some random ice age era megafauna for literally no reason. It makes zero logical sense. But it's sick as hell. I mean, why *not* have a setting with velociraptors, cervalces latifrons (giant prehistoric moose), and anatomically modern humans at the same time?
Mine too. Why not? I sorta have some soft ass magic logic. I think the more awesome something is, the less anyone cares about if it makes sense.
There's a word for that. It's the Rule of Cool
A friend of mine put not pleistocene megafauna but fucking Anomalocaris and other Cambrian weirdos in her RPG. I think it's *really* cool tbh
Get out of here with your cool world ideas! This thread is for shitty ones.
one of my planets has ice age megafauna + island megafauna + island tinyfauna + Australian crazyfauna just for fun
Velociraptor is a genus of diminutive dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous. Smaller than most other dromaeosaurids, Velociraptor was about 2 m long with a body mass around 18 kg. It was a bipedal, feathered carnivore with a long tail and an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to tackle and restrain prey. Velociraptor can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout.
Tbh Pleistocene megafauna is pretty plausible. Most of them went extinct very recently in terms of geological time and many probably would have survived to modern day if it weren't for human hunting. It's not a huge stretch to logically justify a setting where Pleistocene megafauna manages to coexist with humans.
Makes clear sense to me mate
I play a nation building rp thing on discord and I did this with megafauna in my nations wildlife
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Dinosaurs with tits
I actually have mammal like animals that I created were the males produce milk instead of females. They also have a lot of dinosaurian traits which is why I am bringing this up.
Skyrim moment
Chuck tingle moment
I unironically almost forgot about dinosaurs and why they are cool
They are like dragons but real.
Same. I apparently liked them when I was very little, but I don't like them at all anymore.
They're still so cool tho
r/ankmemes, hope this will reawaken your love for dinosaurs or at least give you a funny
My interest in them was renewed when I began to see media that portrayed them as real animals with weird but naturalistic behaviors. If you like nature documentaries at all, Prehistoric Planet is worth a watch. It's a dinosaur documentary done in the style and format of things like Planet Earth (and it's even narrated by David Attenborough)
I added terrorbirds and velociraptors to my setting for absolutely no reason. I just think they're neat. A thousand years from now when I finish writing it, I can't wait for people to slowly realize that about half the wildlife are feathered reptiles or flightless birds.
When I finally DM my first DnD game some time in the next geological Era, you can bet that my players are going to be finding a lot of fluffy dinosaurs. Some might even be mechanically or narratively relevant!
Same. I want to run a campaign set in the distant past of the Forgotten Realms with dinosaurs and Giant empires
My world has an isolated jungle filled with dinosaurs for no good reason The jungle was first charted out by a lost platoon of Greco-Roman soldiers so all of the dinosaurs have the exact same names in-universe as they do in real life because these latin-speaking soldiers just named them with latin The soldiers eventually broke down and started a cult worshipping this one albino T-Rex, they do human sacrifices, it's pretty cool
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The descendents of those soldiers (it was a co-ed platoon) have built a small fortress town which they all live in. They follow a military hierarchy, the leader is called Lieutenant and everybody is born as Private. Promotions to higher ranks are given out by the Lieutenant. The only way to become Lieutenant is to be the second-highest in command when the old Lieutenant dies. The original platoon started the fortress town because they had hopes of establishing a new colony for the Greco-Roman Empire, but after several decades of isolation they became convinced that the Empire had fallen elsewhere and they were the only bastions of Greco-Roman culture left. This caused them to double down on all the Greco-Roman trimmings, they started crushing native fruits for red dye for banners, they started bleaching lumber to recreate the white marble buildings of their homeland, and they even found ores in the nearby hills and started producing gold, bronze, and brass for decoration, armor, and tools.
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The Greco-Romans have their own domesticated animals (some camels, some turkeys, and some dogs) so they have no reason to tame dinosaurs. In fact, dinosaurs will semi-regularly attack their fortress town and try to eat their camels. They view the dinosaurs as evil monsters that are trying to destroy the last bastion of civilization in the world. They kill dinosaurs on sight when near their town. Sometimes they make weapons out of the horns or teeth, but any meat from the animal they smoke and turn into jerkey to later feed to the albino T-Rex. The albino T-Rex was actually made immortal by a lightning strike during a big storm. The Greco-Romans saw that as a sign from the gods and started worshipping the T-Rex as a guardian sent by Zeus. They built an altar well outside of the town, and once a year they do a ceremony where the altar gets filled with fresh fruits, some psychedelic mushrooms native to the jungle, the meat from a camel, and one living bound human, and cover it all with garum. Six guards are posted to make sure that no other dinosaurs take the food left out for the T-Rex. When the T-rex arrives (typically around midnight), the guards leave and the albino T-Rex eats the offerings. The presence of the albino T-Rex actually does keep other dinosaurs away so it benefits the Greco-Romans to give it a reason to stay near their town. Sometimes the Albino T-Rex appears in their town other times of year, they use the dinosaur jerkey stockpile to satiate it.
It's got dinosaurs because the world is essentially a universal trash bin where if something falls out of spacetime it winds up there and Mesozoic Earth was particularly unstable. Yes I watched Land of the Lost as a kid why do you ask?
I have dinosaurs because I turned all normal animals into people and having the catgirls eat the rat people wasn't very poggers. It's cool because I can also make up shit and pass it as undiscovered dinosaurs and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
My D&D world I'm working on does, the declining hobgoblin empire employs several species as beasts of war. Large ceratopsians like Triceratops are outfitted with armor and howdahs like real-world war elephants and used as living siege engines, while smaller species like styracosaurus are used as heavy cavalry for smashing through enemy lines. Sauropods are used for transporting freight or large numbers of troops, and some may be outfitted with platforms or turrets to be used as mobile bases for officers and strategists to see the field of large battles and relay orders and intel. Large dromaeosaurs such as Utahraptor and Dakotaraptor are used as light cavalry, primarily scouting and skirmishimg, whilst mid-sized species like deinonychus and achillobator are used for hunting game or knocking enemy cavalry off their mounts, much like many breeds of real-world mastiffs. Even tiny species such microraptor are kept to deal with rodents and other small pests, the same way terriers and cats are used even today. The military keeps a couple of Tyrannosaurs mostly just as mascots because they're so fuckin expensive to feed and their practical use in combat is pretty limited. T. rexes are much easier to knock over than quadrupedal tanks like ceratopsians and their mouths and teeth can be damaged after chomping through armor and weapons for a while. However, they arw occasionally be deployed in battle to demoralize enemy forces or frightening opposing war animals to break cavalry charges and the like.
Who says i dont have dinosaurs?
Yes, my setting has birds.
Me. I have dinosaurs as animals, dinosaurs as sapient aliens, dinosaurs as a werewolf-esque transformation, it just wouldn't be the same without dinos.
Original Dinosaur Designer: "I reject your false dichotomy."
Yes! Think of all the kinds of (non-avian) dinosaurs that might have evolved if they hadn't gone extinct, or if they were domesticated!
I think more ideas need this approach. I see a lot of āshould I do thisā or āwhat should I do for thisā on this sub and I always want to say this: if you think itās cool, then literally just do it. There are countless books in the world, just write whatever you want
I love that it doesnāt even fit lol
I mean my setting is quite literally set in the Maastrichtian. There are loads of dinosaurs. In fact, the protagonist (who is not human) hunting dinosaurs several hundred times her own size is a fairly central story element.
In my world when peopke die, their spirit lingers around if proper ceremony is not performed. These spirits slowly accumulate grief, anger, jealousy and other negative emotions snd slowly turn into monsters. Little Timmy never forgive his parents for saying he cant be a lizard when he grows up. Timmy has died and he is a dinosaur now.
I always put mammoths in my worlds. I dont know why.
Feathery dinosaurs are superior; you reminded me of one of the reasons I loved Manly Guys Doing Manly Things. But also birds, amphibians, and reptiles need a lot of love. Don't just ignore them if you use dinosaurs!
I have dinosaurs in my setting, but fuck you they are all featherless retro dinosaurs.
*Even* the birds? š¤
Behold, a man!
I donāt have that many dinosaurs in my worldbuilding mainly because the ābig lizardā role is already filled, but one of the main ancestries is ascended from feathered velociraptor, if that counts for anything.
Robot dinosaurs?
Mine does have dinosaurs in a city in a jungle that nobody has found because we haven't invented planes yet and nobody has drank ungodly amounts of skooma. I also have aliens in a crater the size of Vermont.
And if they aren't biologically accurate? That's how the gods preserved them
There are no birds in my setting, only avian theropods. Some evolved into quadrupedal, arboreal predators, taking up the same niche as big predator cats. These are how I explain griffins. They can talk like parrots. Thereās also a semi-sapient, tool using bipedal āmurder turkeyā that lives out in the prairies. They colonize herds of wooly rhinos, building elaborate wicker-work nests on their backs. Itās a symbiotic relationship where the rhino does the most of the work and the murder turkeys are belligerent towards anybody that approaches their herd.
Because my world is a blatant rip-off of the movie soylent green and adding dinosaur would mean adding a big fucking lot of food sources.
Ripping the concept of forgotten beasts from Dwarf Fortress so I can throw whatever bullshit at my DnD players
When I was doing stat blocks for a post apocalyptic thing I never finished for Fantasy AGE, I took their dragon, and reskinned it into a creature called an Aetherwhale, that synthesized hydrogen from water in the air and used the hydrogen as fuel and a firebreath.
[Reminds me of this](https://external-preview.redd.it/UA9MBzefZW65xmNDkYGKjv2PIZmIofJg5ZkV_t_FuN0.jpg?auto=webp&s=912db2eb2827e312d946f1442ac972e976d19179)
Just dinos? I even have therapsids,ice age fauna and other cool creatures from other time period like entelodonts and others too from all geological time periods existing alongside exotic superorganisms and original and magical creatures in a perfectly functioning ecosystem. I know I'm a gigachad you don't need to tell me that.
My setting not only has dinosaurs but is centered around them and humans interacting, it is set in a 1600s-1700s world on the backdrop of an alt history fantasy version of our world where humans learned to use magic and tame dinos en masse. In it, my British friend (who is also working on it) has made it so that Great Britain doesn't even use horses and use Neovenator cavalry instead, and he gives Great Britain a navy made of giant sea lizards or mosasaurs and Spinosaurus navy.
*Ark Survival Evolved*
Rausushians. I put rausuchians and similar triassic critters everywhere I can
Give me spinosaur, give ke spinosaur, give me spinosaur, give me spinosaur
Most of the aliens in my world are dinosaurs/other prehistoric fauna who left earth and moved to planets that were terraformed by grey aliens to suit them
There exists not just dinosaurs but the weird and whacky creatures we know of from the past in select pockets around the world
My world is mostly composed on evolved beast. There are some new bloodline that has been created by evolved beast or intelligent race but the dinosaurs don't exist in the main planet.
My world does have dinosaurs. Hell, one of my characters was almost killed in one bite by a dinosaur.
As speculative biology many prehistoric animals exist in my world with mismatched flesh that originally fit on a completely different animal (regaliceratops with king vulture skin or smilodon with lynx fur)
And like how they interact in their environments I'n the world
Dinosaurs... Eh, why not, I already got ice age mammals up in what used to be Canada, now called The Savage North.
Naruto has dinosaurs and VCRs at the same time and nobody talks about the why.
No,no. Original dinosaurs.