I would suggest the players just be humans. Dinosaurs don't have hands, which hiders gameplay quite a lot. At the very least, restrict them from being big dinosaurs, due to brokenness and not being able to enter buildings

>>3512990
Why don't you have an original idea instead? What is holding you back?

>>3513020
Why don't you contribute rather than troll? What is holding you back?

>>3513017

Some of the... veggie-raptors? IDK. do have hands and are intelligent.

Likewise, larger bipeds (including carnivores) with ineffective hands could still be good pure martial characters.

So, yea, OP. DO IT FAGGOT.

>>3513020
thats a bit rude, dont you think?

>>3513020
crap, sorry for shitting up /tg bro. I guess I'll just lead them through a generic fantasy world with my LG drow DMPC.

>>3513038
I am contributing, I am trying to stop him.

There is a global depression coming, lot's of people are going to lose their jobs, and those of us who have real skills are the only ones capable of coming out on top. This is no time for escapism.

>>3513055
Then get of /tg/ and get a job.

get out dinofag

>>3513017
Some varieties of dinosaurs ought to be playable due to their having hands.

System-wise, I'd run it in Spirit of the Century. In retrospect, a lot of the books just feel like they'd be perfect in that game system, and Lee Crabb seems like the perfect pulp villain.

>>3513055
shut down the internet, we all need to grab a second job to survive the depression.

Also, stop feeding the trolls and focus on the subject matter, eh?

>>3512990
Watched the movie. It's a touchy-feely piece of shit kids film about how we can all become strong by helping each other, or some bullshit like that. I cried halfway through because, although one of the two main characters has this exact same outlook on Dinotopia, I knew that he would learn an important life lesson about the value of friendship by the end of the movie.

I've actually played in a one off 3.5 campaign where the PCs were all animals who found themselves awakened after drinking from a water hole with some magic bits in it. We were also given a PHG class IIRC we were a sorcerer bird, monk cheetah, barbarian bear, and something else?

the campaign centered around trying to figure out WTF was going on, interacting with humans (that we had no way of talking to) and trying to figure out how to maintain our awakened status.

>first book

Holy shit there's more than one? That was my favorite book as a child.

>>3513076
No need to go that far, just stop roleplaying.
Even if you are studying, get a hobby which gives you a practical skill.

THE STATE CANNOT ABIDE YOUR GAME OF PRETEND.

>>3513103
The movie (and subsequent show) suck. Instead of being light years ahead of the rest of the world, Dinotopia was a primitive (if utopian) backwater. Moreover, the writing was nowhere near as good and the acting was so bad it makes any given episode of Crusoe seem brilliant by comparison.

For once, it's not snobbish to say "the books are better".

>>3513115
The third just came out. It's pretty great.

>>3513115
yeah, there are quite a few now I think. Was the TV show any good or is it as predictable as the above poster describes?

>>3513113
Your DM is a furry. Kill him.

>>3513115
Also, Dinotopia: Lost is a surprisingly good read as an adult.

I say the players each have a human and a dinosaur character. Almost all the things in Dinotopia have a human with a dinosaur best buddy.
Maybe make them juvenile dinosaurs so they aren't fuckhueg.

Dinotopia is for fags.

>>3513167
Not having to worry about your fuckhueg dinosaur buddy would take a lot out of what made the travels of the first book so interesting. A dinosaur that proves useful in one region can rapidly become a liability in another, and it'll just about never be an issue one way or another in a developed region.

>>3513167
Or they can be adorable ones like Compys. :3

>>3512990
Didn't everyone get over that whole dinosaur thing in the ninties?

>>3513201
Dinosaurs are an obsession from six to twelve.

Perhaps you outgrew them in the nineties like I did?

>>3513215
We had dinotopia, Jurrasic Park that fucking monthly dinosaur magazine which sold dinosaur parts like the 'My Body' series, so there is an excuse....

Still, I shouldn't be talking to six to twelve year olds, I should be talking to twenty-something's like myself.

>>3513215
The exception: Tyranosaurus Rex in F-16.

Which is awesome at all ages.

>>3513201
>>3513215
I know you two are trolling but maybe you'd be more believable if this weren't a board for manchildren who play pretend and toy soldiers.

have the players as humans paired with a dino of their choise.

I remember reading the first book way back when, then looking for dinotopia on a world map. to my 7 year old mind Australia looked exactly identical, I was so happy that dinosaurs are real.

>>3513252
i loled before remembering doing the same thing

Also Aussie Aussie Aussie

>>3513240
We all like Calvin and hobbes, it is true.

>>3513252
>I was so happy that dinosaurs are real.

THIS IS WHY CHRISTIANITY IS BAD FOR YOU.

looks like we've got PROMOTIONS

>>3513311
Help, my son went to flying school and came out a faggot.
Tinme to go underground!

>>3513326
excuse me, can I get of this fucking island now!

The fact that Dinotopia has dinosaurs is incidental. It's an incredibly well-developed setting, so much so that it's a shame that the fluff sections of actual campaign settings aren't written and illustrated in the same style as Dinotopia. It can be as steampunk as you want it. It can handle court intrigue, airship adventuring, dungeon delving, SCIENCE!, ARCHAEOLOGY!, exploration, deep-sea adventuring, and even film noir-style storylines. It can be as steampunk as the group wants it to be, it can be as primitive as the group wants it to be, and it opens itself up extremely well to the whims of the players.

In fact, fuck it. I'm running a seafaring game soon. I'll lift Dinotopia wholesale and drop the island into it just because. Maybe give them a political isolationist policy instead of reefs keeping people from coming and going so it doesn't fuck over players who want to keep going with the seafaring...

>>3513352
there's always that lost technology underground if they want to escape, submarines and shit. That could be an adventure it's self to work with crab and GTFO.

>>3513326
Wait, what?

Isn't his son boning the chick?

>>3513352
here is a cross section diagram of just how much you need to get a job

>>3513352
thats exactly my point, obviously there's gonna have to be some modifications to make it less care-bear, maybe each major city is it's own faction or w/e.

>>3513352
Make them quest for those crystalpunk dinosaur machines.

>>3513374
True, but I try to not restrict the freedom of my players for longer than two sessions. The adventure of wandering around an island they may or may not be interested in until they find out about a potential way out would take at least half a session, and the adventure of getting there and off the island would take another three or four sessions. It just seems like bad form overall.

>>3513394
MY DINOSAUR ROBOT RUNS ON DREAM CATCHERS.

YOU HAVE TO WEAR A WOLF SHIRT AND MASSUER SANDALS FOR IT TO REALLY WORK THOUGH.

>>3513401
just have crab lee be the first one to find them when they wreck, he'll try to persuade them that he knows a way out / the dinosaurs are savage / w/e

>>3513420

>Crab Lee

Is this... japanese dinotopia?

>>3513389
If you've read Lost, you know it doesn't take much to take the setting from being "care-bear" and turning it into something dangerous. Introduce a Lee Crabb or some pirates that managed to get over the reefs or really any antagonist that fits your party and things can get grim fast. After all, Dinotopia, just like any other "nation" (real or imagined) only works because a critical mass of its populace plays by its rules. There will always be some malcontents stirring things up.

If you want to take the easy road of grimdarkan the setting though, you could just run a mash-up, like Dinotopia/Fight Club or Dinotopia/Transmetropolitan.

>>3513438
Lee is chinese you fag.

>>3513412
Think "Holy shit, these ancient dudes cut crystals so perfectly that they could trap the power of sunlight!" not "Duuuuuude, pass the bong."

>>3513420
That could work, but something about turning Dinotopia into a politically isolated nation that heavily restricts exports, tourism, and emigration but turns away no immigrants seems vastly more interesting in the broader scale of a seafaring campaign.

Archived.
My brother would be pleased, got to meet Gurney in DC.

Pic related, fuckin TALKING DINOSAURS.

>>3513495
NOSTALGIA BOMB!

>>3513455
Either way it is still 'dude pass the bong'.

>>3513517
No stoner has ever built a mechanical dinosaur powered by sunlight that is trapped in crystals.

As far as I know.

>>3513273

Shit, they're onto us!

>>3513555
You aussies have no dinosaurs. Only kangaroos, platypi, drop bears, and ungodly spiders.

>>3513570
You're forgetting that we have the majority of the world's most poisonous snakes too.

Is it any wonder that we don't have dinosaurs?

>>3513577

It's a well known fact that snakes are to dinosaurs what mice are to elephants.

>>3513539
No body has ever done that, it it all a children's story. Hence twenty-something's still being entralled by it is due pass the bong.

Please leave the pretend-o-sphere.

I had... three Dinotopia books as a kid; maybe four. They rocked so hard. You could finish them really quickly, but the idea and world was very detailed.

Show was hideous. Hurt my brain with its heresy.

>>3513570
Yep, that's true, and that thing floating in the river is just a log, why don't you go ride it?

>>3513588
Not all fantasy is the result of drugs, alcohol, or mental illness. Some of it is just pure escapism, and there's nothing wrong with that as long as it doesn't hurt one's real life.

>>3513612
TELL US MORE WE ARE DEEPLY INTERESTED.

>>3512990
HOLYSHIT! I have that book!!

Dinoawesome

>>3513669
I have it too - DINOSAURS TEACHING US ABOUT LIFE LESSONS.

The books looked awesome, but when I saw the movie it made me rage hard.

Their society was just so creepy. They were pacifists but that didn't stop them being dicks to anyone who wasn't a massive conformist like them. I really wanted the main characters to start busting heads and show them why pacifism - while noble in itself - is incompatible with being a huge authoritarian prick.

Also there's nothing wrong with having hueg PCs. In fact that's my favourite thing about FF's mechamorphs game, you can have one guy who turns into a motorbike and another who turns into a sprawling lab complex.

>>3515122
Yeah, the movie made the whole thing feel really cultish.

>>3515122
In the books the only advanced technology in Dinotopia proper was the submarine that was built by a shipwrecked outsider other than that dinotopia was straight outta tha 16th century. You're probably thinking of the sunken city that they discovered in the first book, which had all the energy crystals and steampunk styled vehicles.

>>3513128
Would you really want to introduce the concept of violence into a society whose members can kill you with a flick of their head?

>>3515232
Sorry, the sunken city was in the third book.

>>3512990

YES DINOTOPIA!

That's my childhood right there. Good times.

>Would you really want to introduce the concept of violence into a society whose members can kill you with a flick of their head?

In a heartbeat.

>>3515232

>Would you really want to introduce the concept of violence into a society whose members can kill you with a flick of their head?

That's why you wait until you have the better weapon first.