Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-71.61.177.24-20131116074909

Having forgotten to mention the Black Marsh dinosaurs in my last post, and not being able to use the edit ability the rest of you seem to have, I must put them in a separate post.

Adding creatures that are essentially dinosaurs to Black Marsh actually seems like a very good idea. Not importing dinosaurs totally, of course, but like you said, making things that are dinosaurs in all but name. (This is me being a hypocrite and throwing that nothing-completely-original rule out of the window, I know. But I think that in some cases, doing that would be kind of necessary, especially for Black Marsh, which we know next to nothing about.)

With the recent scientific revelation that dinosaurs may have had or probably had feathers, I think some bad@ss feathered dinosaur-creatures are in order. Large raptors, maybe, with bright feathers. I'm talking Utahraptor size. Big. Wolf equivalents. Perhaps smaller, omnivorous, scaly dinosaurs, to take the place of skeevers/rats. And of course something suitably big and T-rex like. Something looking blatantly like a T-rex may (or may not) be too obvious and/or cliched. So let's see the bigger picture and inspect other large, scary theropods. There's something called a Deinocheirus, which some scientists think would have looked like this, which I think would do very nicely. It looks great and very monter-ish as is, but it could also be improved by adding some intimidating spines or feathers on the neck. Something aquatic is also a safe bet - Black Marsh is, after all, marshy. For that purpouse, we could use a pliosaur, like this, or a plesiosaur, like this, or both. And of course something like an archaeopteryx as a medium, flying enemy would probably be nice. Pterodactyls could appear, too, but I'm not sure. None of these would have those names in the game, of course. What do you think?

- WorshipsMeridia