| Borathan | 16 Aug 2010 10:33 a.m. PST |
I like the concept, but it kind of lacks an easier wargaming basis for a background without going into several species. It did give me an idea for a third race (& 4th faction) in something I have been working on. Basic thing is to think of how they could come into conflict with modern man, and dimensional hopping might work well there. The concept I've been working with for an RP setting starts with a portal to an another world where dinosaurs still roam with two native groups already. The first is a nomadic culture of humans that ended up there a a few hundred years ago with a lot of thematic ties to the mongols and native american tribes with tribes living in what are essentially cities built on the sauropods they live on. The second already used is a more apelike group with a massive gender imbalance of about 25 to one male to female, though the females are human level smarts (and almost elf like in appearance) and the males tend to keep growing through their lives until they get rather large while keeping a more primate look and tend to be nasty and can regenerate. The females were nicknamed Elves by the modern faction and the males as goblins, orcs, and trolls (depending upon their age). Adding evolved dinosaurs would make for some fun ways to set it up for other uses as I keep working at it. |
| Cacique Caribe | 24 Oct 2010 9:22 p.m. PST |
Maybe it's finally time for there to be "Voths" in 15mm: TMP link Dan |
| Cacique Caribe | 25 Oct 2010 9:58 p.m. PST |
I guess this is what really happened back then: link Dan |
| Mobius | 25 Oct 2010 10:18 p.m. PST |
Dinosaurs would continue to evolve until they become baristas. That would prove to be an evolutionary dead end. |
| wminsing | 26 Oct 2010 10:23 a.m. PST |
Did these guys ever get posted to this thread? link -Will |
| Cacique Caribe | 29 Oct 2010 3:01 a.m. PST |
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| Wellspring | 31 Oct 2010 8:17 p.m. PST |
Rather than invent dino-apes, could we imagine a social, tool-using dinosaur that is based on an existing dinosaur body plan? For example, a raptor? I suppose we'd have to change the wings back to arms, or alternatively use modified feet or even their mouths as the manipulators (awkward!). There's no reason why creatures couldn't evolve who are more dextrous than we are, so why not less? After all, they compete with each other and non-tool-users, so above a certain level of proficiency they need only be competitive with one another. |
| wminsing | 16 Nov 2010 7:07 a.m. PST |
Rather than invent dino-apes, could we imagine a social, tool-using dinosaur that is based on an existing dinosaur body plan? For example, a raptor? The link I posted is pretty much exactly that. -Will |
| (I make fun of others) | 16 Nov 2010 7:31 a.m. PST |
I suppose we'd have to change the wings back to arms, or alternatively use modified feet or even their mouths as the manipulators (awkward!). Which is just another way of making them dino-apes -- the assumption that all sentients will be tool users and machine builders, like we are. |
| Cacique Caribe | 26 Jan 2011 7:22 p.m. PST |
I think it's time for some 15mm Voth: TMP link After all, we are living in the Age of 15mm! :) Dan
YouTube link |
| Cacique Caribe | 02 Sep 2011 9:01 a.m. PST |
Wow. Now THIS face has tons of reptilian character:
Dan |
| Jeroen72 | 04 Sep 2011 3:12 a.m. PST |
And wihout their masks ;)
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| Cacique Caribe | 25 Oct 2011 9:53 p.m. PST |
Maybe, once the ice in Antarctica thaws, we'll find artefacts there like this weird prehistoric head carving from the Balkans:
Martians:
Coincidence? I think not!!! :) Dan
TMP link
TMP link |
finally paints the first of his Gauls...
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