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And now, in the Great Minds Think Alike category, I've just made a discovery of interest for those lovers of new dinosaurs. In the latest issue of the magazine Prehistoric Times, I came across an article on a group that has a website dedicated to an alternate Earth where the dinosaurs survived. Asid...

Most of the carnosaurs had small arms, so having them all lose them eventually seemed like one way to go. When you get the actual book, you'll find that the modified carnosaurs come in two types: armless "linnorms" like the dragons of Norse mythology, and creatures with longer and more pow...

It also has a brief history of Cretasus' Storm Valley, where these dinos are primarily supposed to live. The place has violent storms over it all the time, so simply entering the place is hazardous. And if your character in the Broncosaurus Rex campaign is a member of the Union military, avoid getti...

Anyone check out the given website yet? It's got some really great stuff, and this world WOULD make a magnificent campaign system.

Well, the Broncosaurus Rex rulebook gives us 20 valleys to start with. After that, how about making the interior of Cretasus a subterranean world with gigantic caverns instead of valleys? We could have cavern/valleys in complete darkness (there's a spot for your bat world), in which all creatures na...

If you guys are interested in a really creepy and potent fantasy/horror/SF world in which to set an RPG, try the Night Land, which was introduced early in the last century (still seems weird, referring to the Twentieth Century as "the last century") by the great horror writer William Hope ...

The Gelatinous Cube is just a shaped version of the oozes, puddings, jellies, molds, and slimes. I understand your interest; as I said before, they're among the most "absorbing" of creatures (hahahahaha!).

Oh, and I almost forgot Alibris (www.alibris.com).

If you like giant penguins, get Dixon's first book, "After Man: A Zoology of the Future", in which the human race and all the large animals of today become extinct, allowing the "vermin" species to repopulate the Earth. In it, the largest creature on Earth IS a penguin: the vorte...

You realize, of course, that according to the latest scientific thinking, penguins ARE dinosaurs, just like all birds are.

T-Rex is my favorite, both in and out of the game. The so-called "bigger" beasts, like Spinosaurus, Giganotosaurus, and Carcharodontosaurus, all have weaker jaws and can't bite as hard (making the spinosaur victory in the last Jurassic Park movie impossible, particularly since Rex actually...

If I ever get a chance to work on "Age of Atlantis", I'll emphasize that this game world will have an archaic flavor to it. Aside from there still being dinosaurs and the like around, the architecture of even the major cities will be based on ancient designs, such as Classical ones and tho...

Oh, and for those of you who enjoy guns, especially those who like custom-made weapons, the "Big Game Hunters" sourcebook will be for you. Although it has Cretasus-oriented stuff, most of it can be used in any d20 campaign setting. You'll LOVE the equipment chapter! Aside a long list of mo...

Here's a thread where we can all post new game ideas. Being a greedy writer who wants more work, I'll start the ball rolling with a few ideas I've come up with over the years. "Age of Atlantis" would be a science fiction RPG taking place during the period when Atlantis was around. The PCs ...

Horn-wearing came to a crescendo in the Miocene/Pliocene Epochs. At that time, there was even a horned gopher named Ceratogaulus, with a pair of spiked horns on its snout like the horns on the rhinolike herbivore Arsinotherium, though much smaller, of course.

Tusk Wars will be Broncosaurus Rex all the way. Although Joseph and I will be splitting up the prehistoric mammals and birds between us, he'll be monopolizing all the elephant species, which will be made intelligent and aggressive (hence the title "Tusk Wars") a la the raptors and other di...

Actually, social insects such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites would be better subjects for a sourcebook, as they are already organized in a manner superficially similar to an intelligent race's civilization. The fact that somebody's putting out a book on the ooze-type monsters isn't surprising, g...

Thank you, Mr. Author! I wrote the "Dinosaurs That Never Were" and "Big Game Hunter" books, and always appreciate more work. Actually, Joseph Goodman and I will be cooperating in a collection of Ice Age animals in the future "Tusk Wars" supplement. This will consist of ...