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I will like to known how the Caribbean is?

Any ideas on how things are set up?

We know Cuba has gone all Jurrasic Park. They'd have some influence.

Refresh my memory please, where is this article?

Ah, of course. Thanks, Josh.

Are they cannon? or fan submissions?

Batts

Sounds like a capital idea!

Iczer wrote:Are they cannon? or fan submissions?

Batts

Fan sub

Josh Hilden wrote:

Mark Hall wrote:We know Cuba has gone all Jurassic Park. They'd have some influence.

I don't care if people think it's overpowered, I loved those articles.

And I have always disputed that they are "overpowered." One aspect of that opinion is based on a very narrow interpretation of the setting where the Empire of Humanity is the be-all end-all of the spectrum. I don't think I pushed the envelop too far, but that's one of the criticisms that gets leveled at the Dinosaur Swamp books; that they don't go far enough. So I have the distinction of been accused of being both conservative and "munchkin!"

As for the actual animal templates, I've never really seen any real complaints about them, but I will say that I was very careful to use the existing templates in the ATB book (with the Lion as an example of the top mammalian Cenozoic carnivore) coupled with some very solid science background in comparative physiology. I was hip deep in a 400 level paleontology class when I did the bulk of the MesozicLand article research, so I was doing double duty with writing and classwork!

And I've always maintained that it takes less energy to just shave off a freaking 1D6 than it is to keep ***** on the internet!

And I wanted to stay as far away from to much stereotypical piratical influence as possible. I thought super-techno dinosaurs competing with high birth rate herbivores on an island with limited space and resources with communist underpinnings would be a nice change of pace.

Todd Yoho wrote:

Josh Hilden wrote:

Mark Hall wrote:We know Cuba has gone all Jurassic Park. They'd have some influence.

I don't care if people think it's overpowered, I loved those articles.

And I have always disputed that they are "overpowered." One aspect of that opinion is based on a very narrow interpretation of the setting where the Empire of Humanity is the be-all end-all of the spectrum. I don't think I pushed the envelop too far, but that's one of the criticisms that gets leveled at the Dinosaur Swamp books; that they don't go far enough. So I have the distinction of been accused of being both conservative and "munchkin!"

As for the actual animal templates, I've never really seen any real complaints about them, but I will say that I was very careful to use the existing templates in the ATB book (with the Lion as an example of the top mammalian Cenozoic carnivore) coupled with some very solid science background in comparative physiology. I was hip deep in a 400 level paleontology class when I did the bulk of the MesozicLand article research, so I was doing double duty with writing and classwork!

And I've always maintained that it takes less energy to just shave off a freaking 1D6 than it is to keep ***** on the internet!

And I wanted to stay as far away from to much stereotypical piratical influence as possible. I thought super-techno dinosaurs competing with high birth rate herbivores on an island with limited space and resources with communist underpinnings would be a nice change of pace.

to be honest, i've never had any problem with the actual templates or their gear. their dinosaurs. even mutated, half of them will be the size of a car, if not a city bus. so you'd expect them to have lots of SDC and carry cannons as sidearms.

the only issue i take is that the listings of how many ships each power has in their navies each have about one too many zero's on the end.. even if most of the "ships" are little more than motorboats, that's still a bit much.

other than that, it just needs less emphasis on the "herbivores stay here, carnivores stay here" divisions of the islands, with the territories and borders made a bit less concrete. and maybe lessen the whole "seperation by diet" thing a bit, the herbivores more willing to allow in some carnivores provided they follow specific laws about not hunting intellegent people and stuff (perhaps take a more gritty turn on the Dinotopia and Narnia intellegent animal type thing. "food that talks is not food")