I would greatly enjoy more dinosaurs in dnd as long as they have interesting features. Dinosaur themed subclasses, monsters, magic items, backgrounds, and feats would be cool but I probably wouldn't be interested in most races. If I really wanted one I would just reskin lizardfolk, kobolds, and minotaurs to be dinosaurs.
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At the very least we need another theropod in the CR 4-6 range. I say this as someone playing a dinosaur themed Lizardfolk druid currently.
CR1 and CR2 are solid. Deinonychus and Allosaurus do the job perfectly. After that all we get are herbivores though, which while fun and thematic don't have the same feel as turning into a large two legged animal or a carnivore. Granted this is made pretty hard because allosaurus being CR2 is really low for its size compared to the CR1 Deinonychus and CR8 T-rex. Utahraptor could easily be the CR2 theropod with Carnotaurus being CR3 and Allosaurus being CR4 or 5. You could then add say, Baryonyx as a CR3 theropod with a Swim speed and a Therizinosaurus as a CR4 to spice it up a bit with different combat tactics.
Keeping the allosaurus as a CR2 though, you can still add at least a couple more options.
Some suggestions:
CR2 - Baryonyx; less bulky and fighty than the allosaurus but with a swim speed and maybe a grappling bite attack. Dilophosaurus; smaller and weaker than the allosaurus but maybe buffed up with things like pack tactics and a deadly poison spit (scientifically inaccurate but hey, fantasy world).
CR4 - Therizinosaurus; Quick moving and tanky with a devastating multi-attack with dual claw strikes.
CR6 - Spinosaurus; slow but bulky dinosaur with a grappling bite and two strong claw attacks. Likely has a swim speed. Charcharodontosaurus; Basically a weaker version of the t-rex for wildshapers who wanna be a big bitey theropod out of Jurassic Park. Likely has a slashing damage bite.
An Ornithomimus would be nice for some speed and they could be used as some fast mounts. Comsognathus, Archaeopteryx, Dimorphodon, or some other tiny dinosaur would be cool to have as a familiar. Iguanodon, Saltasaurus, Shunosaurus, Oviraptor, Parasaurolophus, Maiasaura, Ichthyosaurus, and Mosasaurus are all prehistoric creatures that I think could be made.
Having dire dinosaurs would also be cool since this is a fantasy world so some fantastical dinosaurs could be used.
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Given that dinosaurs seem to get some of the best treatment among Beasts, and are the most likely to have a respectable CR range among Beasts, I support dinos getting more support.
Our modern-day Beasts can only go so high in terms of power level, and anything above that tends to be a Monstrosity instead.
I'd want to see fantasy themed up dinosaurs. And no not dragons. I mean dinos that reflect the world they are in. Like sure dogs and wolves exist but we also have dire wolves, winter wolves, blink dogs etc. Give us lightning raptors, dire t-rexes, shadow brontosauruses. I miss the whole dire X of 3e era, templates you could slap on monsters etc. As they will never create enough monster variety and I'm lazy and want easy ways to modify monsters for my game.
Given that dinosaurs seem to get some of the best treatment among Beasts, and are the most likely to have a respectable CR range among Beasts, I support dinos getting more support.
Our modern-day Beasts can only go so high in terms of power level, and anything above that tends to be a Monstrosity instead.
Maybe a lot of those monstrosities should be reclassified as beasts.
Edit to add. Basically monstrosities imo should be for things that seem like a mad wizards experiments, and not just a animal natural to a fantasy world. Winter Wolves are just wolves in a fantasy world, make them beasts.
I'd want to see fantasy themed up dinosaurs. And no not dragons. I mean dinos that reflect the world they are in. Like sure dogs and wolves exist but we also have dire wolves, winter wolves, blink dogs etc. Give us lightning raptors, dire t-rexes, shadow brontosauruses. I miss the whole dire X of 3e era, templates you could slap on monsters etc. As they will never create enough monster variety and I'm lazy and want easy ways to modify monsters for my game.
That sounds like an awesome idea, though I also want regular dinos and dino playing options as well.
Given that dinosaurs seem to get some of the best treatment among Beasts, and are the most likely to have a respectable CR range among Beasts, I support dinos getting more support.
Our modern-day Beasts can only go so high in terms of power level, and anything above that tends to be a Monstrosity instead.
Maybe a lot of those monstrosities should be reclassified as beasts.
Edit to add. Basically monstrosities imo should be for things that seem like a mad wizards experiments, and not just a animal natural to a fantasy world. Winter Wolves are just wolves in a fantasy world, make them beasts.
That seems logical to me: The definition of monstrosity here is basically an unnatural monster but winter wolves are natural there, just not in our world.
Oh gosh I remember this thread and it was dead for over a year. Originally, I was gonna analyze the survey results after 50 votes but didn't realize it had more than that and didn't want to revive it to discuss the poll results. Since each question has about 90 votes and someone else naturally brought this thread back, I might as well share my thoughts on what the people of the D&D Beyond forums think about the beauty that is dinos in D&D.
About half of voters liked the triceratops option for the ardling, while under 20% said they didn't and a large minority (just over 30%) didn't particularly care. It isn't unsurprising that a lot didn't find the triceratops ardling exciting, though it's pretty neat that such a large percentage liked it.
Meanwhile, more people wanted more dinos in D&D in future than cared about the ardling thing, which showcases that there are other potential dinosaur stuff that people'd like more. To dinosaurs in general, we had about 13% more yeses, around 5% less nos, and about 7% less people that didn't care when compared to question one. I also kinda wonder if the controversy around the ardling in general bogged down the amount of enthusiasm for the trcieratops ardling.
In terms of the breakdown of what people want, 47% wanted both more dinosaur monsters and more dinosaur player options. 19% only want more monsters, 7% only want more dino player options, and about 13% don't want any dinos in Dungeons and Dragons after all. Well a small minority put in "other". This seems to suggest even stronger support dinos in D&D than the poll results of the first two questions.
The results are relatively consistent that a small minority (Around 13% to 18%) don't want dinosaurs in D&D. Well most people do and the number that said they don't care (or put other other which is pretty much the only option in the last one that represents that) varies drastically. And it's a bit odd that one question has 94 votes and another only 85 but whatevs lol.
I wanna see the broader D&D community's thoughts only this because we're only a tiny fragment. But this result'd make sense as the way that community might poll but I dunno and unfortunately the smallish sample here isn't applicable to the dozens of millions of D&D nerds out there.
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Oh gosh I remember this thread and it was dead for over a year. Originally, I was gonna analyze the survey results after 50 votes but didn't realize it had more than that and didn't want to revive it to discuss the poll results. Since each question has about 90 votes and someone else naturally brought this thread back, I might as well share my thoughts on what the people of the D&D Beyond forums think about the beauty that is dinos in D&D.
About half of voters liked the triceratops option for the ardling, while under 20% said they didn't and a large minority (just over 30%) didn't particularly care. It isn't unsurprising that a lot didn't find the triceratops ardling exciting, though it's pretty neat that such a large percentage liked it.
Meanwhile, more people wanted more dinos in D&D in future than cared about the ardling thing, which showcases that there are other potential dinosaur stuff that people'd like more. To dinosaurs in general, we had about 13% more yeses, around 5% less nos, and about 7% less people that didn't care when compared to question one. I also kinda wonder if the controversy around the ardling in general bogged down the amount of enthusiasm for the trcieratops ardling.
In terms of the breakdown of what people want, 47% wanted both more dinosaur monsters and more dinosaur player options. 19% only want more monsters, 7% only want more dino player options, and about 13% don't want any dinos in Dungeons and Dragons after all. Well a small minority put in "other". This seems to suggest even stronger support dinos in D&D than the poll results of the first two questions.
The results are relatively consistent that a small minority (Around 13% to 18%) don't want dinosaurs in D&D. Well most people do and the number that said they don't care (or put other other which is pretty much the only option in the last one that represents that) varies drastically. And it's a bit odd that one question has 94 votes and another only 85 but whatevs lol.
I wanna see the broader D&D community's thoughts only this because we're only a tiny fragment. But this result'd make sense as the way that community might poll but I dunno and unfortunately the smallish sample here isn't applicable to the dozens of millions of D&D nerds out there.
I would definitely vote in favor of anything related to dinosaurs. I spent much of my childhood reading about dinosaurs and exploring the Dinotopia books. My fantasy worlds would be incomplete without some secluded corner of the map filled with the fantastical remnants of the thunder lizards. I will admit that I got pretty excited to hear them suggest a triceratops headed ardling. My mind instantly went back to the Dinotopia books and I still want to play one, even if they aren't official.
My Dnd world has Tricerataurs, minotaur/dino hybrids, and blink dogs are reskinned as blink raptors.
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I like dinosaurs, but I don't like my D&D to have dinosaurs. It doesn't bother me that they exist (for those who like that sort of thing), unless they start to exist in a game I am playing in. Clearly, my preference would be adding things that fit a classic high fantasy game better.
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If I’m being honest, I need a velociraptor in D&D in order to make my players truly panic. A small D&D monster that hunts in groups, deals actual damage and can take multiple hits.
If I’m being honest, I need a velociraptor in D&D in order to make my players truly panic. A small D&D monster that hunts in groups, deals actual damage and can take multiple hits.
you aught to read the volo's guide entry for Redcap: small, may come into being in packs, clickity-clank steps (not unlike raptor claws on theme park kitchen tiles), can put on a burst of speed, and they're driven to hunt. best part, in my view, is that a party of murder hobos slaking their own bloodlust at a fae crossing may be exactly what spawn these things in the first place.
...but, yeah, dinosaurs are cool too.
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imo dnd would only win if wotc lift dino ixalan on level and quality of dnd Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica
well, they did put nearly 50 pages into an official-ish plane shift free download for ixalan. includes stats for some CR30 elder dinosaur calamity too.
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imo dnd would only win if wotc lift dino ixalan on level and quality of dnd Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica
well, they did put nearly 50 pages into an official-ish plane shift free download for ixalan. includes stats for some CR30 elder dinosaur calamity too.
yeah ik about it, but planeshifts was considered Wyatt homebrew for fun while GGR is kind of complete product made by full team with balancing , even just size 50 vs 250 telling how much more time went into ravnica and i consider same could be done for Ixalan. Full scale book instead of planeshift, full developers team instead of 3 guys. Ixalan realy have enough material to deserve serious treatment
+ more info about plane was revealed with caverns of ixalan set together with couple of dinos
But in terms of dinos for stat blocks... there is plenty we can see:
A small fella like microraptor to serve as a familiar, and others like dryosaurus, compsognathus, heterodontosaurus, psittacosaurus and Protoceratops are just a cute little guys.
Herrerasaurus to work as a beastmaster Ranger level pet, scelidosaurus could be an Armored herbivore equivalent as well. For lower end carnivores you can also have the likes of coelophysis, monolophosaurus, and proceratosaurus. For herbivores you could have, say homalocephale
Pachycephalosaurus to represent its respective clade (could use stygimoloch or dracorex for a smaller version).
Styracosaurus or centrosaurus to offer a lower cr ceratopsian for like Find Steed or something. Kentrosaurus could be the same for a stegosaur. Zuniceratops, nodosaurus, and plateosaurus could all fill similar roles.
Dilophosaurus, or Ceratosaurus could offer a large sized therapod as a mount. Baryonyx could even be an aquatic one.
Iguanadon offers a very big, powerful herbivore to give moon druids more options. But for large herbivores you also have edmontosaurus, tsintaosaurus, parasaurolophus, (a thousand other hadrosaurs) shunosaurus, amargasaurus...
Spinosaurus, as mentioned, is a great aquatic threat with a higher cr, and Giganotosaurus, acrocanthosaurus and carcharodontosaurus offer alternatives to t-rex, while carnotaurus, gorgosaurus, yutyrannus can fill out various CRs earlier than it.
And I haven't even gotten started on other prehistoric Reptiles like Postosuchus, gorgonopsid, swarm of rhamphorhynchus, kronosaurus, etc.
The recent Player's Handbook has zero mentions of dinosaurs. That is moderately disappointing but expected given that the 2024 PHB also has no references to dinos. I would have liked to see the Ardling, but that species lost any opportunity of having a place in the 2024 core rules in February of 2023 according to Wargamer. Unnecessary details about the future of the Ardling in spoiler tag below:
At the time, Jeremy Crawford said "Maybe in some future year we'll return [to the Ardling]." However, the the notion of playing a celestial animalperson or dinoperson really didn't fit into most D&D worlds flavorwise and that was a deterrent when trying to give the Ardling a place in the 2024 core rules.
Regardless, the last time I analyzed the data from this polling was 9 or so months ago on January the 26th of 2024. Back then, there were around 90 or so votes for each question. Now, in spoiler tags below is the current data from the polls on this page:
95 of the 153 people to answer the question about the Ardling Triceratops said they approved of it, 18 people (11.8%) said they didn't and 40 (26.1% of respondents) said they didn't care either way. Last time, close to 20% of respondents said they disapproved of this version of the Ardling so this data is more positive. However, this question has drastically less respondents than the other two (153 to 192 & 196). That showcases how the salience and the enthusiasm for the Ardling issue are both waning given how the species is no longer on the table this year.
192 people responded to the question "Do you want to see more options for dinosaurs in the future?" Of the respondents here, a resounding 150 of them (78.1%) answered that yes, they do in fact want to see more dino options in D&D. A small fraction of respondents (15 people/7.8%) stated that they did not want more dinosaur related options to be a part of the future of D&D. 27 (14.1% of respondents) replied by saying they "don't care either way". Overall, an extremely strong majority of people who clicked on this thread want dinosaurs in the game. However, presumably, most people who click on this thread do so because they want to read about dinosaurs and Dungeons and Dragons. So, a poll of random D&D players might lead to a completely different result where more people are indifferent to the plight of the D&D dinos.
196 people responded to the question "How much do you want to see dinosaurs implemented into D&D?" 111 (56.6%) of respondents wanted more dinosaurs in the Monster Manual and more dinosaur options for players. 16% or so just wanted more dinosaur monsters, close to 13% only wanted more dinosaur options for players and 8.7% didn't want to see more dinosaurs in the game at all. 6.1% of respondents said "other". Unfortunately, the 69.4% of people who answered this question here with some sort of desire for more dinosaur player options have likely been disappointed by the new Player's Handbook given that it doesn't have any (as discussed earlier in this post). Hopefully though, we'll get some sort of dinosaur expansion in new expansion rulebooks for the 2024 core rules. And the dream of more dinosaurs as monsters in this half-edition is very much still alive!
It would be nice to see some more dinosaur-themed stuff in D&D, but ultimately I just don't care about dinosaurs.
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I would greatly enjoy more dinosaurs in dnd as long as they have interesting features. Dinosaur themed subclasses, monsters, magic items, backgrounds, and feats would be cool but I probably wouldn't be interested in most races. If I really wanted one I would just reskin lizardfolk, kobolds, and minotaurs to be dinosaurs.
At the very least we need another theropod in the CR 4-6 range. I say this as someone playing a dinosaur themed Lizardfolk druid currently.
CR1 and CR2 are solid. Deinonychus and Allosaurus do the job perfectly. After that all we get are herbivores though, which while fun and thematic don't have the same feel as turning into a large two legged animal or a carnivore. Granted this is made pretty hard because allosaurus being CR2 is really low for its size compared to the CR1 Deinonychus and CR8 T-rex. Utahraptor could easily be the CR2 theropod with Carnotaurus being CR3 and Allosaurus being CR4 or 5. You could then add say, Baryonyx as a CR3 theropod with a Swim speed and a Therizinosaurus as a CR4 to spice it up a bit with different combat tactics.
Keeping the allosaurus as a CR2 though, you can still add at least a couple more options.
Some suggestions:
CR2 -
Baryonyx; less bulky and fighty than the allosaurus but with a swim speed and maybe a grappling bite attack.
Dilophosaurus; smaller and weaker than the allosaurus but maybe buffed up with things like pack tactics and a deadly poison spit (scientifically inaccurate but hey, fantasy world).
CR4 -
Therizinosaurus; Quick moving and tanky with a devastating multi-attack with dual claw strikes.
CR6 -
Spinosaurus; slow but bulky dinosaur with a grappling bite and two strong claw attacks. Likely has a swim speed.
Charcharodontosaurus; Basically a weaker version of the t-rex for wildshapers who wanna be a big bitey theropod out of Jurassic Park. Likely has a slashing damage bite.
An Ornithomimus would be nice for some speed and they could be used as some fast mounts. Comsognathus, Archaeopteryx, Dimorphodon, or some other tiny dinosaur would be cool to have as a familiar. Iguanodon, Saltasaurus, Shunosaurus, Oviraptor, Parasaurolophus, Maiasaura, Ichthyosaurus, and Mosasaurus are all prehistoric creatures that I think could be made.
Having dire dinosaurs would also be cool since this is a fantasy world so some fantastical dinosaurs could be used.
Weredinosaurs would be awesome.
Given that dinosaurs seem to get some of the best treatment among Beasts, and are the most likely to have a respectable CR range among Beasts, I support dinos getting more support.
Our modern-day Beasts can only go so high in terms of power level, and anything above that tends to be a Monstrosity instead.
Actuly trex is cr 8
I'd want to see fantasy themed up dinosaurs. And no not dragons. I mean dinos that reflect the world they are in. Like sure dogs and wolves exist but we also have dire wolves, winter wolves, blink dogs etc. Give us lightning raptors, dire t-rexes, shadow brontosauruses. I miss the whole dire X of 3e era, templates you could slap on monsters etc. As they will never create enough monster variety and I'm lazy and want easy ways to modify monsters for my game.
Maybe a lot of those monstrosities should be reclassified as beasts.
Edit to add. Basically monstrosities imo should be for things that seem like a mad wizards experiments, and not just a animal natural to a fantasy world. Winter Wolves are just wolves in a fantasy world, make them beasts.
That sounds like an awesome idea, though I also want regular dinos and dino playing options as well.
That seems logical to me: The definition of monstrosity here is basically an unnatural monster but winter wolves are natural there, just not in our world.
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HERE.Oh gosh I remember this thread and it was dead for over a year. Originally, I was gonna analyze the survey results after 50 votes but didn't realize it had more than that and didn't want to revive it to discuss the poll results. Since each question has about 90 votes and someone else naturally brought this thread back, I might as well share my thoughts on what the people of the D&D Beyond forums think about the beauty that is dinos in D&D.
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HERE.I would definitely vote in favor of anything related to dinosaurs. I spent much of my childhood reading about dinosaurs and exploring the Dinotopia books. My fantasy worlds would be incomplete without some secluded corner of the map filled with the fantastical remnants of the thunder lizards. I will admit that I got pretty excited to hear them suggest a triceratops headed ardling. My mind instantly went back to the Dinotopia books and I still want to play one, even if they aren't official.
My Dnd world has Tricerataurs, minotaur/dino hybrids, and blink dogs are reskinned as blink raptors.
I like dinosaurs, but I don't like my D&D to have dinosaurs. It doesn't bother me that they exist (for those who like that sort of thing), unless they start to exist in a game I am playing in. Clearly, my preference would be adding things that fit a classic high fantasy game better.
Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
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If I’m being honest, I need a velociraptor in D&D in order to make my players truly panic. A small D&D monster that hunts in groups, deals actual damage and can take multiple hits.
you aught to read the volo's guide entry for Redcap: small, may come into being in packs, clickity-clank steps (not unlike raptor claws on theme park kitchen tiles), can put on a burst of speed, and they're driven to hunt. best part, in my view, is that a party of murder hobos slaking their own bloodlust at a fae crossing may be exactly what spawn these things in the first place.
...but, yeah, dinosaurs are cool too.
unhappy at the way in which we lost individual purchases for one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters?
tell them you don't like features disappeared quietly in the night: provide feedback!
imo dnd would only win if wotc lift dino ixalan on level and quality of dnd Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica
well, they did put nearly 50 pages into an official-ish plane shift free download for ixalan. includes stats for some CR30 elder dinosaur calamity too.
unhappy at the way in which we lost individual purchases for one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters?
tell them you don't like features disappeared quietly in the night: provide feedback!
yeah ik about it, but planeshifts was considered Wyatt homebrew for fun while GGR is kind of complete product made by full team with balancing , even just size 50 vs 250 telling how much more time went into ravnica and i consider same could be done for Ixalan. Full scale book instead of planeshift, full developers team instead of 3 guys. Ixalan realy have enough material to deserve serious treatment
+ more info about plane was revealed with caverns of ixalan set together with couple of dinos
Waiting for the Saurials~
But in terms of dinos for stat blocks... there is plenty we can see:
A small fella like microraptor to serve as a familiar, and others like dryosaurus, compsognathus, heterodontosaurus, psittacosaurus and Protoceratops are just a cute little guys.
Herrerasaurus to work as a beastmaster Ranger level pet, scelidosaurus could be an Armored herbivore equivalent as well. For lower end carnivores you can also have the likes of coelophysis, monolophosaurus, and proceratosaurus. For herbivores you could have, say homalocephale
Pachycephalosaurus to represent its respective clade (could use stygimoloch or dracorex for a smaller version).
Styracosaurus or centrosaurus to offer a lower cr ceratopsian for like Find Steed or something. Kentrosaurus could be the same for a stegosaur. Zuniceratops, nodosaurus, and plateosaurus could all fill similar roles.
Dilophosaurus, or Ceratosaurus could offer a large sized therapod as a mount. Baryonyx could even be an aquatic one.
Iguanadon offers a very big, powerful herbivore to give moon druids more options. But for large herbivores you also have edmontosaurus, tsintaosaurus, parasaurolophus, (a thousand other hadrosaurs) shunosaurus, amargasaurus...
Spinosaurus, as mentioned, is a great aquatic threat with a higher cr, and Giganotosaurus, acrocanthosaurus and carcharodontosaurus offer alternatives to t-rex, while carnotaurus, gorgosaurus, yutyrannus can fill out various CRs earlier than it.
And I haven't even gotten started on other prehistoric Reptiles like Postosuchus, gorgonopsid, swarm of rhamphorhynchus, kronosaurus, etc.
Try this homebrew
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jXBU5-zgrTt9pgfzB5abyCVULr3-diSM/view
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The recent Player's Handbook has zero mentions of dinosaurs. That is moderately disappointing but expected given that the 2024 PHB also has no references to dinos. I would have liked to see the Ardling, but that species lost any opportunity of having a place in the 2024 core rules in February of 2023 according to Wargamer. Unnecessary details about the future of the Ardling in spoiler tag below:
At the time, Jeremy Crawford said "Maybe in some future year we'll return [to the Ardling]." However, the the notion of playing a celestial animalperson or dinoperson really didn't fit into most D&D worlds flavorwise and that was a deterrent when trying to give the Ardling a place in the 2024 core rules.
Regardless, the last time I analyzed the data from this polling was 9 or so months ago on January the 26th of 2024. Back then, there were around 90 or so votes for each question. Now, in spoiler tags below is the current data from the polls on this page:
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HERE.