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[Joben]

You are a Raptor. A Hunter. Go get meat for the young ones!

Specifically you are a Deinonychus...

Spoiler: **In a nutshell*** (click to show/hide)

You weigh about 160 pounds, as much as a medium sized human and are about 11 feet from your nose to the tip of your long tail. A lot of other dinosaurs are much much bigger than you. You are strong for your size, but not an unusually fast runner. Hunting and surviving will require intelligence and cooperation. You have powerful legs with oversize claws. Your bite is strong. Your clawed hands can grasp and carry.  If current theory is to be believed you have feathers. Scientists aren't sure, but Rule of Fun dictates that you are intelligent and social.

Note, this post includes the full rules of the game so I can keep track of them. Some of it you don't need to know, but it's there if you want it. Subheadings marked with ** contain the mechanics players must grasp to play.

Spoiler: **Character Sheet** (click to show/hide)

• Name (Would dinosaurs have names? ahh well Rule of Fun.)
• Sex
• Age (7 is barely adult 40 is very old.)
• Description (optional)

These might help if you can't think of a name.
Name Generator with a specific setting for raptors. Nifty
Also this one: http://www.wowpetnames.com/

Stats:

You must pick two to get a +1 and one to get a -1 to rolls.

• Attack
• Defense
• Senses
• Cunning
• Stealth

Attack gives you a bonus/penalty to hit things you try to hurt.
Defence gives you a bonus/penalty to avoid being struck.
Senses gives a bonus/penalty to detect creatures, spot details and notice interesting objects and follow trails and tracks.
Cunning gives a bonus/penalty to attempts to ambush, distract or manipulate other creatures. A good roll may also occasionally cause the GM to spontaneously tell you what's going on. Is also rolled instead of Attack for attempts to wrestle and pin.
Stealth gives a bonus/penalty to attempts to hide and move without being detected.

In combat raptors with stealth and cunning can ambush and try to hold prey while ones with high attack eviscerate it. Ones with high Defense can draw aggro to let thier fragile brothers flank and do damage.

Spoiler: **Basic Action Rules** (click to show/hide)

You get two actions per turn, Minor and Major, or two Minor.

A minor action is something like examining an object, feeding, tracking escaped prey or hiding, or maneuvering in combat.

A major action is something that requires more effort, like traveling or attacking. When you travel you can go slowly or quickly.

You may make conditional/prepared actions. e.g. "Hide in the bushes near the waterhole. Pounce on any prey animal that comes close. Run if the Triceratops bull spots me."

Talking is a Free Action. You can talk as much as you want, within reason, long speaches during combat are not practical. Feel free to chat in character between turns too. (We shall assume raptors can coordinate and have basic social interaction and communication. For the purposes of this game this can be abstracted as speech.)

Spoiler: **Combat: Player's Guide** (click to show/hide)

• Combat Turns last about 10 seconds each
• Two Actions Per Turn: Major & Minor, or Two Minor.
• Fighting is a Major Action.
• Re-positioning yourself, getting up, or moving short distances is a Minor Action.
• You can describe the attack you want to make in detail.
• If you roll low damage or it's too complicated to get into 10 seconds you might not get to do it all though.
• Normal fighting uses the Attack Skill. Tricky stuff uses the Cunning Skill.
• If you miss badly your target may get a free Counter Attack.
• You make Counter Attacks as well when something misses you.
• Counters can not do full damage.
• Damage is rolled on a 1d6. 1 is barely did anything 6 is had fullest possible effect.
• It's always judged in context. A rat rolling a 6 is trivial. A T-Rex rolling a 3 might still maim you.

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Here are two example combat turns:

You move in an attack the injured Tenontosaurus (Attack Roll 4 vs  Defense 3) It knows what you're trying to do but stumbles awkwardly. You bite it's throat (Damage Roll 5) and latch on, Tenontosaurus is having trouble breathing! Tentosaurus is Held.

You bite at the Tenontosaurus' ankles trying to sever it's tendons. (Cunning 3 vs Defense 5 Miss) it pulls it's leg out of the way and kicks at your face. (Counter 4 vs 2 Hit) You can't get out of the way and the blow sends you reeling backward. (Damage 6 4: -16 HP)

Spoiler: **Special Action Rules; aka Cool stuff you can do** (click to show/hide)

Guard: During combat, instead of attacking do this to gain a +1 to Defense against any enemies you can see this or next turn.

Forage: Minor Action: Attempt to find small animals, grubs, insects or edible plants. Useful if you haven't made a kill in a while. Roll 1d6, gain that much Food.

Travel: You've got two speeds, slow and fast. Slow is energy efficient (1 Stamina Per Mile) and stealthy. Fast gets you places rapidly, but is conspicuous and burns energy much faster. (-1 Stealth. 3 Stamina per mile)

Hide: Minor Action. Get +2 to your next Stealth +1 to your next Cunning Roll. BUT you can barely move while doing this.

Manipulate Creature: Attempt to intimidate, distract, confuse or deceive a creature. Often rolls Cunning and/or Luck.

Ambush: If you are unseen you can ambush a nearby animal. Roll Cunning, add half result (rounded up) to Attack and Damage Or to an intimidate or distract check.

Track: Minor Action. Sense roll to follow an out of sight creature. Only two Hunters may track the same trail at the same time in the same location.

Find/recall a good place to X Cunning based attempt to find an advantageous location for some activity, or an important terrain feature. For example the nearest stream, or a hidden spot to sleep for the night.

Spoiler: **Posting Format Rules** (click to show/hide)

Please include your character name in the action. It helps me and the audience.

Actions are in bold.

Speech is in italics

Out of Character comments go in ((double parentheses.))

Spoiler: Detailed Combat Mechanics Description (click to show/hide)

This section is mostly so the GM can keep the details straight. It may be more than you need to know. See the Player Guide above.

Attack:

Attacking is a Major Action. Maneuvering in combat, including things like rising from prone is a Minor action.

Most attempts to damage use the Attack skill. Attempts to wrestle, trip and precision attacks may be rolled with the Cunning skill. (GM's judgement)

Attacks are successful if Attack/Cunning > Defense/Cunning.

Stalemate:

If Attack Total = Defense Total the Attack is Null and then there is a Luck roll:

• 1: Attacker Falls Over
• 2-3: Attacker loses Initiative next turn
• 4-5: Defender loses Initiative next turn
• 6: Defender Falls Over

Quadrupeds significantly larger than the thing they're fighting can't fall over this way.

Counter-Attack:

If Defense Total is 2 or more greater than Attack Total the defender can make a Counter Attack.
This attack will be aimed at the part used to make the attack if applicable. e.g. Attacker kicks, Defender swipes leg with claw.
If the damage roll for a Counter is >4 it is reduced to 4. (Counters are fast and can't do egregious damage)

Damage:

When an attack hits Damage is rolled on a 1d6.
1 is the minimum possible effect that could still be considered success.
6 means things went as well as could possible be expected in context.

There is no direct equation between between damage roll and extend of injury. It is all judged in context according to the creatures involved.

Injury:

Players have hitpoints because tracking persistent injury is a lot of record keeping.

Non-Party Creatures are subject to Dwarf Fortress style wound effects. Break bones, rip tendons, damage organs, sever arteries etc. Also most injuries will make them bleed progressively more until exsanguination occurs. This may end up being the primary death mechanism on large creatures.

Major chest punctures may cause collapsed lungs. That's hard to do to most creatures though. Ribs and chest muscles get in the way.

Heavily bleeding creatures make saving throws every combat turn on a 1d6.
Saves get harder to make with more bleeding.

On a fail it loses one of it's actions that turn.
Two failed Saving throws in a row and the creature loses consciousness.
Three and it dies.

Bleeding Level --> Roll Required To Save

5 = 2 or better
6 = 3 or better
7 = 4 or better
8 = 5 or better
9 = 6
10 = Instant faint.

On a 1 bleeding is +1. On a 6 bleeding is -2

Spoiler: Status Modifiers (click to show/hide)

Guarding: +1 Defense vs enemies you are aware of. Major action, forgo attacking to do this.

Impaired Vision: -1 Attack and Defense. Can happen as a result of facial wounds among other things. May be temporary.

Blind: -3 Attack, Defense. Misc. other difficulties.

Prone: -2 Defense. Minor Action to Stand up

Held: This happens when one creature grabs another one. -1 Defense +1 to damage rolls against held creature. Minor action to attempt escape.

Sleeping: +2 Stealth -1 Sense -2 Defense (Implies Prone)Taking responsibility for an hourly watch is a bit too abstract a concept for most Deinonychus to handle. But don't worry about it, they sleep lightly, often waking to look around and sniff the air.

Spoiler: Stealth and Detection Mechanics (click to show/hide)

Too Long:Didn't Read Version - Your Deinonychus will try to move unseen and keep looking around unless you tell it not to. Moving fast makes you more noticeable. Far away things are harder to see. Smell is an important sense for you and most other creatures.


This is in many ways a stealth based game. You play a predator. And the prey doesn't want to be found. Occasionally things may hunt YOU.

Your deinonychus will make an automatic Stealth roll at the beginning of every turn. Unless it's fighting or you tell me you want to walk openly or make noise for some reason.

You can specify that you want to hide as described in the special actions section to get a stealth bonus.

Because most creatures worry about getting eaten they will be moving stealthily too. Since your dino wants to eat them it will make an automatic Sense roll to detect hidden animals. You don't generally need to spend an action on things like "look around." It'll only ever pay off if you are looking at or for something specific.

Sense/Stealth rolls are generally averaged across a group at distances >100 yards.

Distance Penalties to detection rolls:

0-100 Yards: NA
>100 Yards: -1
>200 Yards: -2
>300 Yards: -3
>400 Yards: -4

Scent may alert you to the presence of nearby creatures you can't precisely locate. Wind has a major influence.

Movement Modifiers to Stealth Rolls

Standing/Walk: +1
Jog: +0
Run: -1

If the rules and rolls somehow lead to something absurd, like not being able to see a 100 ton beast on a flat grassy plain because you all rolled a 1, the GM will enforce common sense.

Spoiler: **Food, Fatigue, Healing** (click to show/hide)

You have stats that track how much energy you have and how hungry you are. Stamina is exactly what it sounds like, and is replenished by sleeping. Food is a measure of how hungry you are. I'll give you three guesses how that's refilled. Too long without food and you could die. If you run yourself to exhaustion you won't be able to fight well and might faint or fall into involuntary sleep.

Players don't really need to know this in detail. Just keep an eye on your status at the end of every post so you know when you're getting hungry and tired. And keep in mind that running for miles on end is tiring and fighting burns energy very very fast. You'll have to think about finding safe places to rest thoughout the day on long journeys and after combat.

Energy Burn:

Combat uses 2 Stamina per turn 5 if you get hit.
Combat burns 1 food per turn.

Traveling quickly burns 3 Stamina and food per mile.
Walking burns 1.

Every morning:

Increasing hunger and natural healing is applied every day at dawn for simplicity.

-15 Food
Heal (3d6 +3) damage.

Stamina Recovery and healing:

(3d6 +1) Stamina for each hour of sleep.

(2d6 +2) damaged healed the next time you rest after taking damage. (Can't be more damage than you took last combat)

Feeding

Rule of thumb is ~50% of the weight of a creature is easily edible meat and organs.
Each pound is worth 5 food.

Players need an average of about 15 pounds of meat a day to keep up their strenuous lifestyle.

If sufficient meat is available it will take take about half an hour to go from starving to stuffed. And 15 min for an average meal.

If you haven't killed anything big lately and that's a problem see Special Action heading to see how Foraging works.

Starving and Exhaustion:

<25% Stamina you get only one action in combat and you can not Run.
At -50 Food you starve to death.

Spoiler: Suggested Reading for genre savviness and better roleplay (click to show/hide)

This is what you are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus

You live in North American in the Cretacious Era. These are your peers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_dinosaurs#Timeline
Other animate life includes reptiles large and small, snakes, insects, small mammals and Pterosaur.

The player characters in this game are basically modern social carnivores traits applied to dinosaurs. Skim this to understand hunting and socialization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Wild_Dog#Social_structure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_wolf

Spoiler: Your Pack's Territory (click to show/hide)

[Joben]

Life here is brutal. Many chicks will not grow to become Hunters. Many Hunters will not survive to become elders.

If a hunter is killed or crippled another may join the party at your next visit to the home nests. (From the wait-list)

Spoiler: Waitlist: (click to show/hide)

Zako
Name: Quickfang
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Description: Quickfang is a intelligent and experienced hunter, born from the union of Quickstrike and Lashfang, but has so far been somewhat of a loner and hasn't had a mate yet. He's a quick and brutal fighter who, after watching the likes of Strider in multiple hunts, has learned to target vital areas more often with his attacks but at times gets too focused in what he's doing to pay attention to his surroundings. He is young, fit and strong as well as being quite large with a dark red crest on his head and a broken black line pattern down his body.
Abilities:
Attack: +1
Defense: 0
Senses: -1
Cunning: +1
Stealth: 0
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Unholy_Pariah
Name: Greyscale
Gender:male
Age:15
Stats:+attack, +cunning, -stealth
Description:  greyscale is  named for his grey stripes and crest as they are the only distinguishing colouration on his otherwise purely white body.
because of his abnormal colouration greyscale had to become more viscous and cunning then his fellow nestmates in order to survive long enough to become a hunter due to the natural inclination of the pack to see his abnormal colouration as a weakness, while they still feel his colouration is unnatural and tend to avoid him when possible he has forced them to grudgingly admit his presence in the camp and his worth as a hunter.
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superBlast
Name: Slyhunt
Sex: Male
Age: 12
Description: Slyhunt is quite smart but also the most antisocial of the group. He has green scales and feathers that blend quite well with the vegetation. He uses this fact to his advantage to sneak and ambush his prey. He is actually an outsider and comes from another group that starved due to many instances of bad luck. He traveled alone for a long while and it's a miracle he survived and even found another raptor group to join. Still not used to the other members of the group, he doesn't talk to them much and has barely ever mentioned his old group. He still follows orders from the older ones, but when the opportunity arises he'll do things on his own. Thus being known as the lone wolf raptor of the group.
Stats: -Attack, +Stealth, +Cunning

Current Players:

SeriousConcentrate

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Hooktoe
Sex: Male
Age: 7
Description: A young, bright-eyed male whose name, such as it is, comes from the fact he prefers to disembowel his prey with his powerful hind legs while pinning it down with his teeth. He's of small size and powerful build, but unlike his father who operates on cunning and guile, he's unfortunately about as dumb as a rock like his mother. His coloring is mostly dark brown, the better to blend in against trees and mud with. He's only just recently been allowed to start hunting with the pack and has a few kills to his name. He's very eager to prove himself and so can be considered hot-headed.

Abilities:

Attack: +1
Defense: 0
Senses: 0
Cunning: -1
Stealth: +1

Tiruin

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Moonfang
Sex: Female
Age: 17
Description: A female in her maturity, Moonfang is aptly called for her canines -- gleaming in any source of light, and sharpened to puncture flesh easily. Streaks of amber and tan flow down her body, complementing the partly-iridescent color pattern which singles her out from the rest of the pack.

Fortunately, she lives up to her name, having been bred and trained by her parents (who are now sadly processed from the cycle of life) to give any potential mate a run for his money, and possibly any predator foolish enough to attack her. Her colors make her stand out, though, but this could work as a double-edged sword.

Attack +1
Defense +1
Senses 0
Cunning 0
Stealth -1

GreatWyrmGold

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Ironhide,
Age: 29
Abilities:
Attack -1
Defense +1
Senses 0
Cunning +1
Stealth 0

Ironhide is the second oldest in the pack, and while a bit smaller than most Hunters manages to be tough as stone. Just recently, she healed from a Warhorn stomping on her leg. Normally, she tries to be the planner of the pack, helping out Strider with the plans, but she is often used as "bait" or some other dangerous job due to her toughness. Strider and Ironhide have a friendly rivalry. Ironhide also helps raising the chicks, in part due to being injured a fair amount of the time.
Ironhide's feathers* are a bit grayer than most, but her head feathers are a notable green. Her left ripping claw is chipped from a previous encounter, and her hide is crisscrossed with scars of all shapes and sizes.

Hanslanda

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Ripmaw
Sex: Male
Age: 7

+1 Attack
+1 Cunning
-1 Senses

Tophat

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name- Krakjaw
Sex - male
Age - 21
Description - fairly old compared to most of the hunters, still enjoys hunting to show what he can do. Is excellent at hiding, and uses this knowledge to work out where hidden creatures most likely are. He always was quite fragile though.

Stats:
+1 stealth
+1 senses
-1 defense.

Former Players:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Player: Dwarmin
Character: Strider (Now an NPC)
Status: Retired By Player

Player: NRDL
Name: Charlie
Sex: Male
Age: 11
Status: Deceased (Killed while assaulting a Snatcher nest single-handed.)

Noteworthy Non-Player Characters:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Strider
Sex: Male
Age: 33
Description: An older male with a thick broken pattern of perfectly lateral dark brown stripes over a light tan body, he's best referred to as 'Strider'-he's taller and thinner than average, with a longer than normal tail. His claws and teeth are not overlarge, but they seem polished and sharpened, as if he takes good care of them. Oddly, Strider is missing the very tip of his tongue, a thing many of his prey might have wondered about with their last thoughts. This gives his calls and vocalizations a very distinct echoing warble, unique and known to his pack, as all calls are to most degree.

A recent debilitating leg wound courtesy of a Pachycephalosaurus (a species he now shows marked disdain for) has left him somewhat slower and weaker than the rest of the pack-after sprinting he occasionally suffers from a pronounced and likely painful limp. He likely suffered a recent drop in the packs hierarchy due to this, and is unnaturally tense around the others when not on the hunt. He's happily married (in the sense, insofar as he has a mate he has preferred the most often and longest) and has more than a few children, but first hatched son, Hooktoe is the only one whose old enough to hunt.

His namesake is his way of hunting-slow, methodical, patient. While his claws and teeth do not reap as much prey as they once did, his sharp senses and hunting calls have summoned and rallied the pack many times to the glorious feast.

Abilities:

Attack -1
Senses +1
Cunning +1
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Name: Slendersnout
Sex: Female
Age: 28

Cunning -1
Attack +1
Sense +1

Strider's long term mate. Hooktoe's mother.
Not very smart.

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Name: Tepin [NPC]
Sex: Male
Age: 21

Sense +1
Attack +1
Defense -1

He is slim and fidgety, always trying to look in every direction at once. The party's first quest was avenging the death of his chicks. He now feels some bond to those who helped him to so safely. (Strider, Charlie, Hooktoe, Moonfang and Ironhide)

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Name: Highleap [NPC]
Sex: Female
Age: 8

Attack: +1
Cunning: +1
Stealth: -1

She dislikes Ripmaw. She got her name because when she was little she started leaping to pull insects and small fliers out of the air.

Highleap's motivation for disliking Ripmaw, just in case i fail at delivering sudtle RP is that she's just enough older to not have been impressed at all by his brashness and bully streak, but instead view him as an annoying uppity brat. This opinion has not faded much over the years.

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Name: Rainstriker [NPC]
Sex: Female
Age: 12

Defense +1
Stealth +1
Sense -1

Flirts with Hooktoe.
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Name: Song-call
Age: 3 (Juvenile)
Sex: Female

Sense +1
Stealth +1
Defense -1

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Name: Emberfang
Age: 4 (Juvenile)
Sex: Male

Attack +1
Defense +1
Cunning -1

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Name: Longlegs
Age: 5 (Juvenile)
Sex: Male

Defense +1
Cunning +1
Attack -1

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Name:  Sharpfeet
Age: 4 (Juvenile)
Sex: Female

Attack: +1
Sense: +1
Stealth -1

Bestiary:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Sauropelta - Hardback

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropelta

Second most comon plant eating dinosaur in this part of the world. When full grown they are about half again as long as an adult Hunter, and weight about 20 times as much. (3300 pounds) The bulk of the weight being thick armor and clusters of spikes on the top of the head, neck and back. Pairs of spike horns several feet long project from the front shoulders or some individuals. The whole bulk supported by trunk like legs. They can be bad tempered, but play to their strengths in combat, attempting to guard, and making occasional forward rushes.

-1 Cunning
-1 Sense
+1 Defense +2 From the Front and/or Top


Hits to top of head, neck, back and front shoulders encounter significant damage resistance.

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Tenontosaurus - Common Herbivore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenontosaurus
This is one of the most common creatures in your world and a traditional prey for your kind. They lack dedicated weapons or armor, but adults weight about 1.5 tons and are not to be underestimated. (Wolf vs Moose is an equivalent match) You're better off trying to separate a youngster from it's parents if you're hungry.

-1 Defense Rolls

Consider attacks it makes to generally be blunt. No massive claws or teeth. Would rather avoid combat unless in defense of close kin. Quadrupedal, hard to knock prone.

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Corythosaurus - Duckbill

Max weight: 4 tons.
Max length: 33 feet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corythosaurus

Quadrupedal though they can walk on two legs if they wish. Herbivores. Can make a very loud low pitched calls to alert herd members to danger. Bulky physique, like cattle.

Combat behavior similar to a larger Tenontosaurus.

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Snatcher - ~10 feet and 140 pounds as adults.

-1 Attack
-1 Defense
0 Sense
-1 Cunning
0 Stealth

Snatcher Boss - ~11 feet and 150 pounds

+1 Stealth
+1 Sense

Rivals to Hunters, not as good physically though. Sorta humans vs orcs thing going on. Weigh a bit less, no sickle claws, teeth not as imposing.

Theoretically these are a large Microventaror following some scientist's theory that the skeletons found so far are juveniles. Not much seems to be known about these guys, but they lived in the right area and were about the size I needed for an early enemy.

Damage Multiplier 3 (3-18 on hit)

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Alamosaurus - Longneck

height- 40 feet (from foot to head in average stance)
Length- 120 feet (35-37 m) (from head to tail)
Weight- 100 tons (metric)

+1 Sense (so tall, hard to sneak up on.)
-2 Attack vs Small. -0 vs things in it's size class.
-3 Stealth (Seriously too big to hide)
Can't be Held by anything under 1/4 it's weight.
-2 Defense (Ponderous Bulk)
-2 To damage rolls against it. (Thick skin. you can hit it, but did you hurt it? Can you even reach it's vitals?)

A giant Sauropod, one of the biggest ever. A humongous frame with a long neck at one and and an equally long tail on the other. Players killing one of these things could literally take days, if they can even manage it. Not so much a fight as a siege. And you might lose raptors in the process. All it needs to do is step on one...

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Albertosaurus - Deathbringer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertosaurus
30 feet long
1.5 tons.

Large Therapod, but smaller than Trex. Absurdly dangerous if you get on their bad side. They hunt in packs like you. They are much bigger than you. They are your worst nightmare. A 2 year old might weigh 110 pounds. Almost a match for a full grown Hunter. Adult at about 16 years at which point they are ~10 times your own weight.

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Acrocanthosaurus - Great One
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrocanthosaurus
40 feet long. 7 tons.
TL:DR Like a T-Rex, but heavier.

Apex land predator in the area. Even a pack of Albertosaurus would rather not mess with one most of the time because no one wants to be the first to die. It preys on the big stuff, but will happily waltz over and steal your kills. Just because it can. It's not so big a whole pack has no hope of hurting it. But...don't take that as an invitation. This thing can kill with a single bite.

It has the standard Therapod body plan but on a huge scale. Large head with massive jaws. Relatively small arms. Long stiff tail for balance. Long muscular legs. Very tall, it's belly is above player head height. Back and upper neck have huge extra muscle and thick flesh making it's shoulders look bulky.
General Combat Notes:
Reduced damage to back and upper neck.
Moving at high speed is risky for this creature. A fall would be something like 6g decelration to the body. Broken bones ensure.

IT can kick well while standing still, or moving very slowly. Can't jump-kick or kick while running. Enough muscle to charge and possibly flip fairly large creatures. Or grab and yank legs out from under them.

VS Player Combat Notes:
Heavily muscled core and back give it above average agility for a creature it's size; it can whirl around to face surprise threats and lunge about it's own body length.
When standing upright can only be hit in the belly or legs.
-2 Attack vs Players
Bite Damage Multiplier: 20 (Egregious Damage)
(Over a 2 and the target is held in the jaws)
Kick Damage Multiplier: 10
Fore-claw Damage Multiplier: 3 (Prefers to grapple with these)
+2 cunning when players roll to escape it's grapples and holds

General stats:
+1 Sense
-1 Stealth

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Deinosuchus - Giant Crocodile "Longmaw"
9 tons. 40 feet
Stealth +2 IN WATER
+1 Attack IN WATER
+1 Defense
Ambush predator, frequently hides and strikes when opportunity presents. Absolutely nothing in your entire world that is capable of cognition would mess with this thing on purpose. Let me repeat. Crocodile. 40 feet long. 9 tons.

[Dwarmin]

((Ahh, first time GM? I'll give you a shot. 

Warning, I like to Roleplay alot...lol ))

Name: Strider
Sex: Male
Age: 33
Description: An older male with a thick broken pattern of perfectly lateral dark brown stripes over a light tan body, he's best referred to as 'Strider'-he's taller and thinner than average, with a longer than normal tail. His claws and teeth are not overlarge, but they seem polished and sharpened, as if he takes good care of them. Oddly, Strider is missing the very tip of his tongue, a thing many of his prey might have wondered about with their last thoughts. This gives his calls and vocalizations a very distinct echoing warble, unique and known to his pack, as all calls are to most degree.

A recent debilitating leg wound courtesy of a Pachycephalosaurus (a species he now shows marked disdain for) has left him somewhat slower and weaker than the rest of the pack-after sprinting he occasionally suffers from a pronounced and likely painful limp. He likely suffered a recent drop in the packs hierarchy due to this, and is unnaturally tense around the others when not on the hunt. He's happily married (in the sense, insofar as he has a mate he has preferred the most often and longest) and has more than a few children, but first hatched son, Hooktoe is the only one whose old enough to hunt.

His namesake is his way of hunting-slow, methodical, patient. While his claws and teeth do not reap as much prey as they once did, his sharp senses and hunting calls have summoned and rallied the pack many times to the glorious feast.

Abilities:

Attack -1
Defense 0
Senses +1
Cunning +1
Stealth 0

[SeriousConcentrate]

(Joining as well... actually, just treat my post as having exactly the same OOC note as Dwarmin's. Also, Dwar, you don't mind if my character is your's kid, do you?)

Name: Hooktoe
Sex: Male
Age: 7
Description: A young, bright-eyed male whose name, such as it is, comes from the fact he prefers to disembowel his prey with his powerful hind legs while pinning it down with his teeth. He's of small size and powerful build, but unlike his father who operates on cunning and guile, he's unfortunately about as dumb as a rock like his mother. His coloring is mostly dark brown, the better to blend in against trees and mud with. He's only just recently been allowed to start hunting with the pack and has a few kills to his name. He's very eager to prove himself and so can be considered hot-headed.

Abilities:

Attack: +1
Defense: 0
Senses: 0
Cunning: -1
Stealth: +1

[NRDL]

Name: Charlie
Sex: Male
Age: 11

Abilities:

Attack
Defense -1
Senses
Cunning +1
Stealth +1

[Dwarmin]

((@Serc: Sounds good to me. Though, how come I feel this is going to end up like...

Serc: *leaps into Tar pit*
Me: 'I tell you what, that boy aint right'



Ahh, what a vague reference.

@Nrdl: If you name a dinosaur Charlie, we're going to kill you out of the pack! Think of a...more raptor-y name. ))

[SeriousConcentrate]

(I didn't realize their last name was Hill. But yeah, that seems somewhat likely with the -1 Cunning.)

[Joben]

Great we're almost there. One more guy to start.

@Dwar lots of RP is great!

@Serious I'm SO pleased to have you here. I'm a big fan of your play-style after reading all of Deviation-22

[SeriousConcentrate]

(First time I ever got that reception. I thought for sure you'd be dreading me, like 'oh God it's the innuendo-crazed maniac here to troll the other players' or something.

More seriously though, thanks. It's nice to be welcomed. ^^^ Also I'm looking forward to this. It'll be a bit unusual; I don't RP animals much at all - I think I've played... one of the more animalistic Khajiit types in an Oblivion RTD and that's about it - but it sounds very interesting.)

[Tiruin]

And, claimed last spot

((Ahh, first time GM? I'll give you a shot. 

Warning, I like to Roleplay alot...lol ))

^

Name: Moonfang
Sex: Female
Age: 17
Description: A female in her maturity, Moonfang is aptly called for her canines -- gleaming in any source of light, and sharpened to puncture flesh easily. Streaks of amber and tan flow down her body, complementing the partly-iridescent color pattern which singles her out from the rest of the pack.

Fortunately, she lives up to her name, having been bred and trained by her parents (who are now sadly processed from the cycle of life) to give any potential mate a run for his money, and possibly any predator foolish enough to attack her. Her colors make her stand out, though, but this could work as a double-edged sword.

Attack +1
Defense +1
Senses 0
Cunning 0
Stealth -1

[lawastooshort]

Gosh. Can I waitlist?

edit: actually I probably won't have time for another game but I'll certainly watch.

[Ultimuh]

I wonder what kind of large carnivores were around at that time?

[Dwarmin]

I wonder what kind of large carnivores were around at that time?

((Rule of cool says...all of them?))

[GreatWyrmGold]

I wonder what kind of large carnivores were around at that time?

Ornithomimus. Also Microvenator, but it's about the same size as Deinonychus.

[Joben]

((Dwarmin is the Alpha, or the pack leader. :3))

Very clever sir, +1 internets to you. Dwarmin's raptor is the oldest and therefore the default leader of the group.

Dissent it possible but the other raptors will find it psychologically difficult to disobey orders from him. If one of the whippersnappers doesn't like the way things are going he can challenge for dominance if you have downtime for a sparring match.

I wonder what kind of large carnivores were around at that time?

Depends on what time it is. dundunDUN.

Rule of Cool will probably have a large influence on this game. We may even get to Somewhere, a Palaeontologist is Crying territory.


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Ok, gonna proccess the sheets, and start writing a setup info dump for where you are.