Dinosaur Worldbook

Tom Kalbfus said:
Here is how I would do the time travel.
There is something called a Time Drive, it is similar to a Jump drive, making a jump using a time drive follows the exact same procedure as a regular Jump drive, except to make a time jump, one must be within 1 planetary diameter of a World greater than size 3. The Jump itself takes about a week. There are six varieties of Time Jump
100 to 600 years
1000 to 6000 years
10,000 to 60,000 years
100,000 to 600,000 years
1,000,000 to 6,000,000 years
and 10,000,000 to 60,000,000 years.
Did not know if you have seen this.
Book 4 - Psion has Temporal Drives to make "Time Ships". It uses the Core Rules design sequence. Also a dimension warping ship option to make ships "bigger on the inside". Someone could make a television show with that... :lol:
 
Nathan Brazil said:
Tom Kalbfus said:
Here is how I would do the time travel.
There is something called a Time Drive, it is similar to a Jump drive, making a jump using a time drive follows the exact same procedure as a regular Jump drive, except to make a time jump, one must be within 1 planetary diameter of a World greater than size 3. The Jump itself takes about a week. There are six varieties of Time Jump
100 to 600 years
1000 to 6000 years
10,000 to 60,000 years
100,000 to 600,000 years
1,000,000 to 6,000,000 years
and 10,000,000 to 60,000,000 years.
Did not know if you have seen this.
Book 4 - Psion has Temporal Drives to make "Time Ships". It uses the Core Rules design sequence. Also a dimension warping ship option to make ships "bigger on the inside". Someone could make a television show with that... :lol:
Still trying to get Book 1, I have T20 though. With T20 I can use D20 3.5 Dinosaurs. T20 is dead however, the book is getting old and worn. As I understand it Mongoose Traveller is much like the Classic Traveller. Basically the Dinosaurs will be harder to kill, and player characters will have to rely more heavily on their equipment to kill those dinosaurs rather than with just their skills, that would be the case with Dungeons & Dragons, and by extension T20. For instance in T20, a character with a high level could kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex with a sword, simply because he has a lot of stamina points, and if the Dinosaur gets no critical hits, then the player character can simply take the dinosaur's bites, claws, and trampling, and tail slaps, and simply stab the dinosaur enough times with his sword in order to kill him. In Mongoose Traveller a Player character will need to use a rifle, perhaps a plasma rifle, to kill a dinosaur, and to kill him as quickly as possible before it gets within melee range!
 
Rick said:
I actually find the theory of time travelers going back to get the dinosaurs the least likely, but that is just my opinion. :D

Aliens seem the least likely, because they would be the least interested in us, any more than we'd be interested in a bug underneath our shoe.

Yes. And no. Whilst it is, by definition, difficult to understand the motivations of an alien star-spanning race, perhaps they were never interested in homo sapiens at all. Perhaps, instead, they found the dinosaurs incredibly fascinating and diverse, sampled them over a period of time, then lost any interest in Earth once the dinosaurs had ceased to exist.

Of course, if you really want a time travelling explanation - why not have the aliens as intelligent sauropod or saurischian dinosaurs who developed space flight before the 'dinosaur killer' ELE, escaped to one of the other planets (Mars, Venus or even 'Phaeton' if you want to go down that route) and developed interstellar flight and time travel, but had no interest in repopulating Earth.
There is the Jurassic Park Scenario, only in this case the Park is an entire planet.

I actually don't care how the dinosaurs got there, but I think any treatment of dinosaurs has to go back to original sources, and in this case it would be Cretaceous Earth, I want the dinosaurs to be authentic and not made up. Dungeons & Dragons for example in their monster manuals 3 and 4 had made up dinosaurs, for instance, that never existed, some of these have magic abilities. Likewise I don't want Traveller dinosaurs with laser eyes or atomic breath, no Godzillas either, I want them to be authentic dinosaurs based on the fossil evidence, and not have dinosaurs separated by millions of years in the fossil record living together on the same planet. Now I have another threat called Triplanetary which has a Venus inhabited by Dinosaurs, but I would want those dinos to be authentic, and leave the made up dinosaurs, like Brontosaurus, for another book.
 
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