What's your Favourite Dinosaur?

[TristramEvans]

I came across this meme today...



...and I thought about it and was like "that's true - and kinda sad". So I thought that I'd do something about that.

Hence here is this thread, to ask you what (or maybe even "who") is your favourite dinosaur/prehistoric beasty?

 

[Brock Savage]

My answer is totally banal but it's been Tyrannosaurus rex ever since I was a small child and wanted to be a paleontologist.

 

[PolarBlues]

My favourite dinosaur is Prog Rock.

 

[Silverlion]

Anklyosaurus. Has been forever.

 

[Ladybird]

It was triceratops when I was younger, but I'm increasingly appreciating the Stegosaurus too nowadays.

 

[warwell]

Triceratops too

 

[Nobby-W]

This one

 

[Bunch]

Anklyosaurus. Has been forever.

Same here!

 

[David Johansen]

I always liked the Stegosaurus. Tail spikes and armoured plates.

To meet in person? I'll take the smallest herbivore available please.

 

[Ralph Dula]

Anklyosaurus. Has been forever.

Same, though again the internet makes me feel like I’m in a mirror universe, as I had no interest at all in dinosaurs until I was in my 30s.

 

[Bunch]

This thread has me tempted to put a mini anklyosaurus in my current Dungeon of the Mad Mage campaign as a wandering monster. Let's see what the players do with it.

 

[spittingimage]

Early on, it was the t-rex. T-rex was cool. But now I can admit that the way people have been making fun of their tiny arms bothers. T-rex may not be cool after all.

As for the other dinosaurs, it was so hard to settle on one. Stegosaurus had those awesome back plates and thagomisers on the tail. Ankylosarus looks like if you get in its way, your only option is to move. Tricerotops is like something I would have invented out of lego if it didn't already exist. They're all my favourite!

 

[zanshin]

T Rex, though Jurassic Park definitely upped my liking for velociraptors. The latter make cool enemies in RPGs, especially when ridden by lizard folk.

 

[Fenris-77]

When I was a young tad it was the (now defunct) Brontosaurus. The Steg would have been a close second.

 

[Silverlion]

This thread has me tempted to put a mini anklyosaurus in my current Dungeon of the Mad Mage campaign as a wandering monster. Let's see what the players do with it.

Do it! I'd adopt it, but that's me. "Have some leafy-leafs/grassy-grass my omega turtle of doom!"

 

[Brock Savage]

Wow I am legit surprised at the popularity of herbivorous dinosaurs on this thread. I assumed my preference for giant carnivores with teeth like daggers was drearily commonplace. My spouse said triceratops without hesitation and she wants to tame one in our Carcosa game.

 

[Atelerix]

Dimetridon, although it's not actually a dinosaur. First dino model kit my dad ever bought me when I was about 5.

Allosaurus was second.

Papo do some really nice vinyl dino models, better painted and proportioned than Schleich.

 

[Simon Hogwood]

I mean, everybody likes the Rex, it's just sort of assumed. I like to think it's because, save the lack of wings, it's really the closest any actually animal has come to the mythological dragon.

Aside from that, I've always had a soft spot for styracosaurus:



Hilarious epilogue: my spellchecker keeps wanting to amend styracosaurus to tyrannosaurus.

 

[A Fiery Flying Roll]

Technically not a dinosaur, but the megalodon is utterly terrifying in all the right ways.

 

[Silverlion]

Tankosaurus one of my favorite too rarely played superheroic PC's. It's odd, I'd never considered making a superhero based on my favorite dinosaur, until I happened to be reading the animal section of a supers game and saw the dinosaurs and went AHAH (sadly it didn't have an Anklyosaurus as an example.)

 

[EmperorNorton]

The deinonychus. Though surprisingly not because of Jurassic Park.

When I was a kid, they made the most rad toyline concept ever: Dino-Riders. My favorite toys were the deinonychus ones. It looked like it would be so cool to ride.

Though the perception of what they looked like then and now is a bit different .

 

[TristramEvans]

I remember Dino Riders. There was a short-lived wave of dinosaur cartoons/toylines in the late 80's, the aforementioned, and Dinosaucers, and Denver the Last Dinosaur.

 

[PolarBlues]

Technically not a dinosaur, but the megalodon is utterly terrifying in all the right ways.

The megalodon, though long extinct, even now poses a threat to us all as inpiration for many, many dreadful movies.

 

[Picaroon Jack]

Troodon!

 

[Stumpydave]

Thanks to Spielberg and Jurassic park/world, it's velociraptors all the way. The giant claw...the pack hunting...it's all good baby!

 

[spittingimage]

Thanks to Spielberg and Jurassic park/world, it's velociraptors all the way. The giant claw...the pack hunting...it's all good baby!

There's been a couple of developments in palaeontology since then. Turns out velociraptor was about knee-high to a human. Utahraptor is pretty much what we see in Jurassic Park, tho'.

 

[EmperorNorton]

There's been a couple of developments in palaeontology since then. Turns out velociraptor was about knee-high to a human. Utahraptor is pretty much what we see in Jurassic Park, tho'.

Crichton literally used the name Velociraptor even though at the time they knew what size it was. He just liked the name more than the dinosaur he actually portrayed, which was the Deinonychus.

 

[Bunch]

This thread has me tempted to put a mini anklyosaurus in my current Dungeon of the Mad Mage campaign as a wandering monster. Let's see what the players do with it.

I stated him up and was all prepare to have him show up as a wandering monster. They went to skullport which I was not prepared for at all. I'm going to have him in a pet shop.

 

[E-Rocker]

Favorite dinosaur is stegosaurus, because it had the cool armor, but my favorite beast from any prehistoric era is the wooly mammoth.

 

[Lychee of the Exchequer]

The Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus.
That's a real dinosaur, who, according to some paleontologists, hunted in shallow waters.
I like aquatic monsters !

 

[remial]

Anklyosaurus all day every day, what with his tail that let him smash the ankles of people who bugged him. Steggy is great too, and is probably second place. but Swoop was my favorite Dinobot.

 

[3rik]

I've always liked the sauropods. No species in particular, though the largest ones are the most impressive for sure.

Pachycephalosaurus is a fun one that deserves a shoutout.

Triceratops and some of the other Ceratopia are cool, as is Ankylosaurus.

Iguanodon deserves mention as it was one of the first dinosaurs discovered and there's a pretty cool exhibit of multiple specimens in Brussels.

 

[Giganotosaurus]

I feel like my username outs my dinosaur preference.
Really though I like pterosaurs a lot, with Quetzalcoatlus having a special place in my heart. My father used to volunteer at the local elementary school and bring a to scale outline of the Quetzalcoatlus made out of PVC pipe to show the kindergarten how big it was.
After Pterosaurs it's a toss up between therapods and various sea based creatures like the plesiosaurs.

 

[remial]

Iguanodon! I always thought they were cool because they had thumbs that they used to shank other dinos that got too close.

 

[TristramEvans]

Yep, Iguanodon is my favourite

 

[thesheeep]

I'm not entirely sure...

Which one is the most pettable?

 

[3rik]

I'm not entirely sure...

Which one is the most pettable?

One of these?

 

[ReluctantGM]

I popped in here to say, "Your Mom," but then I thought better of it. She's a real nice lady and doesn't deserve that kind of casual disrespect.

 

[Marshal Lucky]

Yep, Iguanodon is my favourite.

Don't fuck with Iguanadon!

 

[Marshal Lucky]

Crichton literally used the name Velociraptor even though at the time they knew what size it was. He just liked the name more than the dinosaur he actually portrayed, which was the Deinonychus.

He used it because he was influenced by Gregory S. Paul's Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. Paul grouped several of the sickle-claw dinosaurs under the genus Velociraptor because in his opinion, the difference between Velociraptor and Deinonychus was about the same as the difference between a jackal and a wolf, both of which are grouped under the genus Canis (under the Linnaean system, the older name takes precedence).