No hurry, still some others to say their preference, and other things to discuss too.
So far one for 2a and 2c, not sure what others think. 2c may allow some other dino fc's like Dink and his friends. Just waiting to see what some others opinions are. I like doing that since then the rp can take into account what some folks want instead of dictating everything. Though there will be no magic nor powers, I don't think it fits. No dragons or elves, though some folks do put dragons into their versions of dinotopia, I don't think either one fits. Even though James Gurney insists on calling Trodons Stenonychosaurus they'll be referred to by their current name of Troodons. I over look they fact that some do point out some dino terms were not known by Arthur Dennison, but if James Gurney made up dino names for dinos not known by Arthur Dennison most would have no idea what he was talking about and even more would complain about that.
I have the James Gurney books 1-2, & 4, and the mini series on dvd, though I prefer the books over the mini series. There is some contradiction between the mini series & Gurney's books.
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Edit: Though folks will likely never see this since I'm not going to double post with the edit only a few days after the first post.
I have thought of a way to incorporate some LBT and Dink into dinotopia. Since only 2 folks voted, 1 for 2a and 1 for 2c, I thought why not merge the 2. There is a spot where some mountains meet on the dinotopia map where the great valley could be, especially if the distances are fidged. One could say the distances are not accurate and the sizes of things are not super accurate on the map. It is not to far from the rainy basin, where large carnivores (and I guess some medium size ones too) live. If the sizes of dinotpia are fidged it could fit.
As for Dink, it is easier to fit him in. What they call Hunter's Grove could be the local term for a section of the rainy basin where the carnivores live. Green meadow could be a place that borders or is very near the rainy basin area locals call hunter's grove.
Both areas could be areas where the local dinos prefer to live by the old ways, no city, no village, no tech ect, as their ancestors lived. Maybe why there are no humans living there, most humans would not like to live in a place like that. Though some may like to visit it, or a few may like living there in a place like that.
Though some adjustments would have to be made here and there, since it is a dinotopia setting. Crusty can't take off his shell as he did in one segment of dink.
Instead of everyone speaking english, I'd say the dinosaurs have a common language they call saurian, that some scholar types would call dinotopian saurian common or somesuch. Though there are many other saurian languages too. Some would know the common saurian, mainly educated dinos, some dinos would not know it, hense why protoceratops like Bix are liked and such. With some longnecks only knowing sauropod, maybe some maybe only knowing apatasaurian, fi there is a species language also.
Humans have a common language too, and a bunch of human languages too, though the common language among humans is called dinotiopian, and they likely would call the saurian common language saurian.
not sure if of the time period some would prefer.
In case some do know there, there are troodons (that James Gurney & the tv insists on calling Stenonychosaurus, which I read is an invalid term, like calling LIttlefoot a brontosaurus) and deinocychus do live in cities, 1 is the head librarian of I think waterfall city.
Official web page:
http://www.dinotopia.com/official map:
http://www.dinotopia.com/dinotopia-map.html (has a .pdf map you can download. the online one is small & hard to see, not the pdf one though.