The big problem is - how are you going to persuade your players to pack
that much firepower on the way to the mission without giving away the fact that
they are going to be going up against some really, really big
game?
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 6:42
PM
Subject: Re: Jurassic Park
Hmm...ME does JP. If you're prepared to ignore the complete lack of
science in the basic premise it could work.
The "raptors" from JP
are not, of course, velociraptors, which in reality were about half
the size of the ones in the film. A closer parallel would be
deinonychus (from the same family (dromaeosaurs) as velociraptor) but
they don't trip off the tongue as easily.
As to their
intelligence; well they were bright for dinosaurs but suffice it to say that
doesn't actually mean they could open doors or out-think (even a Hollywood)
human.
As to the big dinos,
well how about treating them as vehicles? In fact in the book ISTR that
someone uses a anti-tank missile modified to carry anaesthetic to take
out a T-Rex.
A T-Rex weighed in at
about 6 tonnes, stood 5.5 m tall and had a very small brain inside a skull
1.5 m long. You could simply elect to say that anything short of sustained
fire with at least .50 has no effect (well I suppose lower cals might make
it angry) because it simply can't penetrate deeply enough to hit anything
vital.
Figure a 50 mg would
put one of those down fairly quickly. remember you can take an elephant
down with a 308 and its in the same size range as a rex.
Of course you could always let the cell give it some minor flesh
wounds - just to give it a reason to hunt them down :)
As to the really big
herbivores, apatosaurus (that's brontosaurus to all us old folks) was
around 25 m long and could weigh 35 tonnes. I doubt even .50 HMG would slow
it down substantially. Definately time to break out the
LAW.
if you really wanted to
discourage these outsize goofy things i would suggest a 40 mm wp grenade
launcher attached to a 308 battle rifle. the wp should discourage the
larger ones and 308 is more than enough for the smaller ones.
figure the real problem isn't killing them its going to be killing them
fast enough to keep you alive.
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