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Dinosaur Clerics, a New Class

The Dinosaur God

By default, dinosaur clerics worship Tyroganon Ferox, the Paradox Lord of

the Infinite Boneyard. It's a misconception that Tyroganon Ferox is an evil
god. Yes, he wants to bring back dinosaurs and destroy all mammals, but he
is also a stalwart enemy of cruelty, undead, and death cults. And the mammal
tribes who worship him are treated well, and some are even allowed to
become dinosaurs themselves.

Tyroganon Ferox's still struggles to bring his children back from their
extinction, and so his servants include pseudo-imaginary dinosaurs and
shuddering time-paradox zombies. In the hallucinatory jungles of Mar Maroo,
his savage tribes protect and ride their flocks of almost-real dinosaurs.

The Dinosaur Lord of Impossible History has been following the present
timeline very closely. And although he doesn't technically exist in the current
world--yet--his dinosaurs have been slinking along the timelines, devouring all
the mammals along the unused timeways.

Few people realize how close they are to hungry dinosaurs at

all times. Tyrannosaurs lurk only a few months behind them.
Yesterday, ankylosaurs are angrily destroying their houses.
And packs of deinonychus lick their lips and watch you from
only a few minutes ago. Time travel isn't difficult, but the
even travelling a few minutes into the past is dangerous,
since you may find packs of sarchosuchus tearing up your
kitchen.

Travel far back enough in time, and you may even bump into
Tyroganon Ferox himself, who blocks out the sun while
pterosaurs circle him crying out their praises. His children have trampled your dead heroes into the dust. The recent
past is full of dinosaurs tearing down your cities and roaring triumphantly.

Listen, wizard, time travel is a bad idea. The dinosaurs rule the past. Sometimes paladins declare war on the
dinosaurs, but it is a foolish battle. The great warriors of the present cannot hope to do battle with billions of years of
dinosaurs. Their kingdoms stretch from yesterday to the earliest primordial slimes.

Tyroganon Ferox and his clerics, have the following domains: Time, Time-Paradoxes, Bones, Dinosaurs, Reptiles,
Birds, Eggs, Bravery, Volcanoes, and the Return of the Fallen.
The Dinosaur People

The dinosaur faithful claim that dinosaurs went extinct when Pelusia
Macrolactica, the mammalian goddess of hair and boobs, collided with
the planet. While Pelusia Macrolactica is certainly not among any of
the pantheons worshipped today, the dinosaur faithful insist that
somewhere in the depths of hell, a foul mountain of monstrous
breasts crawls and lactates.

Since the modern followers of the dinosaur god see themselves as

inheritors of the dinosaur zeitgeist, they sometimes have a hard time
reconciling their own mammalian natures. Neither gender will willingly
reveal their nipples, and large breasts are seen as shameful (and are
usually tightly strapped down or disguised). Pregnancy is obscene,
and is never discussed (although sex holds no similar taboo).

The dinosaur tribes live in the deep jungle, and although they struggle
against giant insects and pseudo-imaginary diseases, they are not
savages. The build castles of grass and mud, and launch themselves from wooden towers on pterosaur-skin gliders.
Though dead timeways, they bring a few dinosaurs into the world with faith and paradoxes, but these mighty
creatures are easily defeated by wizards, who can dismiss them as illusions.

A few of the tribes half half-dinosaurs, formed from the blessed union between a human and a psuedo-imaginary
dinosaur. They are halfway real, and not as vulnerable as their mostly-imaginary progenitors.

The Dinosaur Clerics

Use the rules for clerics from your favorite edition, with the following changes.

- Same armor and weapons, but prefer armor made from giant bones and
helmets that look like dinosaurs.
- Cannot be seduced or charmed by anything with nipples, even magically.
- Can calm down dinosaurs, reptiles, and birds (use druid rules).
- No "turn undead", but get "turn mammal". Mammals with Int 4+ are not
affected.

Changes to spell lists! Most of these are just reskins, but some are unique
enough that I've detailed them below.

1- detect evil becomes detect mammal

1 - protection from evil becomes protection from mammals
1 - new spell: explode egg
1 - new spell: detect blasphemy
1 - new spell: find volcano
2 - snake charm becomes charm reptile/bird
2 - new spell: hatch egg
3 - add spells: haste and slow
3 - remove spells: locate object and continual light
4 - new spell: summon illusory dinosaur
4 - sticks to snakes becomes sticks to compsognathuses
4 - remove spells: speak with plants and create water
4 - protection from evil 10' radius becomes protection from
mammals 10' radius
5 - commune becomes ask the past
5 - finger of death becomes fossilize
5 - remove spells: dispel evil
Explode Egg
Level 1 Dinosaur Cleric Spell
The cleric touches a (live) egg and sets a duration between 1-
3 rounds. After that duration, the egg explodes, dealing 1d6
damage for every HD that the hatched animal would have at
maturity, up to a maximum of twice as many HD as the Cleric.
Blast radius equals 2' for every HD of damage it does, with a
save for half damage. If the egg breaks before it goes off, it
has a 50% chance to explode immediately, otherwise it's a
dud.

Detect Blasphemy
Level 1 Dinosaur Cleric Spell
This works like the other detect spells, except it allows you to
sense things that are out of place in time, and whether they
are from the future or the past.

Find Volcano
Level 1 Dinosaur Cleric Spell
This tells the cleric the direction to the nearest volcano. All
volcanoes count as temples of their god.

Hatch Egg
Level 2 Dinosaur Cleric Spell
The cleric casts this spell while sitting on an egg. After a minute of sitting
and chanting, the egg hatches and grows to maturity in a minute. It serves
it's "mother" for 10 minutes per caster level, and then rapidly ages, dies, and
turns into a fossil.
Summon Illusory Dinosaur
Level 4 Dinosaur Cleric Spell
The cleric summons a pseudo-imaginary dinosaur (1d4+1 HD). It has all the
strengths and weaknesses detailed here, and a couple additional
weaknesses. Illusionists can dispel it with a touch, and the slow spell
destroys it instantly. Use your own random dinosaur table, because I don't
want to write one.

Ask The Past

Level 5 Dinosaur Cleric Spell
As part of the casting, the cleric smokes some plants that have been extinct
for millennia. The cleric falls into a deep trance and their spirit travels to the past, where they query the dinosaurs
there. Treat this as a commune spell, except that it can only ask questions about the past and the ancient dinosaurs
don't mind being pestered, and will give the cleric an egg to take back with them.
Fossilize
Level 5 Dinosaur Cleric Spell
This is just like finger of death, except that creatures killed by
it are fossilized instead of just dropping dead. A creature that
was killed by this can be restored by stone to flesh. If this
spell is prepared in reverse, it can be used to turn ACTUAL
fossils into live dinosaurs.

Dinosaur clerics start with some equipment. Roll 2x on the

following chart, rerolling duplicates.
1 - Triceratops skull shield
2 - Stegosaur tail flail
3 - Glider made from pterosaur bones (weighs 60 lbs, and you know how to
use it.)
4 - Raptor feather armor (leather armor that is comfortable enough to sleep in)
5 - Ankylosaur scale armor
6 - Dinosaur Egg (1 stegosaur, 2 apatosaur, 3 raptor, 4 triceratops, 5
compsognathus, 6 ramphorhyncus)
7 - Apatosaur-skin sling with 1d6 petrified eggs (sling stones)
8 - Map of the world, 60 million years out of date
9 - Iguanadon thumb dagger
10 - Pleisiosaur skin armor (leather armor that is easy to swim in)
11 - Magnificent raptor feather headdress
12 - Raptor tooth sword (image below)

All clerics start with a mask that resembles a particular dinosaur. This is their
clan mask, and they strive to emulate that dinosaur's virtues
1 - Apatosaur
2 - Stegosaur
3 - Hadrosaur
4 - Velociraptor
5 - Spinosaurus
6 - Tyrannosaurus
7 - Ankylosaurus
8 - Archeopteryx
9 - Pterosaur
10 - Pachycephalosaurus
11 - Therizinosaurus
12 - Dunkleosteus