HUNTORBEHUNTED!

HUNTORBEHUNTED!

HUNTORBEHUNTED!

Colossal dinosaurs, mutated monsters, and alien horrors in the largest dinosaur bestiary & adventure collection ever released for 5e!

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A Time Traveler’s Guide to Dinosaur Hunting: 2-Book Set

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Fifteen genre-hopping adventures (APL 5-16) blend survival horror, cyberpunk, Wild West, and eldritch nightmares. Two comprehensive volumes: the Player’s Guide with three classes, playable dinosaur lineages, taming rules, and all fifteen adventures, plus the Prehistoric Bestiary with 300+ creatures—the largest prehistoric collection ever released for 5e.
Two volumes include:

  • Three new classes: Cyborg (swappable augmentations), Shard Mystic (daily-shifting psychic powers), Beastkin (dinosaur companions)
  • Dozen+ playable dinosaur lineages based on real prehistoric families
  • Complete dinosaur taming rules and time-warping spells
  • 300+ creatures spanning every era—pack hunters, armored herbivores, ice age megafauna, marine reptiles, and temporally-corrupted horrors
  • Fifteen adventures that work as one-shots or epic campaigns across corrupted timelines

Perfect for tables craving Jurassic World intensity with 5e rules.

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5E

Hunt or be Hunted!

Essential for fans of Jurassic World, ARK, Turok, and Event Horizon. Genre-hop through time facing survival horror, Wild West heists, cyberpunk intrigue, and eldritch ice age nightmares—featuring 5e’s largest prehistoric bestiary.

General Details

5th

Edition

12

Playable Lineages

14

Adventures

300+

Prehistoric Monsters

2

Amazing Books

Limitless Adventure

Things that make [A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting] special

Drop-In Flexibility

Every adventure works as a standalone one-shot that drops seamlessly into any campaign. Send your party through a temporal rift, then return them home.

Epic Campaign Arc

Or weave all adventures into one legendary campaign across corrupted timelines—hunting prehistoric predators, battling mechanical terrors, facing eldritch abominations as danger escalates through each era.

Play as a Dinosaur

Choose from over a dozen playable dinosaur lineages based on real prehistoric families. Play armored Ankylosauria, pack-hunting raptors, horn-wielding Ceratopsians, or bone-crushing Tyrannosaurids—each with unique abilities.

Three New Classes

Play as a Cyborg with swappable augmentations, a Shard Mystic who unlocks different psychic powers daily, or a Beastkin bonding with dinosaur companions—each bringing unique mechanics.

Genre-Hopping Adventures

One session you're in survival horror, the next a Weird West train heist, then navigating hollow-planet politics. Time travel means every adventure feels completely different.

Tame Dinosaurs

Tame dinosaur mounts with the Dinosaur Taming feat. Cast time-warping spells like Chrono-Lock. Wield shard-powered weapons, cybernetic augmentations, and temporal devices across every era.

Player Options

New [Playable] Classes & Lineages

A Time Traveler’s Guide to Dinosaur Hunting unlocks new player options that will turn your game into an adventure unlike any your table has experienced.

Playable Dinosaur Lineages

Play as a humanoid dinosaur from over a dozen distinct lineages, each based on real prehistoric families with hundreds of species to inspire your character. These aren’t dragonborn reskins—they’re fully realized cultures with unique mechanical abilities that reflect their evolutionary heritage.

Become an Ankylosauria, armored defenders whose traditions run as deep as their territorial loyalty. Play a Ceratopsian forming tactical shield walls, their frills telling life stories through scars and notches. Choose Stegosauria, exiled engineers whose sensory plates diagnose machinery through vibrations. Join the Therarchos—apex predators like Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, and other carnivores—competing in political dynasties where strength shapes society.

Master pack tactics as a cunning Dromaeosauridae raptor. Become a Hadrosauria diplomat whose resonating crest produces haunting calls. Play Therizinosauridae brewers who craft potent alchemies and honor their dead through bone shrines. Choose Pachycephalosauria intellectuals whose dome-skulled debates settle disputes through logic rather than violence.

Each lineage offers distinct cultural philosophies, combat abilities, and roleplaying opportunities. Two players choosing the same family can create vastly different characters—one might play a Kentrosaurus while another chooses a Stegosaurus, each bringing their own appearance and personality to the same mechanical framework. Hundreds of real dinosaur species await your choice.

Shard Mystic

Masters of psychic power who channel consciousness through crystalline shards, Shard Mystics wield abilities older than the planes themselves. Your bonded shard—worn, wielded, or embedded—serves as a conduit for manipulating reality through pure mental force.

Each day you enter a meditative trance, unlocking Mind Spheres that grant different psychic abilities. Spend Faculty Points to access powers like telekinesis, pyrokinesis, astral projection, or vital healing. Convert remaining points into Shard Faculty Points, stored energy that fuels your devastating psionic attacks and reality-bending effects.

Unlike traditional spellcasters locked into their spell lists, you adapt daily based on what challenges lie ahead. Facing mechanical enemies? Unlock electromagnetic disruption spheres. Exploring dangerous terrain? Choose astral travel and defensive barriers. Each long rest presents strategic choices about which powers to unlock and how much energy to store.

As you advance, craft increasingly powerful shards—from simple crystalline focuses to sentient Astral Titan Shards that generate their own energy. At 5th level, forge psychic weapons and armor. At higher levels, build shard-powered vessels capable of planar travel. Master Shard Mystics transcend mortality, their consciousness merging with their shard upon death, becoming ancient minds that whisper across dimensions.

Cyborg

Forged in the crucible of innovation, Cyborgs fuse flesh with arcane-powered machinery, pushing beyond biological limitations. Whether enhanced by choice, necessity, or experimentation, you represent the cutting edge where magic meets technology.

Your Cybernetic Augmentations are modular systems you swap during long rests—shoulder-mounted weapons, enhanced sensory arrays, reinforced skeletons, jump jets, or electromagnetic pulse generators. Learn new augmentations as you level, but you can only install a limited number simultaneously, forcing tactical choices about your loadout. Are you infiltrating a fortress? Install grappling hands and magnetic boots. Facing hordes of enemies? Equip area-effect sonic emitters and defensive barriers.

At 3rd level, choose your Field of Application: Cyber Soldiers excel at precision combat with target-locking systems; Bastions become unstoppable tanks with reactive defenses; Field Technicians provide tactical support, enhancing allies while disrupting enemies. Each specialization unlocks unique ways to leverage your augmentations.

Your Artificial Action Surge grants extra actions in critical moments. System Reboot lets you rapidly self-repair and shake off mental effects. At 14th level, reconfigure augmentations mid-combat as a bonus action. By 20th level, you achieve Synthetic Perfection—cheating death itself and regenerating damage automatically, the ultimate fusion of mortality and machine.

Beastkin

Walking the razor’s edge between civilization and savagery, Beastkin form sacred bonds with prehistoric creatures through an ancient covenant with the animal kingdom. You’re simultaneously a devoted guardian and nature’s perfect killer—capable of tenderly nursing an injured creature, then unleashing primal fury against its predators.

Your Sacred Bond connects you with a beast companion that fights alongside you, growing in power as you level. Unlike other pet classes, your relationship transcends domination—it’s built on mutual trust, affection, and protection. Your companion gains your proficiency bonus, enhanced hit points, and can act independently to defend you when you’re incapacitated.

Half-caster spellcasting grants you magic focused on protection, healing, and enhancing your bond. At 3rd level, choose your archetype: Saurian Caretakers bond with a single prehistoric creature, evolving it into a legendary titan with customizable abilities. Pack Guardians maintain multiple companions that fight as a coordinated unit. Apex Protectors perfect synchronized hunting with their partner, eliminating threats with surgical precision.

Dinosaur Taming mechanics let you permanently bond with wild creatures through daily checks. Your Caring Empathy feature charms even the most aggressive beasts. At higher levels, take damage meant for your companions, communicate telepathically across distances, and eventually become a living symbol of the bond between civilization and wilderness.

What's Included

Adventures Across Shattered Time

A Time Traveler’s Guide to Dinosaur Hunting delivers genre-hopping 5e adventures. Two volumes: the Player’s Guide with three classes, playable dinosaur lineages, taming mechanics, and fifteen adventures (levels 5-16), plus the Prehistoric Bestiary with 300+ creatures.

Every adventure functions as both a standalone one-shot and a building block for epic campaigns. Drop your party through a temporal rift for survival horror, then bring them home. Or string all fifteen together into a legendary arc across corrupted timelines where danger escalates and paradoxes multiply.

The three new classes transform player options. Cyborgs swap modular augmentations, building custom loadouts from dozens of mechanical upgrades. Shard Mystics unlock different psychic powers each day. Beastkin form sacred bonds with dinosaur companions, taming predators and evolving them into legendary beasts.

A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting Offers

Over-the-top adventures that hold nothing back. Crash through corrupted timelines where survival horror bleeds into cyberpunk noir, where Wild West train heists spiral into eldritch confrontations, where every jump through time drops you somewhere more impossible than the last.

PREHISTORIC THREATS

Three Hundred Creatures Spanning Time & Biome

The Prehistoric Bestiary delivers the most comprehensive collection of dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures ever assembled for 5e. Over 300 statted threats span the Triassic through Pleistocene epochs and beyond. Pack-hunting dromaeosaurs coordinate brutal ambushes while armored ankylosaurs absorb frontline punishment. Marine reptiles patrol ancient seas, pterosaurs dominate skies, and ice age megafauna, woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, bring Pleistocene fury. The bestiary extends beyond natural history into temporally-corrupted nightmares: shard-mutated predators with crystalline growths, squid-faced velociraptors with mind flayer templates, psionically-enhanced dinosaur death squads, and robotic T-Rexes bristling with laser weapons. Every creature includes complete 5e statistics, ecological notes, and tactical guidance for any era, genre, or threat level.

INFINITE WORLDS

From Frozen Glaciers to Hollow Planet Jungles

TTGtDH adventures span impossible geography across shattered timelines. Crash-land on massive Pleistocene glaciers where mutated horrors serve eldritch gods beneath dancing auroras. Navigate scorching equatorial jungles on high-gravity worlds where temporal radiation spawns wild magic and psionically-enhanced predators. Explore hollow planets with burning cores, where magi-tech cities cling to inner surfaces above dense wilderness. Storm volcanic lairs carved into caldera walls, dodging lava flows while battling naga tyrants. Infiltrate cyberpunk megalopolises where neon-lit streets hide android factories. Cross Wild West plains where temporal distortion spawns random dinosaur encounters and Pinkerton pterodactyl riders patrol shard-powered trains. Every location offers distinct environmental hazards and atmospheric details that transform standard 5e combat into genre-defining experiences.

CIVILIZATIONS ACROSS the 'VERSE

Cultures Shaped by Prehistoric Wilds

Encounter civilizations that evolved along radically different paths. Pterrans, evolved pteranodons, built floating societies devoted to scientific advancement, rejecting faith for empirical truth. Their rivals, the stenops, developed from stegosaurs into militaristic theocracies where religious doctrine justifies conquest. On hollow planet Toomut, anthropomorphic dinosaurs established gleaming magi-tech metropolis Koro, while rebels wage guerrilla campaigns from jungle Hinterlands. Ice age clans worship glowing shards atop sacred mountains, their culture twisted by temporal corruption into savage rituals. Raptor people roam wastelands as nomadic scavengers, raising inostrancevia war-beasts while negotiating with smiles as packmates circle behind you. Each culture offers distinct values, technologies, and conflicts that create rich roleplay opportunities where combat isn’t always the answer.

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