Quote from: Black Vulmea;956209
So did you include Pleistocene and Eocene megafauna in your D&D games?

Not in D&D but in The Fantasy Trip, yes. Smilodons and mastodons and cave bears and terror birds and dire wolves can usually be found roaming around in my vaguely Mediterranean-climate Robert E. Howard-inspired Sinbad the Sailor Conan the Barbarian settings. La Brea has good exhibits of what I use, as does the San Diego Zoo's section on the beasts that roamed Southern California way back when (alongside enclosures for the descendants and close relatives of those animals, who are still here though sadly shrunken). In fact I much prefer prehistoric animals to most D&D-type monsters in fantasy games.

I use Pleistocene era animals in Traveller as well on some planets. Or versions of those animals, maybe made slightly more exotic.

Looks like it might be time to work on that Neolithic setting and map of Beringia.