[soltakss]

Last words aside, I'm intrigued by parrying a brontostaurus's stomp.

On the face of it, this is clearly silly - a brontosaurus is like the Mother of Monsters in RQ and it's stomp is an area effect in that it can affect more than one person and an area effect can't be parried (can it?)

But, imagine a brontosaurus stomping on hercules (What? There weren't brontosauruses in Hercules' time? Thet never bothered the writers of the TV series) he is quite capable of grabbing the foot, holding it in the air and then moving it aside. After all, he once took Atlas's place and held the sky up so a little iddy-biddy brontosaurus shouldn't be a problem.

So, excluding magic (Great Parry - ha!), Heroes (Hercules), Gods (Thor is pretty strong) and special abilities, you shouldn't be able to parry a brontosaurus's stomp, but you could dodge out of the way or set a spear for it to stomp on and hope that it's leg gets disabled before it hits you.

Of course, hard PCs would take the damage, then pull themselves out of the hole they have just been stomped into, get back up and give the brontosaurus a good kicking.