Lizardfolk 🐊 Player Race for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons from Volo's Guide To Monster
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Lizardfolk 🐊 Player Race for 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons from Volo's Guide To Monster
We examine another player race fond in Volo's Guide to Monsters, the lizardfolk. This 5E D&D race is very suited for play barbarian, druid, cleric, fighter, and ranger character classes. The would make awesome nature priests or savage warriors. They are best equipped to for go armor and just use a shield. The lizardfolk offer up some great potential for role playing in an adventure, encounter, or campaigns.
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I can see it being a good laugh when your lizardman ally eats the enemies.
But when they try to eat your dead character, I can see players getting sore about it.
Keelan Croke yea people get butt hurt about the darnedest things.
Nerdarchist Dave
Been playing a Half Black Dragon of late, he really doesnt get why we bury our dead. He then has to dig them up later while he is on watch and its frustrating
Or when one party member gets you to kill some hobos. One of them happened to be a child, then you turn them into javalins, and use the flesh for salted human.
I had a Gnoll Ranger once, ate bits of the mage and the paladin after a near TPK on the way back to town to have them ressed ( they were cooked already, died to a dragon turtle breath, and the spell doesn't require them to be complete).. they never got over that tho. also killed a horse that we had just bought cuz we were going into a cave and didnt know how long. better to have rations than lose money..
What's good about it is I'm waiting for this moment with my party, it's not that Hiss is evil but would see this as a waste unless they were intent on revival... He harvests enemies all the time, he also eats just about anything in his path after killing it.... He tried something akin to ice cream and was disgusted lol we have done rolls on just about everything he bites to see if he gags it up after taking a chunk. So far he's eaten goblins, a bag man, and baby ropers... So far they only thing he has had that has bothered him is ice cream...
One of the Human Fighters in a campaign I was running was resurrected into a Lizardman and role played trying to fight his instincts to consume fallen enemies... until the rest of his party was out of sight from the scene of carnage.
Lizardfolk necromancer. Take proficiency in history, you know where all the great burial grounds and mass graves are, make a squad of skeleton lizard spear throwers you can carry around in a bag of holding. Plus the whole eating of enemies and such. Not to mention goos Con plus a steady reserve of temp hp and grim harvest, makes a pretty tanky caster.
#8 You like to eat your food while it's still wriggling. So, cast Spare the Dying on an enemy before dinner? I am terrified, yet very curious.
*heals one hit point on downed enemy*
Enemy: "oh, thank you for your mercy. I'll change my ways and..."
LizardFolk to party: "Do you want to scavenge this one before or after I eat them?"
Food:"What?"
LizardFolk: "Be quiet your food now."
*Proceeds to horribly devour enemy as he screams agony*
a good example of a lizard folk personality is Drax from guardians of the galaxy
Or dexter
Mike Ulan exactly what I was thinking
Yo Boi it’s not a runesmith reference, that guys comment was made 2 years ago lol
Yo Boi it’s okay my friend
I made a Lizardfolk Barbarian, got an AC of 18 with no armor at level 1. We also changed it a bit so that Lizardfolk could use the bite normally as a bonus action rather than an action starting at the fourth level, based off of something I saw on Giant's Playground. We also let him fight normally underwater, without the usual penalties. Also keep in mind, 15 minutes is 150 turns.
Drakon the Destroyer but his natural armor doesn’t actually add in
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Thanks. We've tried continue grow and improve throughout our RUclips career. Man we are not tech savvy at all.
Nerdarchist Dave
I gotta say that of all the "new player races" in the Volo's Guide (not counting the "monstrous races"), the Lizardfolk are my favorite hands-down. I mean, I do like the other races (especially the Tritons and Tabaxi), but something about how practical Lizardfolk are just sings to me. I"ve always liked them since the days of AD&D 2nd Edition, but I have to admit that 5E really did well in continuing to bring out the roleplaying details for these species (as opposed to 3E and especially 4E, the latter of which practically ignored any supportive roleplaying advice for such beings).
I actually made a NN Hermit Lizardman Cleric of Knowledge prepared as a backup character in a Lost Mines of Phandelver game I was recently invited to (the DM and I go way back, and he feels that his players - all relatively new to tabletop gaming - could use a "veteran's advice"). The Lizardman was banished from his tribe for a "crime" he didn't commit (he was framed by a rival who felt he was too "weak" for being a "thinker") and, after much time alone in the wilderness, found solace in knowledge (and the deity Oghma), eventually acquiring divine powers.
I'm currently playing a CN Urchin Lightfoot Halfling Abjurer (CN because she's conflicted between her background of survival and self-reliance versus her wizard teacher's altruism and preference of company, not just for the sake of being CN). Her teacher's methods include nonviolence (so, the only offensive spells the Halfling will get are whatever she finds) and sharing knowledge with others (lots of spells such as Identify, Comprehend Languages, etc.). Should she die, the Lizardman would continue to provide much of the same abilities and guidance, though his alien psychology - and much of the roleplaying they will undoubtedly bring - should be entertainingly hilarious ([after an NPC party member dies] "Ssyths does not understand why Sssssoftskins wish to bury good meat when it can provide sssssustenance to ussss."). :)
yes with lizard folk they tend to eat there own upon death so that way they are still part of the tribe serving a purpose. no point letting food go to waste. you could see it as cannibalism or you could see it as a sort of afterlife as becoming food to the tribe means becoming part of the tribe even in death, giving them one last purpose to serve.
This!!! This is the lizard folk to a tee...
I was just finally getting around to getting Volo's Guide. I remember playing a lizardfolk character in 3.5E, which was one of my first D&D characters, and still one of my favorites despite him being terribly unoptimized and a bit of a mess stats-wise. He was a ranger/sorcerer (yeah) who was also a huge coward. He'd get the other players to take risks for him, and more than once made some mistakes that brought trouble to the whole party. Such as when everyone was going into what looked like the most dangerous part of a seemingly abandoned fort and he decided to just go see what was in the little storeroom off to the side instead of heading toward the barracks. And of course that meant he walked in on someone summoning a chain devil, then immediately ran away (shutting the door behind him) screaming for help before diving in some overgrown bushes and hiding. I helped out the Monk and Barbarian (who came running) by casting some spells and sniping with my bow from the bushes, finally coming out of "hiding" when the bushes were set on fire.
how would a lizardfolk barbarian work if they don't get angry?😂
they could never "truly" rage.
"I'm not angry, I'm just VERY displeased"
Ben Carroll like a primal rage, not really angry, but an Wild animal entering a frenzy agressive mode, trying to kill a "prey" or defending himself from a more dangerous predator.
Marching into battle, "I'm not mad just disappointed".
Ferocious Predator mode. 'Battle is what's happening now, respond with maximum effort.'
Think less rage and more feeding frenzy, that's how i play my lizardfolk barb
my guess : think of komodo dragons, the way they get aggressive trying to get meat from something they kill while holding off the other komodo dragons. like said earlier basically a feeding frenzy.
My Lizardfolk is showing his teeth at this! (Softskins call this smiling but whenever Darastrix do it people are not friendly and become scared. Maybe only works if you have little hatchling teeth not strong jaws like me!)
My Lizardfolk Moon Druid Calcos appreciates this vid. He may be a shaman, but he does get quite a bit of a thrill from eating things in different ways from just his big teeth, like a spider's fangs!
Party member uses a greatclub. Their name is now “phallus swinger”
I really love the variant species from a Dragon Magazine article from later 2e. They had variations such as , Geckonids, Iguanids, Varanids, Crocodillians,, Eftoids and a few more I can't recall offhand. Each had their own quirks and cultural ideas as well as different score adjustments.
Does 5e have racial favored classes like earlier editions? Their's was Druid.
I have a Lizardfolk Druid based on the Lizardfolk Shaman in the Monster Manual, even going as far as to allocate stats in similar order. We rolled stats so he has Str 13, Dex 10, Con 13 +2, Int 7, Wis 17 +1, Cha 6. I also will be reflavoring spells a bit. So he has Animal Friendship (Reptiles only), and Speak with Reptiles. For my animal forms I'm obviously only going to use reptiles and dinosaurs. And lastly he is a Circle of the Land Swamp, since it seemed the most thematic. The Lizardfolk Shaman can only turn into a Crocodile, which my Druid will still be able to do, so losing out on Circle of the Moon's stronger forms isn't an issue for me.
I'm choosing not to use Hungry Jaws, however, as I feel the race already gets so much, I'm happy not using the special attack. The option to use an unarmed bite attack is good enough for me.
The best part of the race though, has to be reminding my party that if they fall, I will eat them. In a totally nonchalant way of course. They don't mind so much as I'm mostly not interested in gold or gems.
I’m going to be playing a Light Cleric Lizardfolk soon, and I’m really looking forward to exploring their transactional relationship to the gods. A dismal, distant swamp is perfect territory for bandits and nefarious cults so having a cleric or two around to deal with them seems necessary, and they would definitely appreciate either the healing or combat abilities a Life or Light Cleric would bring.
I decided to make a lizardfolk beastmaster for a campaign I'm currently playing in. Our party got attacked by a pack of wolves and after killing them with the help of my pet crocodile my character made a tent out of the corpses and ate the rest of them.
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Can I ask for help on bring a cyborg like character on the field, as a player I don't have much experience with d&d but I really liked the sleepers from infinity wars which were once humans, elves, wolves, whatever but though this nanovirus they become both machine and almost a zombie robot hybrid so my question to you is how could you if you had a character who both knows machinery, and necromancey could they create this hybrid that has both the abilities of a zombie's service and toughness, with a machine like body. Please write or make a video on this as I am seriously curious about a 5e zombie cyborg hybrids both as summons and player characters. Thank you in advance for reading
Jonathan Bristor This great depends on what your DM will allow, and exactly what you want to do with it. Perhaps make a template that you could apply to "the host creature" if they are a NPC or some sort of a companion. Perhaps look for information on warforges, golems and undead.
Nerdarchy well I guess I played my lizard-folk wrong then me and my friend started D&D 3.5 Edition I believe. I was a battlemage lizard-folk. I had a back story where I was the smartest out of the whole clan that I came from but I wasn't the strongest so I was always made fun of him picked for that and one day I decide to go to some Mages College to learn more about the world being a battle mage they can only teach me so much so I decided to go on my own adventure one thing led to another bumped into a Wood Elf female figure it out that she was supposed to be this entity that keep the dark seal away stopping this old grade old powerful thing from Kissimmee the world and I join the group that way pretty much be in the brute of the group even though I still have my magic and sometimes I even had to be the pack mule. I still had hell of a lot of fun though and I've been trying to get back into the D&D again I just can't find anybody that wants to do D&D anymore if you guys got any suggestions on where I can find a group to join and where I can start that will be amazing and I definitely have a hell of a better story to work with with the new additions coming out and to tell you the truth the lizard-folk I made wasn't the greatest he was what you would call a by standard I will only react to things that would happen to me in general with more understanding of the D&D I can pretty much make a more better character and be more active in the group instead of just being there just to be there
Volo's guide is a must have for DM's. The resources of the lairs is simply amazing. Goblins, Kobolds and Illithids' strongholds sections really hits that spot for any new DM looking for a challenge for their players.
I'm playing a Lizardfolk War Domain Cleric and I used my tongue to cast inflict wounds
my lizardfolk use a frying pan as his main weapon so that he could then cook what he kill with it. :P
My guy carries around a pot, so he can cook his fallen foes. "You want bandit stew?"
@@MiningwithPudding
*A group of Bandits approach your party and demands your gold and gear.*
Lizardfolk Barbarian:" Good news guys! Our rations just got replenished!"
Cooking iz for ssssoftssskins.
This has been awesome to watch. I've been away from tabletop gaming for years upon years, and recently got hit with an urge to make a lizardfolk character. I started building her up in my mind, and finally began looking for references and videos online to see what to keep and what to change. Almost everything I had planned seems to get covered, and so much of my favorite ideas got mentioned here, so yay! I wasn't too far off.
Very useful, especially when my group of heroes have now met Snapjaw deep in the Mere of Dead Men ...
Quetzal, the Lizardman Monk. My first run as a Lizardman. 😁
Great listening to you guys!
Lizardfolk, the literal "cold blooded killer". Can't plan ahead, no emotions, no morality, very physical and don't care about faith nor fortune. I can already see the ruthless fighter build I want. Battlemaster that is cold and stern "you go here, meatboy!" The best part would be taking the "food" from fallen enemies/allies, imagine the fun times that are have over the rest of the party watching you butcher a dwarf for snacks. I would love to see the flavour of the artisan to be used for making finger necklaces and bone jewelry. I'm really loving the RP for this race, so savage.
I was rocking a lizardfolk fighter in a pathfinder campaign. Dragas was basically a spin on the legend of Spartacus. A slave turned gladiator then mercenary.
He was basically caboose from red vs blue in that he was adorably dumb yet he tried. Now in a fight, he was first in and last out.
I've created a Lizardfolk Ranger for 5E. He has the Colossus Slayer ability as a Hunter type Ranger.
you could easily re-skin a smaller creature into a caiman instead of an Alligator for power scaling and so on without making it be a baby alligator which would grow quite fast
Biggen Yup that would work.
Nerdarchist Dave
Volo's has a Diemetrodon, which is essentially a prehistoric croc as a 1/4 CR beast.
The first thing that came to mind was a lizardfolk ranger, than I thought about it and a lizardfolk rogue seems like more fun if you base the character off of the ambush/pursuit predator concept. both rogue and ranger unearthed arcana is coming up though so I'll be waiting to see where they will fit in better.
The idea of an aboriginal lizardfolk rogue (assassin) who uses blow darts seems pretty cool. They'd obviously have to use poison... I think I smell an unorthodoxed character build coming on! -Nerdarchist Ryan
Nerdarchy Ryan that was my first thought, giant tribal monitor lizards but than I had another look at it. with current archetypes(until the ranger and rouge arcana comes out) I realised I could basically use lizardfolk to play a hunter/assassin Velociraptor. now that's badass.
"Clever girl."
Lizardfolk Bladesinger in a campaign where it's not restricted to Elves. 13 AC + Dex + Int would be better than any light armor you could wear until +2 Studded Leather comes along, and comparable to Mage Armor, so you wouldn't need to waste a spell to augment your AC in that way.
I just created a lizard folk that to start a strahd story. he is loosely based off draxis from gardians of the galexy. especially with medaphors.
Im partaking in a Strahd Campaign as a Half-Orc Barbarian, but Lizardfolk Fighter is my back up 😂
get a Lizardfolk & a joker in a party & you'll have the worse nicknames ever!
"My name is Armitage, the Paladin"
"He's the douche"
"Douche"
this makes me want to replicate Lizard-man from the Soul Caliber series. he was a Spartan warrior that was cursed by the High Priest of the God Of War Ares. an Experiment changed him into a Lizardman. Lizardman is my favorite character to play as.
Matt
Oh heyy it just so happens that that is the character I would play as my 1st.
The Fighter class is the only one that really appeals to me, and the Champion archetype is simple enough with good damage potential.
I don't want to play a Human so I looked up a list of all races, and there it was... Lizardfolk.
I really like the idea of using Action Surge to do rapid stabs with dual axe spikes (modified weapon). If I survive and adventure past 20th lvl maybe I could talk to my DM about getting wings for short bursts of flight as an epic boon.
I'm currently making a Lizardfolk Lore bard. Basically the standard killed tribe backstory except he was taken in by a bard guild. At first he didn't really get it because why spend so much time doing something that isn't that useful. But then he realizes that their messengers and diplomat, spreading information and keeping peace by calming people. So he's trying to learn how to use metaphors and understand flowery language so he can do his job better and be more accepted by the squishier races.
Ted, the character concept you came up with sounds like it has a lot in common with Brown Chromatic Dragons, which are primarily driven by survival, comfort, and the desire to taste new things.
Lizardfolk Monk looks nice. You have a better unarmed attack at lower levels with your bite, you get extra AC while unarmored + wis + dex mods, which can put your starting AC very high, you get a useful perk for crafting simple/monk weapons, you can heal of your unarmed attacks, and Con+2 and Wis+1 is amazing for monks aswell. And the flavor of having a primal and simple point of view about existence, life and death itself feels amazing to pass by.
This will help me understand the mindset of the Lizzie Barb in my new campaign. Thanks Nerdarchy!
I have always loved lizard folk, gnolls, ibixian, and orc/half-orc. For 5th ed I think a lizard folk arcane caster with the likes to eat while its food is still wiggling trait would be funny. If the food stops wiggling it uses either a L0 lightning spell or prestidigitation to make it wiggle before he eats it, lol. In 3.5 I played a Black Scale lizard folk and a Poison Dusk lizard folk. The Poison Dusk was my very first D&D character, was a ranger/order of the bow using drow poison on everything. The Black Scale was dragon shaman of either brass or bronze dragons which ever gave spider walk. Was pretty fun being a hulking 8ft (while hunched) black lizard man with a massive great club that has constant spider climb. Finding a seat at the bar was never a problem when me and my brother (copy character my friend was playing) crouched through the doorway of a tavern as most people moved out of the way. I think we were C/G. The first time we walked into a bar and we tried to sit on the stools then the DM thought about how much we weight (900lb) and we broken the stools and fell on our asses. From then on we each sat on 3 stools at once.
Currently I'm playing a L6 druid advanced, feral, lizard folk (feral creature is from Savage Species [3.0], advanced creature is PF Bestiary 1) in Pathfinder. DM did kinda start to get annoyed because my turns take so long after I shift into a medium deinonychus because I have 5 atks (the atks in the creature entry and animal companion don't match so we used the one that made more sense to us as well as calling the feet atks claws and not talons because it is not a bird and its name literally mean terrible claw), then my pet which is currently a small deinonychus has 3 atks (until next level when it becomes medium and has 5 atks). A single atk from just me as a medium deinonychus has a dmg of 13-20 and if all 5 atks hit 65-90 dmg, then my pet on top of that and an we both get an extra 1d6 per atk if we are flanking together.
I love that they brought up an Alligator pet, my first character was a Lizard folk Druid with an Alligator pet.
Currently acting as a druid guide for a tomb of annihilation campaign that treats the other party members like portable meal packs.
I haven't had a game yet, but I'm dead set on a Lizardfolk monk. This video only made me more about it.
Flurry of Bites
Hey guys, I just made a Lizardfolk Barbarian and I'm trying to come up with a good reason for him to become angry and rage. My best guess is that if he sees a potential threat like when a wolverine chases a bear away from a kill would be a perfect time to rage, more of a defense mechanism. I'm also trying to figure out a backstory for him and why he becomes an adventurer. I had initially thought it would be cool to use the inheritance background from SCAG think perhaps a Dracolitch mysteriously landed in his village and started killing everyone. He had just finished his right of passage and was told to run while the others attempted to either flee or fight. He watched his chieftain die and not was alone. I was thinking of vengeance as a motive but after reading the description it doesn't sound like something a lizardfolk would do. Any ideas?
I would re-skin it as survival instincts, rather than rage. Similar to the old stories of warriors going into some kind of battle trance, rage doesn't have to be "I get so angry I am better at fighting. That is all just flavor text when it comes down to it. The other things a barbarian draws on is "animal nature, keen instincts and primal physicality".
That and most people think of barbarian's rage resistance as shrugging off hits by having damage resistance, but they aren't just shrugging off sword hits, no one is, the hp system is just a system for keeping score. A 1d8 sword swing looks different on a competent warrior who currently has 100 hp then a kobold with 5. I would suggest that the sword never touches the competent warrior even though it "hits" them. The hit made the warrior use some of their combat effectiveness by losing hp when they swiftly dodged it or blocked it. On the other hand that kobold was gutted when the player rolled a 6 on the damage.
Really you could rename all of the abilities and it would still be the same class with the same powers. The CON armor bonus still makes sense because they are using their natural physical competency in combat, which is running off of how long they can go full tilt in a fight. If you are out of shape in the wild, yer dead.
What would make your lizard barb special is that his survival instincts go beyond mere fight or flight reflexes, he can repeatedly sustain minutes of hyper adrenaline fueled combat, a feat in and of itself.
Backstory. I think of lizard man as social creatures only for strength in numbers rather than a pc race that would seek revenge. The alien mindset of them would have me thinking that your character surviving would instill in him a sense of unease around other reptilian creatures. He feels 'at home" or safe around fleshy less threatening creatures that he is confident he could kill if the need arose. I think a lizardman would be keenly interested in establishing dominance over the others in the group (be recognized as the strongest). Pepper in some alien mindset phrases that mammalian sentient creatures wouldn't say and you are good to go. A goliath barb would threaten to kill you, a lizardman threatens to kill you by eating you
I'm making a Lizard Barb myself and was curious if you're stacking their Natural Armor with Barb's Unarmored Defense. (13+DEX+CON+ optional shield). That seems like it could easily be taken advantage of.
Unfortunately I thought the same thing, but Natural Armor doesn't stack with Unarmored Defense. You can pick which ever is higher however.
I like the idea of hunger or like sharks seeing blood more about predatory instincts revolving around survival
Watch ruclips.net/video/JjJkywraMlc/видео.html for King Shark. He's the perfect inspiration for Lizard Folk barbarian.
I created a lizardfolk alchemist. It has lots of options. Right now I'm concentrating on my bomb stuff.
For a Pathfinder Planescape game I decided to take Lizardfolk in a different direction and came up with the premise of an enclave of Lizardfolk in the Outlands who had been influenced and nurtured by a Couatl into a civilization of peace and culture, who favored a simpler lifestyle but were not unsophisticated. They were capable of richer emotional response. Their lore stated that the Ancestral Mother was gifted seven eggs by the great Quet'Zhual, Lord of Feather and Fang. Each egg gave rise to one of the Seven Clans of the Xi-Couatl, the Couatl-Kin Lizardfolk, who call themselves Atzo'e-Ma or Spawn of the Seven. The Atzo'e-Ma have feathered crests and further tufts of feathers at joints and tailtip, and each clan is distinguished by a distinct color of the rainbow. Some develop rich multicolored crests, which mark them as destined to become Questing Knights of Quet'Zhual. I played one such, Naxtlacotl of the blue-crested Za'Extli-Ma clan, a Paladin of Xymor with his bonded mount triceratops named Chotaka'e or 'Threefold Piercer of Falsehood'. In keeping with the Couatl theme their aesthetic is very Mesoamerican in style, which always looks good on lizards. So Naxtlacotl ran around wielding a giant two-handed Macuahuitl alongside an intelligent living bulldozer with the temperament of a happy puppy. I need to do more with the Atzo'e-Ma and their marshy home in the Sea of Trees.
I'm running a Lizardfolk Kensei Monk and its so much fun.......plus it makes darts use-full.
I'm playing a Lizardfolk Rogue/Cleric atm and it's really interesting to roleplay. As a Rogue the Lizardfolk embodies an ambush predator but he is granted his divine magic by the goddess Selune and picks his targets based upon her will. He believes she is his ancestor and seeks to achieve godhood to fulfil her every whim.
I just made a lizard wizard! STR 12, DEX 17, CON 18, INT 18, WIS 12, CHA 12. Pretty neat so far
no lizard folk yet, but am playing a kobold, which has been entertaining.
I have a Lizardfolk Barbarian. I took the Path of The Totem Warrior as his sub-class. I messed it up, though, and chose Eagle when Bear would have been better for his tankiness. However, despite the mess-up, Vyth is still quite powerful and is very efficient with his war hammer and shield.
I play a Lizardfolk Gloom Stalker Ranger
We are playing an all lizard man campaign (3.5) and there is alot of in fighting in our group for rp purposes.
You guys are my kind of nerd. Unabashed a very knowledgeable. Thanks for the tips fellow casters.
makes me remember one of my favorite characters from a 3.5 game which hopefully will start back up again someday anyway i was playing as a lizardfolk specifically a viletooth lizardfolk dragonfire adept , and for those who dont remember dragonfire adept was basically a warlock only instead of an eldritch blast they got a breath weapon
That sounds cool! I've just recently started looking back through all my 3.5 materials to see what I can do to convert things to 5e, and this video really inspired me to do something with regards to a lizardfolk character(s) or even a campaign. I hadn't thought of a breath weapon for a lizardfolk, much less a warlock one; neat concepts!
I think "properly role playing" a Lizardfolk would be very very difficult.
Chad-Solomon Dixon Agreed. I feel the same way about elves. But I actually feel my ability to portray a lizardman would be better than an elf.
Nerdarchist Dave
Nerdarchy Elves I can do. Read the Inheritance Series, they got the elves down pat in those books imo,
I think the problem with their personality is perhaps due to poor examples. What I think they are trying to convey is less "alien" and more "animal". Lizardfolk ha a very primal behaviour pattern.
Consider how wolves and coyotes think. They have a social structure, politics, and outlooks on all other living things. Things that might be prey are treated with aggression. Things that are possibly too dangerous to be taken down easily are avoided with respect. Hunter and desperation may alter that outlook, but for the status quo, that's how it would be. Even domestic cats act in a similar way. To their masters they can be affectionate and playful, but when another cat is introduced, it's a war for territory. Pecking order becomes very important.
Since they (Lizardfolk) do not generally wear clothing, they would be confused by it, as they have scales. They might, though, adorn themselves with jewelry made from trophies or traded objects as a sign of status. Look at it as a visual clue to others in the tribe so that they are less likely to be attacked by their own. "He who wears the teeth of the crocodile has defeated the crocodile, and is to be respected."
They might well understand trade, but not money. You can't eat money. But skins, meat, fish, weapons, raw materials or anything else truly useful would be valued. They *might* keep the pearls found in oysters, especially if they've learned that other local humanoids want them - which makes getting steel weapons for war and hunting easier. They don't know WHY humanoids like pearls - only that they do - so clever Lizardfolk might pick up on this and take advantage. They might trade skins, extra fish, or keep a marsh clear of goblins in exchange for materials.
Seagulls will learn that a fast food restaurant throws out it's trash at a certain time, and may even gather in flocks just to "get the goods". They don't know why this "bounty" shows up - only when. Seagulls are DULL creatures, and they can learn. Lizardfolk will too.
Whether or not a Lizardfolk eats a dead companion might depend on the tribe. Cannibalism might be practiced where it is believed the strength of the fallen will be carried on, or where resources are scarce. It may not occur where disease may have shattered populations, and so eating dead humanoids might come with some sort of "taboo". I think that comes down to player and DM choice, really.
This last trait should be discussed in a Session Zero to avoid any conflicts.
I think you could base a character of Drax the Destroyer.
Joshua Hunt Drax is a good example too.
I'm playing a lizardfolk Monk, way of the 4 elements. Looking to multi class with Cleric
Giant lizard with hold breath trait would be ideal companion for lizard folk ranger.
Concept: Monk monastery set in the swamp. Options for fighting styles, arch-types & Liz-folk monks. Several hooks, player paths, options; & importantly it is thematic.
Interested in playing DnD and want to make a Lizardfolk character. Just thinking between a ranger or a fighter for the class. I like the idea of taming animals as a lizardfolk.
I think a lizardfolk druid of the moon would be pretty awesome then maybe also a couple lvls of barbarian. Would make for a pretty good meat shield/tank
Lizard Wizard
Gregory Floriolli I had a PC named Slizzard the lizard wizard in a campaign I ran
I prefer lizards that slice gizzards.
Lizard Blizzard Wizard
a lizard wizard in a blizzard
Servant of King Gizzard
Playable Lizard Folk?? Now - you've got my attention.
The Aesthetics of Slayer's Guide to Lizard Folk 3.5 Edition is a personal favorite look for these Scaled Ones - the Book Cover really does them Justice.
Also, their gravelly voices in Neverwinter Online sounds pretty on point
Everything is a laugh to Lizard Folk -
So they're basically Joker crossed with Killer Croc?? Now that's funny.
I have a Lizard folk Druid named Hiss Bronzescale, so far his least favorite food is ice cream, he has eaten a goblin, baby ropers, and a bag man.... I'm still waiting for a party member to die so we can go over the topic of how his culture functions lol ...
I am playing a Lizardfolk Cleric in a game in which almost everyone has had a character die, and we can't have the bodies go to waste.😏
"What do you do with the evil wizard's body."
"I eat him."
"Hold on, I want to loot his body first."
"Ok, but I will eat him right after."
How did you get a physical obsessed race fit into the cleric role? I don't mean stat wise, backstory wise. Is he like a shaman or crude ritualist? I can't see a lizardfolk caring about the higher beings.
SkyNinja759 He was a soldier who was tricked into a trap during battle by some devils. At the last moment, a bright divine light shown and he followed it to safety. And that he pledged himself to work for the goddess as a Cleric. He still retains some of his soldier-ness because I made him a tempest Cleric.
Lizardfolk have a goddess completely devoted to makeing their species survive. more likley to be called a shaman or seer due to tribal lifestyle but yes they have holy magic users.
Chaotic evil Lizardfolk cleric. It's pretty amusing actually
One of my all time favorite characters is Ralyth, a lizard folk barbarian. I made her back in a 2nd edition Spelljammer game and have remade her in later editions as well. I role played her rage ability as a simple abandon of all hesitation. This bled into the rest of her personality as she disliked deliberation, and if the party took too long trying to decide what to do she would simply act without them. In times of crucial decision making, they would sometimes take to chaining her to a fixed object (which she hated because of her background as an enslaved pit fighter). My most recent version of her includes the Cook's tool proficiency, but for some reason many people are hesitant to try the dishes she makes. I mean, come on! How do you know if myconid soup with gibbering mouther broth is bad if you never try it?
I made a lizardfolk warlock who's essentially just Dr. Facilier, it's amazing.
I play a lizard folk Druid named dundi who speaks broken common and refuses to wear clothes as they "dry scale" he may seem kinda clueless but he actually quite a potent spell caster (8th lvl Druid equipped with the staff of the woodlands) who uses his spells to make better use of his companions as tools for battle
I have an idea for a lizard folk cleric. I imagine her be the mother of the party, making sure everyone is healthy and likes to make food. She had a habit of harvesting freshly killed enemies. It's going to be funny watching the people's reactions when they find out what's in their sandwiches.
there should be two variants. the reptile variant and the chameleon variant. the reptile variant actually looks like a lizardman should and spits acid with boosts to con and str, while the chameleon variant can either cast alter self or invisibility at will and gets no racial bonuses....which is why no one ever plays chameleon...I don't even think he was in the most recent mk games.
Good joke. Just for clarification if you were serious: Reptile was in mk9 an mkx. Sadly Alien in mlx is just a better version of Reptile so you never see him being played.
MK jokes aside in 3.5 there was the Poison Dusk lizard folk that had chameleon skin that gave them like a +4 to stealth checks if they didn't wear any meaningful clothing, so basically you can wear a harness and that's it or loose the bonus.
ive got a lizardfolk light cleric. some flying lizard women came flying towards our boat. after killing them my character without saying a word, grabbed one by the foot and dragged her down to his sleeping quarters. an hour or so later I walked back to the deck chomping on one of her legs. everyone knew what I had done and the DM considered making me roll to see if I contracted any STD's
I ended up getting a point of inspiration from that one xD
I also want to add that my character does want to try every kind of meat he comes across. We killed some pirates, spared one for questioning. The other cleric decided to cut his hand off and I immediately snatched it for a snack. I also like how 1x per short/long rest we can take a bite out of something for food. that alone tells me that playing a lizardfolk as a meat obsessed player is spot on.
I think in future sessions I might have to RP better towards our monk who lost a leg. maybe call him "hopper" or something
One thing I don't get about Natural Armor is why the hell they don't use Constitution as a bonus
Unarmored Defense has both, and Dexterity makes sense with Monks because their "Armor Class" is more of a "Parry/Deflect Rating", the more masterful or 'Dexterous' they are with their martial arts techniques the less they get hit.
For a Lizardfolk, wouldn't it make more sense if their Natural Armor bonus came from either Dexterity OR Constitution? Sleek scales that get in the way of landing a clean hit or tough scales that dampen blows. Both serve in potentially nullifying damage yea?
For any DMs out there, would you allow your players to change the Natural Armor bonus attribute if it made sense for their PC? If not, why?
Why must Dexterity step on Constitution's toes?
I think if I did a lizardfolk ranger I would give it a flying snake companion.
Triple snake character: Lizardfolk, flying snake companion, trouser snake. The trifecta!
I'm going to be playing a lizard folk Druid. It's going to be interesting as he lvs up in moon Druid because then he will start to think that since he can turn into bigger things. That he can be more confident in fighting things like trolls. When he see's a new animal instead of just looking and studying at the creature is going to probably try to eat it to see what it taste like and get a better understanding that way .
"the troll brings fear"
My party will be playing a campaign in the setting of Faerun soon, and we came up with the idea of having an "Aggressive Greenpeace" party. That is, all druids, rangers, nature clerics and ancients paladins. I'm going to be a lizardfolk nature cleric, bent on the ideas of the food chain and superiority.
i built a lizard folk eldritch knight, its a crazy long story but i ended up just running with it so i thought to myself what if i made him crazy smart and play around with that so i made it so he would be interested in the actual history of his people and be obsessed with old magic and technology and anything that got in the way of his research got a firebolt to the face. he had queit a bit of interest in the ancient Sarrukh race. :p
You should add this video to your player character race playlist
Definitely gonna have to get the VGtM... I like what I'm hearing on the Lizardfolk. I would like to create one as a Barbarian, but how to backstory the rage I think might be pretty challenging. As I have not read their entry from Volo's I'm not even sure if it's even possible or not. What do you guys think?
Good question, but with some creative thinking I think one can come up with reasons to rage.
First thing I thought of was just being hit themselves- pain/adrenaline right?
Other reasons... off the top of my head just now:
maybe the character has convinced himself to see his partymates as sort of hatchlings or a clutch of eggs that he/she must protect since in a way they are a lot like his/her sort of base of safety, home, and/or living utility tools which he could think of as something he's working on growing/improving/teaching as one might give birth to young 'lings.
Well, lizardfolk can go into a “feeding frenzy” by default. So maybe you could tie the rage to that.
The quirks match up perfectly to drax the destroyer 😂
I'm going to get to play my first proper 5e game soon after seeing this i really want to make a lizardfolk druid
so immediately comes to mind I am torn on two weapon fighting and single with shield. The discussion was is the main attack with two weapons considered attack and the bite considered a bonus action or is the offhand considered a bonus action.
Thinking about making a lizardfolk rogue. Any thoughts on sub classes and so on?
That moment at 1:06 when he just grabs the book away.
I have an idea for a Lizardfolk NPC that's a painter but since they aren't emotional/artistic they could instead be great at painting lifelike paintings instead almost looking like a photograph.
I'm fascinated by lizardfolk for multiple reasons.
>I'm right with Ted here; making some notes on lizardfolk characters, encounter ideas, campaign themes, and other things I might use or want to see in a game for the future.
(1)Loving the concept of this relatively simple folk (compared to the emo-antics of humans & their like) as a sort of relaxing-to-play, and humorous PC.
(2)The complexity and depth you put into it can easily ramp up or scale to your preference though. For example: an aboriginal-type character (the most common lizardfolk I'm guessing) may seem just a sort of simple, survivalist, but that doesn't mean you have to make them stupid, slow, or simple at all!
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Have you guys done anything with lizardfolk PCs since the making of this video? Thought about any of the above yet in a serious, plan-oriented way?
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>I'm seriously considering trying to figure out how I can get in on this lizardfolk fun. However I can play with lizardfolk sounds like a great change from the usual to me.
>>I am thinking of trying to find a 5e group to play with locally, or online, by maybe just writing up some DM material to use.
>>>I am so excited about this that although I have only DMed about 1 session [of 3.5] before(, which went reasonably well I guess), I might even trying to run a game myself;
inviting anyone interested (Ted+any other Nerdarchy/5e online community?) to play. Either DMing myself or contributing the material I create to the DM.
I made a lizardfolk fighter X ranger
He was a type of skirmisher that escaped the Gladiatoriam he uses nets and spears / trident to fight.
Best thing I did was using a net and pouring oil on the enemy and using a fire starter kit to burn him.
Too bad my characters only ate raw meat.
I'm about to join in an out of the abyss campaign. I'm going to play a LiZardfolk Rangers.
The lizard looks cool
My lizard folk Druid frequently eats humanoids. Speaks in the third person. And has an affinity for fingers. And crabs legs. All the while comprehending nothing about the more complexities of the other pcs he's quite fun.
lol you can now rp the lusty argonian in dnd 5ed. i was thinking of doing a first era elder scrolls using dnd 5ed now that there is a kajit catfolk and argonian lizardfolk.
5-6 on the chart makes the Lizardfolk sound like Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy
Lizardfolk puts Dragonborn to shame. Thier racial bite attack even has a higher damage die than, Dragonborn's claw attack. That requires the Dragon Hide feat found in Xanathar's Guide.
Do you think that Lizardfolk are similar to an austic person ?
Hey Nerdarchist, would you describe them as almost a detached sociopath, who doesn't react emotionally, but instead displays behavior based on knowledge or experience? Like, they aren't angry, but they know that if you steal their stuff they need to take it back, and prevent you from stealing again?
is this the bender bending Rodriguez race?
I want to make one that has a drive to cook due to scaring a traveling group near the swamp and trying the cooked food the travelers left and goes out to try new cooked goods and make it himself.
In ghosts of saltmarsh, lizardfolk render. With claws as hard as steel, who needs a sword lol. 1 thing i don't like about 5e is they made the trident equal to a spear with amount of damage it does. That's a rip off for the lizard king/ queen. Trident should do slightly more damage than a spear, as a normal weapon. Then add the skewering multiplier for lizard king/ queen.
Better yet a lizard king render who can skewer with his clawed hand. That'll do some seriously bloody damage (yummy in his eyes lol)
A lizard folk wizard is called a wizardfolk
so.. did WOTC drop the draconic origin for lizardfolk because the idea of them as shortsighted hedonists doesnt really mesh with the hoard keeping tendencies of their dragon ancestors keep in mind i dont have my copy of volo's guide yet so if this is a stupid question thats why but in 3.5 lizardfolk and kobolds were both considered draconic races right
whoa, zero punctuation there ^ but still good questions. I noted that they are said to SPEAK Draconic, which is interesting, and makes one wonder about their origin as a species/race. If they were just a thing unto themselves then you might think they'd have their own lizardfolk language right?
Why make their own language when there's a perfectly good language right there? (Draconic)