What are lizardfolk like in your game? (D&D 5E Monster M

No boobs, for one.

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>>53331316
Barely sapient

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>>53331316
Don't make it so obvious you're from the /trash/ thread.

My lizardfolk depend on the setting, but I love the aztec, warhammer-esque ones. Also blue is a crazy good color for lizardmen for some reason.

I really liked the original Iksar from EQ, they were we'll designed I thought.

>>53331847
>pomf

>>53332142
One of my favorite fantasy races ever, fashy crocodillians so evil even the other evil races fucking hate them.

>>53331828
These lads wreck your shit if you go down the well before you get a pawn with ice boon.
And then they become total pushovers like everything else in the game lol.
My man.

>>53331316
Puffy

i prefer dinosaur-people, lizards have some wonky limb structure

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>>53332255
>tfw just trying to warm up in the sun and some insane pawn starts shooting fireballs at you
pls no bully

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>>53331847
>blue is a crazy good color for lizardmen

Yes, I agree.

>>53331340

How do they feed their young?

Baby gators don't need milk or an equivalent because they grow enough to handle themselves very quickly and don't have to really do much beyond a small age. Baby humanoids will invariably have a pathetic helpless age and then grow slowly enough that they can learn and retain information as a child better before settling into an adult age.

Obviously there's multiple workarounds or equivalent organs you can use, but it feels like if you're tacking human bits to an animal occams razor will have you just tack on the one more.

>>53332360
that lizard on the book is naked

>>53332424
>How do they feed their young?
Like birds, I imagine

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They're dead, the arachnes canonically killed them hundreds of years ago.

>>53332344
>fireballs

Grand gicel all day faget

>>53331316
Live in swamps, largely tribal in nature. Run a mostly peaceful tribal confederation in the swamps of the Deep South inspired area, though don't like outsiders. In the Vietnam inspired area, frequently war with and raid the Gnoll boat people that also inhabit the area.

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>>53332454
I don't think he cares too much. That thing on his head is a brain parasite called a Gonchong.

>>53332341
This is true, but most "lizardmen" are a strange amalgamation of theropod dinosaurs and modern reptiles not unlike you'd see in Monster Hunter.

Most of the time lizardmen are given T-Rex legs, which is fine by me because T-Rexes are scientifically proven to have had the sexiest legs imaginable.

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>>53332475
>weeaboo shit

>>53331316
You know it is physically possible to have discussion about something you like without making it all about your shitty fetish you scalie piece of shit. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Regardless, lizardmen are always best when alien in mannerism, if you ask me. Never responding to the subtleties of humanity, and sometimes expecting something of you without telling you what it is. Interacting with lizardmen should be like visiting another culture where your everyday mannerisms like giving a thumbs up to signify approval means absolutely nothing.

>>53334167
>T-Rexes are scientifically proven to have had the sexiest legs imaginable.
Can't argue with that

>>53334167
>>53334293
>>T-Rexes are scientifically proven to have had the sexiest legs imaginable.
Would you mind showing the research on this

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>>53334276
>wanting an entire race of Drax

>>53334276
>Interacting with lizardmen should be like visiting another culture where your everyday mannerisms like giving a thumbs up to signify approval means absolutely nothing.
That should realistically be every culture in a non-globalized fantasy setting
Personally I'd play up the fact they lack mammalian instincts. Concepts of family, child rearing and even large scale socialization are weird and nonsensical to them.

>>53331316
>mammaries on lizard
>that watermark bottom right

yeah it all checks out furvert

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>>53334309
I assure you, it's peer-reviewed.

>>53332454
But with a weird cat-shaped penis.

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>>53331316
Here's my favorite lizardman art, just for you OP.

Lizardmen work best scantily clad and savage, Conan-style barbarians, with temple drums and aztec pyramids.

I like to write them as conquered by the human kingdoms ages ago, due to them never progressing beyond simple tools due to ample natural strength and natural weapons, but the human conquerors bring them roads and docks and trade and shit which in turn gives them aspirations for more than simple little lives, and become a strong race of warriors seeking infrastructure and independence from their human masters.

On somewhat good terms though. More they learn what they're missing and want to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

I've never played WHFB, but their lizard people are cool as shit. I'm a sucker for lawful neutral races that worship vanished progenitor races

>>53334445
But plenty of reptiles exhibit those traits, especially if (like most Lizardmen) they are actually dinosaurian.

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>>53334837
Age of Sigmar is fun, if you can ignore the garbage fluff.

Lizardmen are basically unchanged, though they're more seen as one of the "Good" factions there. Sort of like "Good" Daemons, thanks to star-magic bullshit.

>>53334856
And plenty don't. I'd rather model off the ones that differ, else you just end up with scaly humans and what's the fun in that?

>>53334880
A big part of anthropomorphism is giving creatures human traits and making them understandable. If you can't empathize with them, there's no point in them being there at all, they're just a monster.

>>53334885
>>53334843
Come on dude.

>>53334858
I guess the lizardmen are fairly good in WHFB too, but I mean in sort of the way that they have their own mission, and anything that gets in the way of the mission has to go, no matter where on the spectrum they fall. Sort of like the mogu from WoW. They're doing the right thing, but trying to achieve it by enslaving and slaughtering everyone that gets in their way

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>>53334909
What?

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Saurians with feathers aren't featured in enough stuff.

>>53334966
lizard wizard?

>>53334908
It's almost like they aren't written to be PC races or something

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>>53334974
Wizard Lizards!

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>>53335072
In D&D, if you go by the monster manual alone.

Which isn't making your own fluff or going by any other setting.

>>53335131
You can make your own fluff yet not write them to be PCs silly

>>53335160
>Your females breast-feed hatchlings? And you find these sacks of fat, attractive?

>>53335148
>Monster Collection
My supreme comrade of African descent

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>>53333128
>Gonchong
Inspiration for this, perhaps?

>>53334327
This is my favorite way to do lizardmen

Yo where's the lizardWOmen at

>>53331316
Lizardfolk mirrored Humanoids a long time ago, there were several races simmilar to how there are Humans and dwarves which also share the same basic bodyplan.

They once dominated the entire world but this is so long ago that nobody even remembers.

The most well known remnants of the Lizardfolk are their Gods that died with them.
Seeing into the future, all of the Lizardmen gods set in motion certain events, most of them terrifying, before expiring.
They are now known as "the gruesome gods" and they are responsible for a variety of awfull things, even tho they are long dead.

When the Lizardmen realized they were gonna die out, they all tried to survive somehow.
Some of them stuck around and tried to brave the Ice Age that was coming upon them. Most died, but in the warmer region a few savages managed to live on, becoming the modern Lizardfolk, who are mostly primitives.
A few fled under the earth, degenerating into troglodytes, still living in the few remaining ruins of their empire.
Some attempted to save themselves by merging the essence of the only warm blooded creatures of this time with them: Dragons, this angered the Dragons and eventually the last survivors of these experiments became the Dragons thralls.

The most ill fated of these ventures resulted in the lost land: several cities of the LIzardmen realized that there was only one way to escape: Forward.
They worked on transporting their entire empire into the future when the planet was once more warm enaugh to suit them.
However this failed, these lizardmen now reside outside of time in what is known (or rather not known) as the Lost Land.
The Lost Land never manages to catch up with the time, always a few years, sometimes days behind. Of course nobody knows that the reptiles are snapping at their heels, but they do, and they have grown to despise the world that denies them.
As such, they constantly attempt to alter the timeline so that they can finally reach realtime to subjugate it

>>53335417
>cont.

Naturally the players will be the catalyst for this.
the game is based on DnD and one of my players wanted to be a dragonborn.
I will eventually reveal to her that her race is indeed not the glorious offspring of dragons but mereley an experiment gone out of hand, subjugated and used as slaves.

They will then be contacted by the past, by those refering to themselves as her true anctors, attempting ot be sympathetic.

Theyll try to trick the party into helping them entering reality again.
Which of course would be terrible for everyone.

In general i based my Lizardmen off a mixture of conquering Empire Iksar with the ancient superculture idea of Warhammer, but less aztec wank

>>53335470
>>53335417
I'm pretty sure this plot was in Doctor Who

>>53334880
I personally think a relateable vs alien approach is a good one.
Make them alien but not too alien.

For example Warhammer Lizardmen are too alien as a playable race, not because people cannot relate to them but because they simply dont exhibit different enaugh traits of personality untill they are realy old and powerfull, as in not suited for a low level character.

I personally enjoy everquests Iksar as a good example and TES Argonians as a neat example in the rare cases where their writing doesnt boil down to "VICTIM".
Alien enaugh to get weirded out by them, not alien enaugh to completley disregard them.

I think Volos guide to monsters also had good ideas about how to roleplay a believeable Lizardman.

I personally realy enjoy the part where a Lizardman might learn to understand that a smile means something to mammalians but not beeing able to grasp when its apropriate

>>53331316
>What are lizardfolk like in your game?
Unbelievably Perfidious

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>>53335470
>>53335417
You should give the dragonborn player the tools they need to repopulate the race post-campaign, or maybe let them discover a vault of lizards in suspended animation that they can wake up and lead into the new world.

>>53331316
This kinda shit is the reason furry's can't have nice thing....

>>53335507
I dont watch Dr Who but im pretty sure much a simmilar plot was also used in Conan with the Serpent people, i stole the idea of the past communicating with the present to resurrect something from Goblin Punch and the idea of the Lost Land is primarily based on the old turok games.

I also realy wanted to include this continent full of volcanos and dinosaurs but my world is quite moorcockian so i decided that said continent was just the regular world but in the past.

>>53335517
I'm not really sure what their characterization in TES is. I know they're all linked up to the hist and it can ASSUME CONTROL at the drop of a hat, but I don't really know their behavior otherwise

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>>53335280
Could be.

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>>53335517
I also like the idea of it, but I just don't find it practical.

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This thread is pretty dangerously furry.

>>53332475
>step one: draw a spider
>step two: glue hot girl on top of spider
>step four: forget about step three
>profit

>>53335536
She can decide to side with the Lizardmen of course, while i dont think she will as she does follow a Dragon God quite rigorously and is also a big dumb barbarian.
But if she does or hell if the entire party does, which is possible, they are incredibly bad at figuring out who the villains are since they keep pointing the blame at innocent civilians because for some reason they think that all churches and politicians must be capital E evil, then they will basically bring this entire Lost Land into the reality.

This would result in pieces of the present getting violently replaced by their past counterpart and suddenly there would be several decently sized Lizardmen nations in the middle of the human kingdoms and empires who have no idea how to deal with these strange new arrivals and their legions of dinosaur riding dragoons.

I might actually give them the ability to resolve this in a way that doesnt endup with either faction beeing destroyed.
But then again im basing the LIzardmen off the Iksar so they are pretty nasty overall and an eternity of only beeing able to observe the current world and not interact made them bitter and envious.

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> not posting troodon sapiens
OG coming through

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>>53335422

>>53335557
The key to understanding Argonian behaviour is to understand that the Hist are the most alien factor in TES. They dont just come from a previou sKalpa like the Dreugh who are thus already very alien, but from a previous dream. As such they are very very different from everything else in TES.

The Hist realized that their tree like forms were pretty much useless in a world full of wandering Ehlnofey with big choppy axes, so they took the primitive tree lizards of their domain and attempted to change them into something more native to the Aurbis.

The emphasis here is ATTEMPTED. The Argonians are an extension of the Hist but they always were designed specifically to fit in with the rest of Tamriel, hence the boobs, at least thats one theory on why they have boobs.

Either way the issue is that they never fully managed to do that.
Argonians for example have no concept of time whatsoever. Everything that happens happens in the exact same moment.
They also have no concept of cooking food or worshipping gods.
They do not understand and cannot replicate facial expressions beyond baring their fangs to show agression.
Their emotions are also muted compared to other races, which means they dont realy react a lot to most stimuli, note they still have these emotions but they arent nearly as strong as easy to produce as in humans.

Hence why argonians are seldom angry, that doesnt stop them from beeing overly vengefull, they however are so in a calm and collected fashion.

As a result of all of this Argonians truly weird people out but dont understand why that is.

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>>53335658
>Argonians for example have no concept of time whatsoever. Everything that happens happens in the exact same moment.
what

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AZTEC FEATHERED LIZARDS
THE SUN IS ALL, THE SUN IS LIFE

>>53335658
You know all that just sounds like traits of actual lizards, not previous reality alien psychic tree minions. Is that the point?

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>>53335696
WE MUST KILL THE MAMMALS TO FEED THE SUN

WITHOUT THE SUN IT WILL BE COLD AND SHIT

FUCK THAT 420 PRAISE IT

BRING ME THE HEARTS OF MAMMALS, THEY HAVE THE INNER FIRE THAT CAN FEED THE SUN

WE'LL PUT THEM ALL IN A BIG POT AND BURN THEM AT DAWN SO THE SUN CAN ABSORB THEIR FIRE

Hyper intelligent dinosaur/bird people that left Earth millions of years ago to colonize space on magical space ships.

>>53335658
I'm not sure you could create a working society at all without a concept of time

>>53335702
I guess it was originally the point but the explanation given by the lore is because the Hist be weird.

Im not whoevers responsible for Argonians at behtesda.
Tho im pretty sure Lizards understand time. Which is the most important thing here.

The Hist wage a war against personifications of time, as in dragons, nameley the jillians, eventually. The reason for that is probably because the Hist dont realy play ball with time.

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>>53335722
PRAISE THE SUN, PRAISE THE SUN

IT MAKES THE ROCKS WARM BRO

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>>53335658
This is half true. Well, more like 75% true.

The concept of time is wrong. Argonians do not see past and current events as different events, rather they are both parts of the same event lasting a long period of time. It's a much broader and abstract manner of thinking. The other thing is that it's not that they don't detect time as passing, it's that they completely and utterly do not care, as all is impermanent and all is created, destroyed, and created again.

Out of all the races in TES, the Argonians are the only ones who believe in and experience reincarnation. They come from the hist when they are born, they go back to the hist when they die, they come back when they are born again.

>No concept of cooking food
Not true. there are plenty of argonian recipes, many of which involve ingredients that are poisonous to other races.
>Worshipping gods
Sort of. Depends on your interpretation of Sithis, but pretty much everyone is small time compared to the hist and Sithis. They definitely worship the hist, regardless. (Pro tip for newbies reading this, the dark brotherhood is a sham through and through)

>Their emotions are mud
Also not true. Their emotions are expressed differently and they have an extremely different social culture and body language than everyone else. Also, without their connection to the hist they literally come out autistic and can't be understood by anyone, argonian or not. Argonians do get angry and experience other emotions as well, the races of men and mer just have a harder time reading them.

>>53335741
Everything is compounded by the fact that Bethesda no longer cares about the lore. All of the Alduin/Dragon shit in Skyrim is retconned and also the game has nothing to do, plot-wise, with the actual ongoing plot of the series, which is the deactivation of the towers.

ESO gets things a bit closer to the lore though.

>>53334868
>Welcome to the world strong one!
>May you rend our foes, tooth and claw!

>STREEEOOOOONK

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This is where dwarves belong; slaving away under their Lizardman overlords.

>>53335741
It could be argued a great deal of animals don't understand time, they just have instinctual triggers that compel them to do things at certain times. They don't actually grasp it's passage and can't consciously plan around it, or even quite grasp the permanency of death.

Dolphins do though. Fuck those guys.

>>53335752
>posts dinosaurian lizardmen
>implies coldbloodedness

Ayy hol up you fucking retard, that is fucking wrong.

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>>53335802
Dogs understand to a degree. They certainly mourn people and animals who are missing.

>>53335781
>Argonians do not see past and current events as different events, rather they are both parts of the same event lasting a long period of time. It's a much broader and abstract manner of thinking.
...Isn't that how people understand time?

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>>53335838
Nah, it's more like
>"Hey remember that war a while ago?"
>"What war?"
>"The one between the dunmer and argonians."
>"Every hatchling knows about the conflict between our races."
>"No like, the one ten years ago."
>"The conflict is still going, it's been going since before we were hatched and will continue long after we return to the hist."
>"...Nevermind."

>>53335826
Dogs are weird at it. There's cases of dogs apparently not understanding their masters are dead, still following their daily routines and expecting their master to appear at certain times, or even attending corpses like they expect them to get up at some point. Then there's others that obviously get it, falling into depression and shit during grieving. Either way they seem to understand time.

Other apes have actually talked to us through sign language about both time and death so they get it too

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>>53335914
Oh yeah, there's that gorilla that liked Robin Williams and they told it he died and the gorilla fucking broke down

>>53335781
>worshipping the hist

common misunderstanding. They dont actually worship them, they are in a symbiotic relationship. In a way the argonians are the hist, sure they rever them, but they dont worship them like a god.
They speak with them.

>cooking

As in making food hot, making proteins denaturate. They dont do that.

>emotions

Again they get angry, but not easily and not usually as much. That ones been part of the lore for a while.
ESO tends to humanize them a bit in this regard but id wager this is primarily because of the VICTIM personality they insist on giving them.

>Bethesda no longer cares about the lore

Skyrims lore is decent and has tons of callbacks to PGE1, So is ESOs lore. Even Oblivion had its moments.
Id argue in Skyrim the lore is mostly shown through the Artwork and the commitment to the style.

The whole Dragon schtick is straight out of the Aldudagga which is fine by me.

>>53335965
So should Argonians canonically suck at alchemy? I mean, I've always been told that cooking is a kind of applied chemistry...

>>53335965
>As in making food hot, making proteins denaturate. They dont do that.
Do they not do it because they don't don't need to or because they outright can't understand the process?

>>53336053
eh, aperently they are good at it, they just dont cook food. Primarily because a lot of food in Black marsh becomes poisonous when cooked, like the trodh that are fish you gotta eat alive, if you cook em they become so poisonous even argonians die from it

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>>53335965
Worshipping, revering, whatever. They respect the hist and appeal to them to try to get them to make miracles in their favor at various points, it's practically the same.

>As in making food hot
I could swear there's been argonian cooks in the games and I can't find a source on them not cooking food, beyond the raw fish in the Argonian Account. ESO certainly has argonians cooking food in the towns.

>Skyrim's lore is decent
>Referencing the Aldudagga
Man... I guess you have a point there. What's the plot of Skyrim have to do with the towers though?

My lizardmen have very close knit clans but place a strong value on self sufficiency (which I realize sounds somewhat contradictory). It basically boils down to working for the benefit of the clan but not working with the clan. Also their family structure isn't based on blood relation. All of the seasons eggs will be placed in the care of one female called the nest-maid without bothering to sort out who's egg is who's, unless it's a particularly large clan in which case it can be divvied up between multiple nest-maids.

>>53336089
>ESO
And in ESO you make Bonemold from Metal.
Game =/= Lore. Sure you cook argonian food at a cooking fire but im fairly sure most of it is not implied to be exactly cooked.
There is a leaked book from the Murkmire expansion that talks about Argonians eating a variety of different giant snails, narrated by a breton, who eventually dies after eating what is the TES equivalent of Fugu.

>Towers
Honestly i wish i could tell you. MK said the stone of Snow-Throat was a cave, whatever that means.
it is implied that the Thalmor want to turn off the towers which then makes me wonder why exactly the elves built them in the first place. I think they wrote themselves into a corner there.

>>53336234
Theres a good case to be made about Lizardmens "nuturing" cast not beeing based on gender but on age. As in those that are too old to hunt and fight take care of the young, since most lizardmen are egg laying, i guess they are also pregnant for shorter times which means females can participate more in active duty.

Young would be raised communaly since nobody exactly remembers whose eggs those were anyway.

>>53336301
Were the elves not tricked by Lorkhan into making the world like everyone else?

>>53331316
>Scaly faggot
>posts lizard with tits

You should google why they're called mammaries, you pathetic greasy masturbator.

>>53332360
>Island of the Lizard King
Fuck

This book taught me the word aniseed.

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>>53335581
Don't be silly, anon. Lizards doesn't have fur.

>>53335693
Considering how many things in Tamriel screw with time by speeding it up or slowing it down, it's not so strange for a race to believe that time is just a sense that can be manipulated.

>>53337011
I would read/watch this porn

>>53332424
a) They don't their young have to hunt themselves from early age
b) With food - small animals, stolen eggs, etc

>>53336337
What if we take a race of lizards, and breed them (heheh) into a race of lizard maids.

>>53334309
While I can't show you the research, I can tell you that T.rex had pretty long, muscular hind legs for a theropod of its size.
It always amused me how T.rex got all that shit a while back when the scientific community decided they needed to dethrone the king for some reason, about how it was slow as shit and probably couldn't even jog, let alone run properly while they actualy were the leggiest, and probably fastest of all those 12m+ carnivores that were said to be bigger, better and stronger (they're not, some might have the edge on ol' rexy length-wise but T.rex was probably taller, and a lot more heavily built, obviously meaning it was stronger as well in order to carry all that bulk around).

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>>53340664
>not posting old bloods

Love the art direction they are going with the lizardmen, some of my favorite lizard designs.

Even beats the 6th Edition art direction imo.

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>>53340568
>a while back when the scientific community decided they needed to dethrone the king for some reason
A little ol' man named Jack Horner. The paleontology community's greatest troll.

See, Jack is frequently "technically correct" and provides a great asset to the community: He challenges long-accepted theories and ideas about dinosaurs and prevents people from getting too comfortable. However, he's also a bitter hack who suffers from an extreme case of "Stop liking whatever's popular" and seems to take great joy in getting people to say that "Science ruined dinosaurs."

We're not talking about feathers, oh no. We're talking about the shit like "T-Rex was a scavenger who couldn't run fast" and "Triceratops never existed" and other hack claims that made headlines but didn't stand the test of time.

How does he get away with it? Well, you can't prove that T-Rex WASN'T a scavenger. That's not how paleontology works. The theory that T-Rex was a scavenger with evidence to support it is a valid theory. The problem is that there is more evidence to support that the T-Rex was an active hunter and the paleontology community is basically on the side of that. But y'know, is a journalist going to know about competing theories or is he just going to publish "BREAKING NEWS SCIENTISTS NOW CLAIM YOUR CHILDHOOD FAVORITE THE T-REX WAS PATHETIC PLEASE CRY ABOUT THIS IN THE COMMENTS AND LIKE US ON FACEBOOK"

So Horner makes headlines, and presents himself on the "Bleeding edge" of paleontology where everything you know is wrong, you poor plebian. This is what landed him the role of "Dinosaur Consultant" on Jurassic Park 2 and 3. Which is what led to the infamous Spinosaurus shit in 3.

For those that don't know, Spinosaurus was a quadruped that lived in rivers and ate fish. It was not, in fact, a two-legged T-Rex killer.

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>>53340664
>>53341909
Where are you getting these? I really need the art book for this game.

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>>53342209
They recently made a video detailing the starting roster of the lizardmen and they had tons of concept art in that.
Heres Kroq Gar

>>53332424
>but it feels like if you're tacking human bits to an animal occams razor will have you just tack on the one more.
Occam's razor would imply no tits. The number of assumptions that you have to make in order to get to the point of a reptile with mammaries is obscene.

>>53340094
There have been attempts
>ancient Egyptians mastered the art of sexual congress with the crocodile

>>53342330
Does he have a cyber arm or like an exoskeleton thing? I never noticed that before.

>>53332255
just sever the tail. no magic needed.

>>53331316
I personally like the ones that guy mentioned in the birdman thread. Feathered with giant recurved toeclaws.

>>53344586
Its called the Hand of the gods, it can cast shems burning gaze aka lasers.
One would assume its bionic?
The fingers certainly dont look like an exoskeleton in this, tho on the TT model it can be viewed as a gauntlet of sorts

Funnly enaugh, the hand of the gods only has four fingers, just like a Saurus, while the old ones had five fingers...

>>53344652
Very neat.

Old ones are much bigger than Saurus too, aren't they? Interesting though if it's an oversight or deliberate.

>>53344834
hard to say, we dont know what they looked like, the only hint we got is Solar Engine: the solar engine has a hand print on it with five fingers while the lizardmen only have four, hinting at the fact that the old ones created the machine for themselves.

I actually think giving the hand of the gods five fingers would be a realy cool little nod to that.

>>53342073
>Triceratops never existed
To be fair, Dracorex, Stygimoloch, and Pachycephalosaurus; and Triceratops, Torosaurus, and Nedoceratops; and Edmontosaurus and Anatotitan, when put side by side, look like pokemon evolution. And the bones get denser and less spongey.

Elmetian
>Society
Their society is still a great mystery to the other species, and what little is known causes even more confusion. According to reports, most are organized in seemingly tribal societies, worship unknown gods and are constantly defending themselves from unknown beasts living in the forests. Despite their seemingly inferior technology, they fight like no one else, especially in their homeland. Living in the ruthless Elmecia forced them to be great warriors and assassins.
>Language
The language of the Elmetians, known as "Elmetian", has many sounds of "s", "h" and "kh", so for an individual who does not speak elmetian, the language seems very much like aggressive hissing. The Elmetian language has its own alphabet, with approximately 30 letters.
Native speakers of elmetian have an unmistakable accent when speaking in another language, emphasizing the "s" and "h".
>Origins
The origin of the Elmecians is only speculated, because they do not seem to share their ancestrality with no other known race.
>Racial Traits
>Swampborn
Elmetians are adapted to survive in environments where other beings would easily die, granting them immunity to poison and disease.
>Amphibian
The user can breathe under fresh water as they would breathe air.
>Life
They are oviparous. After three to four months in the uterus of the female genitor, the egg(s) is/are placed. After another eight months, the baby opens the bark with its claws, horns or teeth and already walks.
Elmecians can breathe under fresh water thanks to gills located on the inside of their necks, visible only by very thin openings at the base of the jaw. Some groups and tribes live exclusively under rivers and lakes.
Their hands and feet are webbed, which eases the aquatic locomotion. Its tails have the exclusive function of assisting in aquatic locomotion. There are numerous glands under their scales that produce an oily substance, which retains moisture and reduces physical friction.
They live 90 to 150 years.

>>53345199
>bark
Are they tree lizards?

>>53332143
>What are we going to do on the sunning rock?

>>53345279
Oh, sorry. My whole family calls eggshell "bark". Sometimes I forget that when writing on the Internet, other people can read my words, kek.

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A bitchy minority that likes to rebel against the system and their human majority but never escalate into full retard BLM/Antifa levels

>>53345973
pls artist name

>>53346112

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/katthelizard

>>53339290
>>53337011
Mee too, anon, me too.

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>>53342209
>blep
not
>mlem
How dare you speak to me.

>>53341909
>Tail is a 90 degree protrusion from the spine.

No sir, I don't like it.

>>53342330
>>53341909
I need a 3-D printer so I can just rip these models and make the best lizard men ever

Fully intelligent and civilized, and the founders of one of the four greatest nations. Pragmatic as hell. Subscribe to the whole 'when you're dead, what's left is just meat and bones and Not You, so we'll use that meat and bones to defend ourselves/do certain labor' style of undead usage (though hate intelligent undead). Mostly built themselves up due to hard work, logic, and their homeland being mostly a shithole nobody else really actually WANTS or can deal with (with some good parts in the middle, but that requires crossing a shitload of crocodile infested swamplands), plus zombie/skeleton army.

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>>53346450

>>53349828
Im sorry but are those eyes real, or at least in any way been edited, because they look straight up fucking cutsie animu

>>53348751
Heres the ingame model of the temple guard, doing some weird poses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI2d3r5fhA8

>>53352021
I'm waiting for the inevitable

"Halberd AND shield?! REEEEEEEEEE!"

>>53344885
Huh, when I saw that machine with the hand print button, I always asumed they simply engineered it in such a way that they could operate it with both their left and right hands, since the two outermost digits are shorter and lower on the hand like a thumb and thought that was a neat little detail. Like an ease-of-use kind of deal where from whatever hand you use, the laser can activate.

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>>53349853
Day geckos are legit anon

>>53348265
You know, that's perfectly possible with a few modified vertebrae.
Since these are supposed to be more human like, having the tail stick out at an angle makes esense to retain ballance while still being able to hold your torso upright without making it drag over the ground.
In fact, Raptors had very flexible tails at the base of their hips, but the rest of it was totaly stiff, and it could hold it way up, again at an angle, so it's not even that unrealistic.

>>53355735
Holy shit adorbs

>>53355761
However, raptors were not know for manipulating objects or developing intelligence, afaik.

>>53359863
neither do any other reptiles, so this argument doesnt realy work does it?
Why would tool using be connected to the way the tail and the spine works?