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Arcticflare 01-31-06, 07:31 PM	I'll come out saying one thing: I love the scaly men. Standard, poisondusk, or blackscale. . . I love them all. The problem is, lizardfolk are generally aloof, brutish creatures, right? Are there any other ways to roleplay one without acting like a jerk, but still keeping it serious and realistic?
Shaggy_Shaggs 01-31-06, 08:31 PM	Just about anything would work, wouldn't it? Adventurers are, after all, generally those that didn't quite fit in perfectly with their own societies. Why not a highly intelligent, restrained lizardfolk that left home for his own safety after getting the evil eye a lot, for prefering to think over the alternatives for a long time before acting? He'd probably still show a lot of the traits of his culture, except for being overly bright and thoughtful. Anything unrealistic about that? Why not a lizardfolk with a strongly good moral compass? For whatever reason he's compassionate, and while every bit as survival-oriented as his kinsmen he prefers methods less violent than hunting and killing other creatures for food. Perhaps he was too outspoken about his beliefs and got kicked out, and finds himself on the outside of his own culture looking in. Now a lonely outcast he turns to adventuring just to have a place to fit in with the other outcasts. Serious enough? I think whether or not a character is believable depends a lot on how its player portrays it and whether or not its background supports it. Consider the kind of person you'd like a lizardfolk character to be, and whether it was always that way or if something provoked the divergence from the norm, and how the people around it reacted to it. It could be just about anything if you put enough thought into it. And it's as the player of a goblin ranger raised among his evil kinsmen, turned good over time by his affection and compassion for a wild pony, who abandoned his tribe after they captured and ate that pony out of spite, that I say this.
Arcticflare 01-31-06, 08:38 PM	I see. . . I'll try to do something like that. Of course, I won't use your exact examples, rather something similiar. According to Dragon magazine, there are intelligent Lizardfolk, but they tend to be sterile freaks of nature. Then again, I don't have to obey that unless the DM decides to hassle me about it. You're right. The only thing that restricts a character is how well he or she is portrayed. As long as my role-playing skills are good. . . uh-oh!