Lizard king (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the lizard king is a type of outsider creature.

Publication history

The lizard king first appeared in the original first edition Fiend Folio (1981).

The lizard king appeared in second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989), and appeared under the "lizard man" entry in the Monstrous Manual (1993).

The Athasian lizard king was introduced for the Dark Sun campaign setting in Wanderer's Chronicle: Mind Lords of the Last Sea (1996).

The lizard king, and lizard queen, are detailed in Serpent Kingdoms for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting (2004), where the lizard king is also presented as a playable race.

Description

A lizard king is a demon-blooded lizardfolk. Lizard kings often rule tribes of their non-fiendish kin, and serve the demon lord Sess'Innek.

References

Lizard King

Lizard King may refer to:

See also

Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with approximately over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group, traditionally recognized as the suborder Lacertilia, is defined as all extant members of the Lepidosauria (reptiles with overlapping scales) that are neither sphenodonts (i.e., tuatara) nor snakes – they form an evolutionary grade. While the snakes are recognized as falling phylogenetically within the Toxicofera clade from which they evolved, the sphenodonts are the sister group to the squamates, the larger monophyletic group, which includes both the lizards and the snakes.

Biology

Lizards typically have feet and external ears, while snakes lack both of these characteristics. However, because they are defined negatively as excluding snakes, lizards have no unique distinguishing characteristic as a group. Lizards and snakes share a movable quadrate bone, distinguishing them from the sphenodonts, which have more primitive and solid diapsid skulls. Many lizards can detach their tails to escape from predators, an act called autotomy. Vision, including color vision, is particularly well developed in most lizards, and most communicate with body language or bright colors on their bodies, as well as with pheromones. Lizards are the most speciose among extant reptiles, comprising about 60% of all living species.

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History

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