Re: SJ Lizardmen for 3.X

Those are some /VERY/ interesting ideas! Sounds like a potential campaign!
You may have a point about giving them Favoured Class: Any...since
only Humans and 1/2 elves (I think...may be wrong about 0.5 elves)
could be any class-and they're the only ones w/ F.C: any. So, in the
interim, may as well.


On 9/21/05, David Shepheard <david_shepheard@???????.com> wrote:
> From what I recall of the Lizardman description in various Spelljammer
> products, Spelljamming Lizardmen were supposed to be different to
> groundling
> lizardmen. They worked in a very similar way to humans and were able to
> take
> any class (something that is out of date in 3e unless you want to have
> "any"
> as their favored class.)
> 
> I believe that the pseudo-scientific reasoning for this difference in
> Spacefaring Lizardmen was to do with the way that Lizardmen eggs were
> incubated. Spelljamming Lizardmen fly ships close to the sun to soak up
> lots
> of heat. This additional heat was supposed to simulate the Lizardman brain
> somehow and make them more able to learn different things. This is
> something
> that groundlings are unable to do and justifies having *one* race with
> *two*
> sets of stats.
> 
> So MM Lizardmen could be "groundlings" and you could spin your version off
> of them and make alterations to give them a Spelljammer flavour.
> 
> I quite liked this aspect of Spelljammer as it gives Lizardmen characters a
> natural desire to obtain spelljamming technology *and* gain access to the
> inner part of whatever crystal sphere they live in (assuming this is where
> the sun is). Failure to obtain both of these means that their children will
> revert to a less advanced state. This gives the Lizardmen a strong
> instinctual motive to attack people that try to control the center of
> spheres or cause damage to suns.
> 
> I would even say that Lizardmen would possibly be predisposed to sun based
> religions. They would probably work well with sun-druids or other forces
> that protect suns.
> 
> David "Big Mac" Shepheard
> 
> >From: Ryltar Thamior <ryltarthamior@?????.com>
> >Reply-To: Discussion list for the Spelljammer campaign setting
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> >To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
> >Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] SJ Lizardmen for 3.X
> >Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:28:32 +1200
> >
> >You probably have a point, and that's how I'd like to do it, but
> >Lizardmen seem to have a favoured class according to most published
> >material (MM..etc.).
> >
> >On 9/20/05, Static <eshum@????????.org> wrote:
> > > Heya,
> > >
> > > In our last episode, Ryltar Thamior said:
> > > >Trying to re-ignite the 3.x conversion...the Spelljammer Lizardmen
> > > arrive...
> > >
> > >     This version looks fine enough, though I'd change the favored
> > > class to Fighter.
> > >
> > > >-Favoured class: Druid
> > >
> > > -Static
> > >
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