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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6055038" data-attributes="member: 55680">The biggest humanoid race we haven't touched on yet is lizardmen so I want to hit those guys next. I'm thinking over them and I'll have a lizardman post up later but still thinking them over. Basically I want to make them plenty alien but still a PC race that's easy to roleplay. The basic idea is take the amygdala (the "lizard brain" and supercharge it make it smart but don't give them a lot of the functions that mammal brains have (aside from being smart). This is pseudo-scientific as all hell but leads to some interesting places (making them sort of neurotic <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Vulcans, kind of sort of):-Lacking a lot of the emotions that mammals have.-Very strong sex and violence drives, very obsessed with dominance behavior.-High levels of anxiety, tend to be paranoid and twitchy. This anxiety often leads to obsessive and/or violent behavior.-Quite intelligent, especially good at formal logic, not especially creative and horrible as understanding the thinking of other races. Very good memories, especially for smells.-Very ritualized and hierarchy/dominance-focused behavior among their own kind.-Their dominant philosophy denies the existence of free will, seeing creatures behavior as determined by its nature and its environment, which can be shaped to make them do what you want. This philosophy says that things like revenge and gratitude are stupid and a waste of time. It understands the value of a reputation but thinks that dying "for a cause" is very very deeply idiotic.-Excellent at ambush combat, tend to run away when meeting heavy resistance.-Travel around in massive caravans with massive scary critters out of the Permian. Not usually seen as far north as the Shrouded Lands, show up every once in a while as enormous caravans traveling across the shrouded lands veeeery slooooowly.Also their books are snakes (see old Dnd with porn stars blog entry).</blockquote>

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