reptilian humanoid villain race suggestion

[Tewligan]

I would just use lizardfolk. Change their alignment and you're good to go.

 

[Nifft]

Hey, look, it's an original, yet strangely familiar, evil snake-man race!

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=92578

-- N

 

[ericlboyd]

Khaasta is another possibility. (I can't recall if they are in the Fiend Folio or MMII.) Further information can be found in SK.

--Eri

 

[Voadam]

Do you have Dragonomicon? Because it sounds like the Dragonkin are exactly what you need. They're essentially Large-sized humanoid dragons. It wouldn't take too much work to make them into Medium humanoids (drop some of the extra HDs and reduce the size and stats a bit), if you want.

I don't but one of the players does. I don't mind big with a lot of racial HD so this is a possibility. I want a physically imposing BBEG and I'm only shooting for a certain CR with a few levels of cleric so I can easily swap out fighter levels for racial HD.

What is the background of Dragonkin? Are they a race of half dragons?

 

[Voadam]

I'm kind of biased but I like Asaatthi myself. They can be lawful and they are damn good at being both spellcasters AND decent fighters.

I looked up aasathi last night and they have too much of an arcane caster bent. The last BBEG in the campaign was a mystic theurge of the god and I'm looking for something with a different feel. Any other Scarred lands ones I should keep my eye out for?

 

[Voadam]

Why limit yourself to one race? If it's truly a god of "scaly folk" then have it be worshipped by all manner of reptiles. Have different ones to fit different roles in the army. Have multiple reptile humanoid races along with some snakes, giant lizards, dinosaurs, dragons, etc.

Because the warlord can only be one race. The armies are varied.

 

[Voadam]

Not really reptiles but I love the slaad. How can you go wrong with angry extraplanar frogs?

Besides there is a wide variety of them in several of the monster books, so they can scale to your PC's.

The slaad are quintessentially Chaotic and already show up as third party adversaries in the adventure.

 

[Voadam]

You might try the Dragonlance Campaign Setting. Draconians and dragonspawn make excellent adversaries. However, any draconian with the half-dragon template will have a very interesting history

I have the DL CS and most of the players have read the core DL novels and played in Krynn but I'm afraid draconians would not work in this campaign (which includes Krynn as one of the worlds but not one involved in this plotline).

 

[Voadam]

When Serpent Kingdoms for Forgotten Realms comes out in a few weeks, we'll get to see the Sarrukh, a reptilian creator race that first bred the Yuan-Ti etc...they might be what you want...

That sounds very close to what I'm after, but I don't forsee buying any new books in the near future and I don't want to have to wait to see if it will be appropriate as well as cutting close to the time I anticipate when the PCs get to investigating the new BBEG.

 

[Voadam]

Sarkrith from the Fiend Folio are LE, tyrannical, magic hating lizards. Mean buggers.

The Asaathi from CCR are damned mean. I had a DM that used them as enemies over the course of a campaign. I hated them.

The reptilian template from Savage Species could be used to good effect.

One of the players has the FF so I'll check out the Sarkrith.