Lizardfolk

Lizardfolk
Lizardman as depicted in the original Monster Manual (1977).
Characteristics
Alignment	Usually Neutral
Type	Humanoid
Image	Wizards.com image
Stats	Open Game License stats
Publication history
First appearance	Supplement I: Greyhawk

Lizardfolk (also lizard men) are a fictional humanoid species in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, having appeared in every version of the game to date.

Lizard men first officially appeared as part of the original D&D game in the 1975 Greyhawk supplement booklet authored by Gary Gygax and Robert J. Kuntz. The lizardman artwork that appeared on the inside front cover of that supplement was used as part of the official TSR, Inc. logo from 1975 through 1978.

The lizard man was introduced to the game in its first supplement, Greyhawk (1975). It is described as an aquatic monster with a rude intelligence, that is fond of eating human flesh.

The lizard man appears in the first edition Monster Manual (1977), where it is described as a semi-aquatic creature that dwells underwater, and is omnivorous but prefers human flesh.

The lizard king, a more intelligent and evil relative to the more common lizard man, was introduced in the Fiend Folio (1981)

This edition of the D&D game included its own version of the lizard man, in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (1977, 1981, 1983), and was also later featured in the Dungeons & Dragons Game set (1991), the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991), the Classic Dungeons & Dragons Game set (1994), and the Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game set (1999).

A variety of lizard men called "Cay-Men," inhabiting a kingdom called Cay, were described in "The Voyage of the Princess Ark" in Dragon Magazine issue #185. Options for including varieties of lizard man (collectively called "lizard-kin") as player characters were included at the end of the article.