By Sveinn Olafur Arnorsson

A player race for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. For use with all Campaign Settings.

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Written by: Sveinn Olafur Arnorsson Playtesters: Sveinn Olafur Arnorsson Additional feedback provided by: Halldor Helgi Arnorsson. Special thanks: To my Tomb of Annihilation group, for persisting through endless hours of trekking through dinosaur infested jungles at my side.

Foreword

Pretty much every kid likes dinosaurs, but I absolutely loved them, so when I was younger and I was flipping through the complete book of humanoids and saw an image of a dinosaur paladin It blew my mind. D&D and dino's, could there be anything better. I never actually got around to playing a saurial as a kid, but the image stuck with me in the back.

Fast forward far too many years and Im once more casually flipping through a D&D tome, this time its Tomb of Annihilation that has found its way into my hands. As I turn a page a familiar face peeks out from the pages, a saurial, not just any saurial, but Dragonbait.

Some weeks later my players encounter Dragonbait for the first time, and they seem Contacting the Author genuinely interested in the character and his kind. And so I started to think, would Feel free to drop me a line if you have any of them actually want to play a saurial? feedback or questions. With so many different races being brought in to Forgotten Realms from other settings, Tumblr dungeonsmith.tumblr.com why shouldn't saurials, who are already a Twitter @DungeonSmithRPG part of the lore, be playable? Email [email protected]

And so I dusted of the old complete book of You can also check me out on my YouTube Samplehumanoids once more, and started to write. channel DungeonSmith. file

This is my companion Dragonbait. Four Races as One He’s not a pet, not a familiar, not a servant. He’s a saurial, the only one I know of in the Realms. - Alias On their material plane, saurials were the

Amongst the peaks of the Desertsmouth norm and there was countless different mountains, east of the great Anauroch subraces of saurials. On Toril however wastes, lies the Lost Vale, homeland to the there are only four. The bladebacks, strange saurials. Not too long ago all finheads, flyers and hornheads. Saurials saurials in Faerun lived in isolation in a however think of themselves first and single village in the Lost Vale. But times foremost as saurials, and only secondly as are changing, with every generation it their subrace. All saurials share the same becomes ever more clear that the Lost language and culture and societies of Vale cannot support the growing numbers saurials are always built up of a multitude for long. Every day more and more young of different types. Appearance wise the and restless saurials leave the vale to saurials look quite similar to the dinosaurs travel the world, to explore and to found in the distant jungles of Chult and adventure. on their home plane they did descend from creatures that were similar to the Refugees From a Distant World dinosaurs. The only saurial known to have travelled to Chult however is the famed paladin Dragonbait, and whether he shouted lemons or roses at the sight of The saurials are not native to Faerun, in the jungle beasts is as of yet unknown.. fact they are not even native to Toril. Those that can be found in Faerun came Saurial Names from a far distant world, brought to this world as slaves by the evil god Moander. When the god was slain, the saurials were trapped on this foreign material plane and Saurial names are a combination of noises and resigned themselves to building a future scents that translate poorly into the spoken on this strange new world. The older tongues of humanoids. As such, most Saurial adventurers instead go by nicknames given to generations still remember the suffering them by their friends. the saurials lived through under Moander, for saurials live a very long time. Although their bodies have long since healed, the minds and spirits of many still haven't recovered from what they had to endure. The younger generations however were born on Toril, all they know is what the saurials are now, and they are eager to Sampleleave the safety of the vale and see what file lies beyond the horizon.

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