Editing Baazrag (section)

=The Beetle-Lizard=
The iteration of the baazrag that went on to be the "canon" version of the creature in the eyes of first [[TSR]] and then [[Wizrds of the Coast]] debuted in the pages of [[Dragon Magazine]] #185, alongside other [[Dark Sun]] animals such as the heavy [[Crodlu]], the [[Drik]], the [[Jalath'gak]], the [[Ruktoi]] and the [[Watroach]].

This iteration of the baazrag is characterized as a small omnivorous beetle-reptile thing that hunts in loose packs. Largely inoffensive... y'know, by Athasian standards, they are sometimes kept as domesticated animals used to hunt vermin or pull loads, kind of like a psychotic reptilian Chihuahua. On rare occasions, female baazrag give birth to a single pup; this is a sterile mutant called a Boneclaw Baazrag, which will grow into a giant and be far more dangerous upon reaching adulthood.

The difference between the Prism Pentad and Drag-Mag versions of the baazrag did not go unnoticed, leading to Skip Williams commenting in the "Sage Advice" of Dragon #190 that either both races co-exist on Athas and have the same name with different pronunciations (BAAZ-rag for the lizards, baas-RAG for the ape-men) or the ape-men are actually a garbled misinterpretation of the boneclaws, an answer that nobody bought.

These baazrag were updated to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]] in [[Dungeon Magazine]] #110. 

They were updated to [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] with only minor lore changes; in this alternate lore, boneclaws are absent. Also, rather than being males ad females, all baazrag are females; but only particularly dominant females will grow into the much larger fertile "Breeders" (Large sized vs. the Small size of regular baazrag), and when one does, the next-most dominant baazrags will turn into males who fertilize her.