Dungeons and Dragons Lore : Slaad

I was recently a player in a campaign where Slaadi were the BBEG.

100 years ago one entered the world and now it's close to the tipping point of turning this world into a realm of the Slaadi.

They seemed super evil until the end. We found out that during moments of sanity the BBEG was trying to shed its physical form and stop the spread of the Slaadi.

We thought we were supposed to kill them all but instead we completed the research and ritual to free all the Slasdi in our world. Now the world is full of CN incorporeal entities that love stirring up chaos but aren't exceptionally cruel or kind. It was such a great twist at the end of a two year campaign.

I used them before but I wanted them to be the full embodiment of Chaotic neutral, they were terrifying but also playful when they wanted to be. I wanted them to be totally unpredictable so the playing charterers had to work with them rather them just fight them.

One of "this times" i was playing green slaad DRUID. If i knew they leave Limbo as part of their life cycle, i wouldn't had to stretch my backstory so much. With a board, pointer and stuff...

Slaadi...so very dangerous for a party focused on good vs evil

The slaadi language is kay(f)bop(t), which is possibly the oddest conlang ever. I can't possibly do it justice in a mere comment; I will mention, however, that the parenthetical letters refer to the type of hat one must wear when uttering the syllables (fedora and top hat, respectively).

Slaad are glorious. Yes! Glory us! The chaos infusing their very being, at least for some, also infects manner of speech. Slaad do not care much about manners when speaking. This leads to odd, rambling mental side paths mid conversation, making them a challenge for a DM to RP without forethought. Four thoughts. Think four times.

One thing I did to perplex my players was to have them investigate a town that had some people come up missing. There were tales of frog men carrying people off and the only protection they had was an aged wizard who couldn't solve their problem. In truth, the wizard was a grey slaad that would have one or two townsfolk go missing each month or two by gating other slaad to take them. The town would petition the nearby city first for guards and then later adventurers. The 'wizard then perform some chicanery and say that the missing people are in a pocket dimension (limbo) and send them there after giving them a stone of 'recall' which was a plain stone with a rune on it. When they got back the party went after him but he pulled off the lie that he is a little senile and must have forgotten to enchant them. In return, he gave them some minor magic items for their trouble and some actual enchanted stones of recall (to limbo). Which I am just waiting for them to use some day

My very favored outsider group

The video u mentioned is private I want to watch it!

There's quite at least three slaads that appear in published D&D campaigns that players can potentially make into allies via possessing their control gem.

In Tomb of Annihilation , one of the villain's principal minions stores the control gem of a gray slaad trapped in a salt pentagram in one of the nearby rooms in his desk drawer. Defeating this minion and procuring the gem allows the PCs to control the slaad.

In Out of the Abyss , a machine known as the Maze Engine, when activated, starts going out of control and cause a random effect on its turns - one of which is summoning a green slaad that attacks all other creatures. If the characters can subdue the slaad and remove its control gem, it can become their ally. One of the characters' potential NPC allies in the same campaign also has a pet death slaad, but this potential ally is the drow archmage Vizeran DeVir, the creator of the four elemental weapons that are the catalyst for the Princes of the Apocalypse campaign. He keeps the death slaad's control gem on his person at all times, so seizing it will be next to impossible.

I have an idea what the Slaad are. They are chaos elementals. Primal spirits of chaos. They are used to taking whatever form as their whim dictates, and that whim changes as soon as it is made. Altering reality as they see fit. But the Spawning Stone stopped that. Now they have to enforce their will by very orderly methods. Namely by infesting a host. It is a chaotic corruption but it is dictated by the order of the stone. Only by creating and advancing can they possibly escape the stone's influence. Even then the order corruption may be too much for them. Thus why they have such destructive tendencies. Their only certain means of escape is total destruction.

My party have never met a slaad but they do have a blue slaad control gem which they looted from a temple of Cyric. I'm still thinking about how they might actually meet any slaad.

Curse of Slaad

For chaos incarnate they all look the same but with different colors. And for chaotic neutral. They seem to be pretty evil killing people to reproduce

My favorite Slaad is the Death Slaad, I might use a Death Slaad as a boss fight

spongebob voice "What the heck is a sal...ad?"

Can Gate in other Slaad
CR5 at minimum, games only usually go to CR10
Welp, I think we can see why WotC didn't have the 5e version summon more of themselves. You'd have to pretty seriously nerf these things before your party would have any ability to deal with them if they could gate each other in. The 5e version really strikes me as a standalone monster, given their difficulty. I think they wanted to lean in on "infectious doppleganger" idea.

You’re content has helped me enrich my campaigns 10x I’d love to see what your campaigns are like

So basically it’s a freaky rape frog....... Sweet!😃

Is there any evil slaad lords?

My favorite slaad was Xanxost, one of the narrows in a planescape guide to fiends. He would amusingly go off on odd tangents when talking.

Their are a couple things about slaad that confuse me.the first is beings of chaotic neutrality incarnate having a hierarchy and seeing others as needing to be obeyed. The second is the most powerful are DEATH slaads which sounds either an evil or a true neutral concept and makes little sense for chaotic neutrals.

I just came here for the sole purpose of saying the supreme leader of all slaads should be declared Caesar Slaad.

Red Slaad, blue Slaad, GReen Slaad..red slaaD, hehe completely random..😉

C'mon, the food ain't that bad... and those slaadi we fought last month weren't that bad...

Man o man
The pic in the thumbnail is the first image of a slaad that I liked
It’s great!

Wonder what would happen if the Red Slaad infected something with natural regeneration. Like a troll.

Nifyx did nothing wrong.

Vasen Coriver!!!

My group has been tormented at random by a Slaad for a few weeks now. They wouldn't tell it what flavor the elbows of dreams are, and now it has a grudge against them. Why did it want to know that? I have no idea. Slaadi are beings of pure Chaos. Even they might not know what it is they want or why they want it.

Thanks for the vid sir.

I have a Human character that's actually a deathslaad in disguise, trying to escape the slaad life

The original Fiend Folio is actually very dear to my heart. It was either the first or the second D&D book that I ever owned.The other one was the original Manual of the Planes! So, yeah, I was a planeswalker, D&D-style, from a very very early age. I'm 42 years old now, so. Thankfully, I had VERY liberal parents, who were just thrilled that I was interested in books, at all. The fact that the books I liked were filled with all of these very weird and horrific creatures..... Well, now. It's good for the old creativity, isn't it. And, I'm still role-playing, to this day!

I was watching stranger things and I realized the "mind flayer" in it looked more like a slaad so I looked at the death slaad and the "mind flayer" had more abilities akin to to the death slaad.

Music in the backgroud?

What was the background music for this? It’s sounds really awesome!

I didn’t notice until now that the thumbnail is from the horror movie The Brain. Awesome reference Mr. Pickett.

My BBE has what is essentially an Infiniti Gauntlet that let's him slot in Slaadi control gems and gives him total control of them.

Would a death Slaad be a possible candidate for a warlock patron or they more akin to an ancient dragon in power?

I had a Green Slaad masquerading as a princess transformed into a frog, bound inside a magic circle. Saying that all it needed was a kiss to return to it's normal form.
The druid handed the slaad an unconscious party member in order to have them kiss them.
The Slaad leaned forward and chomped down on the party member.

These are based on the slaan, a la, wh40k after all gw did write the feind folio

this has inspird me to do a game with Slaad fighting Mind Flayers over pepole to uesd for reporduction

Met a Blue and Red Slaadi once... I never knew what they were but the first thought that came to mind was: Red and Blue Oni? Definitely not good!

Vorse slayed them with great ferocity and then casted greater restoration on himself due to feeling a bit sick so he could resume his journey to hunt the BBEGB Warlord in vengeance for his friends.

Limbo borne race Slaadi, not very chaotic... the plane of chaos. They are more like agents of order in the plane of chaos. They have driven instincts the abide by, not survival traits of offspring for chaotic parents that abandon them at birth, should they choose to. AJ, you know where I'm going with this relative to my comment on Orcus. The Slaadi are also slaves to order in the hierarchy. Order does eventually come from chaos, that is known... but this race evolved from Limbo, the plane of chaos. I say, there should be gating in other Slaadi for all Slaads. The gate should gate should have a table for rolling what kind of Slaadi is called, even hostile race Slaadi. I say there should also be a table of CUSTOM Slaadi every DM creates to gate in or encounter, as Limbo is a place of chaos where denizens are desperately trying to forge order from it... Slaadi are native to it, relatively speaking. Also, DM's using Slaadi should be encouraged to slide the difficulty and mix up abilities up and down and all around because Slaadi are Limbo natives.
I'm not saying put Slaadi in a blender and put it on HIGH. I'm saying, keep the players, especially veteran players, guessing. Limbo spawn are chaos spawn.

Nice video, has helped inspire me to work on one of my characters who was on the backburner. A 5e Chaos Sorceror, Green Dragonborn from Limbo whos been warped by that plane and looks more like a Green Slaad then a Dragonborn.

I love your background music! Where do you get it?

If your player charater gets infected and becomes a red slaad could you play as a slaad for your game

So, what's the deal with 3rd edition's epic Handbook Black and White Slaadi?

one wonders if these things exist how does anything else

If the red ones have eggs does that make them the females and the blue ones are males?

Pepe!!!