Plane Below Excerpt: "Talking with mortals make Xanxost's head explode."
RangerWickett
Legend
I think I love that. But I don't get the reference.
GMforPowergamers
Legend
I think #1 is just as funny...
BronzeDragon
Explorer
"Xanxost likes Ewoks! Xanxost likes Ewoks so much, Xanxost has special furball extractor at home!"
FireLance
Legend
From the Wikipedia entry on slaad:
[SBLOCK=Xanxost]Xanxost is a blue slaad with a penchant for exploring the planes, explaining their secrets to everyone interested, and eating whatever he can catch, particularly mephits. He appears as a character in the Planescape accessories Faces of Evil: The Fiends and The Inner Planes. Both of these books are written as if they were created by someone within the Planescape setting, and within that writing style, both books have an 'editor' who collected the investigations and opinions of various planar creatures on the topic at hand. Xanxost is one such character. "Though his mannerisms are often odd, his information is always reliable".
In Faces of Evil he is one of the 'authors' of the section on tanar'ri, and in The Inner Planes he 'wrote' the section on the Quasielemental Plane of Steam. Xanxost seems less chaotic than other slaadi in that he can write a mostly coherent piece of text, though his nature still shows through in his writing style, with many wanderings off-topic (mostly to the subject of food), repetitions of earlier remarks, and a seeming inability to count. Xanxost is referred to as "it" in Faces of Evil, which makes some sense given the unusual nature of slaadi reproduction, but as "he" in The Inner Planes.
[/SBLOCK]I just needed the name of a fairly-well known slaad, and I was a fan of Xanxost back in 2e.
[SBLOCK=Xanxost]Xanxost is a blue slaad with a penchant for exploring the planes, explaining their secrets to everyone interested, and eating whatever he can catch, particularly mephits. He appears as a character in the Planescape accessories Faces of Evil: The Fiends and The Inner Planes. Both of these books are written as if they were created by someone within the Planescape setting, and within that writing style, both books have an 'editor' who collected the investigations and opinions of various planar creatures on the topic at hand. Xanxost is one such character. "Though his mannerisms are often odd, his information is always reliable".
In Faces of Evil he is one of the 'authors' of the section on tanar'ri, and in The Inner Planes he 'wrote' the section on the Quasielemental Plane of Steam. Xanxost seems less chaotic than other slaadi in that he can write a mostly coherent piece of text, though his nature still shows through in his writing style, with many wanderings off-topic (mostly to the subject of food), repetitions of earlier remarks, and a seeming inability to count. Xanxost is referred to as "it" in Faces of Evil, which makes some sense given the unusual nature of slaadi reproduction, but as "he" in The Inner Planes.
[/SBLOCK]I just needed the name of a fairly-well known slaad, and I was a fan of Xanxost back in 2e.
Shemeska
Adventurer
See failure outcome #5 (on 1d6).
My head almost exploded because for a minute there I thought that WotC was going to have a Xanxost reference in 4e. But it was just you being awesome and earning XP.
So, Modrons are silly for 4E but talking to slaads is cool, huh?
Talking frogs/huge frogmen have a long history in folklore and frogs/toads are one of the most common "mystical" elements in fantasy.
Cubes with legs....eh not so much.
avin
First Post
Beholders don't have (as far as I know) a long history in folklore but are in.
I don't think folklore has anything to do with it. Some people at Wotc seem to have a strong dislike of Modrons, therefore they probably won't live in 4E.
By the way, I was just messing around with Ari, who DARES TO INSINUATE that Modrons are silly and now put silly exploding head Slaadi on the book I've preordered
![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
