Breaking News: Kuo-Toa Not Froggy Anymore

[Dragonbait]

So they flip-flopped again like a fish on land.
1E - froggy men
2E - fishy men
3E - froggy men
4E - fishy men

 

[I'm A Banana]

So bad guys can sacrifice them to Blibdoolpoolp?

Generally, they are there to murder you for daring to tread on their sacred territory.

But I guess 4e doesn't think scantily clad women are capable of being more than they seem....

 

[AllisterH]

IIRC, the kuo-toa are being tied more heavily with aboleths. Apparently, they are some lesser devoted slave race that lives and breathes for the aboleths. Aboleths don't have to even use their mind-powers apparently since from birth, young kuo-toa are slavishly devoted to the aboleths.

Chance of kuo-toa PC? Next to zero unless you're thinking we somehow get a kuo-toa version of Drizzt (although I doubt the sex appeal will be there... )

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

Well, it's captioned just "dryad" in the book. Where does the Blackwoods bit come from?

The Blackwoods Dryad is a miniature in the Desert of Desolation series. It looks like the picture.

AR

 

[rkanodia]

this is what i imagine too.

although, you could go guppy style. with brightly colorful males and fan tails vs the drab females.

I think that being a 'Siamese fighting fish-people' samurai would be awesome. It's like you come with a built-in kimono.

 

[Remathilis]

I, for one, welcome our new chordate overlords...

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Yeah, I can see the Greek gods lining up to bang one of those....

heh, yeah, I don't mind the idea of less human seeming fey existing, dryads and nymphs have a mythic history... (maybe the dryad picture is what it looks like 'naturally' but it has an alternate form? I can hope.)

 

[Goobermunch]

I, for one, welcome our new squamous overlords...

FIFY

--G

 

[moritheil]

Can anyone here show us the proper pronounciation for these races' names?

kua-toa
sahuagin
nereids
ixitxachitl

We could tell you, but we'd have to drown you.

 

[catsclaw227]

The Blackwoods Dryad is a miniature in the Desert of Desolation series. It looks like the picture.

This. I assumed that the mini name represented a type of Dryad, not necessarily a dryad from a specific region.

I could be wrong. Maybe they have a shape-change ability to go super-hot when in charm-mode.