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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6500594" data-attributes="member: 11697">Slaadi have unfortunately far too often been handled in D&amp;D in two extremes, either for comic effect or as rampaging monsters with effectively little to differentiate them in presentation from demons. On top of that the death slaadi have been outright CE in some editions and then without a IMO good in-game reason as to why these more powerful, non-unique slaadi would be deviating from the alignment they're supposed to personify. My favorite takes on the slaadi are the in-character writing by Xanxost the blue slaad in 2e Planescape's 'Faces of Evil: The Fiends' (and the illustration therein of 'Xanxost conducts research on vrocks'), a quartet of (initially green) slaadi in one of Paul Kemp's 'Erevis Cale' FR novels, and Ed Bonny's 'Lords of Chaos' article in Dragon 221.As much as I love the slaadi being a Planescape purist however, I find them somewhat problematic as the progenitors of true Chaos, though Planescape did its damndest to try to explain away the inconsistencies inherited from 1e setting them as the dominant race of Limbo. Personally I prefer Pathfinder's use of the proteans as the dominant CN outsider race (though obviously here I'm biased).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 6500594, member: 11697"] Slaadi have unfortunately far too often been handled in D&D in two extremes, either for comic effect or as rampaging monsters with effectively little to differentiate them in presentation from demons. On top of that the death slaadi have been outright CE in some editions and then without a IMO good in-game reason as to why these more powerful, non-unique slaadi would be deviating from the alignment they're supposed to personify. My favorite takes on the slaadi are the in-character writing by Xanxost the blue slaad in 2e Planescape's 'Faces of Evil: The Fiends' (and the illustration therein of 'Xanxost conducts research on vrocks'), a quartet of (initially green) slaadi in one of Paul Kemp's 'Erevis Cale' FR novels, and Ed Bonny's 'Lords of Chaos' article in Dragon 221. As much as I love the slaadi being a Planescape purist however, I find them somewhat problematic as the progenitors of true Chaos, though Planescape did its damndest to try to explain away the inconsistencies inherited from 1e setting them as the dominant race of Limbo. Personally I prefer Pathfinder's use of the proteans as the dominant CN outsider race (though obviously here I'm biased). [/QUOTE]

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