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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Veltharis ap Rylix" data-source="post: 9076384" data-attributes="member: 66357">On the subject of slaadi, I think they work a lot better when you consider them not as THE incarnation of pure chaos, but simply AN incarnation of pure chaos.I've always liked the planes having more dynamic ecosystems.The Nine Hells of Baator aren't just home to the classic "baatezu" devils, but also to the "chain devil" kytons and the nearly extinct ancient baatorians - and even those firmly in the baatezu category have deep divisions over those who are "native" to Baator and those who are fallen celestial "immigrants", which have boiled over into civil war at least once in recent-ish memory.Similarly, the Abyss isn't just home to the classic "tanar'ri" demons, but also the Lovcraftian obyriths and the recently emerging loumara. The Gray Waste isn't just the home plane for Yugoloths and their ilk, but also night hags and hordlings. The modrons share Mechanus with the two-dimensional calculating engines known as moigno and the perfection-obsessed parai, to say nothing of the invasive formians who started spreading after the Harmonium accidently "misplaced" a layer of Arcadia and caused it to slide into Mechanus.Slaadi don't have to be perfect representations of pure chaos, they can just be one of many such manifestations. Chaos beasts are also native to Limbo, and I have seriously considered weaving Pathfinder's Proteans into my personal version of the plane as a rival "exemplar" species for the slaadi.Heck, slaadi could even be a kind of "immuno-response" of Limbo itself to the presence of the order-infused Spawning Stone, existing as they are not as a representation of "pure chaos" but as what the plane specifically needs in order to gradually rid itself of the Spawning Stone's influence.Given the infinite nature of the planes, even that's just a sampling of the possible diversity out there.</blockquote>

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