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<blockquote data-quote="BB Shockwave" data-source="post: 9093860" data-attributes="member: 6799257">Oh I see, interesting. Just re-read the 5E entry, it explains that. I thought most extraplanar creatures cannot be killed permanently except on their home plane. (Which is why Yugoloths will fight for both sides of the Blood War anywhere, except on the Grey Waste of Hades).&nbsp; Modrons kinda work differently since they are not considered individuals, if one is killed another is promoted instantly and this runs through the whole chain of command while on Mechanus a new Monodrone is created to fill in the gap. I assumed the same holds true of Celestials and Slaadi too. I never heard of Neraphs, were they in late 3E or 4E? The new Dragonlance adventure has a sort of Draconian-Slaad hybrid creature, sadly not elaborated on, caused by a fragment of the Spawning Stone crashing on Krynn. I agree it would be interesting to see what'd happen with a Tadpole that infested a Troll, but most likely the Troll'd survive the hatching due to regeneration.It is interesting indeed. My guess is it is because Djinn and Efreet are from arabian myths and are probably named like this in that language, while Slaadi were not taken from any particular mythology? The closest origin they have in real life myths is from an old egyptian myth which shows frog and snake headed humanoids as the representation of Kek, the arch-chaos. (It's also where Pathfinder's Proteans are from).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BB Shockwave, post: 9093860, member: 6799257"] Oh I see, interesting. Just re-read the 5E entry, it explains that. I thought most extraplanar creatures cannot be killed permanently except on their home plane. (Which is why Yugoloths will fight for both sides of the Blood War anywhere, except on the Grey Waste of Hades). Modrons kinda work differently since they are not considered individuals, if one is killed another is promoted instantly and this runs through the whole chain of command while on Mechanus a new Monodrone is created to fill in the gap. I assumed the same holds true of Celestials and Slaadi too. I never heard of Neraphs, were they in late 3E or 4E? The new Dragonlance adventure has a sort of Draconian-Slaad hybrid creature, sadly not elaborated on, caused by a fragment of the Spawning Stone crashing on Krynn. I agree it would be interesting to see what'd happen with a Tadpole that infested a Troll, but most likely the Troll'd survive the hatching due to regeneration. It is interesting indeed. My guess is it is because Djinn and Efreet are from arabian myths and are probably named like this in that language, while Slaadi were not taken from any particular mythology? The closest origin they have in real life myths is from an old egyptian myth which shows frog and snake headed humanoids as the representation of Kek, the arch-chaos. (It's also where Pathfinder's Proteans are from). [/QUOTE]

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