Slaad Lords

[Beckett]

I don't expect to use them "as is", if at all. But, starting from a 3E stat base seems easier than starting from the Fiend Folio.

Hellhound- bummer. I guess I won't be running over to Paizo to check on their writer's guidelines. Although I do wonder if enough time (and editors) have passed that they might be interested now. Or it could be a WotC directive.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I thought I had seen more slaad lords than the original two somewhere. Maybe Tome of Horrors, or maybe a late 2E Dragon article.

 

[Shemeska]

I don't expect to use them "as is", if at all. But, starting from a 3E stat base seems easier than starting from the Fiend Folio.

Hellhound- bummer. I guess I won't be running over to Paizo to check on their writer's guidelines. Although I do wonder if enough time (and editors) have passed that they might be interested now. Or it could be a WotC directive.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I thought I had seen more slaad lords than the original two somewhere. Maybe Tome of Horrors, or maybe a late 2E Dragon article.

Ed Bonny wrote about Ygorl and Ssendam, as well as two additional Slaad Lords in an article in Dragon 221. That material was later included in the Planescape sourcebook On Hallowed Ground.

The new ones he created were:
Chourst the Unpredictable - Slaad Lord of Randomness
Rennbuu - Slaad Lord of Colors

Some other material on the Slaad Lords, and the origins of the Slaadi color/caste system, appears in the Planescape adventure/sourcebook Tales of the Infinite Staircase.

There's also Sorel, a death slaad being groomed by Ygorl to become the future Slaad Lord of Anarchy. And there was also Wartle the Slaad Lord of... well he wasn't described as being the lord of anything. Wartle only appeared in the late 1e 'Tales of the Outer Planes', and has been monolithically ignored since that point. Nobody cares about Wartle the Loneliest Slaadi apparently.

 

[Beckett]

Thanks, Shemeska. I'll add my Dragon Archives to my resources when I start working on this further.

 

[BOZ]

The slaad lords would make a good Dragon article, along the line of the elemental lords article. Heck, stick the current Primus in there, too.

yeah, that would be great to see a slaad lord article in Dragon. for that matter, articles about the yugoloth lords, dukes of hell, para-archomentals, animal lords of the beastlands, Apomps, Primus, maybe even some new celestial paragons or lords of rimlani - and of course more demonomicons - who knows!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

yeah, that would be great to see a slaad lord article in Dragon. for that matter, articles about the yugoloth lords, dukes of hell, para-archomentals, animal lords of the beastlands, Apomps, Primus, maybe even some new celestial paragons or lords of rimlani - and of course more demonomicons - who knows!

No, most of those would be less great.

There's a core audience that cares about Apomps or the animal lords of the Beastlands, no doubt, but they are dwarfed by the number of people who care about the Slaad lords.

1E iconic figures > minor figures from later versions of the game

 

[Kae'Yoss]

They're Slaadi. Shouldn't it be "Slaad Lordi"?

 

[Quartz]

Nah: Waldorfs.

 

[BOZ]

yeah, didn't it say somewhere that waldorf had been turned into a slaad lord?

 

[Voadam]

Tome of Horrors Revised has 3.5 stats for the CR 29 Slaad Lord of Entropy (Ygorl), and the CR 27 Slaad Lord of the Insane (Ssendam).

Their personal (Non-title) names only appear in the credits section of their entries.

 

[BOZ]

i like the idea that there have been many slaad lords, but most have been destroyed (either by their own actions, by Ygorl or Ssendam, or by another powerful entity they crossed), are in hiding, entrapped, wandered off and got lost, or succumbed to some other unknown fate.