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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ParanoydStyle" data-source="post: 7871147" data-attributes="member: 6984451">My take on the Slaad has been that they're not Chaotic Evil, they're Chaotic-something-worse-than-evil. Basically, it's the standard Lovecraft shtick: something so weird and alien and incomprehensible that ordinary morality can't even be applied to it. So they're not Good or Evil on the moral axis, they are "Neutral", just a Neutral that is too weird and alien for us to comprehendThe Slaad are also part of a family of monsters--also including Aboleths, Beholders, Ilithids, and on the sub-sapient end Displacer Beasts and Phase Spiders, as well as others--that I think would work MUCH better as alien species in a science fiction or science fantasy game than as straight D&D fantasy monsters. Just my opinion.Virtually every PC I've GMed for in the last couple of years, long term, short term, or medium term has been Chaotic. A majority of them were Chaotic Neutral (and the few that weren't CN were N). I don't know what this means. But it's definitely thrown me as I've generally expected a solid core of L and G PCs in my campaigns. My gradual assumption has been drifting from D&D being a game about the adventures of heroes to D&D being a game about the adventures of agents of chaos (like Rico Rodriguez from Just Cause, or the Joker from The Dark Knight).</blockquote>