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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snafflehound" data-source="post: 3487902" data-attributes="member: 51837">This is such an interesting and creative thread that it has spurred me, a lurker who hasn't played an RPG for about 15 years, to register and post. Slaad are cool. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> One idea that I've had for a while that I offer up to you relates to the batarachian forms of the slaad. The way I see it this is not inherently random but is inherently philosophically linked to their chaotic nature. The life cycle of frogs and toads starts off with eggs which become tadpoles which then develop into the adult form which looks nothing like the tadpole. So there is a natural element of change and transformation in there. This would contrast with the modrons, which have forms that are based on the ideal platonic solids (sphere, cube, pyramid etc.) In my old 1e campaign I had the slaad originating as "slaadpoles" and then evolving into adult slaad. I understand that there is some "spawning stone" genesis now, though. I also had a Slaad Lord of Delusion that was based on Chuz from the Tanith Lee Flat Earth books.If you are working on these variant slaad of other forms, in addition to these dog, pachyderm etc. slaad forms, you might want to consider other natural changers or transformers. The Floral Slaad is the one that makes the most sense to me out of the varieties presented so far. What about a butterfly slaad (starts off as a caterpillar and then pupates) or a slime mold slaad (real life slime molds have a life cycle that includes amoeba, mushroom and slug-type bodies)?   Final comment - I've seen some comments abou slaad being corrupted to evil and about death slaad being chaotic evil. Shouldn't there also be some examples about slaad becoming chaotic good? You can see hints of this in the descriptions of some of the slaad lords presented here.</blockquote>

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