Editing Slaad (section)

==Alternate Versions==
They got a lot of attention in the [[World Axis]], but were really revamped; amongst other things, they changed from being chaotically random to wanting to dissolve all of reality into an endless chaos, changing them to the 4e definition of Chaotic Evil (since 4e [[skub]]tastically decided to reduce [[Alignment]] to a spectrum of Lawful Good - Good - Unaligned - Evil - Chaotic Evil). This was explained in "Secrets of the Plane Below" that slaad believe there was once an infinite multiverse of many parallel realities (think Marvel or DC), but somehow they all got smooshed together into the present cosmology. This really pisses them off, and/or has driven them mad, because they supposedly can still see into the former parallel realities and now they want to rip reality apart in order to free them.

4e slaads even got their own [[Demon Prince]]; Urae-Naas, a "female" slaad so bloated with eggs she can't walk anymore and has to drag herself along on her long arms and enormous tongue, who rules over the Phage Breeding Grounds; a bounded 10-mile demiplane made from the ever-rotting guts of her dead boyfriend, the [[Archomental|Primordial]] Ramenos, which serves as the 53rd layer of the [[Abyss]]. The plane's most distinguishing feature is the legions of humanoid slaves trapped within the rotting walls of the entrail-caverns, screaming vainly for release before she drags her bulk their way and decides to implant them with her brain-eating progeny.

That's not to say they were entirely stripped of their randomness; they got a really fun "Slaad Reaction Table" in the Secrets of the Plane Below splatbook, where trying to talk to a slaad could result in it suddenly becoming convinced the party doesn't exist, bursting into croaking laughter, attacking them in a mad frenzy, or its head exploding violently before the rest of it nonchalantly wanders off.

[[Pathfinder]] replaced them with the more snake-like [[Proteans]] of the Maelstrom, creation and destruction in one, and who created much of the rest of the multiverse in their experiments with chaos. Whether or not this was a bad thing is a question long debated by philosophers (except the Abyss, most people are pretty sure on that one and it's generally considered the Protean's oldest mistake), but Proteans are open to debate on the matter. They're also open to dissolving you into raw chaos with warp waves, some of their castes are as violent as any Slaad, but on the whole, they tend to be more philosophical and varied than their froggy cousins.