Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Slaad Secrets
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I DON'T LIKE PRIMUS PUTTING ROCKS IN LIMBO THAT TURN THE FRIGGIN FROGS CHAOTIC!
Technically Primus turned the friggin' chaos into frogs 🤔
Insert Alex Jones/Primus image here.
That meme is true just fyi
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?!?
@@RedPlaystationController Yup...they found actual chems that are changing frogs' gender (which has an affect on their population for obvious reasons), due to how sensitive frogs are to chems in the environment. Not turning them "gay," but definitely not good for the ecosystem in general.
"Hey, slaad, what colour are you?"
"Death."
Death Lives Matter
iTs NoT a PhAsE mOm
i think you mean: iTs NoT a PhAgE* m0m
JDE gaming dark purple with some yellow and red
oh don't even get me started on the profit slaads
"Red, green, blue, grey, and DEATH."
Well that escalated quickly.
Like undertale
One of those aren't a color
@@arirothman6454 yeah, one is a shade
Apparently the physical embodiment of chaos are frogs...
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
Hermon ThyGreat praise KEKU
Nah fuck that it’s all about battle toads
Dunky's final fantasy video finally makes sense. it was frogs all along
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
THIS IS NOT A HYPNOTIC CHANNEL
One problem I have with the Slaadi is that they dont feel like embodiments of chaos. They have a ton of rules that dictate how they work, and theres a hierarchy to them.
Guess that can be an influence of the original Primus'spawning stone powers, but that's a good point
Yeah, I kind of like the idea of them as "law's attempt to shape and contain chaos" but they aren't really well designed as independent agents of pure chaos. It isn't just that they have a hierarchy and all have roughly the same predictable bland form, but they also reproduce by turning other species into copies of them so their very existence reduces the amount of variety in the multiverse. It almost makes it seem like this was the intentional outcome, like the plan was to manipulate chaos into turning everything into the same thing and thus get significantly closer to true order.
Maybe they're not chaotic at all, but rather is the success of transforming Limbo-chaos in to order? So...maybe Primus succeeded?
@@TheSquareOnes y'know that would make alot of sense
my theory is the chaotic aspect of the slaads is supposed to be their forms and evolution making no sense or seeming to be related in any way.
-reds and blues creating the opposite and also fighting for some reason
-greys evolution to death slaad being the consumption of an existing one (how did the first death slaad exist and how did enough propagate for the current amount to exist)
-green and death slaads gaining enlightenment randomly somehow biologically changes them
Well you see in order to transform a green slaad into a grey slaad you have to trade to another game, then trade it back, at which point it will evolve into a grey slaad. But then how does a grey slaad transform into a death slaad? Simple, level up while holding an ornamental skull.
Green slaad called salad
The grey slaad eats the dead deatj slaad
One thing you missed, Rhexx:
Slaadi can be spawned by the usual parasitic methods, or by the Spawning Stone (hence the name.) Those spawned by the Spawning Stone carry a tiny part of it inside of their heads. This can be removed surgically or magically. Once you remove this tiny, gem-like implant, the Slaad must obey you. If the gem is destroyed, you lose control over it.
Slaadi can also get (or regain) the gem by coming into contact with the Spawning Stone.
Unfortunately i didn't have the space to add in the whole bit with the crystals in their head, when i run out of time i usually skip things found in the monster manual because most people already know those things.
Oh, I see.
Death Slaad is more METAL yo!
@Jon dow cos death slaad is immortal, and spiky and has death in its name :P
@@MrRhexx THEN MAKE MORE TIME AND GIVE US 100% OF THE INFORMATION
love you
Freaking hell.... the D&D universe is ridiculously dangerous😓 adventurers must have balls of steel to even set foot outside the cities.
or its a total party kill
wierd galaxy or look out their windows
and we thought our world was bad
They also spend a lot of time exploring sewers. It's a wonder they don't go around spreading plagues from wading through human filth!
a lot of the times you don't see most of the creatures in a quest. Usually it'll be set around a few, like one based around Undead wouldn't see any slaads, but maybe a lich, skeletons, zombies, wights, death tyrants, etc.
Honestly the vastness of the D&D universe makes up for its danger. The danger isn't all concentrated. It's fairly spread out, and often in obviously dangerous places.
I remember coming upon this video on my deployment and thinking, "wow, d&d actually has some really cool lore." Fast forward a year later, after watching all your videos, im finally playing D&D. In the middle of The Savage Tide, we run into a red Slaad. And so the circle continues.
Slaad Paladin: "Oh you poor thing. Here, let me heal you..."
Noice
Slaaladin
My dm actually let me play as a slaad one time as a cleric
I don't even play D&D and I love these videos man. Fulfills my inner nerdism
Same dude
Same. I'd play if I had any friends.
Corvus You can find games online, I think roll 20 is one of those sites but i’m not completely sure cause I don’t use it.
Same
Me to lol
Wait wait wait.. If a Grey Slaad can only become a Death Slaad by eating another Death Slaad.. how did Death Slaads even become a thing? I am confused.
Saber0003 the summoning stone can summon any slaad so I imagine it created many of them and keeps summoning them for every lost one
CHAOS!!!
Good, chaos generally leads to confusion.
can multiple Grey feast on the same Death?
When a black slaad and a white slaad love each other very much...
>group encounters mud slaad
>mud slaad feighs death
>group: awww! T_T
Barbarian: "Hey [Wizard name] it's useless like you are without spell slots"
Wizard "Huh neat [Barbarian Name] it's as weak your ability to read don't you think? Oh wait yeah.. you hardly have the brain power to think wall of meat"
awwwwww, he fell asleep in a sunbeam :3
"It has his genital hidden under his claws"
Wait what?
Gives a whole new meaning to "Hand Job"
@@gargoyles9999 you just made my day 😂
sink, the bloodthirsty one Is that a sausage in your hand or are you just happy to see me
Really original
It's important to note that the Slaad was created when the writer had a fever.
*Reads SLAAD Secrets in title*
Me, putting away my salad dressing: "There's been a misunderstanding..."
16:50
Wait a minute,
“Has power to make you cringe”
“Exposure to them makes more”
“Takes the form of frogs”
“Embodies Chaos”
“Mud Slaad”
“Mad Lads”
“Chan” + “Slaads” = “Chads”
*SLAADS ARE CHANNERS AND MEMELORDS!*
Kek be praised
Pepe the green slaad
Mr.Rhexx It would be really cool if you made a video talking about the rarer and stranger types of dragons. Like the gemstones dragons or the shadow dragons.
Sir Doge yeah a video about dragons in general.
Sir Doge here, have a dog cookie ^^
Or the NEXUS DRAGONS from the Immortal Handbook!
I love the IH.
Or the goood ol shadow dragon dracolich
According to the description of the chaos phage and the egg planting ability of the red slaad, they effect only *humanoid* targets. Slaads are classified as aberrations. Thus, they are immune to those diseases.
Its been a while, but from what I understand, that how it works mechanically in 5e. Earlier editions didn't have this limitation. Slaads were even mentioned as going to the Blood War battlefields to take some bodies.
Please do a video on the Lich. I find them fascinating, especially when they cast Timestop and wipe out my entire party.
Andries Geyser
your dm sounds like an ass if that's the case
obligatory ZA WARUDO comment
@@exodus9001 He means Kangaxx I think. He...doesn't need a DM to do that shit.
On the other hand fucking Halaster did this to us in DotMM last time we played so, maybe...
Is there any chance you can make a video about the types of genies that live in the separate elemental planes, such as the djinn, effreet, dao and marids?
Blue Toad I would actually really love to see this as well.
Would like to see an Episode on each, Like Genie month or something
i'm interested too
*Ifrit
And Sha'ir! So dope
What about the slaavs
That one american the height of chaos
cyka blyat
Be on the look out for mechenus spy squats
Ay blin
@Pepe The Platypus An American
Cyka blyat
How many times did he say the word
"Slaad"
i always heard "Slav" :D
Krunoslav Štaubringer excuse me slave
Return the slaad
10
I drank wax u tinged add mmm guff
d&d is Frickin great
These creatures are HEAVILY featured in the very first Erevis Cale book. A lot of awesome lore and flavor is included in the book and they EXTREMELY formidable. I highly recommend the book
They need better ranged attacks.
Those books are impossible to find here and the more i hear the more i need to read them
I've always wanted to use Slaad in my game, but haven't had the chance to. It will happen... Soon!
Drinking game: every time he says a colour take a shot.
But is DEATH a colour? :P
I thought that remove curse could stop you turning into a red slaad? Damn salad
Micheal Sawyer Damn salad
no, but i know a certain card pack that can
EvergrowingSkeletons you mean Pokemon cards?
DUDE, if you made a video about the great wheel cosmology model, that would be awesome to learn about each different world
Wow your Dungeons and Dragons videos are so good man!Keep up the good work I can really see your channel growing.Anyway keep up the good work and anything on the Feywild would be cool.
So that's where Battletoads takes place
if they can reproduce with any humanoid creature, could there be a succbus slaad? or even a cambion slaad?
that'd be a pretty thicc slaad
Considering the Chaos Phage is a disease and they're specifically invulnerable to even magical diseases... it can't happen. However, if it could somehow, they either chest burst a green slaad, or transform wholesale into a red slaad.
STC: Sexually Transmitted Chaos
So....... Xenomorphs?
Succubus isn't a humanoid, but a fiend.
man a slaad can be a plauge. nice idea for a dnd campaign.
I'm loving this D&D season
I love Web DM and this channel. Awesome information about Dungeons and Dragons.
Love how you used a pic of oblivion stone from magic to sybomlize the stone in dnd
I think this is where mind flayers will eventually evolve from
when the orb crupts even more
Pepe is a slaad, but he is a Life Slaad. The chaotic good variant.
I've found your videos a few days ago. I don't play D&D for 20 years but as an artist this feeds my imagination in ways you can't believe. Thanks for that!
I just noticed, if you switch the vowels in tadpole you get toadpal
Where did the e go
Rougue: I'm invincible!!
Slaad: Attacks him and succeeds on attack roll.
Rogue: Crap, wtf were you thinking DM?
Pure Loregasm!
Slow clap 😂😂😂😂😂
I had the planar handbook and it had the Slaad as PC in it. I fell in love with them
I’m adding a fictional novel to my next game “My Lover the Slaad”
Hey I love the series! Amazing idea to just spend spend a nice chunk talking about the lore of the creatures, the Monster Manuals tend to be pretty big and it takes allot of time to read through everything, even longer to understand it XD Since everyone seems to be pitching their ideas for episodes, I suppose it couldn't hurt if I did the same. I love to see you talk about the Yaun-Ti someday! Good luck with future episodes!
Do the secrets of mimics!
And now I'm terrified of slaads. Now I have to lay this information on my DM. But this video has given me insight on another one of D&D's creatures, thank you mrrhexx
Very nice video, Rhexx, really enjoyed it. Just a thing: As the first video on the D&D Series was about the general layout of the Forgotten Realms and you especifically stressed that most content for 5e is set in the North, what about making some videos about those "Forgotten Realms" located there (Illefarn, Illusk, Ardeep and the like)? It's a pretty imortant part of the setting IMO, hence the name. I think it could help everyone to understand the setting and the flavor of the game a little bit better by offering some background info.
I'd love an hour long video on a single dnd subject from you.
7:52 creepy
I love this series so much. Thank you for making it!
i am fairly new to D&D. What the hell are you suppose to do if my caracter gets bitten by these? My party is against meta game and i am playing as a low int barbarian
I think you're probably just screwed then. GL
It would be the DM's job to figure it out. He could have an NPC or another player "find" that you are diseased. This could easily transform into a quest where you guys have to find ingredients to brew a special potion to reverse the disease.
roll up a new character
If the party doesn't realize it, you're hosed. GG and all that, roll up a new character.
If the party does realize it and is inclined to remove the problem, one of two things can be done:
1. Cure the disease with magic
2. If a tadpole is inside of you, you can cure it with magic as per possibility one, or have it surgically removed.
not a shrimp die, roll up a new character, avoid Slaads in the future.
9:36 sound effect starts sounds like a slaad jerkin it. Made me laugh. Great video though looking forward to more,
Jerking off a what? Thier claws Lol
Teach us about undeads!
Undead lords. Vampires, Wights, so on.
Educate me! :D
Been playing since the mid 70's, so happy I found your channel, I can watch these all day long.... and I do! Thank you for making these, I am going to consume some more!
chaos ? sounds like heresy
DARK heresy?
cheeky reference to a similar game to D&D
coughexterminatuscough
By the moons, I love all your DnD lore videos! Keep up the AWESOME content. This is such a great way to share and learn about the lore. I also love all the art you find for everything, it is Such a great help for imagining and understanding things. Stay geeky.
5 year old: I know anothew secwet, they are fwogs so they addicted to fwies.
Thank you for this video about the Slaad, it gave me a sh*tton of ideas for my campain.
So bad, I don't like the idea of "A turns into B, then into C, then into D".
What do you think of this:
- Green slad --> grey slaad with a ritual
- Red/Green slad --> another type of slaad if many green or grey slaad make a ritual together.
And that's it. Keep it simple.
Thanks again for your videos, it's really an amazing work !
Welcome to Innsmouth!!
your talk about limbo and how it works gives me a fantastic idea.
9:58
GOOD LORD WHAT HAPPENED TO HER ARM!!!!!!!!!
What do you mean
I would LOOOVE a video dedicated to each realm in itself!!! You did a fantastic job describing Limbo!
So death slaads will decrease continuously?
That's a sound logical theory, but we're talking about creatures of elemental chaos (of which there is incomplete and fluctuating lore) in limbo.
For example, we don't know how permanent death is for a death slaad, limbo might copy existing beings occasionally through some means (perhaps including space-time shenanigans), more powerful slaad (or the spawning stone might be able to create death slaad through some unknown method, or maybe the method of creating death slaad used to not require their death but now does because chaos (meaning that death slaad are constantly decreasing _currently_)
...and those are just some possibilities that make sense in an orderly logical way.
Technically we know at least one other way existed at some point to make the first ones... Its safe to say this is the most well known and probably the primary way they come to be. However the spawning stone almost certainly CAN make them. Remember it did make the first of the slaads that reproduce by other means. However how often it does so is hard to tell, if I were to guess it would mirror the modron march in frequency happening only every few hundred years in response to increased order the chaos of Limbo would want to increase the chaos of the multiverse and since gray slaads and up are the ones that tend to leave the plane it would make sense that it would make them when the numbers are lower or when a certain amount of gray slaads desire to become more powerful.
I would assume that the Entropy lord guy can make them, and that they sometimes randomly arise from Limbo. Trying to apply logic to a creature of pure chaos is not a good plan.
i think the way slaad evolve is kindda like how promotion in corporate ladder works.
grey slaad became death slaad after killing and devouring said slaad OR after said slaad evolve/promote into a white slaad, a certain/ random grey slaad'll evolve into a death slaad by the power of chaos, from slaad of white or higher rank, that "tears apart molecule" and reconstruct them.
the caste system of slaads is maintain by a certain ratio as the population grows, but at any one time there's only one of each unique lord class AKA the CEO, CFO, PSO etc.
What if two grey Slaadi share the meat of a single Death Slaad ?
this helped me a whole lot. MrRhexx is almost as good as the monster manual itself.
green slaad gets a pokemon evolution
Dude you should be a rapper, "this ability to manipulate limbo" was total fire
I will forever roleplay slaad with slav accents and mannerism.
"Ey bylat!" *Drinks vodak. "You havve seen red comrade pig slaad here yes?" *cue hard bass*
Nothing about control gems?
The 5e monster manual includes a Slaad variant (meaning it's not 100% canon?) that has a gem in it's head, put there by the spawning stone. If removed, the holder can command the Slaad to do whatever they like.
One read is that the Slaads are Limbo's way of getting rid of the spawning stone, sending it out to other realms piece by piece. It could also be that Primus recognises the need for cosmic ballance and Slaads are part of a plan to spread chaotic creatures that he could switch off if he wanted to.
I wanted to put it in but i ran out of time. I'll probably touch on that on a future episode.
Oí, why is there an oblivion stone in this video XD
I would love to see a video about the different realms of the DnD lore! That would be awesome!
One question...
Would it be possible to retain your will as a Slaad? As in, if your character turns into one, can you just roll with it and play as a Slaad?
If that is possible, you'd have to have an incredibly high INT or WIS score, or be under the influence of some godly spell. And even then, the disease may simply not allow it. There's lots of stuff to experiment with as a DM.
The process of turning into a Slaad warps mind and body so unfortunately even with high mental stats you would become a creature driven by chaos itself since I don't believe you're allowed any form of save roll once the process has started
Typically no. DM's have complete control over what happens. Now you could do something crazy like cage the ex-party member crazed Slaad in question, and then cast a wish spell upon them, but again it's up to the DM. They could just give it to you, or make you roll a new sheet for said creature, and even do things like lower your stats. There's too much potential, which is normally a good thing, so it's left behind. If you want, go play a monster pc campaign. Those are very fun.
FYI, plural of Slaad is Slaadi, not Slaads. They are among my favorite creatures, and so i really appreciate this vid :)
How was the first Death Slaad made?
Jeffery Bryski Jr probably the spawning stone did it
For a few seconds I thought they were called salads.
"I'd like a death salad please"
Hey you should do some videos on the Realms of DnD
Love your voice for this. I've already binged all your videos and would pretty much like any subject... but perhaps on the various types of undead, or more obscure elemental creatures.
What if you went to limbo and imagined you were human again and not slaad?
MrRhexx' D&D Lore in summary:
Every, I mean EVERY creature is the most powerful and unimaginably dangerous. Period.
What if a blue slaad hits a blue one, or a red a red, or green- you get the point
Nothing, I would imagine. Or alien incest, and you magically get a white slaad. One of the two.
If a blue Slaad hits a blue Slaad, you still get a red Slaad and vice versa. Green is the only one that has no clear indicator of what it makes, but that's fine because chaos can just do what it wants.
I though it was a coincidence that you and web DM did similar things so close to each other but its awesome you watch them too. I think a cool creature to do a video like this on would be Hags and the varieties there of. Keep up the awesome work man.
Please, make my comment come true. Literally after years. Please tell me, what is the name of the song at 17:00?
4:50 how about "Semi-Perfect Slaad" ? ("Wait until I reach my ultimate form!")
Oh man... first.
I've always wanted to do that
MrCreepyPasta
Our secret pleasure
MrCreepyPasta Ha I'm 670th
Ha! Always nice to see a random TH-camr I'm subscribed to comment on a video I'm watching.
MrCreepyPasta I can't believe it is you wow
Amazing job man. I am supposed to study for my finals but fuck it, D&D lore is too epic!
I hands down think you are way better then webdm
Loving the D&D videos, great work man!
Lolth please :) Want to learn about her
Really interesting! Can tell your heart is really in this atm
is this game a board game cause I can't find game play
@Crigon
It's a table top RPG that can be played in different ways. Some people play with just pencil, paper and dice. Other players will add to that combo a tactical map and miniatures that represent your characters, monsters and NPCs. Others play online with each other through various mediums. All of these methods rely on rules of whatever edition they are using to play. The newest edition is 5th edition.
There are lots of places to check out people playing the game. Critical Role on TH-cam's Geek and Sundry is one of the more popular outlets where you can watch game play, but there are plenty of great videos out there of different games.
Ultimately, it's a game where you get together with other people and play through fantasy adventures, which you all interact and form with each other. It's a fun hobby.
Bruh is the seriously the first time you've ever heard of D&D? It's the cornerstone of modern fantasy RPG's!
Locke i don't really play board games
It's not a board game, and it's really well known in pop culture. I'm not making fun of you or anything; I just find it strange that you've never heard of it lol.
its pretty much like you and your friends make a great story of adventure together where literally only your imagination is the limit.and you gotta roll dice and shit for every "special action" (attacks, specific actions relating to skills, etc) its really fun if you have an open and creative mind
I gotta question MrRhexx, if Grey slaads need to consume death slaads to evolve into death slaad themselves, then aren't there always going to be a finit amount of death slaads in existence, and therefore all further evolution? What will happen if all death slaads die?
I was sitting there thinking that Slaads were pretty cool...
Until you told me that the writers ripped off of Alien
Well, Slaad first appeared in 1981, while Aliens wasn't until 1986. So not really a ripoff.
Which Alien movie, Aliens (1986) is the sequel to Alien released in 1979
True, and that is why I probably shouldn't try to look up dates way too late at night. XD
I actually found this channel while looking for D&D stuff honestly great content. I enjoy listening to these and wondering where this would fit into my game.
Hamilton it was thanks to his shambling mound video that I added one in with a fight with a young green dragon. The party learned while fighting the mound that it was corrupted and one party member removed the demon seed from it and then had the mound help with the dragon fight. It was close since everyone took crazy damage from the dragons acid breath right at the start lol
Haha that sounds really epic, specially that it seems like they just escaped death and getting the mound to help in their efforts against the dragon and this was their only way out.
I think I'm going use a green Slaad in this upcoming friday game, he is going to be a more powerful underling to this crazy powerful and evil warlock I'm about to introduce to my party. Since they have the ability to shape shift, I'm going to make him shape shift into the local hermit they have been getting help and council from for the last few games, he was the one that gave them alot of clues about this great evil that has been corrupting the land. I'm going to make them think that they been tricked this whole time. Along side that they're only level 4 and they burnt through most of their stuff in the last game, so a fight with a green Slaad should prove a challenge along with a few minions XD. Then once they hopefully slay the green Slaad he will shape shift back into his normal form. They will be confused weather that creature was the local hermit the whole time or not. Only to find the hermit inside a cage in the basement below, tortured and weak. Again confusing them to weather he is real or yet another illusion. XD
I like how your cavern reference picture is always a screen shot from Dear Esther.
I’ve updated Jacob’s Well from Dragon Magazine to use as an adventure for one of my players to develop their backstory/secret for Rime of the Frost Maiden.
Love this series you're doing, man. Keep it up! And thanks for the extra long secrets vid!
Well, this has inspired my next Planescape D&D campaign. Thanks!
We need a remorhaz secrets video, them big bugs are prevalent in my campaign as our cleric is trying to raise a hatchling
more dnd lore FeelsGoodMan this is maybe one of the best series ever
Noone:
Absolutely noone:
MrRhexx: SLAAAAAAAADDD
The Forgotten Realms novels The Everis Cale Trilogy about a chosen of Mask had slaads as the henchmen of the bbeg, and part of it involved the slasds trying to evolve. (Really good books) but iirc the slaads basically evolved from red or blue into grey & eventually into death slaads.