Red Slaad

Basic Information:
Red slaadi, also known as blood slaads, are the most common members of the slaad race. Red slaadi are 8ft (2.4m) tall bipeds that weigh approximately 650lb (290kg), resembling roughly humanoid, almost neckless toads with huge, flat heads. Their skin is mostly dull red with specks of gray, lighter around their undersides and darker along their backs.
Red slaadi are short-tempered and surly on top of being somewhat unintelligent. Despite being the weakest of slaads, red slaads are still as strong as veteran warriors, able to rip others apart with nothing but their teeth and claws. Red slaadi are, as one might expect from beings of chaos, uncoordinated in their attacks, the extent of their cooperative ability being their tendency to gang up on and intimidate smaller groups of creatures before viciously savaging them. Unexpectedly however, they are also utterly predictable, quickly attacking whenever provoked (or when hungry) and fighting until they or their enemy are defeated.They move faster when hopping and often leap into battle, pouncing on as many foes as possible before croaking in order to keep nearby enemies still. Afterwards, they repeatedly bite into their prey until able to pounce again.
Red slaadi possess glands under each of their claws and they occasionally and imperceptibly implant tiny egg-pellets into those they claw. They inject them into the flesh of humanoid hosts, an inexact procedure only certain to work if the victim is unconscious, and after doing so the egg is immediately renewed, allowing them to inject eggs into others. Hosts can only house one developing slaad at a time, and after injection the pellet moves through the victim's body until reaching the chest cavity.

Encountered in:
Chapter 5: Fifty Shades of Blue
Chapter 8: Sweaters for All

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