Blue slaad

Blue slaadi, also known as talon slaads, were members of the slaad race and rivals to the interrelated red slaadi. The batrachian bullies were generally superior to them in every way, but only barely so, and were still considered to be of low status.

Description
Blue slaadi were tall bipeds that weighed approximately, resembling roughly humanoid toads with light, electric blue skin marked by grey streaks. Despite being bigger, broader and stronger than their red slaadi counterparts they were also more limber and had longer snouts. As opposed to the larger hands of the red slaadi, blue slaadi had two long, scimitar-like hooks of bone protruding from the back of both of their hands. Otherwise, they were typically identical in bodily structure, complexion and dress to the red slaadi.

Personality
Blue slaads were only marginally more intelligent than red slaads and shared their other behaviors, namely their poor tempers. Strength was the only trait they valued and they constantly sought to prove their own.

Abilities
Blue slaadi were stronger than their already physically powerful red counterparts, fighting with their claws and hooks and rending flesh with their fangs, although they had the added advantage of being able to, if only rarely, inflict a rotting disease like that of a mummy's through their bite. They were also reported to posses some spell-like abilities, namely hold person, passwall and telekinesis. Their slaad summoning powers allowed them to call upon other blue slaads, although it was said that they were also able to summon green slaads and on exceedingly rare occasions, red slaads.

Biology
If a humanoid was hit by one of their hooks, they could become infected with a disease known as chaos phage.

If allowed to run its course, chaos phage would drain the life of the humanoid within days. If a sufficiently powerful spellcaster was killed by chaos phage, he or she was instantly transformed into a green slaad. Otherwise, the disease produced a red slaad. In either case, the creature retained all its memories. The only way to revert this transformation once it was completed was through the use of a wish spell.

Blue slaadi matured from slaad tadpoles that were born from eggs laid by red slaadi in humanoids.

Appearances

 * Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
 * Dark Pyramid of Sorcerer's Isle