Red slaad

Red slaadi, also known as blood slaads were the most common members of the slaad race. They were brutish bullies of low status used by more powerful slaadi as thugs and were quick to spill blood out of anger, hunger, or just for fun.

Description
Red slaadi were tall bipeds that weighed approximately, resembling roughly humanoid, almost neckless toads with huge, flat heads. Their skin was mostly dull red with specks of gray, lighter around their undersides and darker along their backs, and occasionally covered by loincloths. Both their fingers and hands were strangely large and, like their feet, ended in claws.

Personality
Red slaadi were short-tempered and surly on top of being somewhat unintelligent.

Abilities
Despite being the weakest of slaads, red slaads were still as strong as veteran warriors, able to rip others apart with nothing but their teeth and claws and regenerate from most wounds. They could unleash a frighteningly loud croak that left those nearby stunned for several seconds and were reported to be capable of summoning one or two other red slaadi if needed.

Combat
Red slaadi were, 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 were also utterly predictable, quickly attacking whenever provoked (or when hungry) and fighting until they or their enemy were defeated. They moved faster when hopping and often leapt into battle, pouncing on as many foes as possible before croaking in order to keep nearby enemies still. Afterwards, they repeatedly bit into their prey until able to pounce again.

Society
Red slaadi preferred to be wander alone, often creating lairs on other planes to escape the tyrannical behavior of more powerful slaadi from Limbo. Typically they were only found together when compelled by some form of greater power, moving in gangs with as few as three members and in packs with somewhere between 6-18 members. They were often sent to the Material Plane on missions for their masters, typically to abduct human slaves.

Biology
Red slaadi had long claws. If a humanoid were hit by one of these claws, it could become infected with a slaad egg.

If allowed to mature, after three months the egg formed a slaad tadpole that erupted from the host's chest, destroying all internal organs and instantly killing the host. The newborn tadpole would then eat the corpse and within hours mature into either a blue slaad, or a green slaad if the host was a sufficiently powerful spellcaster.

History
Red slaadi appeared as the result of the chaos phage disease that infected humanoids by contact with blue slaadi hooks.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Waterdeep: Dragon Heist • Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
 * Video Games
 * Neverwinter Nights • Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone • Neverwinter Nights: Tyrants of the Moonsea
 * Board Games
 * Betrayal at Baldur's Gate
 * Card Games
 * Dragonfire
 * Organized Play & Licensed Adventures
 * Dark Pyramid of Sorcerer's Isle • Return to the Glory