Fire toad

Fire toads were a unique species of toad.

Description
The body of a fire toad measured in length and had red leathery skin covered in rough, purple warts.

Behavior
In contrast to many species of toad, fire toads displayed a sense of hydrophobia and sought to avoid being in contact with liquid whenever possible. Throwing liquid at a fire toad was known to make it retreat, but also hostile.

They rarely attacked other creatures unless provoked, threatened, or defending their lair.

Abilities
Fire toads were capable of spitting small fireballs from their mouths out to a range of. These fireballs typically had a blast radius of around.

Combat
Instead of attacking with their tongue like other species of toad, a fire toad relied solely on its unique ability to spit out fireballs.

History
Some time thousands of years prior to the 14 century DR, the fire toads that inhabited areas beneath the Giantspire Mountains were deprived of the ankheg larvae they regularly consumed by an explosion in their habitat's umber hulk population. Instead of slowly dying out, the fire toads adapted to eating beetles and other insect species in their habitat.

Habitats
Due to their hydrophobia, fire toads typically inhabited dry regions with a warm to temperate climate.

In Faerûn, these creatures could be found in the Fire Marshes of High Moor and underneath the Giantspire Mountains.

In the Hordelands they inhabited Semphar, the Raurin desert, and the Quoya Desert. They also inhabited tropical and subtropical deserts in neighboring Kara-Tur.

Beyond Toril, fire toads could be found in tropical and subtropical deserts on the planet Oerth.

Relationships
Some efreeti were known to domesticate fire toads.

Usages
The blood of a fire toad could be mixed with the blood of a red dragon in a broth to enchant its tooth.