Slaad Slaadi were bipedal , frog - like creatures native to Limbo and to the Supreme Throne . Description . Their base form was that of a large bipedal frog , though some of the more powerful slaadi had polymorph self or shapechange abilities and sometimes appeared as humanoid s . In frog form their heads were huge and their claws were extremely sharp . They spoke their own language and , occasionally , some additional evil languages . Telepathy , however , allowed them to understand and converse with all things . There were many types of slaadi depending on their place of origin and rank within their society . The most common types of slaadi were blue slaad i , green slaad i , red slaad i , gray slaad i ( the executioners ) and death slaad i ( the lesser masters ) . Some were even chalk - white slaad i like Chourst , and very rarely did they turn into black slaad i . Size also varied between the different subtypes , from human - sized to several feet taller . Most Slaadi were almost always chaotic neutral , with the exception of death slaadi , which were usually chaotic evil , and the gormeel slaad i , which were usually lawful neutral . All slaadi , being outsiders composed of the essence of Limbo itself , had natural darkvision of up to 60 feet . Society . Slaadi had been depicted as having a complex social system bound up in the relationship and reproductive cycles of the various types . Some types would naturally dominate others , though as slaadi were creatures of chaos , such domination occured not through a regimented hierarchy , but by brute force . In earlier times a symbol of power was embedded in each slaad ' s forehead , and non - magical tattoos on the forehead represented achievements and status . These markings did not appear commonly as they once had , and most of the time the hierarchy was based solely on whoever was the stronger . For a long time it was believed that the aforementioned types of slaad had been the only ones in existence , but in recent years the mud slaad i , and the superior white , and black slaadi had also been discovered . It had also been determined that the slaadi race was ruled by two Slaad Lords known as Ssendam and Ygorl . Reproduction . According to some scholars , the slaadi were descendant from the batrachi , one of the creator race s , though a being with the abbreviated name BRJ that claimed itself to be a batrachi turned denied this claim . Red and blue slaadi reproduced by infecting living hosts . The red did so by implanting eggs beneath their victim ' s skin which grew into a blue slaad tadpole that ate the host from within . The blue infected the host with a lycanthropy - like disease called chaos phage that slowly transformed them into a red slaad . All those infected with this disease became female , regardless of previous gender . Whether the transformation was mental was unknown . Despite being the means of producing the other slaad type , reds and blues despised one another . If either a red slaad or blue slaad infected a spellcaster , the host would spawn a green slaad , superior to its parent in that it might cast spells . A green slaad , upon reaching its hundredth year of life , would retreat into isolation for the duration of about a year . Upon its return it would have transformed into a smaller , but more powerful grey slaad , which focused more on spellcasting than most of the other slaadi . Some grey slaadi might undergo an unnamed , mysterious ritual , which transformed them into death slaadi . Death slaadi possessed amazing magical and physical might , but eschewed focusing on the former , as the greys did , being bent more on perpetuating slaughter and death . As such , death slaad tended to lean towards an evil alignment than did most other slaadi . If the death slaad survived a century , it turned into the white slaad . And if the white slaad survived a century , it turned into a black slaad in the manner of its preceding transformations . The black slaad was the most powerful slaad , excluding the slaad lords themselves . The Spawning Stone was the primordial home of the slaadi , located in " a realm of their greatest dominion " which drifted about Limbo . The passage of the stone generated currents in the raw chaos - stuff of the plane , and slaadi were able to follow these currents " upstream " to the Stone ' s location . In the mating season , each race of slaad converged on the Spawning Stone , wresting the Stone away from the previous group , so that they might fertilize each others ' internal egg sacs , and carry away the seed - like fertilized eggs for later implantation into host bodies . Sometimes , however , young slaadi were produced right there at the stone because the slaadi implanted each other in their mating frenzy . Thus , dead adult slaadi routinely floated about the stone until destroyed by the chaos of Limbo . True slaadi were described as beings of ultimate chaos who had no set form . Only the Slaad Lords Ssendam and Ygorl were representative of this type . Somehow they affected the ' Spawning Stone ' to prevent the emergence of slaadi more powerful than them , which kept the slaadi within the aforementioned groups . Although anomalies did slip through in the chaos , they had less variety , and less chance of being more powerful than the Slaad Lords . One such anomaly was the Gormeel Slaad , which was a large , mutant variety " born from the Spawning Stone " , provided that they were lucky enough to escape the notice of Ygorl and Ssendam . They were lawful in alignment , serving as allies and sometimes mounts of the githzerai against other slaadi . Slaad Lords . Slaad Lords were the de facto rulers of the slaad race . Though true to their chaotic nature they often did not appear anything like other Slaadi .