Osaslaadi

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Osaslaad race

Osaslaad are the result of an interesting phenomena where a slaad injecting its eggs into a pregnant or gestating creature. The slaad tadpole consumes the host’s egg or fetus, surviving by feeding on the yolk or through the umbilical cord until birthed. Lacking proper nutrition, osaslaad are born deformed and weaker than normal slaadi. They don’t typically evolve into Grey or Death Slaadi, and the Spawning Stone doesn’t implant control gems into them due to them only being half-chaos nature.

Osaslaad Traits

• Creature type: Humanoid and Aberration
• Ability Score Increase: Strength: +2
• Size: Medium, 6½ to 8½ feet depending on the subrace, shortest to tallest goes grey, red, green, blue, and death and weights are dependant on the subrace as well, 225 to 450 pounds they follow the same pattern with grey as the lightest and death as the heaviest.
• Speed: Your walking speed is 30 feet
• Age: Osaslaadi’s mature in the 1st year of life and live to about 200 but grey and death Osaslaad’s can live to 500 but usually dies due to competition.
• Languages: You can speak Common, Slaad, and if born through a humanoid host, you gain the primary language spoken by your host. If you weren’t you can only speak Common and Slaad.

Osaslaad Features

• Darkvision: You can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light.
• Slaad Regeneration: As an action, you can expend a Hit Die to regenerate hit points equal to the result rolled plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). You can use this ability once per short rest.
• Slaad’s claw: Your claws are a natural weapon, which counts as a simple weapon with which you are proficient. When you hit with your claws, you deal 1d6 + your Strength modifier slashing damage.

Subraces

Red Osaslaad features and traits

• Ability Score Increase: Dexterity: +1
• Anatomy Know-How: You are proficient in medicine
• Implant Egg: At 3rd level, when you hit a humanoid with your slaadi claw attack, you can infect them with an Osaslaadi egg. The target must make a Constitution saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier. On a failed save, they become infected. If you kill the infected target within 24 hours, a CR 1/8 Osaslaadi tadpole emerges. The tadpole is friendly to you and your allies and serves as your companion. You can only have one Osaslaadi tadpole at a time. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
• Deformed but Strengthened: Osaslaadi tadpoles do not mature, but they grow stronger as you do. They add your proficiency bonus to their AC, hit point maximum, attack rolls, damage rolls and on saving throws and skills in which they are proficient. They can spend hit dice during a short rest (1d4+2, having 4 of these). They lack magical or damage resistances but are robust. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Osaslaad Tadpole (Base)

Tiny Aberration, Chaotic Neutral

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Armor Class

12

Hit Points

13 (4d4+3)

Speed

30ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
7 (-2)	15 (+2)	14 (+2)	3 (-4)	5 (-3)	3 (-4)

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Senses

darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 7

Languages

understands Slaad but can’t speak

Challenge

1/8 (25 XP)

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit 4 (1d4 + 2)

Blue Osaslaad features and traits

• Ability Score Increase: Constitution: +1
• Powerful Build: You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
• Chaos Phage: At 3rd level, when you hit an humanoid with your slaadi claw attack you can infect them with a chaos phage. Unless they succeed on a Constitution saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier, they are infected. They take a number of d4s equal to your proficiency bonus necrotic damage and can’t regain hit points until the start of your next turn. You can use Chaos phage a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

 

 

Green Osaslaad features and traits

• Ability Score Increase: Charisma: +1
• Arcane Understanding: You are proficient in arcana
• Green Slaad Magic: You know the Produce Flame cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the spell Disguise self once with this trait. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the invisibility (self-only) spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells
• Shapechanger: You can use an action to polymorph into a the race of your former host. Your statistics, other than size, are the same well polymorphed. Any equipment you were wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.

Optional: Evolution, Green Slaadi Ritual, and Grey and Death Osaslaadi

• Evolution: Green osaslaadi can now upon reaching 15th Level choose to roll a Nature Check DC 15. If this succeeds you instantly transform into a Gray Osaslaad, otherwise the transformation fails, and you remain as a Green Osaslaad for the rest of your life.

Grey Osaslaad features and traits

(Only achievable by succeeding a Nature DC of 15 by using the Evolution feature as a Green Osaslaad at 15th Level or by doing the Green Osaslaadi ritual. You still have all the traits of Green Osaslaad has)

• Greatsword Proficient: You are proficient in using Greatswords.
• Magic Weapon: Your weapon attacks are considered magical for the purpose of over coming resistances and immunities.
• Grey Slaad magic: You can cast the spells fear and tongues once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
• Evolution: Devouring the corpse of a Death Slaad or Osaslaad and succeeding on a Nature Check DC 17 allows you to instantly transform into a Death Osaslaad, with no changing back. On a failed check you’re dealt 5d10 bludgeoning damage due to harming your stomach with the vast amount of contents you’re trying to jam inside at once. You can do this once per Death Slaad corpse found.

Death Osaslaad features and traits

(Only achievable by successfully devouring the corpse of a Death Osalaad or Slaad while being a Gray Osaslaad. You still have all the traits of Grey Osaslaad has)

• Chaotic Birth: Due to the manner of your birth as a Death Slaad, your alignment instantly shifts to Chaotic and cannot be changed to another alignment.
• Death Slaad Magic: You can cast the spells Cloudkill and Plane shift (self only, you need the material components) once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
• Order of Slaad: If in combat, or you have found a Slaad or Osaslaad of the other colours (not a Death Slaad or Death Osaslaad) with a successful Nature Check DC 13 for Osaslaad and 15 for Slaad you can have that Slaad or Osaslaad follow you around as a companion for 2d6 hours. At the end of that timeframe, the Slaad or Osaslaad turns on you and your allies unless already indifferent or friendly towards you. You may only control one Slaad or Osaslaad at a time using this method.

 

 

Green Osaslaad Ritual

Some Green Osaslaadi can’t live with the fact that they were unable to evolve and seek out the means to force the evolution. They do this by performing a vile ritual. For this ritual, you will need a control gem from a Grey Slaad (costs 1000gp if untethered from the Grey Slaadi), your essence or the essence of a Green Osaslaad or Slaad (blood, hair, or a piece of flesh), and a worthy aberration sacrifice (CR 5 or higher, e.g., Red Slaad). All will be consumed by the ritual, and you will have to consume the aberration sacrifice (You must make a DC 8 + CR of aberration +/- for size +1 for each size larger or -1 for each size smaller Con save). On a fail, take CR halved (rounded down) D10 bludgeoning damage, but the ritual continues unless you die, fall unconscious, or manually stop it with an action. On a success, you fully consume the aberration, and the ritual continues. Draw a 10-foot radius circle on the ground using chalk or any other substance. Place the aberration in the middle and insert the control gem into its head or where its head would have been. Place the essence on the chest and kneel in front of the corpse. The ritual lasts 3 hours and can’t be interrupted, or the ritual fails, and you fall unconscious for 1d4 hours. You are intensely focused, and only taking damage (damage from failing the Con save doesn’t stop the ritual) will interrupt the ritual. Once the ritual is complete, you turn into a Grey Osaslaad and fall unconscious for 1d4 hours and gain a point of exhaustion.