Slaads are frog-like outsiders that are very chaotic and unpredictable in nature. Most other creatures can serve as hosts or brooders for their eggs, which is often fatal. Most of them speak a language unique to their species, and often do not understand common.

Kricen also recalls the books warning that slaad are powerful in melee, but many of them also have dangerous arcane-type spell-like-abilities that they can use to attack at range. They are to be handled with care.