(Okay, I probably shouldn't be resurrecting this thread, but I just saw the reply and wanted to set the record straight.)
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Originally Posted by JRM
Actually, the Black Slaad dates all the way back to 1st edition - it first appeared in White Dwarf magazine and debuted as an official AD&D monster in the 1981 Fiend Folio.
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No. No, that it most certainly did not. I still have my copy of the 1st Edition Fiend Folio that I got when it first came out, and there is definitely no black slaad there--the most powerful type, aside from the two slaad lords Ygorl and Ssendam (more slaad lords were later added in other sources, but those were the only two in the original Fiend Folio) was the death slaad. The full line-up was blue, red, green, grey, and death slaad, plus Ygorl and Ssendam.
Now, I never got White Dwarf, so it's
possible the black slaad appeared there and just didn't make it into the Fiend Folio... but I suspect you're confusing it with some other kind of slaad.
Hey, there may be a lot I don't know, but I know my slaadi.
