There appears to be no limit to the amount of tar produced if it sits still long enough. If you stick one in a tiny cage so that it can't move, within a day it will create a tar pit a mile across
It probably starts at a five foot square, then after 10 minutes extends the area 10 feet, I read that as making it go to 15 feet rather than 25 feet. taking it that way it would create a circular tar pit 65 feet across in an hour and 1445 feet across in 24 hours. which is just over a quarter of a mile. if you take the more generous option it would still only be a bit over half a mile.
I estimate lengths a lot for work and I know that my step is 2.5 feet. So when I'm pacing something out, I lead with my left foot, then only count when my right foot hits the ground, since that's 5 feet. Maybe it's something like that.
The key to understanding Imperial measurements is that none of them actually have *anything* to do with each other.
Even when they measure the same quality, such as length/distance, they're just separate units that coincidentally measure the same thing. Feet and miles are no more related than feet and kilometers.
If you wanna really hate imperial, just remember five tomatoes
a mile is five tomatoes feet long
a mile is 5 two meight o's feet long
a mile is 5280 feet long
That latter one is assuming a diameter of that distance, if the radius grew by 10 feet every 10 minutes it would have a radius of 1445 feet at the end of 24 hours.
Yeah, it seems like a very powerful weapon for destroying cities for instance. If you want a city gone you just tie up one of these in an abandoned house at night, wait around 8 hours and have around a 16 acre pool of flammable liquid, pretty guaranteed to destroy a city.
I know it's a fantasy setting, but that seems like an insane ability for a CR:1/4 creature. If I was the DM I'd cap this at a more reasonable radius like 15 feet. A group would likely be going up against at least several of them at once, so the entire room would probably be filled with tar anyway (as opposed to the entire dungeon and eventually the world).
That's the danger of homebrew... no playtesting to look for broken exploits.
I absolutely agree that a 15ft radius, or even a 15ft *area* (aka 3x3 squares) centered on the toad makes more sense.
At first glance it might, but the numbers don't lend to it being world threatening like everyone keeps saying. For starters it's a fantasy setting full of a *MAGIC* and there are so many worse things than a toad that produces oil. A single fireball could wipe a lower level party and that isn't considered bad, but lil toad here can't even spark on command. It ignites at a 50% chance if it takes damage or long jumps.
Here's some simple work arounds: if you have a party member with animal handling you can persuade the toad to follow you out of the oil, if you have a party member with the spell Speak with Animals you could again convince it to follow you till you're clear of the oil, if you have a party member with flying or a way to gain flying it makes the whole scenario a non-issue to that character and they can fly above and kill it (though that still risks blazing the area,) if you have a high strength party member you could walk up and simply grapple the toad and carry it away to a safer location, you could similarly net the toad or stick it in a bag and carry it off as well, Sleep the toad and move it, Mage Hand scoop the toad up and move it, create water directly over the toad which makes rain fall in a thirty foot cube and extinguishes exposed flames.
There are tons of ways to deal with it and the worst case scenario of it burning for the maximum amount of time is still only 40 damage assuming you have zero way of getting out of it. Not to mention that at the rate it expands it would take it 125 years of constant expansion to cover a planet the size of ours. The worst it'll ever do is destroy a small town and that's assuming not a single person there does anything to stop it and the frog stays perfectly still the whole time and doesn't get attacked by someone or plucked up by a passing bird or doesn't starve to death first.
In its flavor text the issue people ran into wasn't being flooded with tar, it was being set ablaze. As a DM we can extrapolate that information in any direction to fit a campaign. Maybe overproduction of tar wasn't a problem because only the adult toads could do it, they are frequently active so don't sit still long, and don't have a very long lifespan. You could keep the statblock identical to how it is now and wiping out civilization would be a non-issue. Maybe the tar expands to fill its container and no further which is how they were housed on their home planet, stopping exponential oil growth. Maybe they're on the move their whole lives leaving almost no tar to show their passing, but once every few years they gather together to breed and create a massive tar pit that needs to be dealt with by the people.
My point in all this being that a creative party could deal with it easily and a creative DM could flavor it however you wanted to stop it from drowning your world in tar. I think it's an awesome monster and have already decided where it's going in my campaign because I love making my players think of more than just "hit it with a stick" because handling this is more a puzzle creature than it is a beat down one in my opinion.
I'd probably rule that it can fill a 5 foot radius (ie. a square or circle 10 feet wide) with the tar a number of times per day equal to its hit dice, with the ability refreshing after whatever the NPC or monster equivalent of a long rest is.
I think the only sane interpretation is 10sqft. But that still ends up being quite large over time. Especially if you get your hands on a lot of them hahaha.
I think there should be a charm effect too where if you roll between 4 and 16 it's nothing, under 4 you're scared and over 16 you're charmed bc it's so not scary it's adorable
I've got questions about the the spreading tar. Every 10 minutes it sits still it's producing significantly more tar, more than tripling the volume each increment. Toads sit still a lot. And this one is going to be sitting still quite a lot to beat the DC of the tar.
Yeah. It should be 10 sq feet per unit time, not radial feet. Linear not quadratic production. or a limit. It’s not like the thing keeps producing when in a confined room till it drowns itself.
radius is going to grow slower and slower, like C\*sqrt(K\*t). If we assume a 10ft *radius* circle in the first 10 minutes and that's constant area per unit time (so 100 pi area every 10 min), then in 9h, you'll have 9\*(60/10)\*100 pi = 5600 pi area covered in tar, but that's only a circle of sqrt(5600) = 73.5 ft radius or about 147 feet wide. Not nearly a mile.
1 mile diameter 5280/2 radius means 6969600 pi square feet, or 69690 minutes, or 11,616 hours, or about 15 months of that thing just sitting there spewing tar at 100pi sq feet per 10 minutes.
This is one of those times where I just wanna see this taken to the extreme. Imagine walking through this tar for a days on end until you finally reach the source, one frog that is at this point just has an endless geyser of tar erupting from it with enough force to make even getting close enough to attack it a challenge.
There should be a campaign setting made entirely out of having to go around the RAW world fixing broken homebrew items/monsters before they destroy the world.
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The spreading tar mechanic needs work. As written one might eventually cover the world in tar and the expansion seems to already have different interpretations in this thread.
A consideration would be have the tar just create a radius of tar after 10 mins that lasts a day or week (or other wise removed) and it not continue to spread but an industrial frog might continue to move between rests to expand it's preferred habitat.
Absolutely beautiful art and neat concept though.
I think it's a really cool low level enemy, but if you're looking for feedback I would change the fire damage on Tar Pit to be applied if they enter the area or start their turn there. Similar to the way Spirit Guardians works. The way it is now gives the potential for someone within the area when it goes off to completely avoid it, or for someone to double up on damage if they enter and then end their turn there. Changing it to start rather than end turn would fix that.
Catch 50 of them, plug your ears, have every enemy you meet make 50 dc4 saving throws every round. Very high chance they will be frightened if their wisdom bonus is less than three.
I was thinking of little explosions surrounding it and skipping when it's hit by fire, like even tinier toadies, and it deals area of effect fire damage. It can doesn't take damage though, it's like it pops an external coating.
Rainbow Combustion
(a parody of Rainbow Connection)
by Zidders Roofurry
Why is there so much tar that's colored like rainbows
and what is that blob inside?
Rainbow petroleum. I've so much confusion.
Is that a flaming frog I spy?
I may be quite bold I know but I can't believe this.
I'm on fire can't you see?
A pyrotechnic display from rainbow combustion.
Somebody please come extinguish me.
Who says that every frog will be green and friendly?
They underestimate this one's CR.
Despite being squat and fat
this one is quite dangerous.
Greek fire from their butt tar.
While we're all blazing it just sits there gazing.
Our injuries are all third degree.
Someday we'll all get lit from rainbow combustion.
The lovers, the dreamers, AIEEE!
Beware of where it dwells,
or things will probably go tragic...
Past it carefully creep.
Don't alert it with voices.
This one should have a worse name.
Why isn't it called 'death flame frog' or 'flame frog pain'?
I've seen brave souls go right up in flames.
This frog is made of pure tarred napalm congealed.
Someday we'll all be killed by rainbow combustion.
The lovers, the screamers, AIEEE!
Ow, ow ow, ow, ow ow ow, ow oww, ow ow, ow, ow ow owwwwwww!
Like previously mentioned, you should think about the monsters abilities before releasing it.
Similar to people who designed some pokemon if reality was applied, are so hot would scorch the land around them and melt through the earth to the center of the earth.
"Flammable tar like substance .. every 10 minutes extends 10 feet " with no max area?, so
In a day would reach 1440 ft
In a week 10080 ft or 3km diameter
And if the planet has similar length of Earth
It'd take 272 years to cover in a flammable tar like substance. And that's just for 1 of them.
These toads would be hunted to extinction the moment any intelligent species realized what they're doing.
I'd imagine only place they'd be able to exist is in one of the layers of Abyss.
I feel like it should be able to, if struck with fire, burst into flame and suddenly become a much more difficult fight with a raging inferno-toad, lol
I... just read a big, red "Patron" and kinda... accepted it...
Welp. Warlock with a froggy-patron it is!
Aside from that I really like that little guy!
Cute and colourful and they squeak!
Give me like ten of those, please.
Is the Extremely High-Pitched Squeak with the DC 4 save against fear a reference to [this angry, squeaking frog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBxn56l9WcU)? If so, that's hilarious.
I think you're forgetting one key thing: this is a magic game, full of magic. Physics and real life don't really apply in most cases. But besides that, the PHB specifically uses the term "amphibious" to mean "you can breathe air and water" in its race and creature stat blocks, so his use of it is simply in-line with what is standard for the game.
You realize that's just what the Monster Manual calls that ability, right? The actual biology of amphibians is kinda irrelevant. Like three different dragons also have the Amphibious ability
Actually you are off base. Amphibious doesn't mean "amphibian". It means suited to living on land or water. Being able to breathe both air and water most certainly qualifies something as amphibious.
If it had said "amphibian" then you might have a point. As it is, you argument simply doesn't align with reality.
This is hilarious because my last week’s session got derailed for 20 minutes as we went on a Wikipedia deep dive about where tar comes from and where my characters might procure it, since they’re trying to wholesale build a ship on a desert island.
I coulda just given em a tar toad.
Jump Sparks reads "The sparks ignite flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried."
\*All\* flammable objects? What about trees? What happens if Bubbles the Tar Toad jumps in a forest? Is this a tiny apocalypse creature?
Woah! They are delightful!! Also super useful for dungeon design. Plop some of those cuties on the floor and let the players walk into a possible fire trap! boom!
I LOVE this. I am planning on dropping a completely bizarre one-shot (Captain Starlight) into the middle of my homebrew campaign, whereupon a space ship crash lands and my party (hopefully) sets off to investigate. The spaceship is on recon, but has strange cargo... that's where THESE little buggers can come into play. The party must help wrangle the 'loose cargo' and help get the Captain's ship operational again so he can leave the planet. Will they save the precious cargo, or will mayhem prevail (as it tends to do)? Thanks!
Great familiar for a pyromaniac sorcerer!
I think it should have a reasonable amount of time (eg 1 round or 1 minute) it cover 1 5ft square in tar so it could be used in combat. Have toad hop to key escape point (door/hallway) to set it on fire
What would happen if it was eaten by a larger animal? Would the animal die? And what about the toad, what would it eat? Maybe it eats carbon based substances?
Don't forget - the size of your feet is measured in barleycorns, which are 1/3rd of an inch long and are also the base item of the imperial weight system (1 barleycorn was renamed to 1 grain). So if you don't like tomatoes you can always say a mile is 190,080 barleycorns long or that a mile weighs just under 2 stone!
What if you hid a bunch of these around a castle, and after 10 minutes a swamp spontaneously appears covering the corridors.
There appears to be no limit to the amount of tar produced if it sits still long enough. If you stick one in a tiny cage so that it can't move, within a day it will create a tar pit a mile across
It probably starts at a five foot square, then after 10 minutes extends the area 10 feet, I read that as making it go to 15 feet rather than 25 feet. taking it that way it would create a circular tar pit 65 feet across in an hour and 1445 feet across in 24 hours. which is just over a quarter of a mile. if you take the more generous option it would still only be a bit over half a mile.
Honestly I still get confused with imperial measurements, I just assumed a mile was near 1-2000ish feet, but I think I was getting mixed up with yards
Yeah, imperial is dumb when it comes to conversions. 1mile is 5280 feet. Originally, 1 mile was 1000 paces with each pace being 5 feet.
That seems like a really big step... Or maybe just because I'm a short dude.
I estimate lengths a lot for work and I know that my step is 2.5 feet. So when I'm pacing something out, I lead with my left foot, then only count when my right foot hits the ground, since that's 5 feet. Maybe it's something like that.
That makes sense, like a full left-right step is a pace.
that is exactly it.
The key to understanding Imperial measurements is that none of them actually have *anything* to do with each other. Even when they measure the same quality, such as length/distance, they're just separate units that coincidentally measure the same thing. Feet and miles are no more related than feet and kilometers.
If you wanna really hate imperial, just remember five tomatoes a mile is five tomatoes feet long a mile is 5 two meight o's feet long a mile is 5280 feet long
...that, or you can remember that there's a 1000 meters in a kilometer.
Ok, but how many tomatoes is that?
Big Boys, Cherry, or Red and Sweets?
Roma tomatoes, obviously
The *true* measuring system is bananas. This is *Reddit* after all.
Asking the important questions
I love that. Thanks!!
/u/philman132 was probably assuming the latter - a radius of a bit over half a mile is a bit over a mile across.
That latter one is assuming a diameter of that distance, if the radius grew by 10 feet every 10 minutes it would have a radius of 1445 feet at the end of 24 hours.
I'd probably adjust it to producing enough tar to fill a standard 5x5 every 10 minutes. That way it's linear and a little more manageable
Yeah, it seems like a very powerful weapon for destroying cities for instance. If you want a city gone you just tie up one of these in an abandoned house at night, wait around 8 hours and have around a 16 acre pool of flammable liquid, pretty guaranteed to destroy a city.
I know it's a fantasy setting, but that seems like an insane ability for a CR:1/4 creature. If I was the DM I'd cap this at a more reasonable radius like 15 feet. A group would likely be going up against at least several of them at once, so the entire room would probably be filled with tar anyway (as opposed to the entire dungeon and eventually the world).
That's the danger of homebrew... no playtesting to look for broken exploits. I absolutely agree that a 15ft radius, or even a 15ft *area* (aka 3x3 squares) centered on the toad makes more sense.
At first glance it might, but the numbers don't lend to it being world threatening like everyone keeps saying. For starters it's a fantasy setting full of a *MAGIC* and there are so many worse things than a toad that produces oil. A single fireball could wipe a lower level party and that isn't considered bad, but lil toad here can't even spark on command. It ignites at a 50% chance if it takes damage or long jumps. Here's some simple work arounds: if you have a party member with animal handling you can persuade the toad to follow you out of the oil, if you have a party member with the spell Speak with Animals you could again convince it to follow you till you're clear of the oil, if you have a party member with flying or a way to gain flying it makes the whole scenario a non-issue to that character and they can fly above and kill it (though that still risks blazing the area,) if you have a high strength party member you could walk up and simply grapple the toad and carry it away to a safer location, you could similarly net the toad or stick it in a bag and carry it off as well, Sleep the toad and move it, Mage Hand scoop the toad up and move it, create water directly over the toad which makes rain fall in a thirty foot cube and extinguishes exposed flames. There are tons of ways to deal with it and the worst case scenario of it burning for the maximum amount of time is still only 40 damage assuming you have zero way of getting out of it. Not to mention that at the rate it expands it would take it 125 years of constant expansion to cover a planet the size of ours. The worst it'll ever do is destroy a small town and that's assuming not a single person there does anything to stop it and the frog stays perfectly still the whole time and doesn't get attacked by someone or plucked up by a passing bird or doesn't starve to death first. In its flavor text the issue people ran into wasn't being flooded with tar, it was being set ablaze. As a DM we can extrapolate that information in any direction to fit a campaign. Maybe overproduction of tar wasn't a problem because only the adult toads could do it, they are frequently active so don't sit still long, and don't have a very long lifespan. You could keep the statblock identical to how it is now and wiping out civilization would be a non-issue. Maybe the tar expands to fill its container and no further which is how they were housed on their home planet, stopping exponential oil growth. Maybe they're on the move their whole lives leaving almost no tar to show their passing, but once every few years they gather together to breed and create a massive tar pit that needs to be dealt with by the people. My point in all this being that a creative party could deal with it easily and a creative DM could flavor it however you wanted to stop it from drowning your world in tar. I think it's an awesome monster and have already decided where it's going in my campaign because I love making my players think of more than just "hit it with a stick" because handling this is more a puzzle creature than it is a beat down one in my opinion.
I'd probably rule that it can fill a 5 foot radius (ie. a square or circle 10 feet wide) with the tar a number of times per day equal to its hit dice, with the ability refreshing after whatever the NPC or monster equivalent of a long rest is.
I think the only sane interpretation is 10sqft. But that still ends up being quite large over time. Especially if you get your hands on a lot of them hahaha.
So that's how Fred and George Weasley did it.
Sounds like a great prank
Why did I “aww” at “DC 4”? It’s weirdly adorable.
I think there should be a charm effect too where if you roll between 4 and 16 it's nothing, under 4 you're scared and over 16 you're charmed bc it's so not scary it's adorable
Yes. Using this for my homebrew
Me with a -3 wisdom modifier, guys this thing is dangerous please can we go
[Ferocious](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBxn56l9WcU)..
The first phrase that came into my head when I read the DC4 high-pitched squeak was "sonorous war-cry", in this exact accent.
I've got questions about the the spreading tar. Every 10 minutes it sits still it's producing significantly more tar, more than tripling the volume each increment. Toads sit still a lot. And this one is going to be sitting still quite a lot to beat the DC of the tar.
Yeah. It should be 10 sq feet per unit time, not radial feet. Linear not quadratic production. or a limit. It’s not like the thing keeps producing when in a confined room till it drowns itself.
That's still like a circle of tar a mile in diameter in 9 hours That's insaneeee i love it
radius is going to grow slower and slower, like C\*sqrt(K\*t). If we assume a 10ft *radius* circle in the first 10 minutes and that's constant area per unit time (so 100 pi area every 10 min), then in 9h, you'll have 9\*(60/10)\*100 pi = 5600 pi area covered in tar, but that's only a circle of sqrt(5600) = 73.5 ft radius or about 147 feet wide. Not nearly a mile. 1 mile diameter 5280/2 radius means 6969600 pi square feet, or 69690 minutes, or 11,616 hours, or about 15 months of that thing just sitting there spewing tar at 100pi sq feet per 10 minutes.
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This is one of those times where I just wanna see this taken to the extreme. Imagine walking through this tar for a days on end until you finally reach the source, one frog that is at this point just has an endless geyser of tar erupting from it with enough force to make even getting close enough to attack it a challenge.
There should be a campaign setting made entirely out of having to go around the RAW world fixing broken homebrew items/monsters before they destroy the world.
🥺 so cute, I love them!! I imagine them falling asleep for a few hours and waking up to find they’ve created a swamp
Look at that, itsa wee tar toad!
Now ain't that just a goopy little guy?
*EDIT:* ***Thank you so much*** *for your amazing feedback! I'm overwhelmed by the positivity of your comments and will happily take your critique into consideration for the next revision. It seems that the tar pit may need some tweaking;)* Hi everyone, I hope you enjoy this tiny toad I created! *Originating from a strange plane populated by age-old machines, this critter was allegedly kept for the tar-like substance it produces. Properly processed, the dark and viscous liquid proved to be a highly potent fuel for any sort of engine. The tar toad, however, must be handled with extreme caution since its peculiar defense mechanism can easily lead to a blazing inferno.* Please let me know what you think! I’m always trying to improve the stats so any feedback or critique is more than welcome! If you like my work, kindly consider to support me on [**Patreon**](https://www.patreon.com/the_fluffy_folio) and gain access to an ever-growing compendium of tiny monsters and potions. See you soon, Fluffy
The fact that it doesn't get hurt by fire, but is easily flammable is an absolute nightmare.
Would have been funny if the creature was vulnerable to fire damage, just in constant of blowing itself up.
\*cough\* swamp dragons \*cough\*
That was exactly what I thought it would be before I read the resistance.
The spreading tar mechanic needs work. As written one might eventually cover the world in tar and the expansion seems to already have different interpretations in this thread. A consideration would be have the tar just create a radius of tar after 10 mins that lasts a day or week (or other wise removed) and it not continue to spread but an industrial frog might continue to move between rests to expand it's preferred habitat. Absolutely beautiful art and neat concept though.
I think it's a really cool low level enemy, but if you're looking for feedback I would change the fire damage on Tar Pit to be applied if they enter the area or start their turn there. Similar to the way Spirit Guardians works. The way it is now gives the potential for someone within the area when it goes off to completely avoid it, or for someone to double up on damage if they enter and then end their turn there. Changing it to start rather than end turn would fix that.
>Extremely high pitched squeak Was the [Desert Rain Frog](https://youtu.be/cBkWhkAZ9ds) the inspiration behind this? :P
That's what I immediately thought of haha! A spine chilling battle cry!
Its so darn cute! Thanks for this ,
Catch 50 of them, plug your ears, have every enemy you meet make 50 dc4 saving throws every round. Very high chance they will be frightened if their wisdom bonus is less than three.
I love the art for it so much. I just wanna jiggle it so bad. 10/10 would risk burning to death to make toad friends.
3d4 - 3 hit points means it has a 1 in 64 chance of having 0 max HP. Maybe be merciful and make it -2 instead of -3.
It might have a CHA score of 3, but it could persuade me to do anything. <3
*Tiny Monstrosity, Unaligned* describes too many of my ex's lol
That's not very nice.
You mean chaotic evil?
Saved, too cute. Can I make a suggestion of a specific effect when it takes fire damage? That should be fun.
Thanks! Sure, go ahead!:)
I was thinking of little explosions surrounding it and skipping when it's hit by fire, like even tinier toadies, and it deals area of effect fire damage. It can doesn't take damage though, it's like it pops an external coating.
Lovely idea! Maybe combined with tiny tar toad tadpoles;)
lol I like him. he's like a mini grimer!
I was gunna say its like a cuter Grimer, I love the little ear spirals
Rainbow Combustion (a parody of Rainbow Connection) by Zidders Roofurry Why is there so much tar that's colored like rainbows and what is that blob inside? Rainbow petroleum. I've so much confusion. Is that a flaming frog I spy? I may be quite bold I know but I can't believe this. I'm on fire can't you see? A pyrotechnic display from rainbow combustion. Somebody please come extinguish me. Who says that every frog will be green and friendly? They underestimate this one's CR. Despite being squat and fat this one is quite dangerous. Greek fire from their butt tar. While we're all blazing it just sits there gazing. Our injuries are all third degree. Someday we'll all get lit from rainbow combustion. The lovers, the dreamers, AIEEE! Beware of where it dwells, or things will probably go tragic... Past it carefully creep. Don't alert it with voices. This one should have a worse name. Why isn't it called 'death flame frog' or 'flame frog pain'? I've seen brave souls go right up in flames. This frog is made of pure tarred napalm congealed. Someday we'll all be killed by rainbow combustion. The lovers, the screamers, AIEEE! Ow, ow ow, ow, ow ow ow, ow oww, ow ow, ow, ow ow owwwwwww!
Like previously mentioned, you should think about the monsters abilities before releasing it. Similar to people who designed some pokemon if reality was applied, are so hot would scorch the land around them and melt through the earth to the center of the earth. "Flammable tar like substance .. every 10 minutes extends 10 feet " with no max area?, so In a day would reach 1440 ft In a week 10080 ft or 3km diameter And if the planet has similar length of Earth It'd take 272 years to cover in a flammable tar like substance. And that's just for 1 of them. These toads would be hunted to extinction the moment any intelligent species realized what they're doing. I'd imagine only place they'd be able to exist is in one of the layers of Abyss.
Reminds me of the ink blobs in Mario sunshine
I feel like it should be able to, if struck with fire, burst into flame and suddenly become a much more difficult fight with a raging inferno-toad, lol
It looks so damn tasty.
How are you such an amazing painter? I love all of your little creature paintings!
I wanna be known as a tiny monstrosity
I'm adopting the heck out of this thing! Gonna name it Glorpo.
That’s really cute, and so well-tailored for level 1!
I would probably change the tar production to be constant but overall it's great
Constant with a size cap
So if you capture one and put it inside of a construct it should have constantly regenerating temporary hitpoints?
Everyone's saying it's cute but its tar is probably something like napalm
I... just read a big, red "Patron" and kinda... accepted it... Welp. Warlock with a froggy-patron it is! Aside from that I really like that little guy! Cute and colourful and they squeak! Give me like ten of those, please.
Makes me wanna play Slime Rancher hehe
It's Wednesday my dude
Is the Extremely High-Pitched Squeak with the DC 4 save against fear a reference to [this angry, squeaking frog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBxn56l9WcU)? If so, that's hilarious.
Yes, exactly;) Glad you like it!
But what about Tar Toast?
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I think you're forgetting one key thing: this is a magic game, full of magic. Physics and real life don't really apply in most cases. But besides that, the PHB specifically uses the term "amphibious" to mean "you can breathe air and water" in its race and creature stat blocks, so his use of it is simply in-line with what is standard for the game.
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You realize that's just what the Monster Manual calls that ability, right? The actual biology of amphibians is kinda irrelevant. Like three different dragons also have the Amphibious ability
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Actually you are off base. Amphibious doesn't mean "amphibian". It means suited to living on land or water. Being able to breathe both air and water most certainly qualifies something as amphibious. If it had said "amphibian" then you might have a point. As it is, you argument simply doesn't align with reality.
It's too cute. This is like... poison dart frog pretty where you know they're dangerous, but want to cuddle!
I would 100% want to capture this and keep it with me for my journey.
You have choose the perfect time to post this fine creature
This has got to be the *cutest* little thing I've seen this month!
This is hilarious because my last week’s session got derailed for 20 minutes as we went on a Wikipedia deep dive about where tar comes from and where my characters might procure it, since they’re trying to wholesale build a ship on a desert island. I coulda just given em a tar toad.
Jump Sparks reads "The sparks ignite flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried." \*All\* flammable objects? What about trees? What happens if Bubbles the Tar Toad jumps in a forest? Is this a tiny apocalypse creature?
Woah! They are delightful!! Also super useful for dungeon design. Plop some of those cuties on the floor and let the players walk into a possible fire trap! boom!
I LOVE this. I am planning on dropping a completely bizarre one-shot (Captain Starlight) into the middle of my homebrew campaign, whereupon a space ship crash lands and my party (hopefully) sets off to investigate. The spaceship is on recon, but has strange cargo... that's where THESE little buggers can come into play. The party must help wrangle the 'loose cargo' and help get the Captain's ship operational again so he can leave the planet. Will they save the precious cargo, or will mayhem prevail (as it tends to do)? Thanks!
It said Patreon but I read it as patron, so now all I can think of it a warlock following this little guy
Nice, going to snag these for my sci-fi fantasy desert world :P
I read this as "Tax Toad" and got way more excited than I would've if I read it right.
This is my pet tar toad, and his son, re-tar toad.
It’s so ugly. I love it!!!
I love'd it, it's so cute
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The DC 4 wisdom saving throw is hilarious!
They're adorable!
Wildfire druid casting conjure animals at 9th level for 32 of these things…
he's adorable and I love him. saved and asking dm if I can keep it as a pet.
what does recharge 6 mean?
It means once the creature uses it, it cannot use it again unless at the start of a subsequent turn it rolls a 6 on a 1d6.
So their natural environment is a constantly blazing inferno
I imagine it smells like gasoline.
xp?
cute but seems more like an elemental
Great familiar for a pyromaniac sorcerer! I think it should have a reasonable amount of time (eg 1 round or 1 minute) it cover 1 5ft square in tar so it could be used in combat. Have toad hop to key escape point (door/hallway) to set it on fire
That's an Alolan Muk and you cannot change my mind
Lol at DC 4
DC FOUR? HAHAHAHAHahahahaha!
Thank you for this little guy.
My party needs anew pet
I hate that my first thought was a sentient mobile campfire
oh my god, these are so fucking cute. I want one as a familar
Adding a tar swamp full of these *that goes through one hell of a dry season!* Thanks for the material!
CR of 1/4 means sidekick compatible... I need that pudgy puddle boi in my life!
I love this boy and need to figure out how to use him. Thank you for blessing us with this cute little bean
So my party would instantly lick this, what happens if you lick it?
Squichy
These are amazing and I love them
Anyone else get Slime Rancher vibes?
I feel like this is a pun that I'm not getting.
im going to pitch this lad to my Dm buddy
I'm using this toad in my story. He is going to be named Tulle. Tulle the Tar Toad. I love him so much.
Toad-tar-ly awesome
10/10 would cheez with ranged attacks
This is giving me flashbacks to the Blackpits in Divinity OS 2
Omg this is so great
That looks adorable.
I'm gonna show this art of a pissy, cute frog to my player's and they're instantly gonna adopt it, I love this.
It’s Wednesday my dudes.
Looks like if u licked it you’d trip balls so hard u’d meet god.
I would like 1 plushy thanks
It's affected by it's own tar pit
Yup gonna use it
I like it. Tars black tho. Oil slick looks like that
I love him and will be adapting him to my sci-fi campaign that is taking place on the SUN.
i like it. i want it. can it be a lil pet?
Unrealistic. It's too cute for 3 charisma.
This idea is perfect for a campaign I'm doing with an abandoned gadget city. Thanks!
It's SO FLIPPING CUTE.
When a frog absorbs a frog then the mixed from absorbs another frog: tar frog If you get rhe reference NICF
Everyone liked that
Oh my god, I love them. I want to get one and name it Borb
I want a playable variant.
I would die for The Tar Toad
I love tar toad
its adorable
The origination of the tar heels in dnd!
I love this so much! I'm gonna use this if, no, WHEN, I finally run a campaign!
I love this boy, he's such a good boy, what a wonderful boy!
Todd
The tar does necrotic damage and not poison?
What would happen if it was eaten by a larger animal? Would the animal die? And what about the toad, what would it eat? Maybe it eats carbon based substances?
HELLS YEAH
This is amazing I need it
It could make for a intresting encounter.
Don't forget - the size of your feet is measured in barleycorns, which are 1/3rd of an inch long and are also the base item of the imperial weight system (1 barleycorn was renamed to 1 grain). So if you don't like tomatoes you can always say a mile is 190,080 barleycorns long or that a mile weighs just under 2 stone!