Editing Skum (section)

==5e==
[[File:Skum 5e.png|thumb|right|200px|The 5e skum... you won't be mistaking ''this'' one for a [[kuo-toa]]!]]
Skum finally made their debut in [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] with the 2019 adventure module Ghosts of Saltmarsh. They gained a ''really'' creepy new look that combines element of human, octopus and jellyfish, finally making them at least look different to the [[kuo-toa]]. In this edition, they are described as victims of a mutagenic plague carried by [[aboleth]]s, which transforms humanoids into horrible aquatic monsters and also remolds their minds so they fall under the aboleth's psychic thrall irreversibly. These skum can't leave the water for more than brief intervals - after 10 minutes out of the water, they start dissolving into a noxious slime - and so carry out the will of their masters underwater; surface work is left to [[Deep Scion]]s instead.