Tasloi

For the tasloi encountered in The Black Pits, see Tasloi (The Black Pits).

Tasloi
Record
Gender	Male
Race	Kobold
Class	Tasloi
Alignment	LG NG CG LN TN CN LE NE CE
Involvement
Allegiance	Enemy
Area	Archaeological Site, Lighthouse, Mutamin's Garden, Spider Wood, Cloakwood Forest
Quests	Gurke's Cloak
Ability scores
Level	1
Hit points	8
XP value	352
Str	9
Str	9
Dex	9
Dex	9
Con	9
Con	9
Int	9
Int	9
Wis	9
Wis	9
Cha	9
Cha	9
Total scores	54
Morale	10
Break	6
Recovery	60
Combat basics
Proficiency	Baldur's Gate I & II Classic This icon indicates content from all original Baldur's Gate games, extensions included.++ SpearBaldur's Gate I & II: Enhanced Editions This icon indicates content from all Enhanced Editions of the Baldur's Gate games. May situationally encompass Siege of Dragonspear and The Black Pits I & II content as well.None
AC	5
Base THAC0	19
Base APR	1
Saving throws
Dth	14
Wand	16
Poly	15
Brth	17
Spell	17
AI scripts
AI scripts	WTASIGHT
Inventory
Gold	0
Items	Spear2 random treasure (RNDTRE02)
Technical information
Creature codes	TASLOI.cre (common) ITASLOI.cre (Obe summoning)2 TASLGURK.cre (Gurke's cloak)3

Tasloi are small, goblin-like creatures that, despite typically being jungle-dwellers from south Faerûn, can be found in various areas at the Sword Coast in Baldur's Gate, particularly the more forested places.

Sometimes they appear in company with other creatures, such as bears, ettercaps, spiders and all kinds of dogs and wolves, in certain areas even with ghouls (Archaeological Site), gnolls (Mutamin's Garden) or an ogrillon (Cloakwood Lodge).

Notable tasloi

• Darryl

Quests

• Gurke's Cloak – Getting either asked by Gurke to get his cloak back or killing the tasloi carrying it: it doesn't matter what happens first
  • One in the group of nine at the Cloakwood Lodge will hold this item.

Locations

In all editions of the first Baldur's Gate, common tasloi may be encountered in the listed areas at several places in groups, at all times of day, and again and again.

• Optional: Candlekeep's Storage Cellars (during Obe's combat training, 5th stage)
• Archaeological Site (953.691; 4556.1035; 4205.3560; 1069.3235; 1231.2144; 2668.2165; during rest)
• Lighthouse (2578.834; 4177.1921; 2826.2791)
• Mutamin's Garden (503.1305; 3970.1822; 1024.1984; 4113.2622)
• Spider Wood (4032.704; 960.3072; 384.320)
• First Cloakwood (599.708; 3832.1836; 2637.3283; 963.1979; 2252.2753; 1028.1582; during rest)
  • A specific group of nine tasloi will hardly be missed when traveling here for the first time, as they reside near the arrival point (at around 4375.3451). One of them carries Gurke's cloak. These will only be met once.
• Third Cloakwood (2458.478; 4293.383; 3956.1647; during rest)
• Fourth Cloakwood (4687.1301; 4400.2339; 3615.3174)
• Cloakwood Mines (3809.2863; 2095.2812)

Notes

• The tasloi that can be encountered on the Sword Coast are usually male.
• In common lore, tasloi are regarded as their own race (see the linked article further below). As per game mechanics, however, Baldur's Gate's tasloi are handled as if they were kobolds.
  • Technically this can be explained by both creatures using similar animation sequences; this also applies to xvarts.
• Obe's summonings yield neither item nor experience.
• Unused references: TASLOI02.cre and TASLOI03.cre aren't used by the game.

Trivia

• The offical website for the original game, now archived, had – in addition to some combat-related statistics – the following information about these creatures:

  Tasloi are long-legged, flat-headed humanoids. They walk in a crouching posture, touching their knuckles to the ground from time to time. Their skins are a lustrous green and are thinly covered with coarse black hair. Their eyes are similar to a cat's and are gold in color.
  
  Often they can be heard at night, speaking in their high, whispery voices.

  The size was given as two to three feet tall.

Visuals

GIFs

Promotional animation

Gallery

A common grouping

Promotional screenshot

See also

• Tasloi (The Black Pits)
• Tasloi (summoning)

External links

• Tasloi on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.