If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. Your fanged maw is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. Gnolls reach adulthood at age 10 and live up to 40 years.

One particularly common myth is that gnolls were created from and are driven by demonic influence. Many stereotypes exist of gnolls being disease ridden, cannibalistic, and practitioners of vile forms of magic. However, those unfamiliar with gnolls are often horrified by their mangy appearance, poor smell, and bestial language. In villages and cities, gnolls typically work the grimiest jobs available, as they can happily ignore the smells and fumes dealt with by tanners, butchers, and gong farmers. Gnolls have strong jaws and a strong gut, and will happily eat the parts of an animal those around them can't stomach. Living in small families or larger packs, gnolls travel the wilderness hunting for prey and trading for the waste of villages they happen across. reduce my detect balance for them to 26, unless I add something to replace the removed second cantrip later. My estimate from Detect Balance is 28 for all of them.Įdits: caught I'd given the aardgnolls spellcasting twice. I did keep rampage and the bite for the gnoll race. Rather, I took influence from actual hyenas, creating a subrace for each crushing hyena, and a separate race off aardwolves.

These are not based on the demonic style of gnoll from the 5e books.

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