Dungeons and Dragons Lore : Gnoll
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2024
- Spawn of the Demon lord Yeenoghu, Gnolls roam the land, savage and thoroughly evil, infecting the very land with infernal corruption.
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The campaign _Out of the Abyss_ has two interesting gnoll NPCs that can serve as potential allies of the PCs.
One is a gnoll fang of Yeenoghu named Kurr. He's been inflicted with a madness that actually makes him SANE by the standards of the goodly races, in that he regrets all of the chaos and slaughter he's caused and won't fight except in self-defense. When he meets the party, he hangs back and avoids fighting. Once he's the last one standing, Kurr throws himself on the mercy of the party. If he's spared, he becomes a genuine ally of the party, but if later cured of his madness via a spell like Greater Restoration, he reverts to the typical gnoll mindset and tries to kill them.
The second is a regular gnoll named Gash. He's been captured by some minotaurs and goaded into serving as bait of sorts, and has become a willing servant of his abusive captors and of Baphomet, hoping to lure the PCs and their expedition into a trap. But if he's treated with pity and/or kindness, he suddenly becomes confused, having never experienced such things before, and can be convinced to join as an ally with a Persuasion check. If his wounds are magically healed and the effects of his mental and physical abuse negated with Lesser Restoration, this check automatically succeeds. He then warns the party to flee, and reveals his purpose. But if the PCs insist on pressing on, he serves as a genuine guide, trying to keep the party safe.
I don't always slay humanoid enemies in D&D, but when I do these are the ravenous and bloodthirsty spawn of the demon prince Yeenoghu that taste my holy wrath. Stay pious, my friends.
Skillet - Monster
For those wondering what the intro music was.
Thanks
Actually it was Sandstorm - Darude
this is a good guide for how people view/ have legends about gnolls, then having them be normal beastfolk
yeah, they are more like a plague than a species.
That would be pretty funny. I might make a similar canine race that is often confused with Gnolls, just to guilt trip my PCs for slaughtering them.
@@AJPickett The thing is in D&D 3.5 in the Unapproachable East forgot realms book they had them as a race for PCs with details on how they act and why one would possibly join an a party that made them seem more like savage beast folk similar to lizard folk. Even in 4th there were a few articles about how gnoll societies work and how there could be possible peaceful interactions with them. It feels like Wizards simply retconned that image in favor of the completely evil savage scourge route. It's one of the few things I don't like about 5e. I say this as someone who had a gnoll character in 3.5.
I remember when gnolls were a magical cross between gnomes and trolls created by a wizard -- not that it made much sense since neither look like hyenas. One of my sister's characters had a gnoll army.
That metal theme is basically Gnolls in music form. Even DOOM's Demons would shudder at the mere thought of Yeenoghu.
Yeenoghu? More like YIFFnoghu!
I'm in a campaign as a gnoll barbarian
Gnoll sorcerer for me... also doctor
I have a Barb Gnoll too! Hes got that gladiator bg so he can net and trident or glaive stab lol.
When Artificer gets worked out, Im planning on making a Gnoll machinist-style character who's a little touched in the head.
@@DreadnoughtFiend Always remember, if you flesh to stone someone, you can then rock to mud them. Also, both of them being reversible, you can simply mud to rock and then stone to flesh them right back, should you be "kind" enough to do so ;D
@@berner lol didnt get to that point, but I did animate a sack of daggers. I was busy using power word Yeet (catapult) to fire potatoes, or I was twin casting haste or full invisibly on my allies. I was a support sourcerer which was a lot of fun. Nothing like beating the shit out of the Lich's minions with an invisible rogue, then taking on the lich with a hasted paladin. All the while I'm just casting cantrips or lightning bolts.
One idea I've toyed with, with gnolls, is one way to make them ten times worse to the party. Give them minor telepathy. Imagine being a party of adventurers around your campfire at night when you start hearing several sniveling voices and canid laughs in your head. Instant horror in my opinion. IMO it also gives them more of an otherworldly demonic nature, something about them that shows their evil and savage heritage.
Throne of Sin I imagine in that case they would say contradicting things with their mind and tongue to confuse
Empathy. You feel their supernatural hunger and feel REALLY guilty for not letting them eat you.
Nice idea! Wouldn't say instant horror, but it can lead to some creepy scenes! :D
that's not telepathy, that's just how they speak
FLINDS WITH FLIND BARS 👹
I know its 4 years late...But please dig into Gnolls again! You have even more ground to cover and a better ability/equipment to do so.
Good call, I will add them to my update list.
@@AJPickett so they been updated?
@@lokensicarius9347 Heh! Well they are a pretty cool part of the Baldur's Gate III game so a video on them might do well.
Regular Gnoll, Regular, Gnoll
Bill Berndtson u went there
Tol Gnoll, Smol Gnol, Regular Gnoll!
Hmmm...
A scenario with Gnolls, Lycans and Skaven meeting...
This is a happy time for the Flea nation.
I'm thinking; Gnoll Player Character, inspired by post apocalyptic settings like Mad Max and Rage.
I just realized they used AJs idea at 7:40 in Baldur's Gate 3
Totally!! Those bastards!!! Ha ha ha!
You might want to throw this little nugget into your campaign, AJ. In every gnoll infested campaign, I have one special gnoll slaying character. He is a "civilized" gnoll that is a hunter and killer of gnolls, an LE mercenary who only accepts gnoll killing missions. He is tolerated and begrudgingly accepted by the locals, even part of the local guilds. When done killing gnolls, he eats his fill of the dead gnolls, much to the disgust of the good aligned players. I have varying histories of each one, but each one is essentially that. He's a cool hireling for low-level players that don't mind sacrificing a little difficulty and experience to improve their gnoll band survival rate. That merc also has a level that improves as players go up in level, so an eventual friend or for later on too. By the way, NPC gnolls will favor attacking anyone traveling with this hireling (roll twice on the encounter table, taking the second roll instead if it is gnolls, otherwise use the first roll).
Kinda the Blade of Gnolls. Nice.
Lets see... Physically superior (slightly), superior skill, works with humans... Spot on AJ! Oh, and thanks. I love adding little surprises.
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man... 5e really ruined gnolls.
I'm so happy you made this video. One of my players is a ranger and he chose gnolls as his favored enemy. I can't wait to use this ecology for them
Mike Thepiper Let me know how it goes!
Udio has finally given us the technology to actually have gnolls singing to electric guitar riffs.
yes
@@AJPickett
Oof. I tried to post a link to the two hours of this I already created and curated (mostly metal but I particularly enjoyed the rap and dark country), but UA-cam got cranky. Oh well. :(
So, my friend is a Gnoll. He has been stalking my group for days and we are too scared to interact.
I wonder if they are related to the ajaba from white wolf masscaraid
I use thr Ravangers from Firefly as my inspiration for gnolls. When gnolls are around sane people run.
One cam never have enough of these guys in a game.
Once, we had a female one who was a barbarian. A pack appeared and we had to keep her from joining them because instincts.
Female hyenas. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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@bryan diaz varela *Viverroid world
Thanks AJ.
Gnolls bring to mind a pack of feral chihuahuas. s/
*flips a stack of 30 tables*
OWLBEARS!!!!
... Do it...
Please?
XxSoraMifunexX Certainly!
AJ Pickett*Seemingly bottomless gasp*
THANK YOU!!!
I absolutely LOVE Owlbears!
I actually have a homemade Owlbear pelt, complete with feathers and authentic Grizzly claws that I drape over my chair when I DM at home.
Not to brag or anything~ >:3
XxSoraMifunexX That has my utmost respect sir.
My very lst character fell prey to a vile cur of an OwlBear!
That wretched beaked beast!!!
Owlbears are a bit of an underrated critter. Excellent suggestion !
I was sad when I found out Gnolls where not in Volos Guide to Monsters as a player race... the background info is great though!
I legitimately looked through all of your videos for this a while back and couldn’t find it! Been wanting to hear the backstory for these. Hyena are one of my favorite critters. They are actually the most dog like of the feliforms(cat related species).
Yeah .
Watched this already .
But I'm back to do *Gnoll* research as i'm playing a *Gnoll* in a D&D 3.5e game .
Session zero is this Sunday .
There is quite a bit of difference in volume between your intro and your speech.
Anthony D'Mello sound quality is something I have taken a long time to improve on.
Watching your stuff in reverse order to get the story. Amazing how your gnoll birth drscription was damn near identical to BG3 nearly 8 yrs later...
Yeah, they were very accurate 👍
Like I posted on nerdarchy video on yeenoghu.
I love the Fang of Yeenoghu stuff. I had an idea for a gnoll villain. ADAPTATION.
Let's say, a gnoll and his tribe attacks the eastern plains of a continent, they get eventually killed but one manages to survives and bring with him some hyenas. He flees in the northern lands, or a swampy area, it doesn't matter.
What I thought would be that by slaying a creature dwelling in an area, the resulting gnolls created by the Fang's Blessing, could be adapted to that environnment. Like white fur, greenish brown fur to hide in a forest, etc.
I had this in a cold hills setting and the Fang managed to kill a wounded young white dragon. All his spawns were having white fur and she got some white dragon wings (because why not).
very cool idea! and yes, why not? Gnolls are engines of chaos and destruction, it makes sense they would also be very adaptable.
+AJ Pickett (The Mighty Gluestick) Im happy you love the idea. I always loved gnolls.
Why stop their? why not give them a breath attack due to them eating a ice dragons?
You mean *her* tribe? Lol
6 years later still useful
The Cackling Dead... The Gnoll Apocalypse.
I'd love to see a video on Treant's or blights, we need some plant love :p
Been writing a world starting from the point of creation and I’m getting to the part where most of the mortal races get created. The Gnoll’s backstory is one of the most radically changed ones so far. Every race is getting created differently but some are pretty similar to the current cannon. The Gnoll’s?? Nowhere near it.
I once had a character named Kennedy who was killed by a Gassy Gnoll.
One of my favorite low lvl monsters. I cant imagine dnd without them
Also that mug at 7:08
Is that the "I listen to bands that don't exist yet" because if it is i have the same mug that i actually got around the same year here.
Ah good choice :) Always got my support
World of MONSTERS Thank you!
Nicely done as always. Thanks. In my world of Elthos I have a pair of Gnolls (which do not necessarily correspond exactly to other versions of the creatures, but is reasonably close) under the power of a Berzerker named Thorgrim. Yes, that should not happen. But in this case it has. He "won" the two Gnolls in a betting game with a Gnoll Chieftain. Yes, that should not happen either. But in this case the Gnoll Chieftain was under a Compulsion that he, nor the Gnolls, could resist. I won't say whose Compulsion (spoilers for my players might disrupt things and I believe they prowl around on youtube looking for clues). At any rate, Thorgrim can barely control them, and this is with an amulet he must hold in while reciting a certain chant. This causes the Gnolls excruciating agony... so they obey him. The side effect is that he is not safe while he is sleeping. So he must chain the Gnolls up at night... with really strong chains. Thus he can not venture too far from the place where he keeps them. This keeps Thorgrim in check, you might say. And he's not really that happy about it. He can't kill the Gnolls because they heal their wounds back from death (being lesser kin of Trolls), and he fears if he tried that the Amulet's power of control over them might be broken. He also knows that if he ever loses control of either of the Gnolls they will definitely hunt him down and do very bad things to him. Very bad. So he has worked out a precarious existence for himself as the Guardian of a certain portal that he can't leave for too long, with his pet Gnolls to assist him. It's a bad situation for Thorgrim, but he doesn't have a good way to get out of it. Which suits Thorgrim's boss just fine, as Thorgrim's role as Guardian of the Portal is an important one. Alas, Thorgrim knows that one day he will slip up, and either when he's a sleep, or distracted, one or both of the Gnolls will gain the upper hand... and that will be the horrific end of Thorgrim the Berzerker.
+Vb Wyrde heh, nice one. I like the idea of a Gnoll with regeneration (Demonic gift/mutation of Yeenoghu maybe?).
Yeenoghu was a god in AD&D. The division of all the evil gods to make them demon princes appears to be a 5e thing.
In my games, gnolls are primarily scavengers. As long as there is a steady supply of carrion, they don’t hunt at all. When scavenging runs short, they mercilessly hunt anything and everything. They might ignore the farmer in one valley because there is a recent battlefield in the next, but as soon as the easy food is gone…
Consuming living flesh is a sacrifice to Yeenoghu, who prefers his food to be helpless and aware as it’s being eaten.
Great video
Thanks!
A gnoll war cleric that worships yeenoghu (I don't know how to spell it) would make an interesting PC.
My boss bought a knoll mini on a wolf and painted it he Carrys it everywhere he goes and trys to get everyone around to look at it and be like look look I painted this and people be like great now get the Fuck away
Thanks AJ!
Joshua Kirk You are most welcome! Great request, gnolls are cool monsters.
This video is gonna get updated...
I can feel it.
i have 25 28mm gnolls love them
That is certainly enough to destroy a fairly large town and give some adventurers are REALLY bad day. :)
Gnolls are pretty badass great halloween enemies.
Are there any notable gnoll warbands or factions I'd love to hear more stories about gnolls
wow. awesome. using this tonight ... man.
+Rp Sketchbooks This is actually one of my favourite monster videos.
you've given me a brilliant idea for an recurring NPC villain through this one. he didn't end up making an appearance tonight, but he's basically the first monster the party will fight after they make it out of the tombs where they've been imprisoned. (unless the party attacks the neutral half-orc NPC who's meant to supply them with information.) really excited about adding this whole extra dimension into the campaign i'm building. thanks so much for doing these. every time i load one up the ideas just start exploding.
If a dire hyena is turned into a gnoll will it become a dire gnoll?
Isn’t that basically what a flind is?
Who else is here after the third episode of Interspecies Reviewers?
Is it strange that I like these things 😓😓
I would call it a symptom of the chronic lack of Canine Humanoids in D&D. There needs to be more dog folks, at least as many as there are cat folks
A little late to this party, but I was going to put the threat of Yeenoghu being release into the world in my game. How would gnolls go about summoning a demon lord? Would they need help possibly from a hag coven?
AJ Pickett oh wow haha thats one hell of a way to go. I guess summoning a demon lords got to be big. Thanks!
Gnolls are Cute and Fuzzy.
From first hand accounts, the smell of hyenas has been described thus.. "It hits you like a wall built of rotten meat, stagnant mud and sewerage.".....Gnolls probably smell worse.
AJ Pickett I actually have a Gnoll Prisoner with me right now in my D&D campaign. unconscious because i decided not to kill him, and instead, tied him up in ropes. I intend to feed and befriend him, as i have heard a Gnoll's loyalty is stronger than that of a Dwarf's once given. :3
And yes, he's gonna be given a bath.
.... Your DM is gonna kill your character I think
AJ Pickett Highly unlikely. I will let you know how it goes next Saturday. I am confident i can get this pup to work for me.
My favorite smell description was "A skunk that has rolled around in rotten eggs." The first time I played D&D, I played as a gnoll who believed his enemies' blood should never be washed from his body, and so has never bathed. The first time he met the party, the DM made them roll a constitution check to see if they could stand the smell without vomiting. The party Minotaur rolled a 1. Her character threw up blood.
Why do you have flight of the golden dragon playing in the background of this video about savage gnolls?
is the narrator of this video from New Zealand.
Yes, I am.
I have a steampunk gnoll army in Pathfinder. They're one of the good armies ready to help strike down the main villains army. I worked their culture (victorian England, these Gnolls actually hate Yeenoghu and will strike at any Gnoll packs who worship him), and have them living in massive cities reminiscent of the hive cities from Warhammer. I also usually play a Gnoll in D&D and Pathfinder
are there any good gnolls
+Soviless99 As I usually say, if you want good gnolls in your game, have at it. By their base nature, I think it would be a hard road to find a good hearted Gnoll, however, there are good Minotaurs and they have a heavy association with demon lords as well, so, there is a chance.. however I will say this.. NO GLITTER GNOLLS!
whats a glitter gnoll
Very much like a Twilight vampire... an abomination!
OK, jokes aside. In order to get a good Gnoll, in the game setting you would need the bond to Yeenoghu to be severed, which could be achieved with powerful divine blessings and isolation from other Gnolls (who would seek out and destroy the cleansed Gnoll), then you would need to dedicate a lot of time to extensively reprogram that Gnoll to understand the concepts of goodness, empathy and charity, put aside natural instinct and learn how to behave in a functional society.. The other tricky thing is, can Gnolls even reproduce without the power of Yeenoghu? If we assume they can, then it is easier to raise a Gnoll from a pup, to be more of a person, and less of a monster, but even so, mishaps in this process will most likely result in people being murdered, and the Gnolls are most likely to take out frustrations with even minor upsets, by smashing furniture, tearing plants out of the ground, and hurling savage insults.. they are not Human, and will never act completely like one, they will act more like a humanoid Hyena.
+AJ Pickett (The Mighty Gluestick) interesting analysis. I would think its cool to play one as a race is all and i wouldnt want a mindless killing machine. It would be cool to see a intelligent gnoll . Im also sure a good god must decicate themselves to intervene as well
Your Info is good but your Videos are sooo Quiet!
They were, yes, for a long while, until I upgraded my microphone and sound recording software, these days the volume is much improved, but, I will forever strive for perfection, aided much by valuable feedback like this, so, thank you :)
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would you consider a gnoll a monstrosity, like a minotaur
Yes
@@AJPickett thanks bro - appreciate the answer - it get confusing sometimes. Fiend, monstrosity or beastfolk. etc.