D&D General Have you ever had a Gnoll PC?

[Cadence]

So, Gnolls. They're monstrous non-PC things canonically in 5E (previously were humanoid, but pretty monstrously behaving).

Have you played one in previous editions or this edition? Do you have a friend who did? Did you never really want to before you learned this, but now really do?

 

[Parmandur]

In 3.x, yeah: I was a cannibal. And one of the more normal members of that party. College was fun!

 

[Cadence]

In 3.x, yeah: I was a cannibal. And one of the more normal members of that party. College was fun!

I'm now picturing a bad late 80s college horror film ...

 

[Parmandur]

I'm now picturing a bad late 80s college horror film ...

Mid-Aughts College sitcom (our sitcom hangout was a very nice Mexican dinner in Berkeley)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I am toying with a gnoll replacement (more along the lines of Runequest's broo, which operate in the same thematic space) and making it a playable ancestry in Shadowdark, although it would be one of the "uncorrupted" tribes, rather than evil demon-worshipping ones.

Doesn't Kobold Press have gnolls available as a PC race in their Southlands setting?

 

[Kobold Stew]

Yup, I've played one. In fact, some of my earliest posts on this board were arguing about gnolls as a playable race. I was very disappointed when 5e went out of its way to exclude the possibility for playable gnolls.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

There is no 'I love gnolls, but haven't played one' poll option!

Like, they're hilariously evil. It's amazing in its purity.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

Neither my friends or I ever played a Gnoll in any editions. However, I do have a PC Gnoll option I homebrewed for my world so I’m not against it.

 

[Cadence]

There is no 'I love gnolls, but haven't played one' poll option!

There is now!

 

[Tonguez]

3.5e the party had a gnoll ranger which at the time wasnt that weird (in another campaign I played a Ghoul Gladiator (Psychic Warrior) and in another a Willowisp Psion).

The gnoll in question played something of the 'noble savage' hunter stereotype.