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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 664951" data-attributes="member: 2480">Gnolls Serve No Useful PurposeWell, I have to break the flow of Gnoll Love, and say no, I don't like Gnolls at all. They serve no really useful purpose other than to be another race of humanoids of the PCs to take on. Back in the days where there was no monster advancement, and no classed monsters, they were at least a step along the chain of humanoid monsters. Now? They are just another bunch of orcs by another name. They have no inherent traits that distinguish them from other races.And really, it gets boring really fast to run into yet another humanoid race! Frankly it belies something of a lack of imagination if you can't manage to create different cultures of 'monster' race on the same framework. Rather than having Orcs, they become the Orcs of the Khulaen Plains versus the Orcs of the Ice Ocean, with each being distinct. To put it another way, in the standard world do we try and create forty species of 'human' to populate multiple nations? Or do we apply ideas creatively to the same race and produce nations, groups and tribes that are distinct?(P.S. deliberately phrased as I have - otherwise we'll just spiral round in happy dances! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )</blockquote>