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<blockquote data-quote="Fifinjir" data-source="post: 8499793" data-attributes="member: 7031683"><p>There’s been some points about how DMs can do what they want and how not everything has to be gray, which I agree with but I also think gnolls deserve a more active defense of what makes them awesome villains.</p><p></p><p>5E gnolls are h*cking metal and Yeenogu has become my favorite demon lord based on their descriptions. Their extreme in-group out-group divid coupled with the fluidity of how a cultist can go from one to the other is a great example of an alien mentality. Just imagine you’re preparing for a feasts and suddenly one of the animals you were going to kill and eat comes up and says it wants to sit at the table and eat with you. Then you let them, no questions asked. That’s the relationship between gnolls and Yeenogu cultists in a nutshell.</p><p></p><p>Speaking of Yeeny, despite not even being a god, how his relationship to his creations and worshipers is described makes it sound far more spiritual and intimate than most of what the gods offer. Yennogu IS hunger, and his people make their hunger his, and as a result they are never alone nor afraid.</p><p></p><p>And that, being never alone and never afraid, is what makes the lifestyle of the gnolls strangely appealing despite how horrific it is. There’s a sense of comradery with them not found in most monsters, even when they fight amongst themselves the dead are just bright back as witherlings and are right back in the battlegroup, no hard feelings.</p><p></p><p>If I have a criticism, it’s that the part where they enjoy listening to the leuceota mimic the screams of their victims doesn’t quite fit the “feast” aspect from previously. As I see it, gnolls kill and eat, and everyone is invited to the table. Playing with their food seems like a kind of pointless “by the way did we remind you that these guys are bad?” addition. Also, like Faolyn I think more animals should be subject to the transformation, it would make sense and make them feel less like a “race”.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fifinjir, post: 8499793, member: 7031683"] There’s been some points about how DMs can do what they want and how not everything has to be gray, which I agree with but I also think gnolls deserve a more active defense of what makes them awesome villains. 5E gnolls are h*cking metal and Yeenogu has become my favorite demon lord based on their descriptions. Their extreme in-group out-group divid coupled with the fluidity of how a cultist can go from one to the other is a great example of an alien mentality. Just imagine you’re preparing for a feasts and suddenly one of the animals you were going to kill and eat comes up and says it wants to sit at the table and eat with you. Then you let them, no questions asked. That’s the relationship between gnolls and Yeenogu cultists in a nutshell. Speaking of Yeeny, despite not even being a god, how his relationship to his creations and worshipers is described makes it sound far more spiritual and intimate than most of what the gods offer. Yennogu IS hunger, and his people make their hunger his, and as a result they are never alone nor afraid. And that, being never alone and never afraid, is what makes the lifestyle of the gnolls strangely appealing despite how horrific it is. There’s a sense of comradery with them not found in most monsters, even when they fight amongst themselves the dead are just bright back as witherlings and are right back in the battlegroup, no hard feelings. If I have a criticism, it’s that the part where they enjoy listening to the leuceota mimic the screams of their victims doesn’t quite fit the “feast” aspect from previously. As I see it, gnolls kill and eat, and everyone is invited to the table. Playing with their food seems like a kind of pointless “by the way did we remind you that these guys are bad?” addition. Also, like Faolyn I think more animals should be subject to the transformation, it would make sense and make them feel less like a “race”. [/QUOTE]
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