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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4168305" data-attributes="member: 54846">My first 4e campaign will rely on gnolls, I think. I'm gearing up for them.Someone on these boards a while ago mentioned Gnolls being basically what happens when a hyena eats a humanoid's soul, resulting in an evil monster. And thus you have gnolls taking captives, dragging them back to camp to feed and thus pad their numbers. Mix that in with reliance on demons/warlocks (given their demon lord etc etc), and bang.But a recent thought occurred to me:Gnolls are scavengers. They'll eat anything, living or dead. So, they might love undead. Zombies in particular; a resource of food that carries itself, plus a meatshield if you get into a fight. Due to their gruesome habits of digging up the dead and animating them in this habit, gnolls might have a habit of returning as ghouls (or being transformed) on a semi-regular basis. But I havn't decided how the Ghoul fits in with the gnoll society; they are constantly hungry, thus it might be a threat to other gnolls.Maybe this leads to a sort've "schism" between gnolls; do you follow demons, or undead? It might be the cause of a conflict between Orcus and the gnoll's patron. Or it could be a subspecies of gnolls, jackal-headed critters that are the undead-lovers.Dang, reading this thread, there are SO MANY juicy ideas. The hunting hounds of a nastier race, long gone? A version of The Predator? That's just delicious. Though that might be dropped onto some other monsters. Bugbears, given their natural propensity for stealth, might make great Predators for instance.</blockquote>

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