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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thedip" data-source="post: 7096988" data-attributes="member: 6875555">The problem, for me, with adding more and more non standard races is that people don't tend to "play" them - they just become a human (in this case with a dog face). One of the reasons that I stopped playing DnD around 3/3.5 was the plethora of new player race. It got to the position, I DM'ed a few conferences, that you had to play spot the human (and to a lesser extent short stocky Scottish humans, with a penchant for ale and humans with pointed ears).If you want to play a Gnoll, how do they differ from humans in terms of diet, society, smell and hygiene (foxes and dogs often roll in animal poo). Play a Gnoll - but what is his/her motivation other than having a nice hair dye and perm?I once played a lizard folk character, she was rescued as a child after her village had been destroyed by Sahuagin. She had a nasty habit (to humans etc.) of wanting to eat fallen enemies to honour the fallen;which she saw at religious ceremonies. According to village druids the creature's spirit had flown and the body now feeds the body and the ground. How would a Gnoll act? Would you be able to take then to a fine dining restaurant? If you want to play a Gnoll, play a Gnoll not a block of stats and bonuses.Ssara (the name given to her as no one could pronounce her real name) became a Ranger (I will leave you to guess what her favoured enemy was). She was great fun to role play, especially when interacting with those strange non saurian types.</blockquote>

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