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| [[Image:Gnoll pimp.jpg|thumb|right|It's hard out there for a pimp.]] | | #REDIRECT[[Gnoll]] |
| [[Image:Gnoll pirate.jpg|thumb|right|Yet it's easier for a pirate.]]
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| Gnolls are a problematic race. Originally created as a tougher monster to kill than orcs, their fluff included the phrase "hyena-like." They are essentially hyena-people. You know the Wolfman? Sort of like that, but all the time.
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| Then some enterprising individual looked up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyena Hyenas]. Madness ensued. The lack of sexual dimorphism, the female pseduo-penis and anal glands led to a furry-based explosion of gnoll perversion.
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| Yet gnolls were not cast to the curb. They remain a challenge for low to mid-level players for GMs who dance around the inherent strangeness of a "hyena-like" race.
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| Their two main traits in any given setting or edition is that they are evil and lazy. This laziness gives them a fondness for taking slaves, and as any GM knows, you can't beat slavers for properly repulsive villains to make your PCs feel heroic. Unfortunately, when the furries found out about the slavery, their twisted minds immediately jumped to "sex slavery". Please, don't go down that route.
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| If you do, however, remember that female spotted hyenas have a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-penis pseudo-penis] which can be utilized. If your not a [[/d/M]] the Hyena link implies that gnoll society,much like the real world Spotted Hyena, is matriarchal in nature anyway. There's a reason we consider them problematic.
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| In D&D of various editions, Gnolls are typically worshippers of Yeenoghu, a Demon Prince known as the Beast of Butchery, who fights a constant, futile battle against the far stronger Baphomet and Orcus.
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| In [[Pathfinder]], the Gnolls worship and claim to be children of [[Lamashtu]], a twisted-as-fuck goddess of mutations, madness and miscarriages.
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| See also, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnoll their Wikipedia page]
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| ==Unified Setting Description==
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| *[[Unified Setting/Gnolls]]
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| {{D&D4e-Races}}
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| [[Category:Races]]
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| [[Category:Dungeons & Dragons Races]]
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