Sun Tzu said that. And I'd say he knows a little more about fighting then you do pal because he invented it, then perfected it so no living man could best him in the ring of honor!
@@bubalackgaming8892 "...And with his fight money, he bought two of every animal on earth, herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one."
@starshipeleven I get that, no worries, it just reminded me of that joke (source of which I can't recall - Always Sunny maybe?) Like the problem you have with the accusation isn't the crime, it's being technically correct.
There's also the Anpur in the oft-unseen Hamunaptra setting. Jackal-like gnolls who stand as the guardians of the dead. They're specifically called 'gnolls' a lot of the time despite having a more divine origin.
Fun fact, Hyenas aren't actually canines, they're from the Feliformia suborder alongside cats, mongoose and other 'cat like' carnivores. They simply evolved to fill the same role a wolf would in their ecosystem, hence the similarities.
Similarly the thylacine, called both the Tasmanian wolf and tiger but since it was a marsupial it was neither canine nor feline just convergently evolved
In our setting, gnolls were actually birthed in an even more horrific way. Yeenhogu was born from the union of Jithrathrok, the god of bandits, rape, and pillaging, and Tarkan'Nala, the depraved goddess of beasts and monsters. This union was also the same one that produced the Tarrasque, incidentally. Yeenhogu was born with a large number of divine siblings. However, with full approval of both of his parents, he ate all of them, gorging himself to the point where he vomited. And from the half-digested flesh of his brothers and sisters were the first gnolls born.
I don't know why but i love Gnolls as antagonistic forces, there is something so threatening and scary about their feral and simple motives, there is something really dark about them that isn't there for other creators like them
Relly I think the only way get rid of Yeenoghu infuance from the gnolls is enacting the first instance of a 3 hendersons level of derailment (in which the Events of the derailed sesson is seared into collective conscience of the D&D commuinty because of the sheer setting breaking scale of the event that this derailed sesson. Future GMs will set campaign based on the aftermarth of the derailed sesson because they find the irretrievably broken state more of the setting fascinating thain the stock verson or at least extreamly amusing.)
Originally, gnolls were troll gnome hybrids, but that was deemed way too stupid and they were retconned into hynena people. Related note, hyenas are matriarchal, and the less said about their reproductive habits in public, the better. Edit:grammar.
@Ian Yoder, I'm glad they didn't have the gnolls have a matriarchy like hyenas, there is a reason why hyenas are not normally more than lowly scavengers, and it is because they have "strong, independent waman". All jokes aside, I am glad that they didn't put that in there.
@@thewonderfullymadejaraid7015 The reason hyenas aren't often more than scavengers is because that's a useful niche to occupy. Many animals prefer to scavenge, hunting is both calorie intensive and carries the risk of injury, which for basically every non-human species is a death sentence. Even with predatory species, if you're aware of them and they can tell, they generally won't risk it. A cheetah won't waste time with the gazelle that's watching it, and if you're encircled by lions, if you just don't present your back to them, you and a few friends can stare down a pride of 20 without any real problem. Also, among hyenas the females are often larger and significantly more aggressive. Applying human mores and sexual dimorphism to other species, in almost any case, is useless. Fun fact of the day: Hyenas have among the most powerful jaws in the animal kingdom, and can shatter a water buffalo's femur with ease.
@@dans9097, I literally said in my comment: "All jokes aside" as in I was joking. And you can notice my comment has not been edited, so that means that my comment has always had the "All jokes aside", saying that I was joking.
There was a previous god of the gnolls that got dethroned by yenoghu (or however you spell that) and to forget his ass beating he constantly drinks from the river styx
I have a DnD character I'd love to use, a "domesticated" (or rather, possibly brain damaged) Gnoll that always has to be on a leash. When the party enters a city they just say its their ugly pet dog wearing a muzzle. At one point maybe they leave the Gnoll in their inn room to investigate something and when they return the room is completely trashed and the Gnoll is gone with a hole in the wall.
@@stw7120 "What's wrong with your pet?" "That's our dog." "Why does it smell like it's rotting?" "She doesn't like baths." "Why is it laughing manically instead of barking?" "She's bilingual."
I had a lenient DM that let me play a gnoll once, and that was the most fun I’ve ever had in DnD hands down. Watching the party have to explain everyday things that were alien to me like money, affection, and not eating your dead comrades and keeping their bones as rations was memorable.
Wrote up a Gnoll PC by name of "Brokiin"; a pack runt who ended up being enslaved by an Orcish warband until they realized that he was useful for tracking caravans and had a knack for organizing ambushes. He was effectively "domesticated" by them and became a mascot of sorts for their tribe. Class would likely be fighter/battle master and his build would be oriented around crippling the enemy and buffing allies. His character would be chaotic by nature, but his thoughts and actions would all run through orderly process of "identify, understand, exploit". his character arc would likely be built off of learning how the civilized world works and adapting to things like culture, law, and most importantly: compassion to adopt strength from them and satiate his murderous hunger. Brokiin starts off thinking that there's power in numbers, and he needs that power so he can devour everything, but by the end of his journey; it becomes apparent that he's really just one animal and there's no way he could achieve this, so it would make more sense to make sure everyone is fed instead.
@@CrazyLikeUhFox God I want to play a gnoll so bad. I haven't written one up yet bc im a forever DM but I like the idea of a huge stupid barbarian who talks exclusively in the third person and refers to those not in the party as "meat". as in "maybe ask meat with shiny hat when vampires attack?" Don't know the backstory yet though.
I run a gnoll in the game I'm in! Sorgnyn Gnarlgnash, powerful necromancer and 'legitimate' businessman. Consumed by greed and avarice, his ultimate goal is to use his zombie hoard as slave labor for his capital ventures. But for now, using them as allies, decoys, distractions, target practice and just general playthings will suffice. He built a catapult. It's great.
@@serotonin.scavenger My mother asked my brother, me and our childhood friends for a name for my sister. We unanimously said Ariel. My mom ignored us, and instead named my sister the trendiest name of that year.
@@fraidnaught9067 You are absolutely correct, but we can both agree they're not dogs or any other caniform and that it's pretty annoying when people call them dogs, right?
I'm always torn between having gnolls be "misunderstood hyena people" and "LITERAL DEMON SPAWN". I think Keith Baker said that the 4E lore on gnolls is how he imagines they work in Eberron, and that is a nice balance between the two.
In my first campaign that ever went into epic levels my character was a Gnoll Ranger that used a double-sided flail. His adventures stopped when him and another group member took a very unfortunate tumble into an endless pit. We agreed they just played cards together while falling until they died of hunger, so we could roll new ones.
Funny that they’re even able to hold back on keeping their buddies' bones intact to create Witherlings since real hyenas eat bones so often that their poop is white.
I think Runesmith saw the Clifford movie trailer and had the same pucker moment of the general public when they realized how terrifying a "realistic" Clifford would be.
There was a time when my DM was feeling malicious, and so he had a Flind and a crap ton of gnolls and hyenas attack a already wounded party, and we somehow managed to beat them. Gnolls are really scary.
My players decided to attempt to rest on the plains, roughly a day's trip away from the nearest town, which happened to be an expedition outpost. The one who kept watch already had 2 points of exhaustion, the paladin decided she needed to punish herself for accidentally breaking her god's rule, the bard decided to cry herself to sleep (she has feelings for the paladin and it hurt her to watch the paladin flog herself) and the cleric (he's a kobold) decided to roast a few field mice over the fire and have a snack. Everyone fell asleep. The paladin passed out from pain, and the kobold is trying to "train himself to have a decent sleep cycle" Gnolls crept into their camp and snatched up the paladin, who was unconscious. The Flind who was leading the warband wanted to sacrifice her to Yeenoghu as a testament to his loyalty, soon after the gnolls would tear her apart. The only reason the paladin got away was the kobold woke up due to the commotion (he was a light sleeper and he had the alert feat) and he followed them.
Maybe if you hit it in the head, like, a lot, and them you reeducated him, you can have a friendly gnoll with you ^^ Until a cleric cast any spell that repairs the brain of your new companion, in that case, repead the process. Edit: I think that in Eberron are some friendly gnoll...
I mean if you can somehow sever said Gnoll's connection to Yeenohgu, the source of every Gnolls rabid hunger, they could be more friendly, at minimum they probably wouldn't feel the need to eat every fleshy part of you.
@@Kingjder02 Well, you can make him insane and think that he is a human merchant from distants lands And if the party somehow cure him of is insanity, them he become hostile Pd: Sorry for my bad english
I don't really like their lore and any homebrew that treats them more like beastfolk instead of another demonic creature I appreciate it better, but I guess they are still better than many monsters.
On a stibbles, in most of my games I give the party the chance to have a myconid compa...pet, just to give them a funny shroom dude that helps with communication. Love the idea of good usable companions, can’t wait to get my copy.
Gnolls actually made up my first big combat encounter in DND. I fought some twig blights and goblins before them but the gnolls were the first big encampment of enemies I fought. It was when DND really clicked for me. That's why gnolls will always hold a special place in my heart.
I basically rewrote them to be the byproducts hyenas eating undead and they they stalk, and that if fed enough undead corpses, a hyena can transform into a gnoll. Thus gnolls are sort of the natural magical response to necromancy.
They are also among the three greatest dancing races in all of dnd. Imagine the Argentinian tango mixed with a bit of Irish river dance. An impressive display to be sure. Totally raw lore. Oh, and they also know how to bake cookies.
rumors and legends say that after a Tarrasque is killed by a worthy foe, it's blood and muscle breaks out of it's body and forms itself into a dog-shaped red mess of pulsating meat, sustained by the bones of the corpse the tales call him... The Clifford
I know this comment is coming in a bit late, but there's actually an official adventure published by WotC on the DMs guild called "Where Devils Fear to Tread" that revolves around traveling into Yeenoghu' s layer of the Abyss and killing him. It may require a bit of tinkering with to fit into your campaign (the Adventure is geared for characters Lv.17+) but it could serve as the ground work of an epic boss battle with the gnoll god incarnate.
I absolutely love the Mythic Odyssey of Theros. It allows me to do the classic leonin tribe vs the ever growing threat of the gnolls. It's just perfect!
Awesome video! One thing tho, u forgot to mention the Shoosuva. It's a hyena-demon dog of doom gifted by yeenoghu to a particularly strong gnoll, like a fang or flind. Regardless, I love ur content, and hope all is well!
I've been waiting for this video for so long!! (Also this lore is very much specific to 5th edition, they had some more nuance in previous editions) (Also hyenas aren't dogs, but they are indeed very cute)
Worth noting that there's no singular "D&D lore". There are a lot of different official settings with their own lore, but the primary one (and the one that this channel mainly covers) is the Forgotten Realms. Also a lot of DMs just make their own settings and ignore all of the official lore.
My favorite moment with gnolls is when one of the players in my group traded a whole gnoll skeleton for a bag of metal scraps; after I failed at trying to pass off one of their hides as a deer.
Kinda wanna make a campaign where the main plot is that the god of the knolls had decided to make an alliance with the god of orcs so they can get him out and back into the world and the gnolls and orcs become allies and wage war against the world.
there's a supplement on the dmsguild called the Book of House that has playable 'tempered' gnolls who have a neat way of handling their mad hunger!! it's the same book with that race of clown people, it's a VERY neat supplement
this was fun to watch, I myself am new to dnd and have already made a character! A gnoll rogue named scarecrow. I always liked his backstory to be that he was a runt hyena and couldn't survive in a gnoll clan, so he left his life and his old clan behind, he can maintain his hungry and is able to last away without ripping something to sheds, he meets the rest of the players in a bar fight, and to this day travels with them! eating leftover bones and scaring off enemies :D
But you need a gnoll to track your gnolls Caught you're gnoll disorganized, You can click, open the gnoll, You heard about on Critical Gnoll, And now you're ready to kick some gnolls In a mineshaft full of
2 things: 1 Hyena's and to that extent gnolls are not dogs, Hyena's are their own group in carnivores they look and act like dogs due to convergent evolution and relative wise they are actually on the Cat side of the carnivore family tree while dogs are on the other side with bears, racoons, weasels etc. Number 2 you forgot to mention how Yeenoghu hates Baphomet and the two constantly have wars with each other. Also some clans of Gnolls are tired of working for Yeenoghu and have just started worshiping wilderness gods or shaman spirits cause while they love to eat they hate sharing with yeenoghu.
one of my favorite player characters in my campaign (shh dont tell my players i have favourites) is a Gnoll Necromancer who is also a Chef, and has issues with his extended family. We love him.
I love gnolls. I made a one shot Mad Max Fury Road ripoff where the gnolls rode on chariots and war wagons pulled by giant hyenas. They chased the refugee caravan the PCs were sworn to protect. Of course there was an albino gnoll pack lord who ran the show, a war wagon with chained gnolls banging drums, and a gnoll bard named Gnash with a fire bolt throwing lute.
Made em smaller and used them to replace goblins they work great(some context, wicked gods come and corrupt the creation of the gud gods and created the Monsters corrupting animals, Lionmen,Heynamen, Elephantmen.
*points to 3.5 and whispers* Play the better version. They have racial stats for almost everything and rules for converting everything else that doesn't.
Shifters from eberron are basically slightly toned down playable race of lycanthropes, so they can be of almost any type of beast. no lycantrope immunities and free shapechange into a wolf/bird/whatewer, but they got some beastly features
I made 2 homebrew gnolls to fight in my gnoll army: Using the lore that hyenas are gnoll pupae made bloated hyenas; giant hyena variants with a slight speed decrease, poison damage added to their bite, and when they die 1d4 gnoll warriors explode out of them. The second is a gnoll amalgamation. It is a huge monstrosity of rotting flesh and bome made up of 5+ gnoll witherlings that can attack with multiple arms and can feast on other gnolls or witherlings to gain temporary hp and additional attacks. At certaindamage thresholds it loses pieces/attacks similar to troll variants.
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"No survivors doesn't apply to your own forces"
- Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu said that. And I'd say he knows a little more about fighting then you do pal because he invented it, then perfected it so no living man could best him in the ring of honor!
@@bubalackgaming8892 "...And with his fight money, he bought two of every animal on earth, herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one."
@@liamhunter1197 "That's why they call it a Tzu! ................. unless it's a farm!"
"when you have the flu"
"All warfare is based"
-Sun Tzu
"like an American war hero"
*shows a picture of Soldier, canonically a civilian and warcriminal*
* *""""""""hero""""""""""*
Rip Rick may
@starshipeleven This is like answering an accusation with "I'm not a *serial* killer."
@starshipeleven I get that, no worries, it just reminded me of that joke (source of which I can't recall - Always Sunny maybe?)
Like the problem you have with the accusation isn't the crime, it's being technically correct.
@@InternetDrone “Geneva Convention? More like Geneva Suggestion” *shoots unarmed civilians* that’s you, that’s how you sound right now
The fact that Clifford is half the size of a Tarrasque is terrifying. Is Clifford's owner secretly St Martha?
I understood that reference
@@cameronpearce5943 same
.... I mean... Emily DID tame him.
@David Silverman true, her FIRST name is Emily-Elisabeth
More like the Abbot of St. Markovia at this rate
Shhh, nobody tell Runesmith that hyenas are not dogs, they're not even close relatives of dogs.
and don't tell him that african wild dog is the name of a species of dog
They're like reverse foxes
Much closer to cats, yes
Shh... meercats...
Kinda look like dogs tho.
Close enough.
A biology professor Ranger that hunts the people that call Hyena dogs, mushroom plants and spiders insects
Replace professor with student, and you've got me.
I still don't get how people bamboozle shrooms so damm hard
@@freakyzoid3565 Some folks just lump any not animal multicellular lifeform in the Plant category
does "stupid person" count as a preferred foe for the purpose of a Ranger?
@@Zakumei With the right dm, probably.
So what you’re saying is we need official stats for Clifford?
Emily Elizabeth must be a 20th level beast master ranger
Yes, yes we do.
Stibble's Second Codex of Companions
Cr 10? 15 maybe?
@@torva360 Stibble's Kodex of- OH GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT, RUN, RUN!
I'm not a gnoblin, I'm not a gnelf, I'm a Gnoll and you've been Gnolled!
this guy beat me to it :/
*gets savagely beaten to death*
@@birdthenerd2163 praise be to Yeenoghu
Well there go my internal organs
*I’m a gnoll and you’ve been stabbed!
"On each of his vists he made a bunch of kids, like an American war hero"
You made me laugh my lungs out you mad man
That's pretty much every war hero ever.
That hurt me :))) omg
@Dalton K It's just a piece of art I found.
@@positrondecay4784 War Hero Genghis Khan.
@Dalton K Thank you :>
Faerun Gnolls: Hunger and kill!!
Eberron Gnolls: Honorable mercenaries, in control of themselves who reject their fiendish origins and have a union.
There's also the Anpur in the oft-unseen Hamunaptra setting. Jackal-like gnolls who stand as the guardians of the dead. They're specifically called 'gnolls' a lot of the time despite having a more divine origin.
Eberron, turning rabid monsters in normal people since, correct me if I'm wrong, 2006.
@@nicolaezenoaga9756 2004 was the first Eberron publication
@@nicolaezenoaga9756 Eberron, "What if the cannon lore wasn't kinda shit?" Since 2004
@@tal4726 Thank you!
Fun fact, Hyenas aren't actually canines, they're from the Feliformia suborder alongside cats, mongoose and other 'cat like' carnivores. They simply evolved to fill the same role a wolf would in their ecosystem, hence the similarities.
This makes sense as the only natural enemy of a big cat species is another cat species. Furry murder machines and I love them all.
Dosn't matter. They like humans and if you feed them they will be all happy and like you. That's a doggo, not a catto.
Similarly the thylacine, called both the Tasmanian wolf and tiger but since it was a marsupial it was neither canine nor feline just convergently evolved
"Two-story"
"25 feet"
Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures
5 feet
I’ve already found 2
About 3 feet. 2 stories is 28 feet.
Well two-story is definitely a good book and 25 feet sounds like a lot of legs
Whoever wrote that companions book really outdid themselves
Salvatore?
When the Druid multiclasses into bard and has too much fun.
Can I steal this idea
Bards are canonically the reason for every single half breed in existence.
@@llamazilla8712 yes of course (dont make furry jokes tho i just started thinking about it and now its making the joke weird)
@@GeekMasterGM oh shit oh fuck
@@GeekMasterGM don't worry about it.
In our setting, gnolls were actually birthed in an even more horrific way. Yeenhogu was born from the union of Jithrathrok, the god of bandits, rape, and pillaging, and Tarkan'Nala, the depraved goddess of beasts and monsters. This union was also the same one that produced the Tarrasque, incidentally.
Yeenhogu was born with a large number of divine siblings. However, with full approval of both of his parents, he ate all of them, gorging himself to the point where he vomited. And from the half-digested flesh of his brothers and sisters were the first gnolls born.
I don't know why but i love Gnolls as antagonistic forces, there is something so threatening and scary about their feral and simple motives, there is something really dark about them that isn't there for other creators like them
there is no reasoning with gnashing teeth of demonspawn... :)
"Gnolls are born when a hyena eats so much it can't move, then pops and out comes a gnoll". I reject WOTC's lore, and substitute my own.
But... isn't that the WOTC lore? They eat so much, they fall over and fucking explode, and it spawns gnolls...
@@EzekiesAcheron not in MY settings. My Gnolls are regular mammals, with Gnoll mommies and daddies. What's WOTC gonna do, send the Canon Cops on me?
@@RomLoneWolf23
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Oh shit, the canon police, lmao.
Relly I think the only way get rid of Yeenoghu infuance from the gnolls is enacting the first instance of a 3 hendersons level of derailment (in which the Events of the derailed sesson is seared into collective conscience of the D&D commuinty because of the sheer setting breaking scale of the event that this derailed sesson. Future GMs will set campaign based on the aftermarth of the derailed sesson because they find the irretrievably broken state more of the setting fascinating thain the stock verson or at least extreamly amusing.)
@@ryanzhu546 I feel like I should be able to understand this, and I'm ashamed that I dont.
Originally, gnolls were troll gnome hybrids, but that was deemed way too stupid and they were retconned into hynena people. Related note, hyenas are matriarchal, and the less said about their reproductive habits in public, the better.
Edit:grammar.
@Ian Yoder, I'm glad they didn't have the gnolls have a matriarchy like hyenas, there is a reason why hyenas are not normally more than lowly scavengers, and it is because they have "strong, independent waman". All jokes aside, I am glad that they didn't put that in there.
@@thewonderfullymadejaraid7015 The reason hyenas aren't often more than scavengers is because that's a useful niche to occupy. Many animals prefer to scavenge, hunting is both calorie intensive and carries the risk of injury, which for basically every non-human species is a death sentence.
Even with predatory species, if you're aware of them and they can tell, they generally won't risk it. A cheetah won't waste time with the gazelle that's watching it, and if you're encircled by lions, if you just don't present your back to them, you and a few friends can stare down a pride of 20 without any real problem.
Also, among hyenas the females are often larger and significantly more aggressive. Applying human mores and sexual dimorphism to other species, in almost any case, is useless.
Fun fact of the day: Hyenas have among the most powerful jaws in the animal kingdom, and can shatter a water buffalo's femur with ease.
@@dans9097, I literally said in my comment: "All jokes aside" as in I was joking. And you can notice my comment has not been edited, so that means that my comment has always had the "All jokes aside", saying that I was joking.
@@thewonderfullymadejaraid7015 It wasn't really funny.
@@prism8278, I wasn't trying to be
I personally prefer the headcanon that Yeenoghu's a girl, since real hyena packs are always led by a female.
A female sporting a Pseudo-Penis to intimidate the males. Lol
I actually like this idea, and will be using it in my own world
@@sakunya9142 Thaaaaaaank you for that image. I'm now going to poor bleach on my brain
Oh fuck that's actualy a great idea
I think only one species of hyenas, the spotted ones, sport the matriarchy and pseudo-dong.
There was a previous god of the gnolls that got dethroned by yenoghu (or however you spell that) and to forget his ass beating he constantly drinks from the river styx
Two E's in Yeenoghu's name
Also, imagine going on an adventure to find your old boss to stop him from being an alcoholic, sober up, and go fight for his old job back.
Gorellik is the one you're thinking of.
the styx wouldn't make you forget things, that's the lethe.
I have a DnD character I'd love to use, a "domesticated" (or rather, possibly brain damaged) Gnoll that always has to be on a leash. When the party enters a city they just say its their ugly pet dog wearing a muzzle. At one point maybe they leave the Gnoll in their inn room to investigate something and when they return the room is completely trashed and the Gnoll is gone with a hole in the wall.
That's great. I'd love to describe how it's obviously humanoid and has a crossbow bolt in its eye socket, but other NPCs tell not to worry about it.
@@stw7120 "What's wrong with your pet?"
"That's our dog."
"Why does it smell like it's rotting?"
"She doesn't like baths."
"Why is it laughing manically instead of barking?"
"She's bilingual."
I had a lenient DM that let me play a gnoll once, and that was the most fun I’ve ever had in DnD hands down.
Watching the party have to explain everyday things that were alien to me like money, affection, and not eating your dead comrades and keeping their bones as rations was memorable.
Wrote up a Gnoll PC by name of "Brokiin"; a pack runt who ended up being enslaved by an Orcish warband until they realized that he was useful for tracking caravans and had a knack for organizing ambushes. He was effectively "domesticated" by them and became a mascot of sorts for their tribe. Class would likely be fighter/battle master and his build would be oriented around crippling the enemy and buffing allies. His character would be chaotic by nature, but his thoughts and actions would all run through orderly process of "identify, understand, exploit". his character arc would likely be built off of learning how the civilized world works and adapting to things like culture, law, and most importantly: compassion to adopt strength from them and satiate his murderous hunger. Brokiin starts off thinking that there's power in numbers, and he needs that power so he can devour everything, but by the end of his journey; it becomes apparent that he's really just one animal and there's no way he could achieve this, so it would make more sense to make sure everyone is fed instead.
@@CrazyLikeUhFox God I want to play a gnoll so bad. I haven't written one up yet bc im a forever DM but I like the idea of a huge stupid barbarian who talks exclusively in the third person and refers to those not in the party as "meat". as in "maybe ask meat with shiny hat when vampires attack?" Don't know the backstory yet though.
I run a gnoll in the game I'm in! Sorgnyn Gnarlgnash, powerful necromancer and 'legitimate' businessman. Consumed by greed and avarice, his ultimate goal is to use his zombie hoard as slave labor for his capital ventures. But for now, using them as allies, decoys, distractions, target practice and just general playthings will suffice.
He built a catapult. It's great.
Ah, I love the Clifford reference. I named my sister after Emily Elizabeth when I was 5.
You named your sister? If that isn't a power move, I don't know what is.
@@serotonin.scavenger My mother asked my brother, me and our childhood friends for a name for my sister. We unanimously said Ariel. My mom ignored us, and instead named my sister the trendiest name of that year.
I named mine after a train in thomas the tank engine
@Dalton K Kristen
@@bakomusha Please tell me you still call her Ariel
Druids everywhere: "Gnolls are FELIDS you CRETIN!!"
They are not, they are Feliform Carnivores, which is much different. Seals for example are not Canids, and neither are racoons.
@@fraidnaught9067 You are absolutely correct, but we can both agree they're not dogs or any other caniform and that it's pretty annoying when people call them dogs, right?
@@TimesChu Right, they aren't dogs.
Are you sure? Maybe this was what Carlos McConnell discovered after all...
Gnolls are...
... a fantasy creature
Gnolls are so much scarier, creepier, and sadistic than I thought. Definitely gonna use them as higher stakes enemies in the future
I'm always torn between having gnolls be "misunderstood hyena people" and "LITERAL DEMON SPAWN". I think Keith Baker said that the 4E lore on gnolls is how he imagines they work in Eberron, and that is a nice balance between the two.
How's 4e lore on gnolls?
In my first campaign that ever went into epic levels my character was a Gnoll Ranger that used a double-sided flail. His adventures stopped when him and another group member took a very unfortunate tumble into an endless pit. We agreed they just played cards together while falling until they died of hunger, so we could roll new ones.
Ironic, Stibbles can keep his animal companions alive forever but not his life companion. u_u
"Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Stibbles the Wise?"
Imagine not treating your life companion like an animal.
Too soon
Funny that they’re even able to hold back on keeping their buddies' bones intact to create Witherlings since real hyenas eat bones so often that their poop is white.
1:44 Missed opportunity to say "To punch & to munch"
I think Runesmith saw the Clifford movie trailer and had the same pucker moment of the general public when they realized how terrifying a "realistic" Clifford would be.
Finally you’re covering the hyenas from lion king
Yeena boys! Fought them in a coliseum once and they turned me into a pincushion
Get better armor scrub
So when Yeenaghu after eating everything that every other gnoll eats and bursts from being a cacoon... what comes out?
Yeenaghu 2.0, where he is even more humanoid
Yeenoghu starts NG+
@@arcticdino1650 he will continue this until he resembles the hyena version of a neko. An anime hyena boy
There was a time when my DM was feeling malicious, and so he had a Flind and a crap ton of gnolls and hyenas attack a already wounded party, and we somehow managed to beat them. Gnolls are really scary.
My players decided to attempt to rest on the plains, roughly a day's trip away from the nearest town, which happened to be an expedition outpost.
The one who kept watch already had 2 points of exhaustion, the paladin decided she needed to punish herself for accidentally breaking her god's rule, the bard decided to cry herself to sleep (she has feelings for the paladin and it hurt her to watch the paladin flog herself) and the cleric (he's a kobold) decided to roast a few field mice over the fire and have a snack.
Everyone fell asleep. The paladin passed out from pain, and the kobold is trying to "train himself to have a decent sleep cycle"
Gnolls crept into their camp and snatched up the paladin, who was unconscious. The Flind who was leading the warband wanted to sacrifice her to Yeenoghu as a testament to his loyalty, soon after the gnolls would tear her apart.
The only reason the paladin got away was the kobold woke up due to the commotion (he was a light sleeper and he had the alert feat) and he followed them.
What if we had a "friendly" gnoll? Ya'know like Casper but he's not a ghost
Maybe if you hit it in the head, like, a lot, and them you reeducated him, you can have a friendly gnoll with you ^^
Until a cleric cast any spell that repairs the brain of your new companion, in that case, repead the process.
Edit: I think that in Eberron are some friendly gnoll...
I mean if you can somehow sever said Gnoll's connection to Yeenohgu, the source of every Gnolls rabid hunger, they could be more friendly, at minimum they probably wouldn't feel the need to eat every fleshy part of you.
I mean I was going to make a friendly neighborhood traveling Merchant that was a Gnoll.
@@Kingjder02 Well, you can make him insane and think that he is a human merchant from distants lands
And if the party somehow cure him of is insanity, them he become hostile
Pd: Sorry for my bad english
Why should there be?
Finally this race has been a-gnoll-edged by runesmith. Now we just need a video on death knights in 5e!
Finally, someone acknowledges the best monster in D&D
The Yugoloths have something to say about that
You mean the American War Hero ?
Weird, this video isn't about Thri-kreen
What someone mentioned Dragons?
I don't really like their lore and any homebrew that treats them more like beastfolk instead of another demonic creature I appreciate it better, but I guess they are still better than many monsters.
what a nice family, supporting each other like that. :)
On a stibbles, in most of my games I give the party the chance to have a myconid compa...pet, just to give them a funny shroom dude that helps with communication. Love the idea of good usable companions, can’t wait to get my copy.
People reading title: basically gnolls
Me, a man of culture: *BASICALLY GNOLLS, BASICALLY GNOLLS*
What?
@@حَسن-م3ه9ظ It’s a joke from Critical Role were they started singing “regular gnoll” to the tune of “Breaking The Law”.
"We are gnolls, what gnolls do?" "We gnaw stuff" "So let's go GNAW THEM!!!"
Ah, a fellow man of culture.
Gnolls actually made up my first big combat encounter in DND. I fought some twig blights and goblins before them but the gnolls were the first big encampment of enemies I fought. It was when DND really clicked for me. That's why gnolls will always hold a special place in my heart.
"so your companion lives forever"
well... that's uncomfortable
I basically rewrote them to be the byproducts hyenas eating undead and they they stalk, and that if fed enough undead corpses, a hyena can transform into a gnoll. Thus gnolls are sort of the natural magical response to necromancy.
They are also among the three greatest dancing races in all of dnd. Imagine the Argentinian tango mixed with a bit of Irish river dance. An impressive display to be sure. Totally raw lore. Oh, and they also know how to bake cookies.
Got any sources?
@@jonathanwells223 older edition dnd magazine, volo's introduction to gnolls. he used to do a paragraph on different species every month.
rumors and legends say that after a Tarrasque is killed by a worthy foe, it's blood and muscle breaks out of it's body and forms itself into a dog-shaped red mess of pulsating meat, sustained by the bones of the corpse
the tales call him... The Clifford
Thank you for giving me literally the whole first arc of my campaign
I know this comment is coming in a bit late, but there's actually an official adventure published by WotC on the DMs guild called "Where Devils Fear to Tread" that revolves around traveling into Yeenoghu' s layer of the Abyss and killing him.
It may require a bit of tinkering with to fit into your campaign (the Adventure is geared for characters Lv.17+) but it could serve as the ground work of an epic boss battle with the gnoll god incarnate.
Curnott thanks for the advice imma do some digging up.
I was looking at Gnolls just last night and hoping I'd see something from you or Rhexx
You posted this right as I'm preparing to use gnolls in my campaign, thanks!
as my favorite race, I can't explain how excited I was when I saw this.
Gnolls were the main focus of my first game I ever played in! This is good
I absolutely love the Mythic Odyssey of Theros. It allows me to do the classic leonin tribe vs the ever growing threat of the gnolls. It's just perfect!
Awesome video! One thing tho, u forgot to mention the Shoosuva. It's a hyena-demon dog of doom gifted by yeenoghu to a particularly strong gnoll, like a fang or flind. Regardless, I love ur content, and hope all is well!
I've been waiting for this video for so long!!
(Also this lore is very much specific to 5th edition, they had some more nuance in previous editions)
(Also hyenas aren't dogs, but they are indeed very cute)
I've never played D&D.
I find it's lore at times convoluted, at times simplistic.
I enjoy these videos and I'm subscribed.
Worth noting that there's no singular "D&D lore". There are a lot of different official settings with their own lore, but the primary one (and the one that this channel mainly covers) is the Forgotten Realms.
Also a lot of DMs just make their own settings and ignore all of the official lore.
My favorite moment with gnolls is when one of the players in my group traded a whole gnoll skeleton for a bag of metal scraps; after I failed at trying to pass off one of their hides as a deer.
I see a Runesmith video, I click. Simple.
same
Heckin same
Same
This comment seems familiar in some way...
Kinda wanna make a campaign where the main plot is that the god of the knolls had decided to make an alliance with the god of orcs so they can get him out and back into the world and the gnolls and orcs become allies and wage war against the world.
Kinda wholesome
@@annsh.6487 Truly
Gnolls are my favourite monsters, and I am happy Runesmith is finally covering them
Agreed, they're so good!
Even if he is calling them dogs for some reason.
5:21 Is no one going to talk about just how horrifying the gnolls look in that painting? That's probably the scariest they've ever looked
there's a supplement on the dmsguild called the Book of House that has playable 'tempered' gnolls who have a neat way of handling their mad hunger!! it's the same book with that race of clown people, it's a VERY neat supplement
this was fun to watch, I myself am new to dnd and have already made a character! A gnoll rogue named scarecrow. I always liked his backstory to be that he was a runt hyena and couldn't survive in a gnoll clan, so he left his life and his old clan behind, he can maintain his hungry and is able to last away without ripping something to sheds, he meets the rest of the players in a bar fight, and to this day travels with them! eating leftover bones and scaring off enemies :D
Stibbles codex is basically gonna turn you into a pokemon trainer.
My favorite monster race. I just think they're neat.
You've got the perfect gnollock
The gnolls and some gnolls
But you need a gnoll to track your gnolls
Caught you're gnoll disorganized,
You can click, open the gnoll,
You heard about on Critical Gnoll,
And now you're ready to kick some gnolls
In a mineshaft full of
Thanks for the vid, Gnolls have been my favorite monster since ive started playing and have always hoped you would make a basically gnolls video.
I guess you could say their not very gnolledgable
-Puffin Forest
Why did I read that in Ben's voice 😑? I feel dirty for chuckling.
@@TheBayzent You're welcome
Stand behind Braum! Braum is here.
is it the moustache?? who knows! ;)
4:16 How dare you say Braum is “stronger” than THE Carl Wheezer
I instantly fell in love with the Flitterbell
2 things: 1 Hyena's and to that extent gnolls are not dogs, Hyena's are their own group in carnivores they look and act like dogs due to convergent evolution and relative wise they are actually on the Cat side of the carnivore family tree while dogs are on the other side with bears, racoons, weasels etc. Number 2 you forgot to mention how Yeenoghu hates Baphomet and the two constantly have wars with each other. Also some clans of Gnolls are tired of working for Yeenoghu and have just started worshiping wilderness gods or shaman spirits cause while they love to eat they hate sharing with yeenoghu.
runesmith just saw something dog-shaped and said "doggie :)"
Can't spell "Lord of Slaughter" without "laughter".
Thx Gnolls for always being the life of the party.
Gnolls are some of the nastiest doggo's around.
Hyenas are cattos, not doggos. Well, not really either, but closer to catto.
@@bskec2177 But Catto sounds stupid, Doggo chuckleboys sounds moar bettah1!
My favorite is that gnolls are so violent that even orcs are terrified of them
bravojr What do you have against ducks?
one of my favorite player characters in my campaign (shh dont tell my players i have favourites) is a Gnoll Necromancer who is also a Chef, and has issues with his extended family. We love him.
Hmm. Shoosuva not being mentioned is a bit sad, they're a pretty big deal for gnolls. Oh well
I loved this the first time I read some of their lore in, I think Volo's guide, I'm so happy you made a video on it
This is exactly what I needed today.
I've been waiting for so long for a video about Gnolls, it's finally here! 😁
Perfect timing for Hogger, the Gnoll who arrives to Heroes of the Storm today :D
They giving my boy the prestige of being in Heroes of the Storm? He's come a long way.
@@DocVanfox He sure did! th-cam.com/video/9r5d3z4xGio/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=HeroesoftheStorm
Wow! I thought this game was dead. Played it for a while then people kept saying it was all over so I...stopped.
@@KarmaSpaz12 Ppl doomsay since Alpha, but the game is still getting new Heroes and other updates. It's far from dead.
I love gnolls. I made a one shot Mad Max Fury Road ripoff where the gnolls rode on chariots and war wagons pulled by giant hyenas. They chased the refugee caravan the PCs were sworn to protect. Of course there was an albino gnoll pack lord who ran the show, a war wagon with chained gnolls banging drums, and a gnoll bard named Gnash with a fire bolt throwing lute.
Fun Fact Hyeneas are related to cats, not dogs.
Was seeing if anyone else commented this yet:)
I appreciate the Magic reference more than you could ever know
Runesmith: "We need to look at it's god, which also it's father and history"
So Christianity?
Yeah, But with actual evidence.
*tips fedora* nothin' personnel.
Made em smaller and used them to replace goblins they work great(some context, wicked gods come and corrupt the creation of the gud gods and created the Monsters corrupting animals, Lionmen,Heynamen, Elephantmen.
I want to play as a Gnoll and I don't know why we can't have an official Gnoll race.
*points to 3.5 and whispers* Play the better version. They have racial stats for almost everything and rules for converting everything else that doesn't.
Because of the same reasons why we aren't allowed to play demons.
Because you shouldn't creatures that are essentially mortal demons?
So these boys are basically cannibal raiders with witchdoctor magic. Beast.
I see regular gnolls, I click.
And skeletal gnolls!
I love Gnolls because they're objectively and irredeemably evil to the core. You never feel bad for anything ur party ends up doing to them.
But when will Wizards actually add some sort of Dog-folk? I want WOLFKINNNNNNNNNNN
Corgyns are your friends.
you mean the lupin?
Shifters from eberron are basically slightly toned down playable race of lycanthropes, so they can be of almost any type of beast. no lycantrope immunities and free shapechange into a wolf/bird/whatewer, but they got some beastly features
No, we don't need to give furries more power
Gnolls are far more terrifying than I thought.
They are sorta like less dangerous versions of the new canon Flood in Halo.
Finally hyena bois loving the content dude
Obviously Clifford is the pupa stage of an eldritch god from the dream realm
**Regular Gnoll Intesifies**
Regular gnoll, regular gnoll
Thank you for the magic joke
Fun fact hyenas are cats! I feel it only makes them more creepy hahaha.
Feliforms, so closely related to cats, but not cats. Definitely not dogs. Bears and seals are closer to dogs than hyenas are.
*sees a basically video posted*
*drops everything at work immediately*
HYENA
"Once upon an apocalypse" Great story hook
Why is the Lord of Slaughter a Hyena? Well, you can't spell "slaughter" without spelling "laughter".
I made 2 homebrew gnolls to fight in my gnoll army:
Using the lore that hyenas are gnoll pupae made bloated hyenas; giant hyena variants with a slight speed decrease, poison damage added to their bite, and when they die 1d4 gnoll warriors explode out of them.
The second is a gnoll amalgamation. It is a huge monstrosity of rotting flesh and bome made up of 5+ gnoll witherlings that can attack with multiple arms and can feast on other gnolls or witherlings to gain temporary hp and additional attacks. At certaindamage thresholds it loses pieces/attacks similar to troll variants.