Homebrew Gnoll Species Details
Gnolls are beastly humanoids that resemble upright hyenas. Their predatory instincts are honed into vicious fighting skills. While they can savagely bite their prey, they prefer to fight with weapons and armor, and obsessively seek out better arms. Gnolls do not typically have the skills to create their own equipment, and so it is often makeshift bits and pieces pillaged or scavenged from battlefields.
Gnolls do not gather in very large numbers, but typically in packs of at most a dozen. The only time they are likely to tame their savage nature is to attempt to barter for weaponry when they cannot take it by force.
Gnoll Traits
yesAbility Score Increase
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increses by 2. Your Dexterity and Constitution scores each increase by 1
Hunter
Hunter. Gnolls have strong hunting senses. You gain proficiency with the Perception skill.
Scent
Scent. Gnolls use their sense of smell to detect prey with extreme effectiveness. You have advantage on any ability checks involving scent, and can detect the general presence of most creatures within 5 feet of you, even if you cannot see them.
Bite Attack
Bite Attack. You can use your bite in place of any weapon attack. It deals 1d4 piercing damage plus your Strength modifier.
Rampage
Rampage. When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on your turn, you can take a bonus action to move up to half your speed and make a bite attack. The movement does not count against your total.
Languages
Languages. You can speak Common and Gnoll.
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