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Wizards of the Coast: gnolls are brutal and violent beasts, they’re dumb as rocks, the only thing they love more than murdering unsuspecting adventurers is eating them afterwards
Me: okay but what if some of them were, you know, chill, like they were just dudes? They’re still people, surely they can’t all be evil as a rule, I don’t like the implications of that
Wizards of the Coast: no they LOVE murder and they’re super evil. In fact, their god is really a demon, and all of them are also demon-possessed? They live in abandoned ruins and stuff because they can’t build their own villages or create anything, all they know how to do is steal and destroy. Also don’t feel bad about killing the baby ones when you’re clearing out a settlement, they’d for sure grow up to be evil no matter what, it’s fine
Me: cool that sucks, anyway I made a gnoll, she’s nice and her name is Sweet Pea
I love 1) having elaborate imaginary arguments, 2) creating characters out of pure spite for disappointing lore, and 3) hyenas
Wizards of the Coast: gnolls are brutal and violent beasts, they’re dumb as rocks, the only thing they love more than murdering unsuspecting adventurers is eating them afterwards
Me: okay but what if some of them were, you know, chill, like they were just dudes? They’re still people, surely they can’t all be evil as a rule, I don’t like the implications of that
Wizards of the Coast: no they LOVE murder and they’re super evil. In fact, their god is really a demon, and all of them are also demon-possessed? They live in abandoned ruins and stuff because they can’t build their own villages or create anything, all they know how to do is steal and destroy. Also don’t feel bad about killing the baby ones when you’re clearing out a settlement, they’d for sure grow up to be evil no matter what, it’s fine
Me: cool that sucks, anyway I made a gnoll, she’s nice and her name is Sweet Pea
I love 1) having elaborate imaginary arguments, 2) creating characters out of pure spite for disappointing lore, and 3) hyenas
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Hyena
Size 1025 x 926px
File Size 2 MB
It's a real shame, they put in a ton of work and re-writes for so many races to escape the "always evil" stigma, but then for some reason certain races like gnolls aren't spared. In fact, it's a retcon to make them MORE "always evil" in the latest edition, they weren't even pure murder-beasts in previous editions.
Ah, yes, Wizards of the Coast. The people who want us to believe that half-demons have the capacity to be lawful good but a bunch of semi-nomadic petting zoo people are chaotic evil by default.
I share your sentiments. I ended up making an entire guild in response to that crap. With its most famous member being the paladin, Sir Knigel the you-guessed-it.
I share your sentiments. I ended up making an entire guild in response to that crap. With its most famous member being the paladin, Sir Knigel the you-guessed-it.
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