Monster/Race: Gnoll (Hyena Humanoid)

[Eosin]

I was talking with one of the players in my group the other day about your write ups - we had both noticed baring a pip of speed that your write ups fit perfectly into our respective games.

I had kinda menthioned in another thread that it seems more like we are a little on the High speed side in heroics and a little on the low side in supers.

I am just finishing up stuff after a server move and reorganization but after that I plan to dig into Hero for my home world and get a nice page built for it. So far I just have the basic structure but that might change for the Hero page.

Anyway thanks.....Your PDFs rock since they are all nice and laid out for printing.

[Hierax]

Thanks again, Eosin! I appreciate the kind words. Glad I could be of help to you and your players -- that's why we're on these boards to share with each other to improve our respective games.

As for SPD, when I give a creature 2 SPD that means that I'm saying that they don't really get more attacks than a normal average run-of-the-mill human warrior who is a "Noteworthy Normal" who has a SPD of 2, but if you consider a normal Man-at-Arms to be more like a "Skilled" or "Competent" Normal who has 3 SPD, then you should most certainly add at least +1 SPD to any of my write-ups to have them scale up properly and proportionally -- e.g., if I say 4 SPD I mean twice as fast as the normal base-line human warrior, so if your baseline human warrior is 3 SPD, then you'd adapt my write-up as 6 SPD.

That is the assumption underlying the write-ups -- and this assumption used for my Grey Hero conversion is based on the fact that an xD+D normal human (i.e., an AD+D 0-Level Fighter or 3E 1st Level Warrior) gets 1 attack per round and a normal human in the Hero System gets 2 attacks per Turn. These initial write-ups I'm posting assume the basic rank-and-file soldiers such as these, but more experienced ones would certainly be higher.

Hope that helps explain the SPD difference you are experiencing.

[FenrisUlf]

I don't know if this matters in your campaign, but in reality, hyenas are matriarchal; the females are the biggest/meanest ones as well as clan leaders.

So gnolls are the feminist humanoids.

[Hierax]

I'm getting ready to revise Gnolls for a 3rd Draft; so, is there anything else that anyone would like to see changed to improve the write-up?

Let me know so I can try to incorporate your suggestions into the next version...

Thanks!

[Eosin]

Nothing here.

[Hierax]

I didn't get the changes completely made but I'm too tired to continue tonight so I'm uploading where I'm at now.

    http://www.hierax.com/hero/fantasy/g...ster/gnoll.pdf