Why the gnoll nerf?
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Why the gnoll nerf?
this is more directed at the dev's just curious why they chose to give gnolls only +2 STR like half orcs instead of the +4 STR like they do have in PnP. Not complaining just curious as to line of reasoning.
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Re: Why the gnoll nerf?
I believe they did it towards the balance of the race with others.
I think it might do poorly if they had +4 STR as many warrior classed characters may then just become as gnolls. (Think about the ravens boom when they had +4 WIS allowing them to become soon dragons)
Not to mention you may become gnoll and pick aswell the +2 STR gift, to start as a warrior with STR 24 (Nowaday you can become 22... good enough!)
I think it might do poorly if they had +4 STR as many warrior classed characters may then just become as gnolls. (Think about the ravens boom when they had +4 WIS allowing them to become soon dragons)
Not to mention you may become gnoll and pick aswell the +2 STR gift, to start as a warrior with STR 24 (Nowaday you can become 22... good enough!)
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Re: Why the gnoll nerf?
I wondered if the latter was the case until realized they had that nerf since before the gift system.
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Re: Why the gnoll nerf?
It's not a nerf because they never had +4 STR to begin with on Arelith. Arelith is sort of its own settings, I mean, Arelith killed Auril's avatar and screwed around with Myrkul's Crown.
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Re: Why the gnoll nerf?
It's a nerf.Cortex wrote:It's not a nerf because they never had +4 STR to begin with on Arelith. Arelith is sort of its own settings, I mean, Arelith killed Auril's avatar and screwed around with Myrkul's Crown.
This is a bit more likely. Still, With gifts and an unnerfed starting stat, that'd be +6 STR possible... and a rather cruel ECL to go with it. Orog's received this treatment too.CragOneEye wrote:I wondered if the latter was the case until realized they had that nerf since before the gift system.
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Re: Why the gnoll nerf?
Ah okay, that makes sense, considering Orogs came out first and they likely wanted to balance it out with the Orogs.JediMindTrix wrote:This is a bit more likely. Still, With gifts and an unnerfed starting stat, that'd be +6 STR possible... and a rather cruel ECL to go with it. Orog's received this treatment too.
It also explains why they will never add in "Orc" as a sub race to half-orcs
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