Slavers and cannibals gnolls are a horror to fight, and even more terrible to be captured by. Vicious and lazy they wander the hills with their hyena pets looking for treasures to steal, carrion to feed upon and slaves to take back to their primitive camps.

Use these four lists, to add depth and flavour to a gnolls’ camp:

What’s Going On?

The gnoll…

1. Whips a human slave while snarling and yipping. 

2. Chase hyenas away from its campfire where it is cooking a sparse meal.

3. Squares off against another and snarls before a fight breaks out over a morsel of food.

4. Carefully strips a sinew from a horse’s leg.

Notable Lair Features

1. An old dwarf is impaled to a tree by several spears. A pool of drying blood covers the sand below the corpse. Flies swarm about the corpse and blood pool.

2. A thick iron chain, with several pairs of manacles attached, is wrapped tightly around the base of a dusty tree.

3. A ramshackle wooden cage is partially submerged in stinking mud and urine.

4. A huge effigy of a two-headed gnoll towers over the fire; spiked and bladed chains hang from the effigy’s branch-like arms.

Gnoll’s Appearance

The gnoll…

1. Wears rough armour of leather and hides decorated with bone and dyed with blood.

2. Wears a heavy green cloak that reaches down to its long fur-covered legs.

3. Chews casually on a human forearm as it looks around lost in thought.

4. Wears a rusted breastplate, adorned with a rearing griffon, over shoddy leathers and hides.

    

Treasure

1. A small head-sized black soapstone effigy of three fighting hyenas. Sigils on each hound’s collar hints at the statuette’s powers (if any).

2. A sharp spear tipped with a long straight antelope horn and decorated with vulture feathers.

3. A long, frayed leather whip with hooks on its tip. Several of the hooks are silver.

4. A rough coat of hide and leather embellished with a lion’s mane hood. Lion teeth are used as buttons.

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