Gnoll Slasher

Gnoll Slasher
Record
Gender	Male
Race	Gnoll
Class	Gnoll
Alignment	LG NG CG LN TN CN LE NE CE See bugs
Involvement
Allegiance	Enemy
Ability scores
Level	2
Hit points	15
XP value	65
Str	1822
Str	1822
Dex	9
Dex	9
Con	9
Con	9
Int	9
Int	9
Wis	9
Wis	9
Cha	9
Cha	9
Total scores	6322
Morale	10
Break	5
Recovery	60
Combat basics
Proficiency	None
Natural AC	5
Base THAC0	18
Base APR	1
Saving throws
Dth	14
Wand	16
Poly	15
Brth	17
Spell	17
AI scripts
Override	GNOLLF.bcs; GENSHT01.bcs
Race	WTASIGHT.bcs; None
Default	None; WTASIGHT.bcs
Inventory
Gold	0
Items	Halberd(can't be stolen) Random treasure (RNDTRE02)(50)
Technical information
Creature codes	GNOLL_D (Sword Coast) GNOLTAL3 (Bandit Camp) Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (2012) Content from the Enhanced Edition campaign Baldur's Gate GNLSLA01 (Amn)

“

Die, scum!

”

Gnoll slashers are a slightly more powerful variant of gnolls, distinguishable from their brethren by their red gauntlets and particularly shiny pauldrons. Often encountered at the Sword Coast, they are only a rare sight in Amn. Like most of their kin, these chaotic^b male humanoids fight with halberds, but are able to deal more damage more often than the typical gnoll, due to their relatively high strength.

Locations

Baldur's Gate

• Beregost's temple: possible rest encounter ^(AR3400)
• High Hedge: one in the company of the gnoll who stole Perdue's short sword ^{(AR3200 | 3786.2816)}
• High Hedge: may appear in the west of the area ^{(AR3200 | 4743.1828)}
• Mutamin's Garden: may appear at five locations in the south of the area, as well as disturbing a rest ^(AR3500)
• Archaeological Site: two in a pack of nine gnolls in the northeast ^{(AR4100 | ~ 4030.241)}
• Fisherman's Lake: may appear between Drizzt Do'Urden and the hobgoblin, south of Teyngan and his companions ^{(AR4200 | 3702.1965)}
• Gnoll Stronghold: may appear at four locations around and in the stronghold, as well as during a rest ^(AR5100)
• Bandit Camp, cave: three slashers among nine gnolls altogether ^(AR1903)

Shadows of Amn

• Small Teeth Pass: may appear in the northeast ^{(AR1700 | 2940.457)}
• Forest of Tethir: may appear east to the center of the map ^{(AR2600 | 1656.1646)}

Gameplay

• A gnoll slasher's effective armor class is 5.
• He might suffer a THAC0 penalty by not being proficient with his halberd.^{[verification needed]}
• Due to his exceptional strength, his attack roll receives a bonus of 1 while he adds 3 points to the halberd's base damage of 1d10.
• Baldur's Gate I
  Classic & Enhanced
  This icon indicates content from all games of the 1^st Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits. In Baldur's Gate, if surrounded by enemies, a gnoll slasher has difficulties to decide which one he should attack next.
• Baldur's Gate II
  Classic & Enhanced
  This icon indicates content from all games of the 2^nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. Instead of being undecisive, he is able to even shout for help in Baldur's Gate II.
• Baldur's Gate I & II Classic
  This icon indicates content from all original Baldur's Gate games, extensions included. In the original games, gnoll slashers cannot be detected as evil creatures being present nearby.^b

Notes

• The three gnoll slashers inside the cave at the Bandit Camp are replaced by creatures with a different code, GNOLTAL3.cre, in the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition that are, however, otherwise identical to those from the original game and also don't appear anywhere else.

Cut content

• Baldur's Gate II
  Classic & Enhanced
  This icon indicates content from all games of the 2^nd Baldur's Gate instalment – all editions and expansions. This may include The Black Pits II. In Baldur's Gate II, gnoll slashers have an AI script by the name GNWARR01.bcs attached – which, however, does not exist in the game code.

Lore

Gnoll slashers may represent what is a gnoll leader or guard in the Monstrous Manual, a 2nd edition sourcebook for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons which the Baldur's Gate series is based on. However, those have a slightly worse attack roll of only 19 and don't add a strength bonus to it, nor does the damage they deal with their favored halberd benefit from it and actually has a maximum damage of 2d4 base points by pen-and-paper rules. Their intelligence should be lower as well, only 7.

See also

• Gnoll Slasher (Siege of Dragonspear)

Bugs

• Baldur's Gate I & II Classic
  This icon indicates content from all original Baldur's Gate games, extensions included. According to the Monstrous Manual, gnolls are chaotic evil, rather than neutral as in the original games; the Enhanced Editions fix their alignment.

External links

• Gnoll on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.