hey but also what if i fixed gnolls to be more like were-hyenas

like i love the idea of gnolls but the thing that i hate most in d&d is that the fallback for nearly every Bad Guy Species is “yeah they’re sentient creatures but they’re just Too Dumb to be anything but evil”. like gnolls are very specifically written as this tidal wave of evil driven by hunger to destroy but it’s mostly because they’re apparently Too Savage to develop agriculture? like seriously d&d is it literally just the main four races that grow their own food and everyone else is fed by their scraps. or the bad guys literally can only eat raw flesh and haven’t yet learnt the magic of carbs. That’s Bad Worldbuilding.

lycanthropes is an incorrect umbrella term for were-creatures

lycanthropes just refers to wolf forms. it doesn’t apply to shapeshifters of any other animal. it is definitely not an acceptable term for every shapeshifter affected by the lunar cycle

a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:

musicinmybloodstream:

a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:

You know that post about how your bones are always wet, and that post about how you shake because your skeleton is ready to hatch??

Combine them to create the ultimate turn of phrase and start describing things as “as moist as an unhatched skeleton”.

That’s explains a lot of things

Listen, I know I have no room to complain about people saying ominous bullshit, but what could this possibly explain.