In an upcoming game I'd like to GM I'm planning on having gnolls as a playable race. However, stat arrays for gnolls on d20 are kinda...sparse, so I thought I'd try my hand at making things more flavorful. To that end I wanted to make some racial archetypes that I hoped would be flavorful and effective for gnolls, with a primary theme focusing on being monstrous, intimidating, and all that good stuff (not necessarily evil, but not pleasant either). So far I have an archetype for rangers based on intimidation, one for barbarians based on eating things (or people) to gain their powers (or just 'cause they're tasty), and a monk based upon natural attacks and animalistic fighting; still working on the witch one, since I can't find a good way to incorporate hyena folklore into that.
Seeing as I have no idea what I'm doing, I'd like to ask you guys's opinions. These are probably super OP right now, but I'm still trying to get the hang of making something useful and something flavorful. If you've suggestions I'd like to hear them.
Relentless Hunter the Ranger Archetype. Trades out spellcasting and animal companion for a bunch of intimidate related things. I wanted to go for a sort of intimidation/pack hunt theme with this, but I fear I overdid it.
Devourer the barbarian archetype, based upon eating people since, y'know, gnolls are big on eating people. I feel like it doesn't trade out enough useful stuff, however, and am considering trading out DR. I don't know if the bonuses of Bloody Feast make up for it.
Beast Born the monk archetype. I wanted a sort of bestial monk with this one, with a strong animal theme that encourages risk taking, so I used the grit pool feature for inspiration for the ki pool replacement. I'm told by a friend this one is problematic just by its very premise, so I don't even know how to deal with it.
I've not gotten the chance to playtest any of these yet, but thought perhaps I could get some feedback? Still haven't come up for anything good for the witch.
