What CR is this gnoll?

[Mathius]

Gnolls have great flavor but rules wise they are boring and seam a bit weak for their CR.

They are mean to be kind of scary for my level 1 PCs but if I compare them to my PCs they worse in almost every way except HP.

I was thinking that gnarled Kuru warrior 1 armed with a long spear.

I was thinking of going with a simple weapon focus for the feat.

[Raylol]

There are two different gnoll races you could use to simply make a normal NPC with the normal rules. because of their racial boni they make pretty good los level warriors.

What CR should the encounter have ?

[Mathius]

I am aiming for a CR 4 for 6 players with gnolls being a CR 1 each. I am changing over to the Kuru for their neat bite.

[Raylol]

Both a gnoll and a kuru with 1 level in warrior would actually be CR 1/3 (-1 non-player class, -1 slow wealth).

Heres the gnoll race: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/races/other-races/more-races/standard-races-1-10-rp /gnoll-6-rp

They are more than adequate if you want to use them as enemies, there is no reason to switch to kurus from a crunch pov.

[Mathius]

I realize that. I was switching because the base gnoll race or monster is dull. The kuru have a neat bite ability as well as the bite in the first place. I just figured that gnarled would bring their CR up to somewhere near a 1.