Why does the gnoll not have finesse trait

[Blanark]

Hi there discussing this internally in our campaign and was wondering why the gnoll doesn't have a finesse unarmed attack.

For example, if we look at tengu it gets a 1d6 unarmed attack with finesse included in the ancestry, so does Anadi and Nagaji. Kobold, Awakened Animal, Goblin, Centaur and others get it in a heritage.

Now then you get this increased 1d8 via a feat, and there is two reasons why this should be fine, firstly Centaur gets their 1d6 finesse increased to a 1d8 without loosing finesse.

Secondly looking at Goblin with razortooth which gives the 1d6 unarmed finesse, the feat cang sharpener says you lose the finesse trait when you increase to 1d8. So I'm not sure why the pazio didn't go this route.

Is there any reason why it shouldn't be 1d6 finesse for gnolls? Should this be errata'd?

Thanks

[Finoan]

Witch can spend a class feat to get Eldritch Nails and have a 1d6 unarmed attack that doesn't have the finesse trait.

No there isn't any game balance reason that Gnoll doesn't have finesse on their ancestry unarmed attack.

However, there also isn't a game balance reason to insist that it should have finesse on the ancestry unarmed attack. Gnoll Barbarians would prefer that it doesn't have finesse, as one example.

I don't know if it will have errata or not. Gnoll itself probably not. I think the ancestry is being renamed to Kholo in Player Core 2, so see if the previews of that have what you are looking for.

[Ascalaphus]

It's quite uncommon for finesse or agile weapons to go up to d8. It's more likely that the centaur was designed "wrong".

Also, gnolls get an ancestry bonus to Strength, so they're kinda painted as not that interested in Finesse anyway. The feat that upgrades the bite to d8 also gives it Grapple which is Athletics->Strength based.

[Gisher]

Gnolls don't have the finesse trait because they are pretty unwieldy.

Have you ever tried swinging a gnoll at someone?

[QuidEst]

Gnolls/kholo are based on hyenas, which have some truly incredible crushing jaw strength. Their bite absolutely should be strength-based.