The Prince Of Gnolls Yeenoghu is the demon prince and lord of savagery, and the chief being worshiped by gnolls. This gaunt, 12-foot-tall humanoid demon is covered with mangy patches of yellow fur and has pale gray flesh showing where the fur is absent. According to the BoVD, clerics associated with Yeenoghu cast from the Beastial, Chaos, and Demonic domains. When the gnoll reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on its turn, the gnoll can take a bonus action to move up to half its speed and make a bite attack. Only the traits that say "(Gnoll Form Only)" are restricted to one form. This gnoll's stat block includes the 5 ft. "crippled" penalty. Traits Rampage: When the gnoll reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on its turn, the gnoll can take a bonus action to move up to half its speed and make a bite attack. I'm DMing a party of five and they're going after Yeenoghu as the campaign's final boss. He is a large, bestial, feral, angry demon. I included it to explain the gnoll's unusual speed. Evil is not listed. I've read the official conversion reference, but that's more for player characters and might not apply to extremely powerful beings like this.. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage His face is that of a leering, amber-eyed hyena, and he wields a massive flail with three spiked heads. One exception was a mention in the adventure The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (1982). Saving Throws Int +16, Wis +16, Cha +18 Skills Intimidation +18, Perception +16 Damage Resistances cold, fire, radiant; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered Damage Immunities necrotic, poison Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, poisoned Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 26 Languages all, telepathy 120 ft. Creative origins . It also affects the hyena form, which I've added to the stat block. Yeenoghu doesn’t otherwise appear much in early D&D lore. Yeenoghu is a monster that drops the item "yeenoghu flail" in the MMORPG parody Progress Quest. Though Yeenoghu wasn’t actually in that book, it nonetheless gave him an enemy: the demon lord Baphomet, one of the new demon lords introduced in the adventure’s appendix. Rampage. Yeenoghu is one of the Demon Princes of the Tanar'ri in Dungeons & Dragons.Hailing all the way back to 1st edition, he is one of the original Demon Princes created by none other than Gary Gygax.His fortunes have risen and fallen over the editions, starting as a powerhouse in 1st and late 2nd edition, fading away in significance in 3rd, and experiencing a restoration in 4th. The correct, up-to-date version of the stats for Yeenoghu are, like any monster, from the most recent sourcebook - in this case, Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. Normally, gnolls have a speed of 30 ft. I've looked online and haven't found any 5e stats for the Demon Lords, but I did find this for a 3.5e Yeenoghu. 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