Gnoll Tactical Surprises

If the PCs find themselves in a scrap with gnolls, use any of these suggestions to make the encounter more surprising and flavorful.
Dice 1dD10 |Gnoll Tactical Surprises 1|Once the desert winds pick up, the gnolls begin each attack by throwing pottery full of powdered glass. Anyone who fails a Dexterity save is permanently blinded. (The save DC depends on factors like wind speed and the amount of glass used; pick something appropriate for the encounter.) 2|Gnoll bandits have made enough money to hire a renegade mercenary — who happens to be a desert giant. 3|The gnolls’ fur is mated with thick palm oil and less-savory materials. Any melee attack roll against a gnoll resulting in a natural 1 means your weapon got stuck in its fur and requires a full-round action to retrieve. 4|Antelope tend to move away from gnoll howls. Antelope herds tend to stampede away from the howls of a whole pack of gnolls. Gnoll packs tend to direct that stampede into enemy camps. 5|Three words: leucrotta sorcerer chieftain. 6|Corpses can attract things more dangerous than hyenas. Gnolls know which carrion to leave near your camp to attract giant scorpions, and what fresh kills will attract the desert drakes or dragonne that lives nearby. 7|A gnoll anti-paladin on a hyena-form-lamia steed 8|The gnolls have permission to cross the sphinx’s land because they pay her tribute. You don’t. So that’s where they flee right after attacking you. 9|Gnolls turn slaves who are no longer useful into lightly-armed shock troops. They give their slave troops poison pills stuck into figs just before battle. The slaves know they have an hour or two to live if they don’t get the antidote. The gnolls give the antidote to those slave troops who successfully scalp a foe. Wen the slave troops attack you, they fight to the death, even though it’s clear to you the slaves are malnourished and barely a threat. 10|They aren’t gnolls, they’re Bouda. And they aren’t a hunting party of five, they are a tribe of 200. And they don’t have hyenas, they have Hyaenodon (Giant Hyena)s.