Cellar raider · Physical
Some tavern stories end with a spilled drink. This one begins there, and the hangover comes considerably sooner.
Reference statistics
Basic difficulty · ordinary profile before temporary states and encounter adjustments
- HP
- 21
- Armor class
- 11
- Attack
- +4
- Damage
- d4+1
- Initiative
- 21
- Strikes
- 1
Weaknesses Frost
Resistances None listed
Polymorph immunity No authored immunity
Traits and special behavior
Beer. Each damaging hit has a 30% base chance to inflict Beer, reducing Attack by 5 through two full turns. The shared difficulty bonus for these effects applies.
See the condition reference for the shared effects, and enemy tuning for difficulty-wide chance adjustments.
Statistics by difficulty
| Difficulty | HP | AC | Attack | Damage | Strikes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 21 | 11 | +4 | d4+1 | 1 |
| Advanced | 47 | 16 | +8 | d4+4 | 1 |
| Expert | 70 | 22 | +11 | d4+7 | 1 |
| Master | 95 | 24 | +13 | d4+9 | 1 |
| Master+ | 108 | 26 | +14 | d4+12 | 1 |
Includes explicit tier overrides and the final maximum-HP multiplier. Damage is the ordinary die and bonus, before final outgoing multipliers. Rage, growth, buffs, encounter adjustments and special action damage are not baked into this table.
Current appearances
| Adventure | Location | Encounter roster |
|---|---|---|
| The Lost Dungeons | Rival Cellars | Black Barrel Gnoll × 3 |
| The Burning City | The Wine Cellars | Black Barrel Gnoll × 2 |
Detailed reference
These panels retain the exact authored configuration, including unscaled base values. For tier overrides, −1 Attack or damage bonus and zero HP or strikes mean “inherit”; tier indices run from 0 (Basic) to 4 (Master+). Field values and message templates are shown as reference data, not additional rules.
Creature configuration
- Stable identifier
- blackBarrelGnoll
- Name
- Black Barrel Gnoll
- Plate Name
- Gnoll
- Role
- Cellar raider
- HP
- 21
- Armor class
- 11
- Attack
- 4
- Damage die
- 4
- Damage bonus
- 1
- Initiative
- 21
- Artwork registry index
- 27
- Visual Scale
- 0.85
- Preserve Aspect
- Yes
- Element
- Attack Text
- {actor} lashes out at {target}.
- On Hit Debuff
- Kind
- beer
- Chance
- 30
- Amount
- 5
- Weaknesses
- Frost
- Resistances
- None
- Visual Top Padding
- 0.019817
- Visual Bottom Padding
- 0.025915
- Tier Damage Multiplier
- 0.75
- Tier Adjustments
- Tier index (0–4)
- 4
- HP
- 18
- Damage bonus
- -1
- Attack Sound
- combat.gnollLunge
Encounter configurations (2)
Whole encounter rewards and modifiers are shown here; they are not rewards for defeating this creature alone. Legacy fields remain visible for configuration audits.
- Stable identifier
- blackBarrelRaid
- Enemies
- blackBarrelGnoll
- blackBarrelGnoll
- blackBarrelGnoll
- Gold
- 30
- Xp
- 36
- Opening
- The crew raises a toast. Duck the beer: it spoils two turns of attacks.
- Stable identifier
- cc-11-wine-looters
- Enemies
- blackBarrelGnoll
- blackBarrelGnoll
- Opening
- Two gnolls roll <b>stolen wine</b> toward the ladder. <i>"Fire sale,"</i> one growls. Neither intends to pay—or let the Company pass.
- Gold
- 24
- Xp
- 22
Artwork and presentation
- Resource
- JournalArt/Core/Shared/Creatures/BlackBarrelGnoll
- Registrations
- Resource
- JournalArt/Core/Shared/Creatures/BlackBarrelGnoll
- Height Units
- 1
- Body Height
- 0.954268
- Ground Y
- 0.025915
- Center X
- 0.513761
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