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Gnomes! (HUH) What are they good for? Absolutely nothing!
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<blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6241021" data-attributes="member: 6670763"><p>Once you make gnomes non-silly and don't use dwarves in the setting, gnomes become an interesting race to populate the world. The problem with dwarves is that they are just so terribly boring and so incredibly stereotyped that nobody has any clue how to freshen them up in any way.</p><p>Dwarves are always the scotish-viking, racist, alcoholic miners. Always have been, and most probably ever will be. There are so many settings that tried new and different things with all the races, but dwarves are always 100% identical. Even Eberron, which really subverted everything with it's Orc druids, halfling barbarians riding dinosaurs, and necromantic jungle elves, still has dwarves that are the same as always.</p><p>One could argue that Dark Sun dwarves are different, but they seem to have lost every single aspect of dwarves except being a bit short and called dwarves. Is that even still a dwarf?</p><p></p><p>But once you got rid of the dwarves, there's an interesting niche to fill into which gnomes just fit in perfectly. Without being racist alcoholics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yora, post: 6241021, member: 6670763"] Once you make gnomes non-silly and don't use dwarves in the setting, gnomes become an interesting race to populate the world. The problem with dwarves is that they are just so terribly boring and so incredibly stereotyped that nobody has any clue how to freshen them up in any way. Dwarves are always the scotish-viking, racist, alcoholic miners. Always have been, and most probably ever will be. There are so many settings that tried new and different things with all the races, but dwarves are always 100% identical. Even Eberron, which really subverted everything with it's Orc druids, halfling barbarians riding dinosaurs, and necromantic jungle elves, still has dwarves that are the same as always. One could argue that Dark Sun dwarves are different, but they seem to have lost every single aspect of dwarves except being a bit short and called dwarves. Is that even still a dwarf? But once you got rid of the dwarves, there's an interesting niche to fill into which gnomes just fit in perfectly. Without being racist alcoholics. [/QUOTE]
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