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<blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7290716" data-attributes="member: 6802951"><p>Regarding overall history, as other have said, worry about what will concern the PCs first. Unless it becomes plot-relevant, knowing who created the Netherstorm and in what exact year is of less interest than whether the hordelands invaded in the last decade when the PCs were probably growing up. Stuff that a PC will just know is more important to start with than what could be recalled by making a History check.</p><p></p><p>Obviously culture and geography-defining events are important. But exact years aren't.</p><p></p><p>Regarding gnomes: Looks cool. Do they actually believe in 'spirits of the machine'? That sounds quite Adeptus Mechanicus style, so you could incorporate some of that imagery. Regarding their name, what would the humans who live near them call them? "Cogsoul Gnomes" would fit if they think of the gnomes as caring more for their machines for example and view the gnomes as having a soul of nothing but spinning, interlocking machines.</p><p></p><p>You could even take that a little further: to the gnomes, procreation is just a mundane necessity for continuing the species, but their inventions are the true children of that gnome. Machines are given names like wizard spells incorporating the name of their creator and it is considered a great insult to refer to one without referencing its creator. The only exception being the machines of such ubiquity and greatness that every gnome knows their creator.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cap'n Kobold, post: 7290716, member: 6802951"] Regarding overall history, as other have said, worry about what will concern the PCs first. Unless it becomes plot-relevant, knowing who created the Netherstorm and in what exact year is of less interest than whether the hordelands invaded in the last decade when the PCs were probably growing up. Stuff that a PC will just know is more important to start with than what could be recalled by making a History check. Obviously culture and geography-defining events are important. But exact years aren't. Regarding gnomes: Looks cool. Do they actually believe in 'spirits of the machine'? That sounds quite Adeptus Mechanicus style, so you could incorporate some of that imagery. Regarding their name, what would the humans who live near them call them? "Cogsoul Gnomes" would fit if they think of the gnomes as caring more for their machines for example and view the gnomes as having a soul of nothing but spinning, interlocking machines. You could even take that a little further: to the gnomes, procreation is just a mundane necessity for continuing the species, but their inventions are the true children of that gnome. Machines are given names like wizard spells incorporating the name of their creator and it is considered a great insult to refer to one without referencing its creator. The only exception being the machines of such ubiquity and greatness that every gnome knows their creator. [/QUOTE]
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