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<blockquote data-quote="Cryptos" data-source="post: 3958389" data-attributes="member: 58439"><p>Most of my "gnome experience" comes from either trying to make uncommon race/class combos out of amusement (ie, Gnome Barbarian) and then never playing them - messing around with game mechanics - or using or encountering them as NPCs.</p><p></p><p>I'm not anti-gnome, I've just never related to them very well. I feel more like I could understand and portray a dwarf, an elf, even a human (well, not so much humans. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> ). But I've just never 'felt' like a gnome or quite grasped how a gnome would feel without resorting to stereotypes verbatim from one source or another.</p><p></p><p>In response to the question above, I suppose I *could* find my way around to playing a "Malcolm McDowell gnome" (loved the way he made the main character of Fantasy Island into a twisted "be careful what you wish for" type with demonic undertones, very underrated show) but then I ask myself, why not play a "Malcolm McDowell human" or a "Malcolm McDowell tiefling"? It's not the overall race traits and race personality traits, it's whether or not a feel I could play a unique individual that's believable as a member of that race. And would I want to, in lieu of a unique individual of another race?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cryptos, post: 3958389, member: 58439"] Most of my "gnome experience" comes from either trying to make uncommon race/class combos out of amusement (ie, Gnome Barbarian) and then never playing them - messing around with game mechanics - or using or encountering them as NPCs. I'm not anti-gnome, I've just never related to them very well. I feel more like I could understand and portray a dwarf, an elf, even a human (well, not so much humans. :lol: ). But I've just never 'felt' like a gnome or quite grasped how a gnome would feel without resorting to stereotypes verbatim from one source or another. In response to the question above, I suppose I *could* find my way around to playing a "Malcolm McDowell gnome" (loved the way he made the main character of Fantasy Island into a twisted "be careful what you wish for" type with demonic undertones, very underrated show) but then I ask myself, why not play a "Malcolm McDowell human" or a "Malcolm McDowell tiefling"? It's not the overall race traits and race personality traits, it's whether or not a feel I could play a unique individual that's believable as a member of that race. And would I want to, in lieu of a unique individual of another race? [/QUOTE]
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