D&D General Why Do People Hate Gnomes?

[LuisCarlos17f]

Isn't it funny? Years ago the bard was a secondary class and now it is a "meme machine". I guess it may happen the same with gnomes, halflings and others, only they need to be showed in the right way to be a source of inspiration of new ideas.

 

[jdrakeh]

I blame David, the Gnome.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I love David the gnome, one of the best Spanish cartoons from the 80. If you weren't sad in the last episode, then you were a heartless.

 

[Yaarel]

Serious question, as I've seen a ton of people online that play D&D make jokes about Gnomes or say how much they hate them. More than Kender, actually.

So . . . what is it about Gnomes that makes people hate them so much? Or such easy targets for jokes online?

I love gnomes.

To me they make more sense as a race than halflings (which seem more like a human ethnicity to me).

Flavorwise, I consider gnomes fey and associating with human homes as perceived in the overlapping feywild.

Loving animals or technology are fine.

 

[Redthistle]

this I don't see as niche at all. This is a pretty big trope in literature, history and fantasy. It is probably the most grounded way to use gnomes. The gnome scholar is definitely something I have seen work well in campaigns. And you wouldn't have to be just an artificer or wizard. A priest would work. Bard might also work. Maybe even a thief.

In point of fact, "Redthistle" was the family name of a gnome I played in a Pathfinder campaign, one of my favorite PCs in 4 decades of role playing. Quokgol Redthistle was a multi-class rogue/sorcerer. He was a serious individual, not a jokester.

So, yeah, maybe even a thief.

 

[Redthistle]

Can you imagine two gnomes with very different personalities?

Case closed.

Yes, I can definitely see them with a lot of individuality. That may be because of the way that Pathfinder 1e viewed gnomes, which gave a lot more latitude to their character development.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I like Gnomes, I have one in my garden.

 

[Gorck]

You know what I like about gnomes? They like to dig. And every once in a while they dig up a thread that's been buried for a couple years.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Man, the thread almost made it two years between gnecros! That's some impressive restraint from our local gnomish gnecromancers.

 

[Oofta]