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As all of the folks who are mad that gnomes aren't earth elementals will tell you, D&D actually made two niches for gnomes, with the...
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The Thing is, D&D made an original niche for Gnomes. That of the Gnome Mad Scientist. They created this archetype, and it's solid. The...
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okay but can that be used in a less living comic relief way? those feel like desperate things to me, what would the distilled version...
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it is more they can feel superfluous without something else, hence why we have a million things which are big fight type and why elves...
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Nah. There are two broad gnome archetypes and they are both quite clear and have plenty of "gnome-coded" things in fantasy media. Any...
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They can be thpugh that isnt actually as mv of a thing as the forest gnome before world of warcraft. And no, they arent keebler elves...
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Gnomes are whimsical and overly complicated, and this manifests in a variety of forms. Typically it has to do with them being plugged...
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it is more they are many disparate things without a clear guiding thread, there is a clear point where an elf would stop being an elf or...
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i personally thing gnomes ought to be shifted more towards an identity of like, lesser elemental slash proto land druid, them being...
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I think kobolds still have their underdog status, but you need to have someone else nearby to create that contrast. In my campaign...
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The last campaign I ran was an all halfling dungeon crawl. Super fun. In 3.x, I had a lot of fun with kobolds. They were just enough...
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okay that is a very nice analysis of gnomes you linked.
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havester sounds like ufo lore greys
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Me too! https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-unified-theory-of-gnomes.213067/
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I like Halflings, I'm making one for LEGENDS OF GREYHAWK, which will be a newly retired Sheriff of Elmshire, a sleepy town with a...
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