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Message: <blockquote data-quote="QuietBrowser" data-source="post: 6948942" data-attributes="member: 6855057">Oh? Why do those races in particular catch your attention?Speaking of Rock Gnomes... I want to stay well away from the "tinker gnomes are bungling inventors!" angle - that's part of what ruined them in Dragonlance, after all. But, what do folks think of the idea that Gnomoi were born from when warring armies of dwarves and elves were caught in a "chaos storm" as part of the Black Dawn. As a side effect of this, there's a tiny little flicker of chaos caught in every Gnomoi's soul, a spark of restlessness, innovation and insatiable curiosity that has brought their affinity for magic to the surface (as opposed to their Forgeborn Dwarf kin, who had their elemental aspect brought to the surface) and which drives them to investigate and tinker?Between their "deformed" (chaos-tinged elfin) features, loosely inspired by PF's gnomes, and this drive to innovate, question and recreate when Sonnlinor culture reacted to the cataclysm by becoming drastically more conservative, this would cause them to be rejected by their former kin, something further fuelled by the fact that the Gnomoi themselves aren't really sure of their origins. Are they dwarves rendered more magical? Are they elves shrunken and made more dwarf-like by the storm of raw potential? Are they some sort of fusion between dwarf and elf? They don't know, and so, with no past to cling to, they've chosen to focus on pursuing the future.What do folks think of this idea? Does it sound good to you?I just wish I could figure out something to do with Gnolls, too. Their big "symbolic" associations tend to be things like necromancy, cannibalism, perversion, hedonism, debauchery, sex, deviance, viciousness,  evil, madness and cruelty. Not too helpful to build from if I want to make them  something other than Always Chaotic Evil...</blockquote>

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