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<blockquote data-quote="F5" data-source="post: 370829" data-attributes="member: 4607">You really have to stretch to give gnomes any kind of personal identity seperate from the other races.&nbsp; The myths that the gnome race is based on really put them in the same niche as elves (woodland creatures that tend to nature), and a little bit of the halfling/hobbit's niche (they build comfy homes in tunnels or old tree stumps).&nbsp; I like the fact that they gave gnomes more fey-like powers in 3E, but it still doesn't quite make them unique enough.&nbsp; I tried making them evil, related to goblins, but nobody in my game really bought into it.&nbsp; The best niche I've come up with for gnomes was in my silly, humor-based game, in which gnomes hid from the big races, and hadn't been seen in hundreds of years.&nbsp; I put a whole &quot;UFO&quot; spin on them, with peasants in taverns talking about Gnome Sightings, Gnome Abductions, and the sinister M.I.P.H (Men In Pointy Hats) who would appear in the night to silence People Who Knew Too Much...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="F5, post: 370829, member: 4607"] You really have to stretch to give gnomes any kind of personal identity seperate from the other races. The myths that the gnome race is based on really put them in the same niche as elves (woodland creatures that tend to nature), and a little bit of the halfling/hobbit's niche (they build comfy homes in tunnels or old tree stumps). I like the fact that they gave gnomes more fey-like powers in 3E, but it still doesn't quite make them unique enough. I tried making them evil, related to goblins, but nobody in my game really bought into it. The best niche I've come up with for gnomes was in my silly, humor-based game, in which gnomes hid from the big races, and hadn't been seen in hundreds of years. I put a whole "UFO" spin on them, with peasants in taverns talking about Gnome Sightings, Gnome Abductions, and the sinister M.I.P.H (Men In Pointy Hats) who would appear in the night to silence People Who Knew Too Much... [/QUOTE]

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