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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7045188" data-attributes="member: 6704184">You're both terrible. Gnomes and Paladins are great. You're thinking of Halflings. Gnome is another great example of how I don't understand people on the internet. And yes, only online do I ever see gnome hate. Get rid of the Halfling, not the gnome! Halflings are a vestige of Gygax trying to rip off Tolkien. They're boring. Especially the "we live in the pastoral countryside and smoke pipes and excel at applied boredom as a lifestyle" Halflings people inexplicably clamor for. Gnomes have an actual, distinct, character. They aren't just hobbits with wallpaper over their hairy feet. At least 4e river nomad Halflings had a culture that wasn't just "happy small humans". Those Halflings, I could stand. But every time I see gnome hate, it ends up eventually claiming that gnomes are redundant because Halflings. As if the game only has room for 1 small race, which is itself an absurd notion, but even if it were true, Halflings are a crap race with no distinction! There is literally nothing special about them! At least give them some kind of culture that isn't just "professionally boring hobbit stand-ins".also, I want Dwarves to be small, but strong enough to use weapons like medium races. Maybe give them something like Powerful Build or whatever that Goliath and firbolg have.</blockquote>