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Legend
I find the rock gnome to be a little uninspiring. I never liked how the ability to create little clockwork devices was a racial ability and now all they've done is change it to an effect of prestidigitation. That's the sort if thing that I feel anyone could learn, if there was a player of an elf wizard who wanted to do that with prestidigitation, I would not say no. I think real problem with rock gnomes is that they are trying to emulate tinker gnomes, but in so doing they make them magical. Better to have a tinker class than to make these abilities racial abilities. In this respect, I think it is much like the complaints people have with dwarves around how their natural craftsmanship is god-given. It's like they don't want races to grant learned proficiencies, but also, they do want races to grant learned proficiencies so came up with an excuse for it. I think they could probably come up with something better.