Gnome Art Preview

[pukunui]

He does look a bit like a tiefling. I can't tell if thats really supposed to be hair, or if gnomes have been crossbreeding with satyrs.

Yeah, at first glance I thought those were horns. I had to look a bit more closely to see that he'd spiked his hair up. Aside from that, I quite like it. I enjoyed the gnome from the cartoon, especially since he looked like something straight out of a Gorillaz music video, but this guy is cool too.

I still think gnomes should be more like what everyone thinks of as garden gnomes but which are, in actual fact, an old northern European mythological creature ... even Terry Pratchett's parody of the gnome would be cool. At least it's different (a tiny ball of pent-up rage). But I can understand that a Tiny PC base race would have a number of mechanical issues and wouldn't necessarily be all that practical or playable.

 

[med stud]

I still think gnomes should be more like what everyone thinks of as garden gnomes but which are, in actual fact, an old northern European mythological creature ...

You mean that gnomes should milk your cows and help you with the farm in exchange for porradge? That's what our closest gnome- equivalent did

 

[lukelightning]

You mean that gnomes should milk your cows and help you with the farm in exchange for porradge? That's what our closest gnome- equivalent did

That's covered by racial feats.

Milkthief: You have +4 to thievery skill checks pertaining to dairy products.

From the GAMA trade show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU&

They had the CARTOON gnome on a poster! When I saw the MM pic I was irked.

Bah. Everyone should know by now that Youtube = Rickroll.

 

[Nightchilde-2]

Very cool, if you ask me. The age of plump short-asses is finally over!

Yeah. Finally a gnome that doesn't make me want to vomit upon seeing it.

 

[Klaus]

Very cool, if you ask me. The age of plump short-asses is finally over!

And it has been for a long, long, long time.

 

[DandD]

To be honest, Klaus, they simply look like Halflings to me. Or skinnier dwarves with shorter beards.

 

[rhm001]

That gnome makes me want to committee genocidal acts.

Who will sit on this committee? Are there open seats?!?

 

[olshanski]

I was hoping they'd finally get rid of tatoos, but I guess not.

 

[I'm A Banana]

This gnome hate baffles me.

The guy looks fine. He looks 300,000,000 times better than the mesh-shirt gangster cambion that is the deserving target of all the hate.

Everyone expecting to see a cartoon in the MM is smoking up something strong. He's a fey creature, he looks like a fey creature, 90% of fey creatures bear some similarity to elves (who also happen to be fey creatures), the black eyes are alien enough, and he's surrounded by nature and magic, two things that gnomes have always been mythically into.

I can't believe that this could be hated by anyone who didn't have unreasonable expectations? I mean, not being a fan of the artwork I guess I can kind of empathize with (subjectivity and all), but a cartoon and a MM entry are going to have different needs, guys.

 

[Khairn]

In a word ... ugh.

I definitely agree with Relique. Looks like the Gnome gene pool has undergone some serious tampering.