Gnome haters? It's Lockwood's fault!

[John Q. Mayhem]

Check it out:

This drawing rescued the Gnomes from oblivion. R&D didn’t know what to do with gnomes, and were considering dropping them entirely.

Gnome archer

 

[Piratecat]

Linky McLinkLink?

 

[Gold Roger]

here

Considering this is nowhere where gnomes went with 3.0, so I'm kinda doubtful of that quote. And I'm kinda happy that they didn't go with that.

Gnomes aren't steampunkers, they are clever tricksters.

 

[Mad Mac]

Heh, yeah. If anything, where Gnomes went with 3.0 is "Look at me! I bathe regularly and use hair gel! Take that big people!"

Well that and their big noses were replaced with stylish goatees. I'm still oddly fond of 3rd edition gnomes somehow, though...

 

[ForceUser]

Gnomes aren't steampunkers, they are clever tricksters.

My gnomes are steampunkers. Wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I doubt that was the only thing, but even if the final gnome design didn't match some of the concept art, I find it likely that Lockwood's many fantastic gnome pictures did nudge it along that way. I love the MM gnome.

The li'l bugger's here, too.

Bottom, towards the right, about to unload on that scary githyanki.

 

[satori01]

I suspect the story is true. Frankly, I almost never have gnomes in my campaign, precisly because I have a hard time "visualizing" what the race is about. I tend to associate technology with the dwarves, and the 3.0 PHB stats made gnomes the mystical race.

I would be fine with the elimnation of Gnomes, (and making Half Orcs just plain Orcs).

 

[Pozatronic]

What about the Eberron Gnomes? I don't mind them; Gnome mafia, anyone? Although, my favorite gnomes are still on Athas...

 

[Klaus]

Well, all I know is that at the onset of 3e, I found gnomes to be underrepresented, which led me to do Gnomania, weekly updates on my Oddballs gallery until I totalled 9 gnomes (plus 2 in the Core Races gallery).

http://www.enworld.org/Pozas/dnd_odd.html

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I love Badgerchild!