Gnome haters? It's Lockwood's fault!

[Nyaricus]

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

That's awesome! I did not know you were the one and the same - let me say that I'm a hge fan and have been for awhile

One of my players wanted to be a gnome monk, so I took that picture, cut off the kama's buisness end and revered the weapon and voila! A gnome with a quarterstaff

and making Half Orcs just plain Orcs

You know, I heard that Monte Cook, looking back over 3.x, said that he now wishes that Orcs were a core race and had barbarian as a favoured class, and that the half-orcs would be the 'inbetween' race (like half-elves are).

 

[ephemeron]

Gnomes have never had a niche, not even in 1st edtion AD&D.

I don't know... the Illusionist/Thief option (and everyone I ever saw play a gnome took it) made them tricksters. Not a niche you necessarily want filled in your party, but I'd count it as a niche.

 

[Klaus]

I don't know... the Illusionist/Thief option (and everyone I ever saw play a gnome took it) made them tricksters. Not a niche you necessarily want filled in your party, but I'd count it as a niche.

Yep, the gnome niche in 1e was Illusionist or Thief/Illusionist (the only race capable of such a multiclass). Heck, trickster behaviour was described as the common behaviour of the entire race!

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Dragonlance started it.

Mystara and the Realms picked it up and ran with it, then it sort of became the mainstream version of gnomes. Odd, that.

Cheers,
Cam

Yep, I love me some Tinker Gnomes.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I actually don't like tinker gnomes in games (they can be fine in stories; The Clockwork Hero is an old favorite of mine). I like gnome tinkers, though.

 

[Nyaricus]

I actually don't like tinker gnomes in games (they can be fine in stories; The Clockwork Hero is an old favorite of mine). I like gnome tinkers, though.

poignantly put, Mista Mayhem.

 

[Umbran]

Heck, trickster behaviour was described as the common behaviour of the entire race!

Yes. Now, think about the parties that they must throw. Picture, if you will, a gnome wedding feast... Magnificent!

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

poignantly put, Mista Mayhem.

Eh? lol...poignant as in emotionally moving? *chuckle* I have no idea what you mean

 

[Ariddrake]

I wish there was a good set of rules that help define what the gnome niche is. Like some tinkering feats that had rules for what their devices could do or that they have some inborn illusionary magic.

 

[kenobi65]

All I know is, that repeating crossbow in the Lockwood picture wound up in "Van Helsing."