Gnomes and Eberron

[Destil]

I don't care for it.

It's not necessary to build racial features entirely around a particular and transitory culture. I prefer the scattershot approach of PHB gnome features to building everything around supporting the current Zilargo culture, which might have been different a couple of hundred years ago and might be different still a couple of hundred years in Eberron's future.

One thing worth of note is that I actually agree with you to some degree: most of these bonuses are cultural in my game, not genetic. This is important as I'm using Rich Berlew's 'Shapechange' template with some tweaks, I didn't really mention it here but only the alchemy bonus is 'racial' i.e. genetic. That's intentional.

To each his own, though. The scatterbrained illusionist focused PHB gnomes lack focus and identity, but if you like 'em that's cool.

Destil, I e-mailed you asking for more info on the races you changed- lemme know if you get it

yeah, check your E-Mail.