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<blockquote data-quote="The Grassy Gnoll" data-source="post: 7472016" data-attributes="member: 6788652">How about: clockwork is tiny. Only Gnomes have developed the tech to manufacture magnifying glass.Why would ‘normal’ people bother to faff about like that when they have access to Enlarge/Reduce? Or any other number of magical effects (especially with Simulacrum now)?Perhaps Gnomes are (going against the classic AD&amp;D illusionist trope) almost inherently non-magical? Disbar then from caster classes and you have a race that can’t access magic and thus rely on their science instead? Would make sense of their resistance to spells, too.I mean, you could have a ‘caster’ gnome but the spells would be mechanical effects. Flamethrowers, etc. But push that envelope too far and it gets messy as hell with laptops (how else would you run Comprehend Languages without a database..?) becoming the equivalent of spell scrolls anyone can use given the knowledge of “press enter”. So I’d avoid that, and stick with Gnomes being nonmagical, rational creatures, their predilection for practical jokes stemming from the need to blow off the reasoning to chill out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Grassy Gnoll, post: 7472016, member: 6788652"] How about: clockwork is tiny. Only Gnomes have developed the tech to manufacture magnifying glass. Why would ‘normal’ people bother to faff about like that when they have access to Enlarge/Reduce? Or any other number of magical effects (especially with Simulacrum now)? Perhaps Gnomes are (going against the classic AD&D illusionist trope) almost inherently non-magical? Disbar then from caster classes and you have a race that can’t access magic and thus rely on their science instead? Would make sense of their resistance to spells, too. I mean, you could have a ‘caster’ gnome but the spells would be mechanical effects. Flamethrowers, etc. But push that envelope too far and it gets messy as hell with laptops (how else would you run Comprehend Languages without a database..?) becoming the equivalent of spell scrolls anyone can use given the knowledge of “press enter”. So I’d avoid that, and stick with Gnomes being nonmagical, rational creatures, their predilection for practical jokes stemming from the need to blow off the reasoning to chill out. [/QUOTE]

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