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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeoneer" data-source="post: 6241102" data-attributes="member: 91777">YOUR mother was a kender! And your grandfather smelt of elderberries! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />See, to me 'trickster bard' and 'mad scientists' are character types. They're not an entire race. Are ALL gnomes trickster bards and mad scientists? Because that would make for one doomed race.I feel like I could envision what a dwarven town or a halfling village would look like. But a group of gnomes living together? No idea. I have no sense of them as a society.When I pick up a setting book and turn to the short sidebar on gnomes, I never see anything about their everyday lives or their history. Do gnomes revere an ancient hero gnome? Did the gnome army march out to join the great war? How many lands does the gnomish emperor rule?When was the last time a party stumbled upon an ancient ruin only to discover it must have been constructed by gnomes? I'll bet it doesn't happen often!Other races get a back story, a history, a description of their culture. And then it's, "Oh! and there's gnomes. They're quirky and wacky! Hooray!"</blockquote>