NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morlock" data-source="post: 6323285" data-attributes="member: 6776981">I've always hated gnomes. Then came the Tinker Gnomes, and I hated them even more (I've never been much on Steampunk in my D&D and Tinker Gnomes & the like are the gateway drug for Steampunk in D&D, so there's another layer of vitriol, right there).Recently I happened to look through Friend & Foe: The Gnomes & Kobolds of Tellene (Kingdoms of Kalamar) and saw the illustration on page 10. Lots of cognitive dissonance. They look cool. They look more like halflings, but they're armored up like dwarves. But they have an elvish aesthetic and mien, and no beards. It's almost like they just carved out their own niche in my imagination right there on the spot. I could see them played as a well-equipped, well-trained race with a Napoleon complex (little guys are usually scrappers).So, I still hate the traditional gnomes, but those gnomes have earned themselves a spot. I'm not going to start writing up gnome characters, or anything. But I'll be okay with gnomes in a setting from now on, because I'll just rewrite them to be like the gnomes in that illustration. They still kinda suffer from the "furries" thing, IMO; better for a side campaign/adventure where everyone's furries/little folk/etc.Yes, I'm an artist and very visually-oriented. In fact I'm a total whore for good art. Kudos to Keith DeCesare.I give both the bum's rush. Draconians own the niche for me. Elmore's illustrations have a lot to do with that (told you, I'm a whore for good art).</blockquote>

Verification