Gnomes in 4th edition? Maybe...

[mach1.9pants]

...as soon as I get my grubby little carnie hands on the 4th Ed PHB!

Do you also, Sir, smell of cabbage?

 

[doctormandible]

Thanks for the answer (and bad Gnome puns)!

Personal favorite - In Gnomine Polis.

Fabulous!

 

[vagabundo]

Gnomes have seen a resurgence among the DND populous, it seems.

 

[MarauderX]

Gnomes have seen a resurgence among the DND populous, it seems.

More... or less...

Sorry, there are gno gnown gnomes in the kingdom or out, although elves sometimes mention them and compare them to dwarves if only vaguely in something to do with genocide, mass burials, and inability to procreate.

 

[D.Shaffer]

There's a gnome wizard PC in my Temple of Elemental Evil campaign.

EDIT: Using the rules from the MM.

Does he have a lair?
Does he have minions?

 

[Cyronax]

One of the promo cards for Living Forgotten Realms is a character creation card that lets you choose Gnome as your race.

Hahaha....

I was one of the lucky people to actually get one at DDXP. It was that or a shadar-kai or a an orc. You had to purchase them with tokens earned from about 5 half-hour delves.

The guy monitoring the promo card pile said I was one of a very few people to choose the gnome.

 

[PHGraves]

One of the issues that I have with this whole "Gnomes as kinda-sorta PC race" is the apparent load of drivel handed to us in the Races & Classes book. In it, WotC explained that they had no real niche for the Gnome and had no idea what abilities to give it to make it stand alongside the other player races. Now, however, they have an entry in the Monster Manual, complete with information on how to make it a player race?

Unless someone was talking out their backside, I would not be surprised to see the following entry:

GNOME

Dude. We have no idea. Just make something up (or play a Halfling, they're cool again). - WotC Design Team

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

One of the issues that I have with this whole "Gnomes as kinda-sorta PC race" is the apparent load of drivel handed to us in the Races & Classes book. In it, WotC explained that they had no real niche for the Gnome and had no idea what abilities to give it to make it stand alongside the other player races. Now, however, they have an entry in the Monster Manual, complete with information on how to make it a player race?

Unless someone was talking out their backside, I would not be surprised to see the following entry:

GNOME

Dude. We have no idea. Just make something up (or play a Halfling, they're cool again). - WotC Design Team

I suppose a niche for a monster is different from the niche for a player race. Monsters can overlap more then PCs. (At least, that's what D&D does - dozens of humanoids, dragon types, devils or angels...) And there are niches for monsters that just don't fit PCs. A creature lurking in the Feywild and kidnapping children - Maybe a good idea for a monster (Gnome?), but is it something that screams "player race"?

 

[The Little Raven]

Now, however, they have an entry in the Monster Manual, complete with information on how to make it a player race?

The content of Races & Classes was finalized in August 2007.
The content of the Monster Manual was finalized in late March 2008.

Do you think nothing happened in the 7 months between those events?

 

[TheLordWinter]

The content of Races & Classes was finalized in August 2007.
The content of the Monster Manual was finalized in late March 2008.

Do you think nothing happened in the 7 months between those events?

Within the space of those seven months, that gnome managed to secure both a lair and a minion!