Figured all you gnome lovers would like to know this info from WotC_Logan :
Emphasis added. I'm gonna go out on a (short) limb and say gnomes will be one of the races in the MM that they'll stat up to be PC races.
WotC_Logan said:We're in a crunch trying to get classes spiffed up and entered into a database. We need to get our playtest packets together, and we're developing the classes rapidly. I've been in the rogue, ranger, and cleric meetings this week, and I think they're all on pretty solid ground.
One thing a player in Dave Noonan's game mentioned was that he wanted more non-violent options for his cleric. We'd gone pretty military for the cleric, but in the dev meeting, I made sure we put in some options for the other guy. "What would Steve Wolbrecht do" led us to some pretty cool powers that everybody—not just pacifists—will want.
Now I'm spending my days typing in monster numbers. I hadn't worked on monsters much, so it's cool to see what they're doing. I did wolves most recently, and gnomes are up next. (Gnomes rock, I don't care what anyone says.)
Some sad news from our lunchtime Savage Worlds game: My copy of the Explorer's Edition is missing a whole signature (page numbers skip from 16 to 49). We'd just hit Seasoned level, so it kinda sucked to not have any character advancement stuff in my book.
Emphasis added. I'm gonna go out on a (short) limb and say gnomes will be one of the races in the MM that they'll stat up to be PC races.