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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blade" data-source="post: 2010331" data-attributes="member: 26882">Cover Art: Almost an amusing image due to the subject covered.  It appears to be a bunch of dungeon delving gnomes?  Although I think I would have assumed one of them was a dwarf if I didn't know the topic of the product.  I do like the image though.Interior Art: Man on man, this book is chock full of art.  I am surprised to see so much art in a PDF product.  I liked it a lot.  I am extremely glad they took the time to do the art, although I would have liked to see a bit more of the magic items and possibly spells done up instead of images of more gnomes.Content:  I am very much into flavor type products, and the chapters describing the cultures are well done and well described.   There are four chapters covering strictly flavor material within the book, and they cover 3 cultures.  Each of the cultures describes a language and includes various terms from within the cultures. [There is a glossary in the product]  I like that they took the time to detail out an Asian feeling version of the race.  I am wondering if I can introduce that into my own campaign... in the European style setting I have, without forcing a totally Oriental Adventures type of campaign.  It would make my Gnomes a distinct race, as opposed to a silly little impish dwarf with a short beard.Unfortunately where the front half of the book is well thought out cultures, the rest of product seems lack the detail that I enjoy.  For instance the equipment section is well presented, but seems to cover only one of the cultures well.  I wish there was more to the section to cover the other cultures, although I assume it is implying that we should be using normal equipment.The book does not come out and say it, but I believe the cultures are intended to be used for any Gnomish race...  The book fails to explain why it presents several subraces in a later chapter.The Prestige Classes within the product are a mismash of ideas, and power levels.  I don't happen to use too many prestige classes in my own campaign, so this doesn't bother me.  The chapter is thankfully short in comparison to the areas I use heavily.Based on the levels of detail through the chapters I would hazard a guess that most of the second half of the product was done through their open call.  Sadly I neglected to send material in.... based on the material that was used, I would guess I would have had a chance to get my material in.Layout: There is a lot of text in this product.  I would say 10-20% more text on a page then a lot of other products, with art somehow fit in there as well.  It seems that it did with smaller margins on the top and bottom to fit into 96 pages. Price: $6.95 for a 96 page product that is crammed in is a good deal.  Overall I liked this product.  It just could have used more polishing!!!I would still recommend it highly for those that are interested in Gnomes.  The cultures section alone is worth it.</blockquote>

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