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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 6304197" data-attributes="member: 2303">I prefer my gnomes a little fey, or crazy. They can take things in stride because compared to humans, their personalities lack "depth". They are what medieval people would call soulless. They are closer to animals than humans are, more immediate in their concerns, less dreamy and or worrying.I also like fey to change with the times. The seelie and unseelie courts are not two entirely different things, it is faerie/nature showing two different faces to the world. The world in the daytime and nighttime look different, but it is really the same world. The same applies to the fey.In my homebrew, all the "little" races are in fact one race. I call them hobs. This is a race of illusionists and pseudo-shapechangers. They cannot shapechange at will, but do so as a response to their environment. Halflings, goblins, gnomes, and redcaps are examples of how hob can manifest. When things are good, the hobs manifest in nice ways, as gnomes and halflings. When things are bad, they manifest as bad things - goblins and redcaps (and others, there are lots of bad little people). This explains how, as you break the curse of the blighted forest, it can suddenly be full of laughing gnomes when it used to be full of nasty goblins.</blockquote>