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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 1993223" data-attributes="member: 1165">I don't dislike halflings, but I think they've never been portrayed well in any DnD literature. I've never seen a gnome treated as anything but a joke until the "Lone Drow" series, and still, any non-gnome could have done Nanfoodle's job just as well. (He's a gnome illusionist/alchemist, two stereotypes rolled into one. *Rolleyes*)Halflings are frequently treated as jokes, too, but at least LotR portrayed some halflings as not being wimps. (Indeed, the only halfling wimp I recall having any amount of screen time was Bilbo!)Dwarves are cool, on the other hand. They range the gamut from chaotic to lawful, and don't seem like a bunch of stereotypes. Gimli's cool, and wasn't a wimp. (Dwarves have iron muscles and weight about as much as humans, which is why they're not weak, despite their smaller size.)It's almost like WotC didn't know what to do with gnomes and threw more stereotypes at them. So, they like nature, they like crafting and alchemy, they like illusions and pranks!... no, still not seeing good flavor for this. It's worse, since giving a gnome who has never seen a chipmunk the ability to speak with animals is just adding baggage. Maybe they could use gnome feats instead?Hint: turning them into Communists doesn't give them any mroe flavor. I agree that Eberron marginalized gnomes. As for half-orcs, I can't take them seriously in Eberron where orcs are actually a force to be reckoned with. In fact, toss out that silly dragonmark and you have no reason to have half-orcs in that world.</blockquote>

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