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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 3913572" data-attributes="member: 6533">Looking back on it, do you really think it was necessary to be this rude to someone you don't know over the literary background to a DnD race?I agree with you that Gnomes have one, but educating is nearly always a better choice than berating.We know they aren't planning on killing gnomes off.  In all probability you can play a gnome straight out of the MM.  They just aren't going to be in the PHB, which is fine since the PHB is including races that highlight the advantages of each class in the PHB, more or less, and, as you point out, since at least 3ed there hasn't been a distinctly Gnomish role.I like them for Barbarians and Thieves, myself, but that doesn't really fit with the literature.  We know they're taking some time to tinker with Illusion and so that it works really well with the new system.When that's done I have a good amount of faith that we will in fact see a full write up of gnomes with all the racial feats the PHB races normally get, and that both the Gnome and the Bard and/or Illusionist class they highlight will be all the better for the wait.</blockquote>