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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1115456" data-attributes="member: 1328">My gnomes sure don't lack common sense.My gnomes sure don't lose control. And, except those dwarf-influenced svirfneblins, are not interested much in mechanisms. Forest gnomes are interested in plants and animals, rock gnomes are interested in geography and peoples, my homebrew night gnomes are interested in legends and cosmogony; and all gnomes are interested in alchemy.Being serious don't mean having a broomstick inserted in one's anatomy. Rather than awkwardly trying to describe what I mean, I'll take a close example: Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter behaves like I see gnomes behaving. He may seem eccentric or even slightly crazy, but he's actually well aware of things.My gnomes do are patient, they may live up to more than 400 centuries. They are quite disciplined -- they aren't prone to chaos like elves, and their good alignment make them more likely to self-discipline than humans.In fact, my gnomes are somewhat monastic, but not in a stern way. They seek enlightenment, and believe enlightenment comes from wisdom and lore. Their ability with illusion may come from a distant parentage with fey, as is rumored, or from a greater awareness. Their knowledge of spells for all -- I keep 3.0's rules of them being spells rather than spell-like ability -- means that all gnomes have some basics knowledge in wizardry.Keep in mind the etymology of gnome as well. It's insightful. It means thought (open a Greek/English dictionary), gnosis, knowledge (same roots).Those are my gnomes.It's a wholly different debate, but knows that these associations, although common, are not necessarily true. These depends a lot of the world. And beside, isn't a flying carpet or a decanter of endless water a mix of magic and technology? Carpets and decanters are not natural items. To say nothing of enchanted crossbows... As Arthur C Clarck said, advanced technology looks like magic. And I've read theories of magic that seemed a lot more lawful, ordained and predictible than actual technological things like, say, a modern computer operation system (especially, but not only, those conceived in Redmond).</blockquote>

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