Look, I'm a Monster...

[Philotomy Jurament]

I like the noise the rodent makes when that goth girl kicks it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yes, exactly! I do hate gnomes. I dream every night of stuffing the Travelocity gnome in the microwave and listening to him scream until his head pops.

We know where you live, you know. And we're better at hiding until just the right moment than ever.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I got your back, WD...and a whole bunch of badgers.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

We know where you live, you know. And we're better at hiding until just the right moment than ever.

We are small but we are many
We are many, we are small
We were here before you rose
We will be here when you fall.

 

[Celebrim]

Yeah, that's by far the best bit of advertising that they did. It's memorable. It's viral. It's slickly done. The gnome is cute and the tiefling is sinister.

 

[pogminky]

'tis good.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Well, it's sort of "duh" that it kinda backfired.

The tiefling comes across as a narcissistic murderous snob, whereas the gnome is cute lil guy who calls his mum and has a wombat who he gives raspberries. Snob kills the cute gnome and boots wombat, and they wonder why people are sympathising with the gnome and rejecting the tiefling? Hmm...

It doesn't feel to me like it backfired. I found it funny, and yet sympathize with the Gnome. Hey, maybe this video will even stop people from playing annoying Tieflings, because they know it makes them look bad compared to Gnomes.

 

[rounser]

Hey, maybe this video will even stop people from playing annoying Tieflings, because they know it makes them look bad compared to Gnomes.

That's what I mean by "backfired". If it was meant to big-up 4E, and make tieflings look like cool PCs and gnomes not, then it seems to have had the opposite effect.

 

[MarkB]

If nothing else, "I'm a monster...RAWR!" has earned its' rightful place in the gamer's lexicon. It's this edition's "I'm attacking the darkness".

I'm playing a gnome wizard in a 3.5e game converted to 4e, and we've been having great fun with the idea that my character is now technically a monster. And I'm now looking to acquire a pet of some kind, just so that I can occasionally do the "Who's my minion? Who's my minion? You are!" line.

 

[hong]

Of course, Francis also features in the video that plays on the main D&D page on WotC's site.