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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Ghost" data-source="post: 4924992" data-attributes="member: 60281"> Re: Gnomes. My girlfriend loves gnomes. When she first started playing D&D it was a gnome that she wanted to play. She does not play her as a practical jokester or comic relief but instead as a serious academic (albeit one who looks just like a garden gnome). I have been running a campaign for her character for a little over three years now. She loves her character.  She has no real knowledge of TSR or other campaign settings or how gnomes have been portrayed. She is a very casual gamer; she only owns enough books to play her character but did buy a lot of books for me. She tends to get a little frustrated with the complexity of the 3.5 rules from time-to-time. She is exactly the kind of person WotC should have marketed 4e to.  And yet she refuses to try the game. Why? Because of how they treated the gnome. The one thing that she loved about D&D was being mocked. It didn't matter to her that the tiefling was also being mocked in that video. In her mind it was her character that was sitting up there - it was her character that was the joke. I certainly don't blame her (or anyone else) for feeling offended by that.</blockquote>