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<blockquote data-quote="Urbannen" data-source="post: 907331" data-attributes="member: 7643">Will, I agree with everything you've said here.&nbsp; The D&amp;D races are loosely based on mythology, but they are essentially just that - races specific to the D&amp;D game.&nbsp; Given that, a D&amp;D race can have just about any favored class that the designers feel like.&nbsp; Why not bard?&nbsp; Elven wizard makes little sense, either (oh excuse me from frolicking in the woods while I go hunt some deer so I can turn their skin into parchment, and then I have to go find some gems and special herbs so I can make special ink, and while everyone else is frolicking I will be inside my treehouse writing into a book of spells that I or some unnamed elvish underclass artisan had to construct.&nbsp; I will later spend several hours every week studying so that I can cast spells.&nbsp; Also I will have to lug said book around wherever the gentle side of my chaos should lead me to wander, and ouch does my back hurt from frolicking with this book strapped to it.&nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> )&nbsp; Surely sorcerer would have made more sense as favored class for elves.&nbsp; So why not bards for gnomes?&nbsp;&nbsp; I had that cute oversized book &quot;Gnomes&quot; when I was a kid.&nbsp; Those gnomes were not Small.&nbsp; I would say that were Tiny at the largest.&nbsp; They did speak to animals, but they didn't cast spells (I don't think.)&nbsp; I don't think they would have made a very good PC race.&nbsp; But since people like to have a lots of flavors to choose from, Gary Gygax decided to throw in a humanoid called a gnome.&nbsp; Why not?&nbsp; All this to say, go gnome bards!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Urbannen, post: 907331, member: 7643"] Will, I agree with everything you've said here. The D&D races are loosely based on mythology, but they are essentially just that - races specific to the D&D game. Given that, a D&D race can have just about any favored class that the designers feel like. Why not bard? Elven wizard makes little sense, either (oh excuse me from frolicking in the woods while I go hunt some deer so I can turn their skin into parchment, and then I have to go find some gems and special herbs so I can make special ink, and while everyone else is frolicking I will be inside my treehouse writing into a book of spells that I or some unnamed elvish underclass artisan had to construct. I will later spend several hours every week studying so that I can cast spells. Also I will have to lug said book around wherever the gentle side of my chaos should lead me to wander, and ouch does my back hurt from frolicking with this book strapped to it. :rolleyes: ) Surely sorcerer would have made more sense as favored class for elves. So why not bards for gnomes? I had that cute oversized book "Gnomes" when I was a kid. Those gnomes were not Small. I would say that were Tiny at the largest. They did speak to animals, but they didn't cast spells (I don't think.) I don't think they would have made a very good PC race. But since people like to have a lots of flavors to choose from, Gary Gygax decided to throw in a humanoid called a gnome. Why not? All this to say, go gnome bards! [/QUOTE]

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