Mercule
Adventurer
I forgot about Eberron gnomes. They are cool.
My main problem with gnomes is that they are now billed as bards, rather than mages or (better yet) earthy types like druids. I kinda got the gnome/illusionist thing, but gnome/druid always made more sense to me. Really, though, it'd be hard to be less appealing than schmuck-boy Neblin (or whatever the "iconic bard" was).
Unless, of course, you include halflings to the mix. Even Neblin was better than hobbits, kender, or the 3E kender-lite. Gnomes are a race with lots of potential that got botched. There's really no way to fix halflings.
My main problem with gnomes is that they are now billed as bards, rather than mages or (better yet) earthy types like druids. I kinda got the gnome/illusionist thing, but gnome/druid always made more sense to me. Really, though, it'd be hard to be less appealing than schmuck-boy Neblin (or whatever the "iconic bard" was).
Unless, of course, you include halflings to the mix. Even Neblin was better than hobbits, kender, or the 3E kender-lite. Gnomes are a race with lots of potential that got botched. There's really no way to fix halflings.