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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 3950470" data-attributes="member: 20323">I see gnomes going the way of fey in 4e - morally ambiguous, with a mischevious vengeance, and a prankster compulsion (a gnome saying might be "why kill, when you can trick then kill?"). So, their racial flaw is 'deceitful'.Physically, they have disproportionately large heads with exaggerated features, wide bulging eyes and a smirking/grinning mouth too big for their face. They stop just short of being grotesque.Semi-underground mushroom agrarians, gnomes have low-light vision and can identify mushroom/fungus.They are prolific merchants/bankers with a "pack rat" hoarding mentality, and can speak with vermin (moles, rabbits, rats, centipedes, spiders, snakes) who help them balance their ledgers. Gnomes are amazing coin counters and treasure appraisers, at one point having managed the finances of the empire.They evade the goblins who hunt them with cunning traps, and are great admirers of trap-craft. Likewise, they often use unusual poisons extracted from mushrooms. Squeals of gnomish delight can be heard when an adventurer springs one of their traps.Gnomes are consummate inventors, always looking for ways to refine their traps, improve their mushroom cultivation, and develop better accounting tools (e.g. recorder golems). Now, sometimes their inventions backfire, but for them it's about competition to see which gnome is the most ingenious rather than actually producing something.Gnomes are masterful schemers, able to make a plan ahead of time which benefits their party (if their advice is listened to). Also, gnomes are experts at finding loopholes in laws, delighting in abiding by the letter of the law while breaking its intent.As gnomish society values subterfuge, many gnomes learn illusory magic to hide their burrows/cities from goblin raiders and the prying eyes of men. Gnomes can “lay tricks”, that is, tie their spells to a place with a condition that triggers the spell (spell-trapping). Expect to confront many programmed illusions in pursuit of a gnomish city.Their small size, vermin allies, and cunning allow them to vanish from sight with the slightest distraction, taking advantage of animal burrows, the hospitality of local gnomes, a faerie trod, etc.Gnomes are always underestimated - they aren't attacked on the first round of combat unless they make themselves a loud target. As deceitful rumors surround them, feats/powers/skills which reveal information about gnomes only reveal partial truth, never the whole truth.Gnomes are bad ass because they come prepared to every fight, always have an ace up their sleeve, taunt their enemies into pursuit leading into a trap, can disappear and reappear at a moment's notice, and dance around larger foes.</blockquote>

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