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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3959302" data-attributes="member: 710">Hmm. I was pretty sure I had a paragraph about comparing the dex benefit to AC of the Halfing compared to the COn bonus to hit points, but I seemed to have edited it out again. THe +2 to Dex grants (on average) 5 % less damage against the PC (against most attacks and most area spells), which is equivalent to a 5 % increase in staying power. The Gnomes extra hit points are - speaking relatively - stronger for wizards then these 5 %, but it's a bit "harder" to count, since the percentage bonus depends on the base hit points (calculated from unmodified con, hit dice and other effects besides race increasing Constitution). Staying power for wizards is usually less related to hit points and more to spells per day. Do the designers just not care about Gnomes, or are they just unhappy with what they came up with for the Gnomes, and therefore decided to put them in the MM and avoiding a detailed study on personality and background for the moment? In a better world, the designers might have more time to think about the Gnome or been hit by a better inspiration particle and had given us PHB-worthy Gnomes. ---As a side note, I just notice that I think as someone not regularly reading fantasy novels and being a native German speaker to boot, I don't feel qualified to give accurate "concepts" of Gnomes. I am simply not aware of the real finepoints between Dwarves and Gnomes (as I said somewhere else/earlier, in german, the lawn ormanenent Gnomes are also called by the German word for "Dwarf").And for me, Elves definitely are the more Tolkien-inspired variant, since the Santa Elves are not (a strong) part of German folklore. The only other relation to Elves I know from folklore is that to Nightmares. These are called "Alpträume" in German, the part "Alp" apparently going back to "Elves" and "Alpdruck", symbolizing an Elf (some evil creature in that case) sitting on your chest and causing nightmares.</blockquote>

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