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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 2931896" data-attributes="member: 3424">Bard, then beguiler, then illusionist. I think artificer fits in more with dwarves and their talent for crafting. Of course, this is based on a racial concept for gnomes that I developed in 2e. I posted the following on another messageboard recently:I agree that gnomes suffer from the lack of a real niche. It doesn't help that the D&D idea gnome encompasses such varying concepts as the woodsy forest gnome and the Krynnish tinker gnome. I think that the Eberron "reinvention" of gnomes as dealers in information and secrets is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough, in my view. Back in 2e, I decided to create a world where each of the races were aligned with a specific element, and had attributes and philosophies related to the themes associated with that element. For gnomes, I picked the "element" of Shadow. The gnomes in that world were thus very different from the regular gnomes found elsewhere. They were tricksters: sly, cunning, devious and manipulative. They were natural spies and rogues, good at stealth and at ferreting out secrets and information. They had a special connection with dreams, nightmares, emotions and the subconscious parts of the mind, and were experts at evoking feelings of all sorts in others: positive ones such as joy, happiness and laughter, as well as darker one such as fear, rage and despair. They had a special knack for illusion and emotion-affecting spells. Given that I had this idea about gnomes at the back of my mind, I was quite happy with the 3.5 move of making bard their favored class. Of course, now that it is out, I think beguiler would make a excellent favored class, too. Of course, this version of gnome now treads too much on halfling territory. But that can be changed as well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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