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How is that different than elves? Desert, sea, moon, ...Since they have no central identity, new ones get slapped onto them.
How is that different than elves? Desert, sea, moon, ...Since they have no central identity, new ones get slapped onto them.
They don't erase the base archetypal elf. It's just -another- kind of elf.How is that different than elves? Desert, sea, moon, ...
but what is the gnomeness they share the key things that makes something a gnomeIn my campaign I divide between forest gnomes and rock/tinker gnomes. Forest gnomes are kind and curious nature loving folk. You can walk through a forest gnome community and not even realize it between how they blend in to nature and their knack for illusion magic. They're quite inventive so be careful, they also like to play good natured practical jokes and pranks.
Rock/tinker gnomes are unabashedly stolen from WOW, as inventors of overly complicated devices that they keep trying to perfect. The more complex the invention, the more perfect it is. I've described one of the largest rock gnome cities as being akin to Las Vegas with contraptions and everyone trying to outcompete each other with crazy inventions.
On a related note, both goblins and gnomes are descended from feywild goblinkin that long ago came to my world. The feywild goblinkin are mischievous pranksters and when they left the feywild some followed the light hearted harmless pranks of Garl Glittergold's pantheon and became gnomes. Others followed the cruel, intentionally hurtful ways of Maglubiyet.
So I've given them identities over time that may not match very closely with established lore.
interestingTheir creator, Theophrastus "Paracelsus" von Hohenheim, designated them as beings of elemental earth.
Within D&D they've settled into the space of folkloric little people / mythic trickster that Elves and Dwarves can't occupy, because they glom too closely to Tolkienesque tropes.
since when have kobolds been cute they are horrible dog-like dragon servitors I suppose they could be worse they could be halflings.Goblins I’ll give you, but Tucker’s not withstanding, were kobolds ever not cute?
possibly goliath could use some more lore and connections to the world and both are orderly to the point of madnessSymbiotic fungal growth!
Dwarf are small Goliath?
fair point.They don't erase the base archetypal elf. It's just -another- kind of elf.
Meanwhile 4e made -all- Gnomes into Fey, and 5e brought them back to Humanoid.
The baseline "Gnome" gets changed because there's no real consensus or idea of what it is at its core.
Sort of like Ranger.
Puddleglum would make a good model for Firbolg without the cow-nosesAnd while we're at it, I want to play an elf as a Marsh-wiggle.
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since when have kobolds been cute
Answered your own question there.they are (…) dog-like
I am failing to see the appeal, I just worry about breaking them by accident dogs that is.Answered your own question there.