what would you expect to see in a gnomish village? - (My players STAY OUT!)

Trees, lots of trees. Some gnome homes are hidden between the roots and inside hollow trees. It's actually quite impossible to tell you're inside a village, as all is masterfully hidden, by druidic magic, illusions, or craftmanship.

Foxes, and fox holes. Foxes are the number 1 friends of gnomes IMC, rather than badger -- small, cute, and with a reputation of cunning, fits better than small, cute, and with a reputation of frenzied ferocity. But that's just me. :)

For gnome villages that are not disguised to look like wilderness, various illusions. A rich mansion may have its windows shielded by illusions so that people from the outside can't spy inside, seeing instead the landscape of a faraway land. (From the inside, the view is unaffected.) Underground passageways, as much as streets -- they can ask animals to dig for them, low-light vision rocks, and it's better than a street during harsh weather conditions.

Orchards and berrybushes.
 

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Badgers. Lots of badgers.

They have the extra utility over foxes in that they can help the gnomes dig burrows.

If the village is in a dangerous area, they probably have dugout ambush locations prepared on the outskirts.
 


Foxes own badgers anyway.

Foxes may dig their own burrows, but when there are badgers in the area, they don't bother. They come in, say "Hello mister badger, see, you have failed to pay your debt for your fridge, so I'm here to seize your home, move away now or I'll bite"; and the fox got a free mansion.
 

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