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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 3954710" data-attributes="member: 151">While I'm not really going to miss having to wait for a more detailed treatment on gnomes later (if at all), I can understand why folks would miss them.  For one thing, it's one more hindrance for an edition change.  When 3e came out, suddenly we had a whole new class of arcane spellcasters who violated the rules assumptions for how spellcasters worked.  In previous editions, a sorceror had been an alternate name for a magic-user...now he was a unique and different class.  It provides a barrier to migration of existing games and it changes many of the default assumptions of the game world.  Losing the gnome, for some people, is the same issue.Further, some folks just liked gnomes, and don't like the aspect that WotC is, conceptually, taking material away with a new edition.  One tends to expect the old to remain when the new is brought...and the removal of them, especially if it is done to accommodate new races that they don't want, such as the dragonborn, tiefling or eladrin...then that would upset them as well.I don't consider it a big deal, but I can understand why some folks would be unhappy about it.</blockquote>