What's with the Gnome Hate?

[Hussar]

Mongoose, Green Ronin, a ton of smaller publishers all did gnome stuff.

Really? I'm not a huge fan of either company, but I do have a number of books from both. What gnome books did they do?

Umbran - sure, absolutes are bad, but, let's face it, it's not far off either. The primary reason that gnomes got the chop is that they were never very popular. Like I said WAY way up thread, WOTC has the stats from the various Living Campaigns. I'll bet dollars to donuts that gnomes and half orcs rank at the bottom of the heap.

Why does no one care about the poor half orc anyway?

 

[racoffin]

Really? I'm not a huge fan of either company, but I do have a number of books from both. What gnome books did they do?

Mongoose - Quintessential Gnome
Dark Quest Games - Gnomes, Masters of Illusion
Green Ronin - Advanced Race Codex: Gnomes
Kenzer and Co - Friend and Foe: The Gnomes and Kobolds of Tellene
EN Publishing - EN Arsenal - Hooked Hammer

There may be a few others I am missing, but I think those are the big ones.

 

[Hussar]

Mongoose - Quintessential Gnome
Dark Quest Games - Gnomes, Masters of Illusion
Green Ronin - Advanced Race Codex: Gnomes
Kenzer and Co - Friend and Foe: The Gnomes and Kobolds of Tellene
EN Publishing - EN Arsenal - Hooked Hammer

There may be a few others I am missing, but I think those are the big ones.

Thankees. Didn't gnow about those.

As far as Greyhawk and original gnomes goes, I've been reading the Oerth Journal lately to prepare for my Savage Tide campaign. I've played in Greyhawk but it was a very long time ago, so, I figured I'd brush up and look for some background goodies for my players.

Gnomes aren't mentioned. Now, I'm only about halfway through, so, maybe there's something later on, but, gnomes aren't even mentioned so far. The first couple of Oerth Journals deal specifically with the history and timelines of Greyhawk up to the Greyhawk Wars and gnomes aren't even given a paragraph as far as I can see. Elves? Feature prominently. Dwarves? All over the place. Even Halflings get a bit of a blurb. Nothing on gnomes.

So, I'm thinking that gnomes didn't register too high on the radar, even back then, with hard core Greyhawk fans.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I love my character's gnome hooked hammer! (His has continual flame cast on one end, for use as a torch and as a fake flaming weapon.)

I had forgotten about that ENWorld book. If he wasn't already working on class #4 in two levels (his first prestige class), I'd be tempted to pick up some hooked hammer specialist goodies from that.