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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4378833" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Isn't it funny though that your "out there" campaign had a halfling variant, but still no gnome.</p><p></p><p>It's not a unified vision of boringness. That's what I don't get. It's not that people hated gnomes, its that gnomes were completely and utterly forgotten about in most games. I'm sorry for both gnome fans, but, so few people EVER played them. I did. I played gnomes a couple of times. But, I'm the only person I've ever played with who did.</p><p></p><p>It's not like they stepped back and said, "Oh, hey, here's this really interesting race that everyone likes to play, let's axe that." It's far closer to say, "Oh hey, here's this race that's been taking up space in the PHB for thirty years that almost no one ever plays. Let's axe that."</p><p></p><p>I would be willing to be dollars to donuts, that if you looked at the RPGA stats, you'd see that half orcs and gnomes place WAY at the bottom of the player barrel.</p><p></p><p>No one hates gnomes. Or at least about as many people hate gnomes as like them. The vast majority just plain out don't care.</p><p></p><p>Thirty years hasn't made gnomes interesting. How much longer should they keep trying?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 4378833, member: 22779"] Isn't it funny though that your "out there" campaign had a halfling variant, but still no gnome. It's not a unified vision of boringness. That's what I don't get. It's not that people hated gnomes, its that gnomes were completely and utterly forgotten about in most games. I'm sorry for both gnome fans, but, so few people EVER played them. I did. I played gnomes a couple of times. But, I'm the only person I've ever played with who did. It's not like they stepped back and said, "Oh, hey, here's this really interesting race that everyone likes to play, let's axe that." It's far closer to say, "Oh hey, here's this race that's been taking up space in the PHB for thirty years that almost no one ever plays. Let's axe that." I would be willing to be dollars to donuts, that if you looked at the RPGA stats, you'd see that half orcs and gnomes place WAY at the bottom of the player barrel. No one hates gnomes. Or at least about as many people hate gnomes as like them. The vast majority just plain out don't care. Thirty years hasn't made gnomes interesting. How much longer should they keep trying? [/QUOTE]
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