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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2307444" data-attributes="member: 11760">I agree about gnomes not having a niche. I've been playing since 1979, and it wasn't until Dragonlance that most people remembered they were in the PHB at all. Prior to tinkers, their niche was &quot;they have big noses.&quot; No, really.I like them, myself, but to give them any sort of profile, you have to kick someone else off the stage. I do it with the mutant 3E halflings myself, unless I'm running an all-hobbit game in Mystara. As the non-dwarf shorties, they've got a start. Then I make sure the imagery of them is closer to the Gnomes picture book that was so popular in the 1980s than to anything tinkery (which is odd, since I love the tinker gnome archetype in MMORPGs).Little men in bark canoes paddling quietly along a forest stream, talking with the hedgehog sitting at the other end of the boat, is an image that feels very different than the other 3E races.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 2307444, member: 11760"] I agree about gnomes not having a niche. I've been playing since 1979, and it wasn't until Dragonlance that most people remembered they were in the PHB at all. Prior to tinkers, their niche was "they have big noses." No, really. I like them, myself, but to give them any sort of profile, you have to kick someone else off the stage. I do it with the mutant 3E halflings myself, unless I'm running an all-hobbit game in Mystara. As the non-dwarf shorties, they've got a start. Then I make sure the imagery of them is closer to the Gnomes picture book that was so popular in the 1980s than to anything tinkery (which is odd, since I love the tinker gnome archetype in MMORPGs). Little men in bark canoes paddling quietly along a forest stream, talking with the hedgehog sitting at the other end of the boat, is an image that feels very different than the other 3E races. [/QUOTE]

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