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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 2309399" data-attributes="member: 22260">The great unapreciated race of gnomes...As has been noted, gnomes are found in myth and folklore, otherwise they wouldn't be in everyones gardens! And if you can find the Hobbit in a book store, then you can probably find Gnomes. They are neither grim and greedy dwarves, nor high-faluting elves, but they are a little like hobbits...at least a little.(as has been noted) Hobbits are a creation of Prof. Tolkien. In his earlier short stories, he had a small non-dwarf race that like to tell and listen to stories, he called the members of this race gnomes...Of course, its one thing to exist in a world of fantasy, like dryads or talking frogs, and another to be a player race...and thanks to the Prof., here the hobbits had the edge."halflings" where in D&D earlier as a player race, including the basic sets that introduced so many people to the game, gnomes were not. And there niche has not been well defined, in large part because of the halflings...I have had one gnome pc, and many gnome npcs. I am playing in an online game with another gnome pc. There role in Terra is defined well enough. But like Whizbang, we don't have halflings or hobbits...in a game of herioc fantasy, one small clever race is enough.</blockquote>