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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Death_Jester" data-source="post: 1344849" data-attributes="member: 2156">For years I have had the idea that Gnomes were tricksters and practical jokers because the first two I was ever introduced to were.  The characters were brothers, played by some old friends of mine and they did all kinds of horrible things to each other.  It stuck and the 1st & 2nd ed core books seem to reflect that in some ways.  They seemed to have some special abilities based on illusion and trap making so they just ran with it and really made each other’s lives hell for a while.  Fortunately the "tall people" (that being me and the rest of the party) were excluded from most of the fun.  Also something that has come up recently with the Gnomes and the Tinkerer stereotype is that during the time of troubles Gond showed up in Lantan as a Gnome; thus reinforcing the concept all the more in the Realms.  I have no clue what to do with them in my game in the realms but I will have to think of something or ditch them altogether.  As an aside, no one has mentioned this yet but the "Book of Erotic Fantasy" did something with Gnomes that does make them very distinctive.  I have never thought of what happens when you marry the natural urge to create things with an unnatural proclivity to procreate.  These are not your father’s Gnomes boys and girls.  They are distinctive and definitely have a place in the world.  Probably not on the battlefield or the dungeon, but a place. Couple that with the Zurich references from the earlier posts and they would have one heck of a nation or region. Everyone would want to be their friend.  Nothing wrong with rich, decadent, and politically neutral.  After all what is the big attraction of Las Vegas?  All the vices are legal there and condoned by the local government.  So people flock there every year to "have fun" (whatever that might be) and then go home.</blockquote>

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