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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bhaal" data-source="post: 520597" data-attributes="member: 8702">* I enjoy the stern-hearted, no nonsense serious gnome FAR more than the slapstick nefarious "troublemaker" gnomes.  It does their reputation a world of good.  Seeing a human heedlessly rush into a hopeless fight and take out more enemies than thought possible before being felled himself, that's just passe nowadays.  However seeing a gnome do the same thing is inspiring.  When faced with combat, giving them a grim and deadly-serious attitude gives those guys far more credit than giving them an aloof and almost cowardly attitude.* I enjoy the idea of gnomes being technologically saavy, but I absolutely detest the execution of it.  People need to start tossing out the idea of "gnomish contraptions" being huge clunky brass whatchamadoodads spinning around, whistling and belching out steam.  The paradigm for gnomish technology needs to be updated in a big way.  I want to see beautifully crafted, ordinary looking objects that gets overlooked until it functions, and then it becomes magic in itself.  No more of these obtuse, hopelessly convoluted and laughably bizarre toys, I want real engineering, practacality in ALL senses of the word.I played with a GM that used both of the above for his gnomes, and they were more interesting than any other races (he also made their appearance rare).  The ones we came across mostly were a sort of Navy SEAL squad that a large kingdom used.  They had a sense of humor that rivaled a dwarf's in terms of dryness, and in combat they were bone-chillingly efficient, and this feeling was enhanced by their short height. They also had an endless supply of neat looking gadgets that seemed mysterious and incredibly powerful to us, and yet to the gnomes they were as common as a longsword.  I really enjoyed the gnomes in his world more than the gnomes I've seen in any other context.</blockquote>

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