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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8682268" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Because gnomes are:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Short. It sucks, but short races are just going to not draw nearly as much attention. It's the same reason why the vast majority of characters in MMORPGs will either be max height or min height for their race; max height if you're trying to be awesome, min height if you're trying to be cute. Which leads us to...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">VERY frequently played for laughs, without any seriousness to them. It's related to the problem with kender, though a better example would be Pathfinder goblins. Gnomes and goblins both tend to be rather poorly-written comic relief characters, often in a way that is supposed to be kooky but often just is damaging to the party.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Not actually supported by too much fiction that doesn't do the former. World of Warcraft is one of the main places you see gnomes (and goblins) and...they're almost always weird comic relief characters. It doesn't help that most other sources are about garden gnomes.</li> </ol>So...yeah. Between their aesthetics, the almost-always comic relief issue, and few to no major fiction properties to draw on to inspire something else, gnomes just aren't generally handled well, neither by writers nor by players.Again, this DOES NOT mean that 100% of all gnomes are badly-handled. I knew someone in WoW who played a gnome that was both actually legitimately funny and not just a comedy relief character, but actually really good at blending serious and silly. It can happen. But like certain sexual lifestyle choices, a lot of people who try it aren't really ready for it and won't do it well.</blockquote>

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