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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8683023" data-attributes="member: 508">I love gnomes, and frequently lean into their ridiculousness - gnomes in my campaigns always have comically prodigious noses and try to outdo themselves in coming up with outrageous names when their coming of age naming ceremony arrives.In my last 3.5 campaign, my son ran a gnome fighter named Binkadink Dundernoggin, who wielded a massive glaive and rode around in battle on a jackalope.  With his 20 Constitution, he ended up being the party tank - despite standing all of three feet tall (when he didn't have his gnomish stilt-boots extended, in any case...).  Binkadink liked pranks and was involved in a campaign-long prank war with his cousin Jinkadoodle, but any pranks that spilled out onto the other PCs were pretty much harmless.  (He used prestidigitation and ghost sound to convince the other PCs they were being stalked by mischievous pixies who kept turning their hair all different colors - that prank lasted months in game time and real time before anyone ever caught on.)In my current campaign, the gnomes were the original workers of magic in the world - they taught the drow (the elf progenitor race) how to use magic, and the elves eventually chafed under the gnomish restriction against achieving lichdom, which caused for some bad blood between them.  As it is now, most of the liches in my campaign will have come from elf stock, and their not wanting to pass on after a "mere" several hundred years of life.  (We're only at 7th level, so the PCs haven't met up with any liches just yet.)Johnathan</blockquote>

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