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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8683111" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Yes. Very easily, in fact. I have an easier time doing this with Gnomes than I do Dwarves. If you don't know how to, I suggest you read Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes' section on <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/mtof/halflings-and-gnomes#GnomeTables" target="_blank">Gnome personalities</a>. How are they at all like Kender besides the fact that they're a small race that some people think they're annoying? They have a sense of property. The whole "mockery of science"-thing is typically specific to Dragonlance. Definitely not a part of most other campaign settings where they have a listed niche (Eberron, Exandria, etc). I don't like Dragonlance or its approach to D&D's races, so I can agree with you that Tinker Gnomes from Dragonlance are obnoxious.(I also find it kind of funny that some people are complaining about gnomes having no resonant concept and others trying to say that all gnomes have the same personality. Both statements cannot be true, and are both being used to justify hatred of Gnomes.)As do Elves, and Dragonborn, and Tieflings, and plenty of other races/lineages in D&D, and most people don't complain about those parts of the races. I mean, the same could be said for Halflings, to an even greater extent because they're literally just "Humans, but 3 feet tall!". And I don't see people complaining about/mocking Halflings nearly as much as they do Halflings, so I really don't think this is a major part of why people hate Gnomes. And <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/my-problem-s-with-halflings-and-how-to-create-engaging-interesting-fantasy-races.680617/" target="_blank">the one time I recommended doing that to Halflings</a>, people acted like the hobby would end if Halflings were just folded into Humans.</blockquote>

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