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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8683188" data-attributes="member: 7023887">"All Gnomes are the same" and "Gnomes don't even know what they want to be" are contradictory statements. If all gnomes have the same personality (a statement that I don't agree with), then they clearly have a core concept, just like Hobbits'/Halflings' and Dwarves' core concepts in D&D tend to be rip-offs of Bilbo/Frodo Baggins and Gimli from the Lord of the Rings. Gnomes are quirky. In 5e at least, most of their quirks are more-or-less just taken from ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder. They have hyper-fixations (which is why they often love small animals, tinkering, alchemy, and other hobbies), are socially awkward introverts, and are fascinated by the world they were born in. That's a core concept as major as "Human, but short", or "humans, but immortal tree-huggers", and "humans, but with extraplanar ancestry". And just as open to different personality types. Gnomes are short humans with fey-ish magic and quirks. Who cares if they're not a major/well-represented part of other pop culture? There are dozens of popular and iconic races and monsters in the game that aren't a part of any other popular culture. Tieflings, Dragonborn, Aasimar, Warforged, Kalasthar, all of the animalfolk, Genasi, Bugbears, and so on. And there are plenty of D&D creatures that are a part of other popular culture that are completely different from those representations. Being portrayed well (or at all) in other popular culture is definitely not necessary for people to like that race.</blockquote>

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