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<blockquote data-quote="rmcoen" data-source="post: 9359501" data-attributes="member: 6692404">One of my players' first involvement in fantasy roleplay was WoW, where he played a gnome frost mage.&nbsp; Two campaigns later - in a campaign that didn't have gnomes - he played a &quot;dwarf&quot; that was so twisted by torture and experimentation in a Shadowfell prison that he had all the gnome racial traits instead of dwarven ones.&nbsp; (Yeah, I accommodated his desire to play the WoW character.)I played a male gnome illusionist/thief way back in college.&nbsp; Died, was reincarnated as a human female thief (mostly incompetent due to rerolled physical stats).And I think that's all the gnome characters I've personally seen in 40 years of D&amp;D.I will say that I do love the tinker-gnome concept (better than tinker-goblins, but I can make brain room for both if the gnomes are the scientists and inventors and the goblins are the &quot;it probably won't blow up in your face&quot; back-street crazy junkwelders), and actually have &quot;featured&quot; them somewhat in my current campaign as the driving force behind the Alchemist Guild.&nbsp; Which, admittedly, is mostly a storyline &quot;off screen&quot;, in the next kingdom over from where the campaign takes place.&nbsp; But their alchemical inventions do pop up here and there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rmcoen, post: 9359501, member: 6692404"] One of my players' first involvement in fantasy roleplay was WoW, where he played a gnome frost mage. Two campaigns later - in a campaign that didn't have gnomes - he played a "dwarf" that was so twisted by torture and experimentation in a Shadowfell prison that he had all the gnome racial traits instead of dwarven ones. (Yeah, I accommodated his desire to play the WoW character.) I played a male gnome illusionist/thief way back in college. Died, was reincarnated as a human female thief (mostly incompetent due to rerolled physical stats). And I think that's all the gnome characters I've personally seen in 40 years of D&D. I will say that I do love the tinker-gnome concept (better than tinker-goblins, but I can make brain room for both if the gnomes are the scientists and inventors and the goblins are the "it probably won't blow up in your face" back-street crazy junkwelders), and actually have "featured" them somewhat in my current campaign as the driving force behind the Alchemist Guild. Which, admittedly, is mostly a storyline "off screen", in the next kingdom over from where the campaign takes place. But their alchemical inventions do pop up here and there. [/QUOTE]

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