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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9361570" data-attributes="member: 6790260">For my part, I kinda feel like it's the other way around. It gives the DM nothing to work with, so gnomes end up being nothing important, if they even show up at all.I still think my proposal, which kinda takes a leaf from DL albeit not intentionally, is a better path. Make gnomes and halflings two sides of the same coin. Halflings are the ones associated with forest and field, the wanderers and wardens (lightfoot and stoutheart). Gnomes are the ones associated with crag and chasm, the inventors and mystics (cragstep and ghostwise). Much as "elf" encompasses four distinct branches (moon/forest, sun/faerie, star/underearth, void/shadow).Of course, part of the impetus there is that, if I had my druthers, every race except human would have four distinct subtypes. Humans would only have three because I couldn't come up with a fourth that (a) actually sounded cool and (b) didn't have unwanted implications. (Those three, incidentally, are ordinary humans aka "earthbound" humans, which would be all humans actually living on Earth; dual-blooded, folks who have a human parent and a non-human parent; and "starbound" humans, which reference things like slann/elan, humans Weirded™ by the bizarro magic of interstellar space.)</blockquote>