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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8176511" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>In a previous 3.5 campaign, I sent a gnome lich against my group's PCs twice. (They failed to find his phylactery the first time.) He laired on the Negative Energy Plane and went by the name "Darklord Drago Von Mordak" - since it sounded more fearsome than his true name, "Toofles Pigwilligan."</p><p></p><p>In that same campaign, the PCs (and their entire adventurers guild) were turned to stone by an evil gnome baker, Pogo Snuffmuffin. They had to be rescued by a group consisting of the PCs' animal companions/familiars and their elderly hireling.</p><p></p><p>In the follow-on campaign, the party tank role was taken on by a gnome fighter named Binkadink Dundernoggin, whose gnomish glaive was nearly three times his own size. He also wore a pair of <em>gnomish stilt-boots</em> which could raise him to almost human level. By 20th level, Binkadink had something like 265 hp - he'd started off with a 20 Constitution and kept increasing it by a variety of methods over the course of the campaign. He rode around on an awakened jackalope (which was really a mutant hopper from the Gamma World setting).</p><p></p><p>I tend to like gnomes. Halflings aren't quite as interesting to me, although the last adventure I put my current group through involved an evil halfling butler shrinking the PCs down to 1/12th their normal height and trying to get them to worship him as a titan (with the help of a <em>potion of alter self</em>).</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8176511, member: 508"] In a previous 3.5 campaign, I sent a gnome lich against my group's PCs twice. (They failed to find his phylactery the first time.) He laired on the Negative Energy Plane and went by the name "Darklord Drago Von Mordak" - since it sounded more fearsome than his true name, "Toofles Pigwilligan." In that same campaign, the PCs (and their entire adventurers guild) were turned to stone by an evil gnome baker, Pogo Snuffmuffin. They had to be rescued by a group consisting of the PCs' animal companions/familiars and their elderly hireling. In the follow-on campaign, the party tank role was taken on by a gnome fighter named Binkadink Dundernoggin, whose gnomish glaive was nearly three times his own size. He also wore a pair of [I]gnomish stilt-boots[/I] which could raise him to almost human level. By 20th level, Binkadink had something like 265 hp - he'd started off with a 20 Constitution and kept increasing it by a variety of methods over the course of the campaign. He rode around on an awakened jackalope (which was really a mutant hopper from the Gamma World setting). I tend to like gnomes. Halflings aren't quite as interesting to me, although the last adventure I put my current group through involved an evil halfling butler shrinking the PCs down to 1/12th their normal height and trying to get them to worship him as a titan (with the help of a [I]potion of alter self[/I]). Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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