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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 8177776" data-attributes="member: 4881">In my campaign the halflings are played pretty straight from the book.  They live in smaller villages in a land called The Greenway sandwiched between the much larger empires of the Elves and the Humans.  They mostly live of of the trade with those two neighbors, and the constant caravans going back and forth who stay in the villages to rest from the road.Most halfling villages have businesses that cater to the large folk passing through.Gnomes, on the other hand, had an actual empire.  They shared a border with the hobgoblin empire and built up a military that used gnomepowder weapons (gnomes can use firearms but creating gnome powder to shoot them is a gnome only racial ability, it being semi magical) to offset their small numbers and stature.When the equivalent of Fantasy WW2 broke out and the hobgoblins invaded the gnomish capitol, the king stayed behind and detonated a huge cache of gnomepowder, rendering the city a giant ruin and taking out a large hobgoblin army in the process.The gnomish refugees relocated to the elf and human lands during the war and decided not to resettle at its conclusion.  They attempted to rebuild on the edge of the human lands but the local Baron (one of my PCs) tried to force them out.The leader of the new gnomes (a different PC) declared a revolution and was captured and sentenced to death for treason in the human domain.  The remaining gnomes were forced to head south to the uncivilized lands.There they were met by a recruiter for an army building up off the mainland  dedicated to overthrowing the current human Emperor (the head of militant crusading Tempus theocracy).  The gnomes are gladly aiding this army and hope to gain a new homeland as spoils.Meanwhile....the hobgoblins have found a way to stretch one gnomish captives life into several thousand pounds of gnomepowder for their army.  They are slowly rebuilding with firearms for their next campaign.</blockquote>

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