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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 4539032" data-attributes="member: 18549">Circa early 2008:Players: Hey, you took gnomes out of the game!&nbsp; What gives?WotC: No, they're right there in the back of the MM.&nbsp; If you're playing a gnome, use those rules.&nbsp; We'll eventually publish a more fleshed out version, but we can't think of anything good right now.&nbsp; For now, the MM gnome is the official PC gnome.&nbsp; Also, for all you guys who insist on playing kobolds or misunderstood good-aligned drow elves that fight with twin scimitars but certainly aren't derivative of iconic characters from spin-off fiction, the stats for a bunch of other monster races are there too.Also, as some people have suggested, I don't see Oversized as a particularly broken ability, except in synergy with other things.&nbsp; And anyway, if it's borked, why publish it, if you could just write a balanced version instead?&nbsp; Now we're stuck with it.&nbsp; Given that the suggestion is there, albeit behind police tape, to use these races as characters, why were they written with broken abilities in the first place?Personally, I'm don't care one way or the other.&nbsp; I like balance, as I noted above.&nbsp; However, this whole scenario smacks of poor foresight and bad design.&nbsp; And, as I already said, we were promised that 4e was positively hewn from the still-beating heart of a foresight elemental, and tempered in the fires of careful game design.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 4539032, member: 18549"] Circa early 2008: Players: Hey, you took gnomes out of the game! What gives? WotC: No, they're right there in the back of the MM. If you're playing a gnome, use those rules. We'll eventually publish a more fleshed out version, but we can't think of anything good right now. For now, the MM gnome is the official PC gnome. Also, for all you guys who insist on playing kobolds or misunderstood good-aligned drow elves that fight with twin scimitars but certainly aren't derivative of iconic characters from spin-off fiction, the stats for a bunch of other monster races are there too. Also, as some people have suggested, I don't see Oversized as a particularly broken ability, except in synergy with other things. And anyway, if it's borked, why publish it, if you could just write a balanced version instead? Now we're stuck with it. Given that the suggestion is there, albeit behind police tape, to use these races as characters, why were they written with broken abilities in the first place? Personally, I'm don't care one way or the other. I like balance, as I noted above. However, this whole scenario smacks of poor foresight and bad design. And, as I already said, we were promised that 4e was positively hewn from the still-beating heart of a foresight elemental, and tempered in the fires of careful game design. [/QUOTE]

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