The Problem with Gnomes in D&D

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• PO

  @pointyhatstudios · 2 years ago · pinned

  Will you hang out at gencon with me 🥺👉👈? (also i cannot wait for y'all to see what is coming along with the merch thing) (they'll be available online of course) (but the panels won't be) (they are all in the description if yall wanna come)

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• SO

  @SoggyCatMan · 2 years ago

  as someone from New Zealand I can confirm that we pray to Bilbo Baggins because he is responsible for 73% of our countreys wealth.

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• GI

  @GinnyDi · 2 years ago

  as a certified gnome lover, I love your rebrand and I hope it brings more people to TEAM GNOME 💪

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• RA

  @randomcommenter9759 · 2 years ago

  A kobold wrote this video.

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• AL

  @alexhughes53 · 2 years ago

  The pointy ears and nose contrast to the halfling roundness is a really neat idea

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• BL

  @blazedboy729 · 2 years ago

  Your idea for making the gnomes aesthetically distinct from halflings is probably my favorite aspect of this video. It's so simple, and easy, and also there was a missed opportunity to use the word "Gnose"

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• SP

  @spacew1re · 2 years ago

  It’s official: gnomes are now my little ponies, their masks are their cutie marks, I am making twilight sparkle. She is a gnome

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• MA

  @MagicalGirlSage · 2 years ago

  I had an Arcane Trickster Forest Gnome that rode a very large cat with a saddle on it. She&apos;d walk into places, steal exclusively magical objects, try to figure out the object until she got bored of it. Then she&apos;d throw the magic item in the bay of her home city. She&apos;d also &nbsp;go on tangents that were typically lies, but that she told so enthusiastically it was hard to tell, and she believed every story she was telling was true.<br><br>And this is how my husband decided that &quot;The Woodpecker War&quot; and that gnome knights ride badgers were canon in his world.

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• TH

  @TheOnlyMisterC · 2 years ago

  My Gnome character in my Dragonlance campaign has become one of my favorite D&amp;D characters I have played and his name is Professor Pebble Namfoodle Necklockle Stone, or just Pebble Stone. Battlesmith Artificer, my DM has allowed me to ride my Robot Companion as a mount which then made me use a Lance as my weapon of choice. He is a grizzled war veteran who has been thrown back into a war that he wished he could just forget. Hes the only &quot;old&quot; character of the group and the only one who has seen the ravages of war and wishes nothing more than to prevent such atrocities to repeat themselves. <br><br>What I love with Gnomes is the same as what I love with Artificer, they greatly reward you with thinking outside of the box, especially outside of combat encounters. They are what you make them and thats whats so fun.

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• SC

  @Scarfhead · 2 years ago

  Funny enough, Paizo (the Pathfinder folks) takes the immortal trait of Tolkien Elves and gives them to Gnomes, with the caveat that if Gnomes don&apos;t have enough novelty in their lives they fade away. &nbsp;I like this change since it helps Gnomes feel even more the short equivalent to Elves, and it gives them an in-born reason to be adventurers.

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• BA

  @bakenpancakes · 2 years ago

  Gnomes, Halflings and Tabaxi are my favourite races.<br>This sparked joy.

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• BE

  @Ben_From_Canada · 2 years ago

  im gnot a gnelf, im gnot a gnoblin, im a gnome and youve been Gnomned

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