The Problem with Gnomes in D&D 

Will there be international purchasing for the merch? I'm from Mexico, and I would really love to support the channel like this.

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Honestly I feel the Gnoll’s lore is as badly maligned if not even more ensnaring than the gnomes’ changes between versions. But I get what you mean in the video with it

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I'm too far away and too broke for gong anywere, but It you'll ever go to Lucca comics i'll offer you and espresso (of the Perpetual storm curse don't kill Us both).

I thought New Zealand hated the LotR team?

@@averagejoe455 oh some of us do. i'm still young so I don't have too much an opinion but it's undeniable that rely heavily on film making and tourism too fuel our economy. We may not like it but it's undeniable that hobbiton stimulates our economy more than any politician ever could.

@@averagejoe455hate those guys for bringing jobs and tourism.

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Thanks for reminding me that I made a gnome character during peak popularity of this meme and named her Gnotta Gnelf

But the word "Gnose" was totally used at 19:00!

Every time I hear about gnomes I think of 'gnoses.' Like, solely because of the name, I have always had the thought in the back of my head that gnomes HAD to have large noses.

The tea the halflings drink with their grandparents is still spiked with plenty of whiskey.

​@@charlespaape2258and half the tea leaves are fantasy marijuana clippings. Meanwhile the gnomes are building machines for measuring out perfect lines of coke and ritalin...

if halflings are anything like in lord of the rings, then they are hard drinkers and smokers ;)

How it feels to have ADHD

Ah, right, the Bleaching, yes?

​@@kiranaun9593 I always kinda viewed gnomes as the living embodiment of ADHD anyway, so this statement is so factual to me specifically 😂

My husband: why don't you want to finish/do the thing you've been obsessed with for two months? Me: it's bleached now.

They generally did a great job in making the different races more memorable (love the goblins and hobgoblins) but the gnome certainly takes the cake.

Also if you wanted to play a short person with good engineering/crafting skills, you'd probably just play a dwarf, because you're probably not wanting to make some work of art, you're wanting to invent the Goblin-Puliveriser-9000

I mean… insert every half-race ever.

@@starhalv2427 And what are your thoughts after watching?

​@@korniestpatch Species hybrids are a diagetically inevitable outcome where two species can reproduce and the offspring are not entirely dominated by the heritable traits of one parent. They are also excellent for playing characters who are disenfranchised, ostracized, estranged, or who do not identify fully with either side of their lineage. Gnomes are not really necessary at either the design or diagetic levels.

@@nevisysbryd7450if you are bleak about every character you make i can see why you think that way. But no, humans vs elves vs orcs are all the variety in the game the rest is just a copy or a dilution of those 3.

We are 10x the gnome's market share and launching their new updates branding simultaneously on all platforms

Gnomes > Halfling every day!

I saw the elderly one and immediately thought, "Wasn't she in Spirited Away?"

Pointy hat has fallen to the goblins. The only surprise is that it didn't happen sooner.

Maybe a knight wrote it

Let's just hope gator didn't get in on it

Clearly Pack-Tactics

This is so ghomaphobic.

I had gno idea it was a thing on instagram, I thought it was just an r/knightposting thing

Ooo

@@mejhdhhicbfshihids652also r/wizardposting

I’ve been following the war on TikTok There are many sides we have to fight on, stay strong fellow gnomes 🧌

That, and their troll hair.

I was thinking the same thing. The Bleaching and fey ancestry is such a cool concept that I'm surprised D&D strayed away from keeping them fey-like in favor of making them more dwarf-like. Guess WoW was super popular when they made the switch and it unfortunately just stuck.

I just threw up my own comment on this because my experience with Jubilox and Regill in the Owlcat Pathfinder games actually made me like gnomes as a concept. It was a great treatment for a species I otherwise had completely ignored.

@@zulium 4e came out four years after WoW, to the point where when I played it I was comparing the rules changes to an attempt to make tabletop D&D more like playing WoW, so I'm not entirely convinced WoW had anything to do with it, as that was the edition where gnomes got the fey treatment.

@@warmachine5835 It's more likely that they intentionally avoided fey gnomes, because they wanted to distance themselves from Pathfinder.

Thats awesome!

Norwegian Forest Cats or Maine Coons for the win!

Is the Woodpecker war anything like Australia's Great Emu War, but for Gnomes?

Pathfinder has a "cavalier" class that are knights who fight while mounted. There's a halfling specific "order of the paw" subclass that requires you ride a wolf or dog. Slightly less whimsical that gnomes on badgers but same vibe.

I imagine the badger cavalry devastating on the battlefield as in the taming/training

This whole concept would mix real interestingly with my Race which are plagued not only with an inevitable trauma but with a more natural child's brand of searching for stuff to do so meeting some Pucks will bring a lot possibly since a Puck is not subtle at all hehe

Reminds me of a related line of thinking, from Clan Scorpion in Legend of the Five Rings. All Scorpions wear a mask, of some sort, through their entire adult life. It may be cloth, makeup, a veil, a full metal mask, but they may be quite subtle, designed to acentuate their facial features rather than hide them, or in some cases they can be more... abstract. Some have a strong preference for a single mask or style, others have a mask for every occasion. But there's always a mask. What's important isn't the type or style, merely it's presence. The Scorpion are the emperor's underhand, spies, saboteurs and doers of all the things that may be understood as dishonourable necessities. A bit part of their job is to quietly take care of problems before they manifest (which has blown up in their faces in some /fantastically/ impressive ways), or create small problems that prevent larger ones. They are intelligence agents, internal affairs, secret(ish) police and more. They operate both openly and in secret... frequently at once. Collectively, they're often seen as a bit of a hot mess, full of internal rivalries and disputes, willing to turn on their own as easily as any other. They are mostly seen as being highly disreputable, untrustworthy, disloyal, dishonourable, some have far worse reputations, a few have found ways to have significantly better. The clan's entire /thing/, their clans reputation everyone's understanding of precisely what they do and why, the whole lot of it... is a mask. A performance they've been putting on for centuries, cultivating a particular image, because being seen that way is useful. Every aspect of their outward presentation is intentional, though many individuals are not at all informed of the intent. It's just layers and layers and deception, misdirection and obfuscation. When everything is working well, nobody has the slightest idea what the Scorpion is doing, but everyone they care about /thinks/ they've pierced enough of the veils to believe they do. To the Scorpion it is the /act/ of wearing a mask - any mask - that may be seen as their truest, most honest selves... After all, if they didn't wear a mask, you'd never know what they are.

@@Daemonworks band slogan at the end

It reminds me of the Malawish from mistborn era 2

"give a person a mask and they'll become their true self"

Renewable green energy themed gnomes? Awesome. Now I can't help but see 'civilized' Goblins wearing shabby top hats and other Steampunk accoutrements and acting in typical Robber Baron fashion...and it just occurred to me that's basically just Warcraft Goblins.

Beards makes them too similar to dwarves. I think optional beards, his design, and pointy hats would work though. Make pointy hats culturally significant in some manner and it works

I wanna say that the First World is a bit wilder than the Feywild. It was the gods first draft of the world, it’s this ever changing unstable world. Like even gravity isn’t a consistent thing. Gnomes being from there are kinda anathema to the stability of the material plane, which is what kills them when they Bleach

Hahaha that is a cool concept tho :-) And capybaras are awesome

This is perfect. Gnomes are supposed to be silly. May I suggest that you also take my group's joke of giving them all perfectly normal N names but spell them Gn. Our favorite Gnome is Gned. Best shopkeep ever, and his wife Gnora always gives us cookies.

@@archellothewolf2083 Oh boy, I like that

Please tell me Gnomeledge of Knowns was unintentional because it gave me a stroke and then made me cackle

@@thesausageman5388 just noticed now kkkk I'm not gonna change it

Oh my god Pointy Hat notebook or block notes? Sign me up this instant

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It's a stupid rule and you should ignore it. Just like 5e saying that tieflings can only be certain colors.

Same! In my head halflings are between 3-4 feet, Gnomes take up

@@M4TCH3SM4L0N3huh? That’s like saying humans characters should be purple. Tieflings are impmen, and folklore wise they can only be certain colors, do whatever you want but it isn’t objectively a bad thing

​@@oldylad ☝️🤓

The idea of dying if you aren't happy is so cool, yet oddly terrifying. I love it

This is why I'll always prefer Pathfinder lore over d&d lore. Somewhat related fun fact, Halflings in Pathfinder are also very different. My current Halfling character appears to be a sentient doll that is a dollmaker cause he's never met another doll-like halfling. Also, post-Bleeching Gnomes are so interesting cause of their near lack of emotion while still being almost endlessly curious. It's a cold, detached curiosity.

Thanks for pointing these out. As someone whose player characters are more often than not Small, I think folks who consider Small "trading disadvantages for flavor" are just thinking too inside the box.

still no comparison to 3e where small races got (in addition) a bonus to ac and stealth related skills, and exchanged some str for dex, not to mention the reduction of lifestyle costs

@@h.1699 To be fair, that was more a size benefit/ detriment in general rather than specifically a small creature thing. Large creatures had a penalty to AC and stealth, and I think had more str.

So Halflings just have literal dwarfism. While Gnomes look like anime chibi characters drawn by a 6th grader who just picked up the hobby last week.

What you did there? *I see it.* I posted a similar comment, but I was not nearly as subtle with mine. Haha.

I fully support creating the Cutie Mask Crusaders.

This. Gnomes were originally described as earth elementals IRL by Paracelsus. Alongside sylphs (air), undines (water), and salamanders (fire).

Yes! Can’t remember his name, but the guy with the hammer hands was so cool! Also, I love them being culturally the opposite of Drow, being warm and hospitable (as much as you can be in the Underdark) and caring a lot about community!

Cutie MASK Crusader.

NO, we're NOT doing Persona 5

Ur not him bro

Gnome better

Knights Better!!!

A creative gnome rogue can find many uses for such devices.

Strap a Book Nuke to it and use that windup time to sprint away as fast as possible.

Its as useful as every background feat, aka only for flavor.

I love all of this omg. You had me at clock punk! ❤