Well, it's either that or the forehead: " A third angel followed, shouting aloud, 'All those who worship the beast and his statue, or have had themselves branded on the hand or forehead...'"
Exactly what I thought about. I guessWell, it's either that or the forehead: " A third angel followed, shouting aloud, 'All those who worship the beast and his statue, or have had themselves branded on the hand or forehead...'"
robertsconley wanted to reference it, too
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I imagine it came from 12-year-olds playing D&D and just being themselves.
Merry and Pippen were until they got to see a bunch of people die.
A million times this.
Those do not exist. Period.
I'm going by the movies only, and I found them annoying.
Now that may be a fun alternate take on halfings: a race similar to 12-year-old humans just being themselves.
I like a dark elf to be more Melnibonean. With regular elves more like the Vadagh.
We already have orcs.
Hm, aren't 12-year-olds more like goblins?
Which is the exact reason I tend to ignore them. And in all fairness, I can count on the fingers of less than one hand the amountof times I've seen them played
I keep thinking that something about them could be changed to make them fel less redundant and less similar to other small demihumans, but you always end up with something that already exists.
I think it's either play them at face value or ignore them.
Yeah. I've got mine - you can probably guess which - and other people getting theirs too is going to make them happy too, and not hurt me at all.
I know too many who are stupidly fearless, and their alignment is definitely on the Chaotic end of the spectrum.
I usually include them when I'm GMing for the sake of the players, although it's always tricky when, like
Teyrnon says, a player wants to run a character race that you hadn't built into the setting.
No, that's D&D Gnomes. They're like a cross between Halflings and Dwarfs, with nothing unique about them beyond illusion magic, which makes no sense given that they tended to be about the same size as the Dwarf race.
Or perhaps that is merely an illusion...
Shooting gnomes over the walls with ballistas?
But that won't work if they have ballistas, too
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DragonLance has a lot to answer for.
I think with simple B/X style race-as-class gnomes you could go for the small, foresty and slightly magical type and leave out the tinkering.
Or you could, and here's a controversial opinion, not worry about them and just stick with the options the game provides.
Tinkering was a cute attempt at trying to make Gnomes into something interesting. They were already too close to Dwarfs with their fascination with precious stones and metals, they needed something more than being 'half-Dwarfs'. It hasn't really worked, Gnomes are still as dull and boring and too close to being Dwarf and Halflings with no real identity of their own.
Their fascination with precious stones and metals also goes out the door, obviously.
But that won't work if they have ballistas, too
