Combat_Kyle wrote:
The thing is a gnome who you can't trust as is a little eerie is much more fun to roleplay that a lawn gnome. If you ever put a lawn gnome npc in a campaign, the players would never take it serously. Plus in greek mythology gnomes were earth elementals who had more in common with the furies (goddesses of vengence) than cutsie little animals. And in German folklore they were vile tricksters who played tricks on miners (or worse). SO the mythological background for PBs gnomes are there. In contrast lawn gnomes did not appear till the mid 19th century.
Which is what I based my drawing around and what Colin Chapmain based his write up of the gnome on. ^_~`
Tom Bosley gnomes, sheesh...gimme a break.
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"We'll go out through the kitchen!" Tanis Half-Elven
Peter Bradley
"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, 'Save us!' And I'll look down, and whisper 'No.' " ~Rorschach
WIth all that siad, a CK should use the type of gnomes that work best with thier style of play. I like gritty, dark fanatsy i.e. Inzae (hurry up Davis!) which the PB gnomes work perfectly for. Now if you like the more light hearted, tounge-in-cheek style (like miller6's Killer modules) then a Travelocity lawn gnome is they way to go. It is all a matter of style, the bottom line is to have fun, and to keep the evil gnomes from carrying you away in your sleep.
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CK the CK
"My goddess touched me at an early age."
I have had shadowy gnomes in my Palladium Fantasy game for several years (although I don't play that system anymore) that are fairly close to the Fiend Folio's dark creepers. They are sinister, mean and vindictive and different from the nordic style gnome from mythology. A Greek style gnome would be closer to the lesser elementals from the Atlantean System, not really small, nor appropriate for a player race.
Bowbe wrote:
So, we're all agreed then that gnomes are a twisted halfling/goblin hybrid brewed up in the goblin pits of Ulgakur? Good.
And they taste just like chicken. 8)
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"We'll go out through the kitchen!" Tanis Half-Elven
Peter Bradley
"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, 'Save us!' And I'll look down, and whisper 'No.' " ~Rorschach
Either way, it is really rather hard to take a creature the size of a gnome very seriously. Short bipeds are not overly frightening, unless they are really out there, like those things in the Phantasm movies, or those creepy little wraiths in Ghost.
The factor of being taken seriously lies in the delivery, not in the appearance.
(Odd how this turned from Combat Kyle thinking he was the one who was different to it being me)
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eibon wrote:
Either way, it is really rather hard to take a creature the size of a gnome very seriously. Short bipeds are not overly frightening, unless they are really out there, like those things in the Phantasm movies, or those creepy little wraiths in Ghost.
The factor of being taken seriously lies in the delivery, not in the appearance.
(Odd how this turned from Combat Kyle thinking he was the one who was different to it being me)
Sorry bout that, I seem to do that alot, my familty thinks I would make a lawyer. And yes it is hard to take anything you can kick a field goal with seriously.
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CK the CK
"My goddess touched me at an early age."
No problem, I am used to being the the one who is against the current, it seems we have fulfilled our roles here.
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"All that we are destined to behold will reveal itself at the proper time," said Eibon.
