Not to pry about the gnommish contraptions or anything... but did the manual for the Twitch's submarine thing in the comic...

I'm sorry, but the instruction manual for that thing clearly says: "Gnommish Death-Traps and You" or something along those lines.

i've checked, and it says exactly that.... at least for me......

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O-o-o-o-kay... and Gnomes wonder why people are afraid of thier devices? *shiver*

Humor, maybe... but I wouldn't have gone in that thing, classy irony or no!

We are known for our sense of humor... :D

Despite some cringe-worthy gaming encounters with gnomes (petrify the lot of them!), I have to support Twitch. Gnomes are good-hearted folk. A slight tendency for their more innovative experiments to blow holes in the landscape aside, they do a great job. Gnomish crossbow sights are an archer's delight and the range of alchemical tricks delight any mage hunter. My party once killed a rampaging iron golem by forting up in a gnomish shop and throwing the entire stock of acid at the construct.

Never underestimate the ability to talk to small burrowing animals either. Ever find yourself in a dungeon with a gnome PC? Look for some rats or a mole. There's a quick way to find a short cut or at worst a warning about what is around the next corner. Gnomish druids rock.

Besides, its generally only DragonLance tinker gnomes that have a consistent habit of kabooming their workshops. Its a racial flaw for that subrace. Other gnomes merely get a bit enthusiastic about chemistry.

 

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Nihil est ab omni partum beatum.
(Nothing is an unmixed blessing)

And even among the tinker gnomes there are the few who don't go kaboom on a regular basis, these are called Mad Gnomes.

I like Gnomes, they're friendly. In one D&D game our group spent an entire day in a Gnomish colony and barely a single thing exploded!

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Scratchit: But he's a cripple!
Blackadder: He's not a cripple, Mrs Scratchit. Occasionally saying "Phew! My leg hurts!" when he remembers to wouldn't fool Baldrick!

Gnomes are cool when you can see the explosions from a safe distance and I will admit their inventions can be useful.Plus they are pretty friendly.

 Unfortunately my friend hates gnomes with a fiery passion.I think it has something to do with an incident in a campaign during which the PC gnome accidently woke up a red dragon.The entire party ended up being killed except for the gnome.So my friend has a bone to pick with any and all gnomes he comes across.

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Ever so slowly I slip into the depths of madness...

That's no reason to hate an entire race...

I know.I tried telling my friend that one idiot dosen't represent an entire race but he dosen't listen.He's incrediblely stubborn.

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Ever so slowly I slip into the depths of madness...

Maybe he should go to tolerance camp, some sing alongs and finger painting will brighten his day!

I had a similar player in one of my games. All his characters, regardless of race or class, had a rabid hatred of halflings. Even if his PC had never met/seen/heard of a halfling, he loathed them. Nothing I or the other players said could dissuade him from his dislike.

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Nihil est ab omni partum beatum.
(Nothing is an unmixed blessing)

That's when you need to engineer it so that somehow, whenever something good ever happens to him it is because of a halfling in some way shape or form.

Or get a Halfling chef... Halfling food is good...

I tried to convert him through cookery but when I said the inn where they were staying had a halfling chef, that player's character insisted on finding another place to sleep. On the way to the shack-nasty inn that was the village's only other accommodation, he bought an antitoxin in case the halfling had poisoned his food. Even after I let him know his character had never seen a halfling.

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Nihil est ab omni partum beatum.
(Nothing is an unmixed blessing)