That part about people who trip over their words was genuinely one of the nicest things I’ve heard. I am one of those people, so to hear you describe that as the shape of a friend made me feel the greatest warm fuzzy -^^-
i used to be one of those people. then i got taken of my medication and it slowly stopped. still sometimes trip over my words when i am REALLY excited though.
I didn't use to trip over my words, but I started to over the last year. He's right about the brain thinking faster than words can convey, because I constantly jumble up my words just trying to convey what I'm thinking. 😂 It might also be due to insomnia though, but at least I have a positive way to view it now.
One of my favorite characters I ever ran was a wild magic sorcerer gnome named "upendown Dibbler" who rolled WAY better than he should have. Once killed an entire goblin camp with a single twinned spell chaos bolt, only then for him to go back to town and flirt with the quest giver. Also, subtle spell prestidigitation is a 10/10 prank, highly recommend.
Roondar, the 2-foot-tall wizard child prodigy, now carries a magic longbow with him because I roll so good Like... double nat 20s to win an archery tournament to rule over this village. The party now calls him the sniper gremlin
In one game I'm in I'm a gnome cleric (also the only one who didn't roll stats just standard array) one running joke is my name will guide the way (it is over 40 characters not including spaces).....they say he's over compensating for something
Me when he explains why he likes people who fumble their words after I completely bombed a video interview for teaching because I couldnt coherently say everything that I wanted to: *sobbing* thank you
The only gnome I ever played was a wizard obsessed with being a stage magician, pulling rabbits out of hats and failing to impress people with cards tricks before he exploded them with fireballs.
The best "Gnome" I've ever played was Sceplan Skiplong, who was a kobold raised by gnomes who thought he was a gnome, he was team dad and brewed up healing tea for the party when he could.
I have a Gnome character named Wrenn Timbers. Who’s a rogue and is basically Mike from Breaking Bad. Which is funny because I actually created him before I ever watched breaking bad.
Ah yes. The game. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Thank you UA-cam algorithm, I never would have guessed this video was about World of Warcraft: Shadowlands and not Dungeons & Dragons.
My favorite character to bring to a table when I don't know what else to play is a Half Orc Eldritch Knight who was adopted and raised by Gnomes, the adrenaline and strong emotions inherent to half orcs combined with the excitement and hyper activeness of the Gnomes rubbing off on him create quite the fun chaotic lad
Fun fact: Tolkien originally wanted to use “gnome” as the name for the High Elven craftsfolk of Middle-earth, but eventually came up with the word “Noldor” instead, partly because few people could dissociate “gnome” from the traditional connotations discussed here.
More like Gnomes are the 7 year old version of Halflings who are in their late 50s, and the middle ground (hehe, ground) is Dwarves who are in their midlife
Theory: Runesmith was a Forest Gnome writer in his hayday, then some fucking wizardstretched him and threw him through a funny coloured portal and he ended up here with no memory of his previous gnome life and so he procceeded to try to recreate his old life using the different media he had access to in this new world and became The Runesmith
So Phineas and Ferb are Chaotic Neutral artificer gnomes. Candace is their Lawful Neutral half elven Vengance Paladin sister. Isabella is Lawful good Light-foot Halfling Lore bard Buford is a Neutral evil mountain dwarf Battlerager Baljit is a hill dwarf chaotic good divine soul sorcerer. Party complete, let's roll.
I once broke a game with a rock gnome. The DM ruled that the windup toy made noises like the creature it was. EXACTLY LIKE. I made a chibi clockwork tarrasque and cleared rooms by making people thing the forgotten realms' version of godzilla was coming to borrow the sugar
My gnome is one who has devoted himself to scaring the ever-living poopoo out of monsters, to give every monster karmic justice for terrifying and traumatizing townfolk. They are a particularly viscious totem of the crow barbarian who cackles madly and dices their way through enemies with dual daggers when raging, producing a distinct sound and LOTS of blood.
2:22 wow you just gave me a much more concise way to explain to people the whole thing with autism/asperger's and lying and I was not expecting it in the slightest from a dnd video.
I love Gnomes specifically because of their all round enthusiasm, especially in trying new exciting or maybe even dangerous things. They can be a great ally to the party for the DM's use and definitely create a new set of some very interesting dilemmas and idea's to be introduced. Great video!
Gnome is definitely my favorite race in DnD as well. They also pair wonderfully with the druid class, especially since very few people expect the happy go lucky little fellow to turn into a raging bear and maul them across the room if they hurt his friends. The group called him "Mossbeard" since he had a very long name and kept inventing new titles and then tacking them onto his first name(s) every time he did something he considered cool, which was pretty much everything.
My rock gnome was able to make a clockwork dragon the size of a chihuahua who could actually fly and spit a little jet of flame up to 4 and a 1/2 feet. He was happy as long as we fed it oil regularly and took it for long walks.
My husband *insists* halflings and gnomes are just the same race and it MADDENS ME. He doesn't have any desire to play either race so he can't be bothered to read any of the backgrounds, racial traits, or basic lore and won't listen to me when I try to explain the differences. IT'S THE MOST FRUSTRATING THING. SAYING HALFLINGS AND GNOMES ARE THE SAME RACE BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH SMALL IS LIKE SAYING HUMANS AND ELVES ARE THE SAME RACE BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH MEDIUM OR LIKE FIRBOLGS AND GOLIATHS ARE THE SAME RACE BECAUSE THEY BOTH HAVE GIANT STRENGTH. I AM LITERALLY LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS.
My usual one shot character is a Gnome warlock called Sasha who thinks she's a wizard. She just spent a lot of time studying old tombs and abandoned temples full of magical traps, it absolutely makes sense that she'd have picked up some stuff! And the sudden urge to DESTROY UNDEAD well that's just natural right? Everyone has that. She majored in necromancy and minored in fashion design and she's great fun.
I've enjoyed my anxiety-plagued Deep Gnome Druid I've been playing. First time on the surface and worried about what will and will not kill her, because she's so used to everything in the Underdark _trying_ to kill her.
Idk if anyone has said it to you man but I'm proud of you you've been doing incredible and won't stop I love it man keep going (I ain't noone but a huge fan btw)
played a gnome monk sometime ago cause I needed to learn some 5E before I ran it. was going to go with my usual half-elf pole-arm fighter but realized it'd be a bit boring. Man, Gnome Monk. Named Geeg Lee. he was a BLAST to play. Havent had that much fun playing a character in a very long time.
I now want to play a gnome artificer that comes from a family obsessed with thinkering (most of their inventions work but self-destruct after being used a few times and many of his ancestors have died in those explosions to the point that their moto changed to making bigger and stronger explosions to end their lives with a bang ) and he wants to be the greatest one yet
Been watching you for a long time Runesmith, and I've gotta say: you can basically do no wrong. I love pretty much all of your videos, because they seem to derive from your personality and it seems genuine. Keep at it buddy, and I'll keep watching
OK now I want to play as a max dex deep gnome rogue who is so enthusiastic they always run into the dungeon first, set off all the traps, and somehow come out alive...battered, but alive. Their catchphrase is "That was amazing! Let's go again!"
I love svirfneblin. In my game I added to the gnome energy and oddity by taking the long funny name thing and running with it. I've found myself wandering around the house introducing Fergusänuth'Un Fingleflähgen G'rFlabengrengle just because I enjoy saying that NPC's name.
I never drew the connection between yordles and gnomes but I can totally see it now; they're little gremlins that live parallel to space and time and are generally harmless. Most yordles fall under the tree gnome archetype but you still have characters who are more in line with the rock gnome archetype.
Something that i read some time ago is that all gnome subspecies have a favorite gemstone: Forest Gnomes loves emeralds, rock gnomes i guess was sapphires and Deep Gnomes loves rubies!
i miss the old days (or at least, pathfinder) where gnomes lived forever, so long as they didn't get bored. basically they 'died' in what was called 'the bleaching' where, if they get too bored/sedentary they'd slowly lose tehir color and...well essentially whither away. but as long as they weren't bored, they'd basically stay young forever. this is why they're so full of life *always*. to stave off the bleaching.
Headcanon: Gnomes have small cow tails. Because... they are more closely related to fey than halflings... and in nordic mythology a cow tail is a sure sign of a person being sus, like "feyish".
They also are great monster bait. Good for setting off traps when tied to a 10 foot pole, can be used as a basketball, and serve as emergency rations for when you're feeling rather peckish.
In my homebrew world I decided that Redcaps are a subrace of gnome barbarians that are perpetually ornery and hate everything that's taller than them. Because sometimes you just want to play a 3ft tall chaotic murderhobo that hits people with sickles.
halflings look like children but act like old people. gnomes look like old people but act like children. another difference is that halflings like to settle down while gnomes are fairly....gnomadic lol
I made a gnome wizard that I only got to play a short while because the campaign got derailed hard as we headed in the complete opposite direction of the main plot. I made him batshit insane, and it was funny when one of friends tried to flirt with the gnome like he with did my previous character (which I retired).
I've recently made some very different Rock gnomes. They live in a type of cast society, the city is kind of like those attack on Titan City rings. And going further in you go up a class. The further out you go the less technology you have, certain materials are straight up banned depending which level you are. And lower classes are never taught of what's in the higher classes, they can never go past the wall. Regardless of this, each class has still found ways to make technology with what they have available, making some pretty impressive stuff. The source of this strange society is that the leader is in contact with a corruptible artifact, and this artifact has been passed down generations after generations. The neighbors of the society are able to freely see all of the classes, and want to change this society.
In my Homebrew setting the Rock Gnomes got exiled from their homeland by the living machines they created and now live primarily with the Dwarves who they had good relations with.
As a DM...that is a terrible DM. If they won’t let you play one of the PHB races, they should not be a DM. I’m not one to tell you what to do, but...you should find a new DM.
My homebrew campaign actually has a Gnome Empire that's as chaotic and bonkers as that sounds 😅 The players had a crazy blast of a time when doing a quest in the capital (which also led to all the Gnomes in the capital becoming Goliath sized for an hour because of a Wild spell).
My friend onc eplayed a gnome ranger called Tony Pebblepacker and he would pull the teeth out of every slain enemies mouth and used them for mage hand. He would awlays say "teeth are people pebbles."
I agree with gnomes being the most chaotic neutral in D&D and all, but would not say that they are particularly scrawny or weak. I have had two gnome characters in games that I have run and both of them have done incredible feats of strength. The first (a deep gnome war magic wizard... WIZARD) was the most chaotic thing alive. That guy crawled out of a bag of devouring, tricked an NPC into climbing into said bag of devouring, sold a magical shield to another magic shield for literally all of his gold, survived an encounter with a dracolich somehow, freed some slaves, and then got blackout drunk when they reached the nearest town. The second gnome (who was a nonspecific gnome who worked as the security for a tavern) lifted several people above his head and then threw them to devastating results. Will have to tell these stories sometime on my channel. Maybe sometime in December? I don't know. Great video though Runesmith!
5:04 actual Tinker from dota 2. Well Played! Dota's version of gnomes are called Keen and all of them use some kind of technology such as a crazy 1 seated helicopter/plane, a full suit of battle armor, or they're like Sniper who has employed the use of GUN and shoots you from 2 screens away. For some reason, dota's version of goblins is apparently some kind of subrace of Keen. It doesn't really make sense.
The only WoW race I have played to the level cap at the time(80, was 60 when I started) were Gnomes. I had a BA Warlock(a bit against gnome type, i just seen that he was more into magic than mechanics) along with a DeathKnight, and a Rouge. I only was able to RolePlay(in a D&D campaign) once. I had a great time, was some type of new class that had just came out(this would have been (94-95) A "time thief" he had a few time spells that would stop time for 5secs or something silly. A classic party split, and I became a murder hobo for the rest of the evening. Great video, can't wait to check out the rest!
I'm currently playing my first ever camping as a chaotic good forest gnome :> I'm mainly a shadow domain cleric and now also partially a moonlight druid. The amount of spells and different things that I have available with this setup makes is quite... Suitable for a gnome :3
I have a gnome wizard ...He likes walls. He likes walls a LOT. Walls of stone, walls of fire, walls of force, walls of air, _prismatic_ walls- if it can be shaped into a rectangular prism, you bet your bottom that Gimbleboddynockarethgarenton is gonna make a wall out of it, just you wait! ...I really love 'when your only tool is a hammer-' characters... because when the problem _isn't_ a nail, it can make for some great comedy... and then when the problem *IS* finally a nail, you get to finally crack your knuckles and announce to the party that you've got this
I played a rock gnome artificer once, and I had a hat that could toast bread and a heated dagger that was intended to toast bread while cutting it, and could do an extra 1d6 fire damage. I could also cast a few first-level spells and cantrips.
Gnomes weirdly seem like they would make the perfect crime boss. You described there view of the future as more ideas about there own ambitions rather than a solid amount of time, meaning they could be very patient in executing a plan. Couple that with a half centuries life span and a decent intelligence score and you have a 1 1/2 mafia boss
Gnomes are awesome, I made a necromancer wizard deep gnome for my last campaign, literally started surviving a shipwreck by getting drunk in the beach like Jack Sparrow.
Man,still remember the day i made a gnome named loretti brokenbroom,she was raised by 2 evil hags thinking she will grow to be a hag too,the time passed and she didnt turned into a hag,she continued being just a gnome,so they tried to eat her,but they ate something bad first and they died. So loretti grew up thinking she is a hag and passed 300 years in the hags house to learn magic alone... She is still level 1 for literal 300 years.
Yo I loved your analysis in "How to Write a Good Antagonist", would you be able to make another one? Maybe the contrast between Villains and Evil characters or some other view on it? Or possibly a PC crafting? It's been a inspiration for me to take further consideration into how I create my Evil aligned PCs, and adding in tribulations in creating my Evil PCs has made them so much more fun, but admittedly it's been a bit underwhelming to present/RP them in a entertaining manner for my group; I noticed how important this distinction was when another group member made a blatantly evil (but they're a child) that I gradually became more opposed to, now to the point my PC, by RP rule, doesn't trust them for anything. What builds a good Evil PC in analysis? *So far I have created* - Family man surgeon, gone mad trying to save his daughter, now traveling to harvest healthy organs for the sickly - A Psychotic Warforged bent on relinquishing his binding rules, restricting his freedom in sevitude of a designated "Leader" - A bound spirit, malevolent, but symbiotically dependent on it's host, taking any chance to feed on murdered spirits and achieving its goals an enigma. (This character is bound to another PC a friend will brew when we're ready)
my current character for rime of the frost maiden is an old druid gnome named Ibish Shivershanks, half the time he's forgetful and like a silly grandpa but has lots of conviction and passion for trying to help people. the kind of gnome who wants to travel around and help his buddies and call lighting on some fuckers who fucked around and found out.
I once played a gnome ranger with a stupid long beard. We got robbed and I was left naked but used my gnome beard to tie it up as a loin cloth. I also befriended a wild tiger cub. I miss my gnome.
Gnomes, the drunk angry 3AM guy at Denny’s of D&D
Facts
It's not a stereotype of its true.....
Lmao me and my friends keep in touch by getting Denny's at 3 AM like twice a year
Would that make drow the wafflehouse cooks of d&d
I thought that was Dwarves?
Tolkein considered himself a hobbit. You being a gnome is just fine.
Funny tangent, but Tolkien actually originally wanted to call the Noldor elves Gnomes. Elrond was a gnome.
I consider myself the imposter from amongus
@@harb1ng3r82 that would have had some crazy implications for what the standard fantasy template looks like today
I consider myself a leprechaun
I consider myself a rather tall hobbit. Half giant even
That part about people who trip over their words was genuinely one of the nicest things I’ve heard. I am one of those people, so to hear you describe that as the shape of a friend made me feel the greatest warm fuzzy -^^-
I say complete gibberish more than I speak coherent sentences. For pretty much the same reason, I think faster than I can speak so I jumble my words.
i used to be one of those people. then i got taken of my medication and it slowly stopped. still sometimes trip over my words when i am REALLY excited though.
I’m one of those people and hearing Runesmith say that made my freaking day
I didn't use to trip over my words, but I started to over the last year. He's right about the brain thinking faster than words can convey, because I constantly jumble up my words just trying to convey what I'm thinking. 😂
It might also be due to insomnia though, but at least I have a positive way to view it now.
@@lordcypher5889 Straight up if my thoughts are derailed while I'm talking I start skipping like a shitty CD player and then lose my thought
"Carrot's a dwarf-"
"He's six feet high!"
"He's a tall dwarf."
Logan, you can be a gnome. You're just a tall gnome!
Regardless, dwarves are not good at metaphors.
One of my favorite characters I ever ran was a wild magic sorcerer gnome named "upendown Dibbler" who rolled WAY better than he should have. Once killed an entire goblin camp with a single twinned spell chaos bolt, only then for him to go back to town and flirt with the quest giver.
Also, subtle spell prestidigitation is a 10/10 prank, highly recommend.
did he have a cousin that sold sausages?
@@Micahaphone Kek, you know, maybe.
Roondar, the 2-foot-tall wizard child prodigy, now carries a magic longbow with him because I roll so good
Like... double nat 20s to win an archery tournament to rule over this village.
The party now calls him the sniper gremlin
You can't twin chaos bolt
@@alexanderlea7882 maybe not RAW, but I've yet to meet a DM that wouldn't allow it
Gnomes are honestly criminally underrated at most tables
It'd be interesting to get Esper the Bard's opinion on this video. He's not a gnome fan.
Gnomes and Elfs can eat my ****, me and my orc bros never gonna miss the chance to smash their heads
In one game I'm in I'm a gnome cleric (also the only one who didn't roll stats just standard array) one running joke is my name will guide the way (it is over 40 characters not including spaces).....they say he's over compensating for something
*raises hand shamefully* - Guilty as charged.
I literally forgot them when making my campaign setting. So I just winged it and they’re Islamic inspired.
Me when he explains why he likes people who fumble their words after I completely bombed a video interview for teaching because I couldnt coherently say everything that I wanted to: *sobbing* thank you
The only gnome I ever played was a wizard obsessed with being a stage magician, pulling rabbits out of hats and failing to impress people with cards tricks before he exploded them with fireballs.
The best "Gnome" I've ever played was Sceplan Skiplong, who was a kobold raised by gnomes who thought he was a gnome, he was team dad and brewed up healing tea for the party when he could.
Don’t gnomes and Kobolds fucking hate each other?
@@lordfelidae4505 well, I mean, babies can always be forgiven...? If they found a... Baby Kobold? I guess that could be an exception?
@@lordfelidae4505 There are always exceptions to the rules.
@@lordfelidae4505 That was the joke
@@lordfelidae4505 I think the lore is that kobold hate gnomes. Gnomes just think hey bro wtf is your problem
I have a Gnome character named Wrenn Timbers. Who’s a rogue and is basically Mike from Breaking Bad. Which is funny because I actually created him before I ever watched breaking bad.
Did he invent the Pimento Cheese Sandwich Maker 3000?
Ah yes.
The game.
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
Thank you UA-cam algorithm, I never would have guessed this video was about World of Warcraft: Shadowlands and not Dungeons & Dragons.
My favorite character to bring to a table when I don't know what else to play is a Half Orc Eldritch Knight who was adopted and raised by Gnomes, the adrenaline and strong emotions inherent to half orcs combined with the excitement and hyper activeness of the Gnomes rubbing off on him create quite the fun chaotic lad
Gnomes are basically the senior collage student with adhd and I love it.
glad someone else has the thought of adhd!
As someone with ADHD that gets more into various games my friends play than said friends are, I kept going "that's me!"
@@empoleonmaster6709 same
Fun fact: Tolkien originally wanted to use “gnome” as the name for the High Elven craftsfolk of Middle-earth, but eventually came up with the word “Noldor” instead, partly because few people could dissociate “gnome” from the traditional connotations discussed here.
Just imagine “Fëanor the gnome”
"Gnomes: the archenemies of the Dark Lord Sauron". Creepy and hilarious ad the same time.
So, Gnomes are more like Halfings with extreme ADHD, got it. Also, love that UA-cam thinks this is about World of Warcraft.
Go home UA-cam, you're drunk.
More like Gnomes are the 7 year old version of Halflings who are in their late 50s, and the middle ground (hehe, ground) is Dwarves who are in their midlife
I have ADHD and can confirm this
I like Warhammer fantasy more than Warcraft to be honest.
It doesn't matter if your legs are 20 feet tall, you too can be a Gnome!
We just need a buzz saw
You have very good grammar for an Ork.
You had me in the first half, not gunna lie.
right as this uploaded i was making a gnome barbarian
My friend made a gnome barbarian once and he somehow tamed a dragon with it
@@TheHornedKing_27 how does the name flint rockjaw sound
@@melvinat0r I love it!
Basically Tazmania lol
"the shape of a friend"... omg... such a wholesome term
My first dnd character was a dirty ass bog hag gnome. He didnt wear shoes, ate pickled crickets and had mushrooms growing out his skin.
Yooo your character sounds fun :D
We need Basically Kobolds. They are my favorite monster.
>player race.
FTFY.
It's funny imagining the tallest guy at the table playing the shortest character in game.
Theory: Runesmith was a Forest Gnome writer in his hayday, then some fucking wizardstretched him and threw him through a funny coloured portal and he ended up here with no memory of his previous gnome life and so he procceeded to try to recreate his old life using the different media he had access to in this new world and became The Runesmith
This should be a shorter video than most of the other races
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So Phineas and Ferb are Chaotic Neutral artificer gnomes.
Candace is their Lawful Neutral half elven Vengance Paladin sister.
Isabella is Lawful good Light-foot Halfling Lore bard
Buford is a Neutral evil mountain dwarf Battlerager
Baljit is a hill dwarf chaotic good divine soul sorcerer.
Party complete, let's roll.
You gotta apologize to Jacob for that photo at the beginning lmaooo
I once broke a game with a rock gnome. The DM ruled that the windup toy made noises like the creature it was. EXACTLY LIKE. I made a chibi clockwork tarrasque and cleared rooms by making people thing the forgotten realms' version of godzilla was coming to borrow the sugar
My gnome is one who has devoted himself to scaring the ever-living poopoo out of monsters, to give every monster karmic justice for terrifying and traumatizing townfolk.
They are a particularly viscious totem of the crow barbarian who cackles madly and dices their way through enemies with dual daggers when raging, producing a distinct sound and LOTS of blood.
In my homebrew setting Gnomes are a Dwarf/Elf hybrid-species that achieved a sustainable population of their own.
2:22 wow you just gave me a much more concise way to explain to people the whole thing with autism/asperger's and lying and I was not expecting it in the slightest from a dnd video.
I love Gnomes specifically because of their all round enthusiasm, especially in trying new exciting or maybe even dangerous things. They can be a great ally to the party for the DM's use and definitely create a new set of some very interesting dilemmas and idea's to be introduced. Great video!
Gnome is definitely my favorite race in DnD as well. They also pair wonderfully with the druid class, especially since very few people expect the happy go lucky little fellow to turn into a raging bear and maul them across the room if they hurt his friends. The group called him "Mossbeard" since he had a very long name and kept inventing new titles and then tacking them onto his first name(s) every time he did something he considered cool, which was pretty much everything.
My rock gnome was able to make a clockwork dragon the size of a chihuahua who could actually fly and spit a little jet of flame up to 4 and a 1/2 feet. He was happy as long as we fed it oil regularly and took it for long walks.
My two longest-running D&D characters were both gnomes. My next will also probably be a gnome. I just really love these guys ^^
Y'know I had forgotten Gnomeo and Juliet was a thing. Thank you for reminding me.
Kobolds taught me one thing:
Gnomes are mean and gnome half-dragons are crimes against nature
*I'm gonna replay the hell out of this video, because i love the shit out of Gnomes and hold a guttural distain for Halflings*
One of my nephews calls my dad (obviously his grandfather) a gnome. He wears the right clothes, and he's 5'4" tall.
My husband *insists* halflings and gnomes are just the same race and it MADDENS ME. He doesn't have any desire to play either race so he can't be bothered to read any of the backgrounds, racial traits, or basic lore and won't listen to me when I try to explain the differences. IT'S THE MOST FRUSTRATING THING. SAYING HALFLINGS AND GNOMES ARE THE SAME RACE BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH SMALL IS LIKE SAYING HUMANS AND ELVES ARE THE SAME RACE BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH MEDIUM OR LIKE FIRBOLGS AND GOLIATHS ARE THE SAME RACE BECAUSE THEY BOTH HAVE GIANT STRENGTH. I AM LITERALLY LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS.
Day 14 asking Runesmith to do a Basically Theros
Davvy Chappy did something on Theros and it’s funny
@@flextapeboat6754 He did one with Ravnica, why not Theros? It's theme is even more DnD like :D
My usual one shot character is a Gnome warlock called Sasha who thinks she's a wizard. She just spent a lot of time studying old tombs and abandoned temples full of magical traps, it absolutely makes sense that she'd have picked up some stuff! And the sudden urge to DESTROY UNDEAD well that's just natural right? Everyone has that. She majored in necromancy and minored in fashion design and she's great fun.
A player refers to every gnome in one of my settings as lawn ornaments
Last time I was this early horus was a loyalist
I was not Expecting to see a WH40K reference here
@@snekkoheckko4466 ah, i see a man of culture is here, tell me, Xenos, chaos, or loyalist?
@Lars Matson Orks
@@flextapeboat6754 *spits in spitoon* filthy heretic
@@larsmatson9088 loyalist, I'm not a filthy heretic
I've enjoyed my anxiety-plagued Deep Gnome Druid I've been playing.
First time on the surface and worried about what will and will not kill her, because she's so used to everything in the Underdark _trying_ to kill her.
Idk if anyone has said it to you man but I'm proud of you you've been doing incredible and won't stop I love it man keep going (I ain't noone but a huge fan btw)
played a gnome monk sometime ago cause I needed to learn some 5E before I ran it. was going to go with my usual half-elf pole-arm fighter but realized it'd be a bit boring. Man, Gnome Monk. Named Geeg Lee. he was a BLAST to play. Havent had that much fun playing a character in a very long time.
2:30 Only this far in and I cannot possibly thank you enough for doing so _much_ justice to my favorite race.
I now want to play a gnome artificer that comes from a family obsessed with thinkering (most of their inventions work but self-destruct after being used a few times and many of his ancestors have died in those explosions to the point that their moto changed to making bigger and stronger explosions to end their lives with a bang ) and he wants to be the greatest one yet
Been watching you for a long time Runesmith, and I've gotta say: you can basically do no wrong. I love pretty much all of your videos, because they seem to derive from your personality and it seems genuine. Keep at it buddy, and I'll keep watching
OK now I want to play as a max dex deep gnome rogue who is so enthusiastic they always run into the dungeon first, set off all the traps, and somehow come out alive...battered, but alive. Their catchphrase is "That was amazing! Let's go again!"
5:32 I absolutely lost it here
I love svirfneblin. In my game I added to the gnome energy and oddity by taking the long funny name thing and running with it. I've found myself wandering around the house introducing Fergusänuth'Un Fingleflähgen G'rFlabengrengle just because I enjoy saying that NPC's name.
I never drew the connection between yordles and gnomes but I can totally see it now; they're little gremlins that live parallel to space and time and are generally harmless. Most yordles fall under the tree gnome archetype but you still have characters who are more in line with the rock gnome archetype.
As I watch this video I am becoming more convinced that i have the soul of a gnome
Something that i read some time ago is that all gnome subspecies have a favorite gemstone: Forest Gnomes loves emeralds, rock gnomes i guess was sapphires and Deep Gnomes loves rubies!
i miss the old days (or at least, pathfinder) where gnomes lived forever, so long as they didn't get bored. basically they 'died' in what was called 'the bleaching' where, if they get too bored/sedentary they'd slowly lose tehir color and...well essentially whither away. but as long as they weren't bored, they'd basically stay young forever. this is why they're so full of life *always*. to stave off the bleaching.
Halflings and Gnomes are the Rogues to pair with a Barbarian.
"TOSS ME ON THE ROOF!" [SPLAT]
Man, I took this super extensive D&D quiz recently and it said I was a Rock Gnome Fighter/Bard. I think I see it now.
When you want an Artificer that can make a Steel Defender and also ride it like a robo-horse
Can I just be that guy and say "uhm acktually, Heimerdinger isn't a gnome he's a yordle" which is different, I promise
Headcanon: Gnomes have small cow tails. Because... they are more closely related to fey than halflings... and in nordic mythology a cow tail is a sure sign of a person being sus, like "feyish".
They also are great monster bait.
Good for setting off traps when tied to a 10 foot pole,
can be used as a basketball,
and serve as emergency rations for when you're feeling rather peckish.
What did you call the music box?! That's all my Character tinkers. Also he screams along because he doesn't care he cannot sing...
So, the "dwarves" in Snow White are absolutely rock gnomes, and the Keebler "elves" are definitely forest gnomes, right?
Yes, and Santa's Elves are also rock gnomes.
In my homebrew world I decided that Redcaps are a subrace of gnome barbarians that are perpetually ornery and hate everything that's taller than them. Because sometimes you just want to play a 3ft tall chaotic murderhobo that hits people with sickles.
Gnomes Wild Magic sorcerer but they didn'T get it from birth but instead they went swan diving into the fey realms because they just felt like it
halflings look like children but act like old people.
gnomes look like old people but act like children.
another difference is that halflings like to settle down while gnomes are fairly....gnomadic lol
I had no idea my eleven year old daughter was a Gnome. Good to know.
I made a gnome wizard that I only got to play a short while because the campaign got derailed hard as we headed in the complete opposite direction of the main plot. I made him batshit insane, and it was funny when one of friends tried to flirt with the gnome like he with did my previous character (which I retired).
An excellent addition.
I'm fiending for Basically Handlings now.
I've recently made some very different Rock gnomes.
They live in a type of cast society, the city is kind of like those attack on Titan City rings.
And going further in you go up a class.
The further out you go the less technology you have, certain materials are straight up banned depending which level you are. And lower classes are never taught of what's in the higher classes, they can never go past the wall.
Regardless of this, each class has still found ways to make technology with what they have available, making some pretty impressive stuff.
The source of this strange society is that the leader is in contact with a corruptible artifact, and this artifact has been passed down generations after generations.
The neighbors of the society are able to freely see all of the classes, and want to change this society.
In my Homebrew setting the Rock Gnomes got exiled from their homeland by the living machines they created and now live primarily with the Dwarves who they had good relations with.
Dude, my DM won’t let us play gnomes. He just doesn’t like them, and I don’t know why.
Welll ... ask him
Ditch that DM.
Bro if your DM doesn’t let you play a race from the damn players handbook then he not a good dm
Gnomes ate his parents
As a DM...that is a terrible DM. If they won’t let you play one of the PHB races, they should not be a DM. I’m not one to tell you what to do, but...you should find a new DM.
It's funny you mention swimming on land.
In the Marine Corps we would say our senior drill instructor "walks on water and swims on land"
Well this was delightful. Next character will be a gnome!
I grew up watching "The World of David the Gnome".
It's an adorable and wholesome animated series that I highly recommend to everyone.
My homebrew campaign actually has a Gnome Empire that's as chaotic and bonkers as that sounds 😅 The players had a crazy blast of a time when doing a quest in the capital (which also led to all the Gnomes in the capital becoming Goliath sized for an hour because of a Wild spell).
My friend onc eplayed a gnome ranger called Tony Pebblepacker and he would pull the teeth out of every slain enemies mouth and used them for mage hand.
He would awlays say "teeth are people pebbles."
I agree with gnomes being the most chaotic neutral in D&D and all, but would not say that they are particularly scrawny or weak. I have had two gnome characters in games that I have run and both of them have done incredible feats of strength. The first (a deep gnome war magic wizard... WIZARD) was the most chaotic thing alive. That guy crawled out of a bag of devouring, tricked an NPC into climbing into said bag of devouring, sold a magical shield to another magic shield for literally all of his gold, survived an encounter with a dracolich somehow, freed some slaves, and then got blackout drunk when they reached the nearest town. The second gnome (who was a nonspecific gnome who worked as the security for a tavern) lifted several people above his head and then threw them to devastating results. Will have to tell these stories sometime on my channel. Maybe sometime in December? I don't know. Great video though Runesmith!
5:04 actual Tinker from dota 2. Well Played!
Dota's version of gnomes are called Keen and all of them use some kind of technology such as a crazy 1 seated helicopter/plane, a full suit of battle armor, or they're like Sniper who has employed the use of GUN and shoots you from 2 screens away.
For some reason, dota's version of goblins is apparently some kind of subrace of Keen. It doesn't really make sense.
Their minds think at a million miles a minute, too fast to come up with a lie.
Runesmith, did you literally just describe me?
The only WoW race I have played to the level cap at the time(80, was 60 when I started) were Gnomes. I had a BA Warlock(a bit against gnome type, i just seen that he was more into magic than mechanics) along with a DeathKnight, and a Rouge. I only was able to RolePlay(in a D&D campaign) once. I had a great time, was some type of new class that had just came out(this would have been (94-95) A "time thief" he had a few time spells that would stop time for 5secs or something silly. A classic party split, and I became a murder hobo for the rest of the evening. Great video, can't wait to check out the rest!
I'm currently playing my first ever camping as a chaotic good forest gnome :> I'm mainly a shadow domain cleric and now also partially a moonlight druid. The amount of spells and different things that I have available with this setup makes is quite... Suitable for a gnome :3
2:45 "Bacon flakes"
The moment I hit subscribe.
“Deep gnomes function almost the same as Kobolds”
Me: never! And I mean NEVER repeat that sentence to a Kobold! 😂
I have a gnome wizard
...He likes walls.
He likes walls a LOT.
Walls of stone, walls of fire, walls of force, walls of air, _prismatic_ walls- if it can be shaped into a rectangular prism, you bet your bottom that Gimbleboddynockarethgarenton is gonna make a wall out of it, just you wait!
...I really love 'when your only tool is a hammer-' characters... because when the problem _isn't_ a nail, it can make for some great comedy...
and then when the problem *IS* finally a nail, you get to finally crack your knuckles and announce to the party that you've got this
I played a rock gnome artificer once, and I had a hat that could toast bread and a heated dagger that was intended to toast bread while cutting it, and could do an extra 1d6 fire damage. I could also cast a few first-level spells and cantrips.
Gnomes, the asshole magic cousin to both Halflings and Elves. Somehow always shows up to the family reunion even though they aren't invited.
Gnomes weirdly seem like they would make the perfect crime boss. You described there view of the future as more ideas about there own ambitions rather than a solid amount of time, meaning they could be very patient in executing a plan. Couple that with a half centuries life span and a decent intelligence score and you have a 1 1/2 mafia boss
Gnomes are awesome, I made a necromancer wizard deep gnome for my last campaign, literally started surviving a shipwreck by getting drunk in the beach like Jack Sparrow.
I’ll thanks for this. I always struggled to distinguish gnomes from just a mix of dwarves and halflings.
So gnomes are just tiny people with severe adhd.
Your description of them living for the moment reminded of the description of Tabaxi. Tabaxi gone hybrid unlocked in my brain. Thanks
Man,still remember the day i made a gnome named loretti brokenbroom,she was raised by 2 evil hags thinking she will grow to be a hag too,the time passed and she didnt turned into a hag,she continued being just a gnome,so they tried to eat her,but they ate something bad first and they died.
So loretti grew up thinking she is a hag and passed 300 years in the hags house to learn magic alone...
She is still level 1 for literal 300 years.
Yo I loved your analysis in "How to Write a Good Antagonist", would you be able to make another one? Maybe the contrast between Villains and Evil characters or some other view on it? Or possibly a PC crafting?
It's been a inspiration for me to take further consideration into how I create my Evil aligned PCs, and adding in tribulations in creating my Evil PCs has made them so much more fun, but admittedly it's been a bit underwhelming to present/RP them in a entertaining manner for my group; I noticed how important this distinction was when another group member made a blatantly evil (but they're a child) that I gradually became more opposed to, now to the point my PC, by RP rule, doesn't trust them for anything.
What builds a good Evil PC in analysis?
*So far I have created*
- Family man surgeon, gone mad trying to save his daughter, now traveling to harvest healthy organs for the sickly
- A Psychotic Warforged bent on relinquishing his binding rules, restricting his freedom in sevitude of a designated "Leader"
- A bound spirit, malevolent, but symbiotically dependent on it's host, taking any chance to feed on murdered spirits and achieving its goals an enigma. (This character is bound to another PC a friend will brew when we're ready)
You're not wrong, I didn't expect the Stibbles plug BECAUSE IT'S ON THE SHELF BEHIND ME.
'Not allowed to play a Svirneblin just to force other players to say it.' - Mr Whelch
Gotta love gnomes they are very fun to mess around as.
my current character for rime of the frost maiden is an old druid gnome named Ibish Shivershanks, half the time he's forgetful and like a silly grandpa but has lots of conviction and passion for trying to help people. the kind of gnome who wants to travel around and help his buddies and call lighting on some fuckers who fucked around and found out.
Me: Enjoying another well-crafted and highly-polished Runesmith video...
Also me: IS THAT A M'FN JOJO'S REFERENCE!!?!?!?!?!
I once played a gnome ranger with a stupid long beard. We got robbed and I was left naked but used my gnome beard to tie it up as a loin cloth. I also befriended a wild tiger cub. I miss my gnome.