So what’s so special about gnomes? Are they magic? Can they murder you in your sleep?
Indeed. TEll me.
If they were real, they could but I doubt they’d have any incentive. They’re rather one-dimensional and the only tales I’ve heard of them were in regards to them guarding treasure.
I heard they like to travel. While you’re not keeping an eye on them.
They’re resistant to magic (and poison if I recall correctly) and get an AC bonus against giants. They make pretty good miners, having some special abilities in that line, and are surprisingly good at thieving.
No, but they can use magic if they are illusionists.
Only if they have an evil alignment.
They steal your underpants.
Many consider this a genuine threat to both ordered liberty and the stability of Western economies.
**The Peyote Coyote ** , lol!!!
Another AD&D veteran here!
But only if they can figure out what the second step is.
All gnomes I have known have stayed politely in the garden, pushing a little wheelbarrow or standing under an oversized toadstool. Sometimes I have seen them fish. On occasion an individual gnome will get a wild hair up his ass and take off on a whirlwind international tour, sending photos back to the owners of his garden. They usually return, tired and with a tan that look like shoe polish.
If you wish, I can give you information about the migration and flocking behaviours of pink flamingoes.
Now I know that this happens in the film Amelie, but I also once had a workmate who had a similar trick played on him many years before the film was released - is there a recorded first instance of travelling-photo-sending-gnomes?
Actually, gnomes are no longer resistant to magic, but they do get the AC bonus against giants.
The can also speak with burrowing animals and really really like to be bards.
I’m afraid of them.
I thought they liked to hitch rides on the wings of passenger jets, then rip apart the engines and scare the crap out of sweaty guys.
Oh, wait, that’s gremlins.
Don’t know about gnomes.
"Ha ha ha, hee hee hee
“I’m a laughing Gnome and you can’t catch me”
What is it about a cabal of powerful Swiss bankers that you would like to know?
Encyclopedia Mythica on Gnomes
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Gnome
ABC Classic FM Breakfast, Word of the day, Thursday 12 February 2004: Gnome
Encyclopædia Britannica: Gnome
Or, for a whimsical look at a completely different concept of gnomes (that was wildly popular around 25 years ago and has greatly influenced the “garden” gnomes), try reading Wil Huygen’s Gnomes
So they are Shetland Orcs?
Don’t worry. The best defense is a good offense.
A gnome is caused by a deletion in a genome…
There’s no place like Gnome
GNOME is a popular Linux desktop enviroment.
Gnomes are the gnats on gnarled gnus with a gnostic bent for gneissic stone.