Power: Favored Class (Druid) - Your levels as a druid do not count against you when determining experience point penalties for multiclassing.Tyro Tier (character level 3): Select one of these three powers: Wearing, carrying, and using iron items gives you the sickened condition. Weakness: Major Iron Allergy - When you are damaged by an iron or steel weapon, you are afflicted with the queasy condition for 10 rounds - subsequent hits only extend the duration but do not make the condition worse.You gain a +2 racial bonus when using the following skills for specific purposes: Disable Device, to sabotage devices with moving parts Sleight of Hand, to pickpocket Scrivening, to create a forgery and Bluff, to lie. Special: Prankster - You know either the Ghost Sound or Ventriloquism cantrip, your choice.Bonus Languages: Dwarf, Elf, Goblin, Halfling, and Sylvan (Sylvan is available to gnomes as a bonus language but not to any other race). Skill Bonuses: +3 to Bluff, Scrivening, Sense Motive, and Spot skills.Saving Throw Bonuses: +2 on Reflex saving throws.Ability Score Adjustment: Choose: +2 Wisdom OR +1 Wisdom and +1 Charisma.RulesĬharacter Creation: Apply the following adjustments to every gnome player character. They tend to be neutral good in alignment. They have managed to remain friends with both elves and dwarves. Gnomes out in the world are always friendly to each other, and they have a special fondness for halflings, treating them as cousins. Gnomes tend to follow a council of elders, or else to leave home if they do not like rules and traditions. Sometimes their homes are tunneled into hillsides or behind waterfalls. Society: Many gnomes are content to live in villages, usually in low buildings of brick, often hidden by illusions. They are slender, standing about three to four feet tall, and are known for wearing conical hats (red is popular). Some favor bright or even clashing colors others stick to earth tones and greens. Gnomes are quick to smile, even at jokes played on themselves they seldom hold grudges.Īppearance: Gnomes do resemble halflings, but are brown of skin, hair, and eyes, and almost all have large noses. Many gnomes honor gods and nature, but their wisdom is tempered by a love of laughter and magical trickery. Some say gnomes were grown in holy dirt from seeds planted by those beings. Some say gnomes are the children of halflings and those spirits. Introduction: Once upon a time, fairie spirits of nature came to admire the brief bright lives of mortals, and sought help from powerful beings to become mortal themselves. Gnomes excel as druids, clerics, bards, and illusionists. Or maybe you just seek to play pranks and be the one who gets the most interesting stuff! However you seek fame or fortune or foolery, you are sure to enjoy the journey.

Do you seek to honor the great powers - the moon and stars, demigods or greater gods, Mother Nature herself? Do you enjoy making others laugh? As a gnome, maybe you travel hither and yon, mapping, sketching, and recording everything you experience.

Pickpocket gnomes