Gnomes are great, and I have reason for saying that. If you ever wanted an excuse to have something slightly above the medieval technology scale, gnomes were perfect. They're like the Japanese of the D&D world. Tinker Gnomes are always about a hundred years more advanced technologically than everyone else. In fact just before everyone moved away I was trying to put a game together, never got past the story stage, but the big point was that Gnomes caused a great cataclysm that wiped out their lands by pushing the boundaries of magic and technology too far. I suppose you could still use them as a story element, but I'd rather have 3rd ed. and have them playable.

No thanks.

I'll stick with 3E if, for some reason, I ever play again. That's highly doubtful, though. :(

Splat books? They added some new random races, too - dragonborn, or something like that, and new classes, one called Warlord. I could see why they removed Gnomes (they existed in a kind of nowhere space between Dwarves and Halflings), even if one of my favorite characters ever was a Gnome.

St00n

I jacked the ebook from Spo. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet but from what he tells me, it sounds like an excuse for splat books. They took away some pretty important stuff. Gnomes, Half Orcs, druids and other classes. Then you have to pay 15 bucks a month to use their site... looks like even more of a money trap. I'll stick to third.

I bought the Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition Players' Handbook. There are some really significant rules changes, it looks like - I'm going to read through it and report back. Aaron, Mike, you buy it yet?

Stone

Hehe.

http://www.calliander.net/lotgd/

Hey man, I have a D&D campaign ready to go. Like, almost the whole damned campaign is done, and you've already started it. Sapphire, yourself, and Caniprokis played. All I would need is at least one person to replace Caniprokis and we could set up a time and whatnot.