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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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 Posted - 27 Jul 2004 : 20:05:27
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Originally posted by ElaineCunningham
For what it's worth, I've written two short stories (the same event told through very different perspectives) in which gnomes played an important part: "Speaking With the Dead" from the FR anthology Realms of Mystery, and "Stolen Dream," from DRAGON magazine #259. They ghomes depicted therein are most definitely not comic relief, nor do they create mechanical items, raise giant space hamsters, wear red hats, or hang out in front yards next to the pink flamingos.
And of course *I* think there should have been a Giant Space Hamster or two in those tales.   |
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Crust
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 27 Jul 2004 : 23:13:21
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Of course, the 3E halfling tries to squash this stereotype.
I see it more as a stereotype transferal, moving halflings from Tolkien to Dragonlance. It's only a matter of time before someone gives one of these Kate Moss halflings a topknot and a cheerful, larcenous personality. I'm stockpiling canned goods against this day, as I consider it a harbinger of the Four Horses of the Apocolypse.
Now that is a theory I didn't explore.
And all this time I was trying to forget kender. |
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Lina
Senior Scribe
Australia
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Posted - 28 Jul 2004 : 11:03:26
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I think a book about gnomes and halflings would, by definition, be a short book. 
*starts ducking the incoming projectiles* 
Actually if someone were to write a story about gnomes it'd be about the size of encyclopeadia Brittanica vols 1-12. Two thirds of the text would be filled with gnomes introducing their names. |
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Winterfox
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Posted - 29 Jul 2004 : 05:25:30
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 29 Jul 2004 : 08:02:54
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I don't believe FR gnomes have crazily elongated names the way DL gnomes do.
Yeah, that concept was limited to the tinker gnomes of Krynn. Thankfully, that bunch remains either stuck on Krynn or happily wandering around in space. While it is possible for a tinker gnome to wind up in the Realms (after all, a kender did), that's not something most of us want to see. |
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Reefy
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Posted - 04 Aug 2004 : 16:38:02
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Winterfox
I don't believe FR gnomes have crazily elongated names the way DL gnomes do.
Yeah, that concept was limited to the tinker gnomes of Krynn. Thankfully, that bunch remains either stuck on Krynn or happily wandering around in space. While it is possible for a tinker gnome to wind up in the Realms (after all, a kender did), that's not something most of us want to see.
No, and I'd be very surprised if many people wanted to see halflings head more in the direction of kender as EC mentioned. I also had not thought of this, but I don't like it. Kender and tinker gnomes are fine - in Dragonlance. They help define it and make it different but I don't want to see them in the Realms. |
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