It's there, the version from the basic rules is listed as Rock Gnome, since that's the free subrace. It doesn't list the +2 INT in the callout, but it's there when you go to the stats page. All gnomes will have it, you just might not see it in the description.
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It's there, the version from the basic rules is listed as Rock Gnome, since that's the free subrace. It doesn't list the +2 INT in the callout, but it's there when you go to the stats page. All gnomes will have it, you just might not see it in the description.
So I can't play a normal gnome? or the normal gnome has never existed?
It's there, the version from the basic rules is listed as Rock Gnome, since that's the free subrace. It doesn't list the +2 INT in the callout, but it's there when you go to the stats page. All gnomes will have it, you just might not see it in the description.
So I can't play a normal gnome? or the normal gnome has never existed?
Gnomes, in this edition, have always had a sub race. In the PHB, it was rock or forest. Since then a couple others have been added. All get the +2 to int, and another +1 depending on subrace.
However, as aedorsey notes, that’s changing and going forward gnomes, like all other species, will get a +2/+1 or 3 +1’s to put where you like.
It's there, the version from the basic rules is listed as Rock Gnome, since that's the free subrace. It doesn't list the +2 INT in the callout, but it's there when you go to the stats page. All gnomes will have it, you just might not see it in the description.
So I can't play a normal gnome? or the normal gnome has never existed?
Gnomes, in this edition, have always had a sub race. In the PHB, it was rock or forest. Since then a couple others have been added. All get the +2 to int, and another +1 depending on subrace.
However, as aedorsey notes, that’s changing and going forward gnomes, like all other species, will get a +2/+1 or 3 +1’s to put where you like.
I do believe classic "Gnomes" if you are referring to like 1st edition AD&D Gnomes would be Rock Gnomes in this 5e context.
It's there, the version from the basic rules is listed as Rock Gnome, since that's the free subrace. It doesn't list the +2 INT in the callout, but it's there when you go to the stats page. All gnomes will have it, you just might not see it in the description.
So I can't play a normal gnome? or the normal gnome has never existed?
Gnomes, in this edition, have always had a sub race. In the PHB, it was rock or forest. Since then a couple others have been added. All get the +2 to int, and another +1 depending on subrace.
However, as aedorsey notes, that’s changing and going forward gnomes, like all other species, will get a +2/+1 or 3 +1’s to put where you like.
I do believe classic "Gnomes" if you are referring to like 1st edition AD&D Gnomes would be Rock Gnomes in this 5e context.
So "normal" gnomes, that is, gnomes with only +2 intelligence, gnome cunning and darkvision, have never existed, and the most "classic" gnomes are rock gnomes who ALSO have tinker and artificer's lore? Now I'm more confused than at the beginning
Fifth Edition races have more racial abilities than older edition races did. "Rock gnome" was the name for the default type of gnome from the PHB going back at least as far as 2nd Edition.
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As 6thLyranGuard points out, 5e races are adjusted to fit with current stuff, and their basis is the Forgotten Realms, where gnomes are all tinkers and artificer’s or know a lot about it because that’s their culture there.
The default gnome on FR is a Rock Gnome, so the default in the game is that.
If you are coming from an older edition, it is a VERY different game in a lot of ways, and DDB is not particularly friendly in regards a lot of the more creative homebrew (not intentionally so, it just works out that way).
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There is no gnome with +2 intellicenge in character creation? That's from basic rules, it should be there...
It is there, it's just automatically applied with no selection and will appear in the abilities section:
The modifier for your subrace will also be automatically applied based on which subrace you pick. For example, if you pick Forest Gnome it will automatically apply the +1 Dexterity bonus.
This is assuming that you don't have the optional "Customize your Origin" feature enabled which allows you to assign that +2 and +1 however you wish
All racial based stats are official deprecated and no longer official rules.
Going forward, there will be no racial based stats for any species.
This isn't remotely accurate.
Going forwards from Tasha's, which introduced the origin customisation rules, races no longer feature fixed ability score improvements and instead get either +2/+1, or +1/+1/+1. However, this does not apply to races printed in books published before Tasha's, which still have fixed ability score unless you use the optional rule from Tasha's. This includes legacy content for races reprinted in Monsters of Multiverse. This races are not depreciated and are still official rules. They are, at worst, legacy, but still official.
In the original Forgotten Realms Gnomes were called Svirfneblin which were later renamed Deep Gnomes and then later still re-evolved to be Rock Gnomes. Originally their abilities included blending with stone and illusion resistance. They also had some abilities involving talking to stones or something like that.
I'm going on pure memory but there was a lot of weird evolutions of Gnomes over the years, I think of all the races in the game, these guys went through the most amount of transitions and reinventions.
I don't recall where the whole tinkering gnomes thing came from, but I don't think it was Forgotten Realms, I think Tinkering Gnomes came from Dragonlance or one of the other settings like Greyhawk.
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In the original Forgotten Realms Gnomes were called Svirfneblin which were later renamed Deep Gnomes and then later still re-evolved to be Rock Gnomes. Originally their abilities included blending with stone and illusion resistance. They also had some abilities involving talking to stones or something like that.
Svirneblin/deep gnomes were always separate from rock gnomes- both types, along with forest gnomes, have been part of the Forgotten Realms effectively from its inception. There hasn't been a point where deep gnomes and rock gnomes were the same race as far as I'm aware.
I'm going on pure memory but there was a lot of weird evolutions of Gnomes over the years, I think of all the races in the game, these guys went through the most amount of transitions and reinventions.
I don't recall where the whole tinkering gnomes thing came from, but I don't think it was Forgotten Realms, I think Tinkering Gnomes came from Dragonlance or one of the other settings like Greyhawk.
Tinker gnomes came from Dragonlance, rock gnomes came from Greyhawk.
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There is no gnome with +2 intellicenge in character creation? That's from basic rules, it should be there...
It's there, the version from the basic rules is listed as Rock Gnome, since that's the free subrace. It doesn't list the +2 INT in the callout, but it's there when you go to the stats page. All gnomes will have it, you just might not see it in the description.
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All racial based stats are official deprecated and no longer official rules.
Going forward, there will be no racial based stats for any species.
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So I can't play a normal gnome? or the normal gnome has never existed?
Gnomes, in this edition, have always had a sub race. In the PHB, it was rock or forest. Since then a couple others have been added.
All get the +2 to int, and another +1 depending on subrace.
However, as aedorsey notes, that’s changing and going forward gnomes, like all other species, will get a +2/+1 or 3 +1’s to put where you like.
I do believe classic "Gnomes" if you are referring to like 1st edition AD&D Gnomes would be Rock Gnomes in this 5e context.
So "normal" gnomes, that is, gnomes with only +2 intelligence, gnome cunning and darkvision, have never existed, and the most "classic" gnomes are rock gnomes who ALSO have tinker and artificer's lore? Now I'm more confused than at the beginning
Fifth Edition races have more racial abilities than older edition races did. "Rock gnome" was the name for the default type of gnome from the PHB going back at least as far as 2nd Edition.
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Yeah.
As 6thLyranGuard points out, 5e races are adjusted to fit with current stuff, and their basis is the Forgotten Realms, where gnomes are all tinkers and artificer’s or know a lot about it because that’s their culture there.
The default gnome on FR is a Rock Gnome, so the default in the game is that.
If you are coming from an older edition, it is a VERY different game in a lot of ways, and DDB is not particularly friendly in regards a lot of the more creative homebrew (not intentionally so, it just works out that way).
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It is there, it's just automatically applied with no selection and will appear in the abilities section:
The modifier for your subrace will also be automatically applied based on which subrace you pick. For example, if you pick Forest Gnome it will automatically apply the +1 Dexterity bonus.
This is assuming that you don't have the optional "Customize your Origin" feature enabled which allows you to assign that +2 and +1 however you wish
This isn't remotely accurate.
Going forwards from Tasha's, which introduced the origin customisation rules, races no longer feature fixed ability score improvements and instead get either +2/+1, or +1/+1/+1. However, this does not apply to races printed in books published before Tasha's, which still have fixed ability score unless you use the optional rule from Tasha's. This includes legacy content for races reprinted in Monsters of Multiverse. This races are not depreciated and are still official rules. They are, at worst, legacy, but still official.
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In the original Forgotten Realms Gnomes were called Svirfneblin which were later renamed Deep Gnomes and then later still re-evolved to be Rock Gnomes. Originally their abilities included blending with stone and illusion resistance. They also had some abilities involving talking to stones or something like that.
I'm going on pure memory but there was a lot of weird evolutions of Gnomes over the years, I think of all the races in the game, these guys went through the most amount of transitions and reinventions.
I don't recall where the whole tinkering gnomes thing came from, but I don't think it was Forgotten Realms, I think Tinkering Gnomes came from Dragonlance or one of the other settings like Greyhawk.
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Svirneblin/deep gnomes were always separate from rock gnomes- both types, along with forest gnomes, have been part of the Forgotten Realms effectively from its inception. There hasn't been a point where deep gnomes and rock gnomes were the same race as far as I'm aware.
Tinker gnomes came from Dragonlance, rock gnomes came from Greyhawk.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.