Homebrew Garden Gnome Species Details

Always the jokesters Garden Gnomes love puns, jokes, and bright flashes of colorful light. While being tiny has its downside Garden Gnomes live their life with full force doing whatever they love with no hesitations or doubts about wasting it, being taught that life is better when you are doing something you love. They can live to be around 500 years old and in this time they learn the knowledge of the world and pass it down through the generations. Garden Gnomes are cousins of the common Gnome making them have similar features though the main difference is the magical attributes of their hats. Garden Gnomes are made of stone but their hats were created by a mystical wizard many many years ago that gives the stone life, though if a hat falls off of a Garden Gnome they become a stone statue again until the hat is replaced. Garden Gnomes are unable to make these hats very efficiently meaning when a Garden Gnome carves their successor they give their life to the new Gnome, completing the ritual gives the hatless Gnome life for another week while magically tethered to the new Gnome.

Garden Gnome Traits

Your gnome character has certain characteristics in common with all other gnomes.

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 2.

Age

Gnomes mature at the same rate humans do, and most are expected to settle down into an adult life by around age 40. They can live 350 to almost 500 years.

Size

Gnomes are between 6 inches and 1 foot tall and average about 15 to 20 pounds. Your size is Tiny.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 15 feet.

Darkvision

Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Gnome Cunning

You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against magic.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Gnomish. The Gnomish language, which uses the Dwarvish script, is renowned for its technical treatises and its catalogs of knowledge about the natural world.