Gnome

From NWNWiki

Gnomes are in wide demand as alchemists, inventors, and technicians, though most prefer to remain among their own kind in simple comfort. Gnomes adore animals, gems, and jokes, especially pranks. They love to learn by personal experience, and are always trying new ways to build things. Gnomes stand 3 to 3 1/2 feet tall, with skin that ranges from dark tan to woody brown. Their hair is fair, and their eyes are often some shade of blue. Gnomes generally wear earth tones, but decorate their clothes intricately. Males favor carefully-trimmed beards. Gnomes live 350 to 500 years.

Gnomish ability adjustments: +2 Con, -2 Str

Favored class (Wizard): A multiclass gnome's wizard class does not count when determining whether he suffers an XP penalty for multiclassing.

[edit] Special abilities

• Small Stature
  • +1 size modifier to attack rolls.
  • +1 size modifier to AC.
  • +4 size bonus to hide checks.
• Hardiness vs. Illusions: +2 racial bonus on saving throws against mind-affecting spells.
• Offensive Training vs. Reptilians: +1 racial bonus on attack rolls against reptilian humanoids.
• Offensive Training vs. Goblinoids: +1 racial bonus on attack rolls against goblinoids (goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears).
• Defensive Training vs. Giants: +4 dodge bonus to AC against giants.
• Skill Affinity (Listen): +2 racial bonus to listen checks.
• Skill Affinity (Concentration): +2 racial bonus to concentration checks.
• Spell Focus (Illusion): Gnomes add +2 difficulty class to any Illusion spells they cast. This counts as the feat so characters are able to select Greater Spell Focus (Illusion) at first level.
• Low-light Vision: Allows them to see better than normal in the dark.

Special: Gnomes are small creatures and as such they can never use the following Large weapons: dire mace, two-bladed sword, double axe, greataxe, greatsword, halberd, heavy flail, longbow, quarterstaff, scythe and spear.

Packages: Gnome characters should only choose the default package for their class, as the other packages may give the gnome weapons they cannot use.

[edit] PC default biography

"Your curiosity has always led you into strange and dangerous circumstances, and now you find yourself outside the close circle of your clan, surrounded by humans and other races. Your guess is that more strange adventures are on their way."

[edit] Notes

• Often stereotyped as crazed inventors with a diet of turnips.
• Stereotypically, gnomes speak incredibly fast, often illustrated as a string of text with no spaces.