GNOMES

[while working hexes outside of Moor's End, play-testing the Holmentzer Wilderness Hex Generator, I realized how many gnomes live around there, and remembered, in Crackenmore, the gnomes around the glowing rock traveled from the south]

GNOMES

[Gnomes] live in air-enclosed cities on the bottom connected to the surface by tunnels. - Blackmoor, pg. 24

Gnomes are similar to dwarves, whom they resemble. They are smaller, have longer noses and beards and inhabit low-land and hill burrows rather than mountains. They favor crossbows. - Holmes, pg. 28

Gnomes have well-developed infravision, with a 90' range... Gnomes are excellent metalsmiths and miners. They love gold and gems and have been known to make bad decisions just to obtain them. They love machinery of all kinds and prefer crossbows and war hammers as weapons. Gnomes like most dwarves... war with goblins and kobolds who steal their precious gold. They usually attack kobolds on sight. - Mentzer Basic DMR, pg. 30

Currently, a gnome character can be either a fighter, magic-user, thief, paladin, or healer. A gnome may multi-class among the basic four classes if they'd like, e.g. fighter/thief, magic-user/thief, though they may not multi-class as a paladin or healer. Lastly, if they do multi-class, they will be restricted to the wearing of leather armor, and must split experience equally between each class.

Final details from AD&D Player's Handbook:

Saving Throws are identical to those of dwarves & halflings; however, as stated above, gnomes will generally have an even better saving throw vs. magic depending on their CONstitution score.


GNOMES IN FURTHERMOOR

Gnomes are sometimes spotted in the hilly lands east of Moor's End, south of Hood Hollow, west of Octopus Lake, near what is known as the Land of Horses. It is said that gnomes had great cities under the south section of the Howling Moors, but when their tunnels were infiltrated by the Fez and their Orcs, a Gnomish Offensive pushed their chaotic enemies up & out of the tunnels, into the nearby hills, setting the stage for the Last Battle, between lawful humans, elves and dwarves against the Fez. Though some gnomes returned to the great cities, many decided to burrow elsewhere about the land. They also say that the great worms are returning, making ways through the land once more. Said to have originally bored the tunnels at the edge of the moors thousands of years ago, a purple worm is generally seen by a gnome at an early age.