Hello. New to Blackmoor.

[Havard]

GNOMES!

So I didn't notice them at first (mostly because I was looking through the 4E stuff). Blackmoor gnomes are "Tinker Gnomes" ? That sound right?

Also, to go along with this question, it appears that Dwarves are also tinkerers and steam engineers. I noticed that dwarves right away "being into science". So Dwarves are also "Tinker Gnomes"? Which of the two races are more successful at this stuff? Are all dwarves into science or just some of them? Sounds like gnomes are pretty deep into it.

Good question. Although there were gnomes in Arneson's campaign, there arent many references about them from those days. The main sources are the 3E line; mainly the DAB CS and Clock & Steam. What we do know is that Gnomes are travelling folk, travelling from town to town offering their services in crafts, magic and the like. Maybe reminiscent of Gypsies. One of their specialties is clockworks. So while the Dwarves are experimenting on big machines run by steam, clock work technology and the more finely tuned instruments are the domain of Gnomes.

I'd love to find more ways to differentiate them from dwarves and from Gnomes in other settings, but this is what I have got so far.

-Havard