Hello. New to Blackmoor.

[aldarron]

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.

Thanks.

Really its an "up to you" kind of thing. In the earlier material it was the elves who were the engineers/tinkerers. Dwarves were all seemingly the Tolkien sort and gnomes were barely mentioned.

The 3e/4e stuff switches that along the lines you mention. Personally, I see the tech stuff as being in the realm of a few, somewhat eccentric types, regardless of race per se, at least untill Uther comes around and starts to actually fund and encourage tech research. Havards dwarf timeline has a some basic info on dwarf/gnome inventions.