No Gnomes?

There are Orcs, Elves and Dwarves. Gnomes would round out the traditional fantasy races. Any chance they might be included as maybe a race that has been successful throughout all the biomes by adapting using their tinkering abilities?

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Scarbeus

Depending on what fantasy world you think of there are all sorts of races you could add in. But don't forget that there can be more in expansions. I'm pretty sure the Tulnar are the last race they are putting in for now.

Warth

So why should gnomes be more important than trolls, goblins, dryards and giants?

PenguinPaladin

Warth wrote: »

So why should gnomes be more important than trolls, goblins, dryards and giants?

Because they are lucky

daveywavey

Pretty sure this is just a dwarf, right?

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PenguinPaladin

daveywavey wrote: »

Pretty sure this is just a dwarf, right.

I think so? All the shorties blend together.

MaiWaifu

I'm not sure it's easy to make significant distinction between dwarves and gnomes...

Like what would their racial benefits be? In my mind, they're essentially just druid dwarves.

Never the less, I'm all for more choice and dynamic interactions as long as they're as fleshed out as the currently planned races.

Ironhope

Honestly I'm glad there are no gnomes in AOC.

They're by far the most cringe race in fantasy and I'm not saying they can't be done well, I'm saying I'm never seen them done well.

They almsot didn't make it into WoW and truth is, they shouldn't have.

This being said, Intrepid said expansions will exist and will be a pretty common thing (depending on how the game does) so if the game does well we will probably see many new races over the years.

I do hope gnomes won't be one of them, but if you are rooting for gnomes, then you should know there's a chance to see them sooner or later.

Voxtrium

Well we have Nikua don't we? Their character model is very gnomish, and we have traditional dwarves as well.

BaSkA_9x2

Unfortunately Gnomes went extinct when the first Great War of Verra occurred. Orcs were going through a hunger period during the War, and sadly Gnomes became the only available meat source.

RIP Gnomes 😥

Sathrago

Well, from current designs it seems like they are trying to cover multiple races without actually covering multiple races... in an odd way, the Vek orcs are more akin to world of warcraft's trolls than to your standard orc. Same can be said about the Antler elves being a type of wood elf and nikua being something quite similar to a gnome. The fantasy of gnomes have almost always been these little smart master craftsmen that run around building clockwork or magically enhanced contraptions.
Seems like if you want to play one, play a mountain dwarf or nikua, adjust the body type with their excellent character creator, and pick up some engineering type professions. If the "fantasy" is your issue, they have the tools for you to live that out through roleplay and customization.

Ironhope

I mean, yeah, the character creator will almost certainly allow you to make a thin, smaller dwarf you will easily be able to call a gnome and objectivelly be seen as such.

Percimes

BaSkA13 wrote: »

Unfortunately Gnomes went extinct when the first Great War of Verra occurred. Orcs were going through a hunger period during the War, and sadly Gnomes became the only available meat source.

RIP Gnomes 😥

Yeah, eat a Gnome healer and it acts as a potion, healing from the inside.

Tyranthraxus

I never cared for the whole "ankle-biters with Gatling-crossbows" concept, anyways.

Gnomes also couldn't mesh with other races, anyways; Too much Gnome-goo to clean up from city sidewalks, from all the taller races stepping in them.

mobtek

Why do we need Gnomes when we have the Niküa to punt? ^_^

Dygz

Niküa are Halflings !!!

mobtek

I'm gunna need a bigger boot!

Dygz wrote: »

Niküa are Halflings !!!

CROW3

Dygz wrote: »

Niküa are Halflings !!!

That's a significant difference imo. WoW Gnomes remind me that I still have work to do in letting go of my fantasy prejudices...

Must.... not... punt...

Sabrina Lancaster

I've never personally had an issue with gnomes, or gnome-like races in games. That being said, having them opens a lot of fighting because people get excessively petty over anything short and immediately start throwing pretty charged language at anyone who would play one. A lot of people in MMOs pick a race they like, sure, but they also try to pick something they find aesthetically pleasing which is a pretty big crux of the problem. Not many people want to play something ugly. Except when you have gnomes that could be even remotely considered adorable, it treads into "****" territory for most people who really do not understand what that word means at all. So the solution is just make them hideous, right? Well no, because not many people like playing ugly races either as I said. There is a reason why the most played race in WoW is Blood Elf, or why all of the top races in terms of player count are something adjacent to that (void elf) or physically attractive, and why one of the most underplayed races are Kul'tiran humans which basically are just fat humans. There's a reason I had a kul'tiran druid named Maimyschumer, let's just say it like that, because that's how they appeared and most people despite it probably being the closest representation in the game of their real life self, are not going to play something they find unappealing.

More so now than ever as people have started to treat their virtual characters as extensions or idealized versions of themselves to portray to the world, so that kind of toxicity would be viewed by some to be a personal attack on them and would get defensive and respond either in kind, or with more hostility. It's just better to bite the bullet and prevent a plethora of flame wars in the

Anonymous332

Just make niküa gnomes at this point tbh, they are the least popular race by far looking at the polls. No point keeping them bulky and as tall as Dünir.

Vaknar

If gnomes were introduced into the world of Verra, what do you think their lore, cultural influences, and architecture would be like?

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