Whatever happened to the gnomes of Warhammer?

>>51927248
They went gnome

>>51927265
Clever girl.

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>>51927248
They now spend their lives in Dwarvish sweatshops making pizza cutters for sale to the Italy Analogue.

>>51927371
Why pizza cutters of all things?

Who cares? Gnomes suck.

Gnomanei
Ghnomae
Gh'noom
Aeghnomi

There, GW. Free of charge.

>>51927248
They were basically just less interesting dwarfs.

>>51928598
They filled more than "two stereotypes per race" quota, fans would've gotten confused. You can't have the same people be both into magic AND technology, can you?

>>51927248
in warhammer gnomes would be to dwarfs what grots are to orks

>>51927248
Too much thematic overlap with the dwarfs.

>>51928615
what like Chaos Dwarves and Empire?

>>51930325
Why not gnomes, then?

>>51927248
same thing to everything else in warhammer, it ended

>>51930478
They might've survived somewhere as the gnomeadines or something equally copyrightable, though.

>>51927248
Just might've passed as a sort of Dogs of War option like the halflings. Definitely wouldn't have made up an army of their own.

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>>51930478
>underneath the helmet hidden by his visor tears roll down his cheeks as he is struck hard by the truth.

>>51927248
Didn't the first edition of WRFP mention Karl Franz' court jester being a gnome?

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Does anyone really like gnomes? Especially in WFB, there's a lot more interesting stuff out there. I'm surprised the halflings survived sometimes.

>>51927248
got cuck'd

>>51930377
Thirty years war dudes with big hats and a gunpowder fetish/evil short assyrians are more interesting than gnomes

warhammer cant have gnomes because of russians.
all fantasy settings (lotr and warhammer) have dwarves translated as gnomes in russian. only warcraft has its dwarves translated as dvorfi/dvarfi

>>51927248

They were too close to Dwarfs.

>>51938283
Easy, just refer to them as "squats".

>>51927248
They went on a great fishing expedition and never returned.

Gnomes will forever be just a sub-type of Dwarves in my book. They're the greek equivalent to dwarves, anyway, and the two overlap so much in their mythological origin that if it wasn't for modern fantasy making gnomes short fae or the token whacky science race, there would be literally no difference.

Warcraft has had to do tremendous mental gymnastics to justify re-introducing gnomes after the Ironforge dwarves had taken over all their technobabble in Warcraf 3, and nobody even missed gnomes in that game.

Same probably applies to Warhammer: You got Dwarves as a major political player, with all the same cultural strengths as the minor gnomes. Just make gnomes dwarves but some sort of social outcast and you're good to go.

>>51945269
I think the biggest difference (and the one that gives people the most problem) is that gnomes are intensely magical whilst dwarfs are generally not (and in the case of warhammer, actually anti). In WFRP 1st ed for example gnomes were mentioned to be proficient wizards, especially but not exclusively with illusions.

They also had the weird fishing obsession but that seems to have been more like a humorous quirk to add.

>>51927248

gnobody gnows

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