Gnomes

Gnomes are welcome everywhere as technicians, alchemists, and inventors. Despite the demand for their skills most Gnomes prefer to remain among their own kind living in comfortable burrows beneath rolling wooded hills where animals abound.

There are two races of Gnomes: the Rock gnome and far less common Deep gnome (Svirfneblin.)

Rock gnomes are small but hardy with +2 Constitution and -2 Strength. The Deep gnomes are equally small but lack the hardiness of other other gnomes. Instead, they have heightend agility and wisdom at the expense of stunted social skills.