In the Dragonlance setting of novels and role-playing games created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, gnomes are a fictional humanoid race. The gnomes of Dragonlance (minoi, pronounced [minoj]) are sometimes called tinker gnomes to differentiate them from the gnomes of other Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.
Although gnomes existed in the Dungeons & Dragons environment, they were heavily modified for the Dragonlance environment. Jeff Grubb ...
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In the Dragonlance setting of novels and role-playing games created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, gnomes are a fictional humanoid race. The gnomes of Dragonlance (minoi, pronounced [minoj]) are sometimes called tinker gnomes to differentiate them from the gnomes of other Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.
Although gnomes existed in the Dungeons & Dragons environment, they were heavily modified for the Dragonlance environment. Jeff Grubb suggested that they would be like real engineers, spending their time repairing things previously created by other engineers, based on his own experience as engineer. Tracy Hickman found the idea hilarious, and both adopted the new characterization for the novels and gaming modules.
The gnomes of Krynn live in Mount Nevermind, on the isle of Sancrist. Gnomes are the tinkerers of Krynn, designing grand machines for every imaginable task. They were humans that were cursed by the God Reorx to be short as him and took from them the skills he...
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