On the subject of gnomes, I confirmed that Mike (GM) did in fact use gnomes against the party the first time I was invited into his fold of gamers. I was elf type character, my name lost to the ages, full of pixie dust and vinegar, and we were in an inn of fair size, and just had received a dying delivery, torn parchment, clue to a mystery, outside in the alley.
Whilest we were pickin fights, gambling, or picking a pocket or two is when the darkly clad strangers came through the door, as lighting flashed and the thunder boomed outside. Anywho there was only four of em, cowled as they were and just medium sized, and there was six of us, so we were anxious but not fearful.
As they approached, as we were seated, two figures were actually gnomes, the assasin-acrobat kind, on each other's shoulders. The top two bounded onto our table, and the other two ran underneath. The two standing were just the usual half orc flunkies, and the fight was on. They must not have known the secret of "gnomish friction magic", but they were intent on making a bloody stew with us as the meaty chunks. We did take our lumps, as always, paying the usual couple pounds of flesh, and once their magicker got there, with his quasit familar, back-up and other surprizes, we were on the ropes, but not down and out.
We were eventually victorious, but no closer to figuring out the "obvious clues" in the parchment, see handout 'A'. If I would have studied harder in Ancient Yugoslavian Literature, Latin, and P-Chem classes, I could have deciphered the scrawlings and solved the mystery without nary a loss of HP. Oh no.
But I remembered his use of the dreaded and occassionally furry gnomes, and am now vindicated from the use of said gnomes in any maliciously annoying way. I do in fact only use my powers for good, and it is unclear to some, to know, what is actually good for them.
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