D&D (2024) Aasimar, Crafting Rules, and more in Gameinformer Magazine feature

[Parmandur]

so you mean more muscular? I saw that as still having some baby fat

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Way, way too muscular for any child of that height, yes. And even though my kids, no joke, are om the tippy top scale of head size (like 99%, Welsh genes), they don't have a head of that proportion.

 

[Weiley31]

Gnomes have a very specific look in 5E art, very angular and pointy: no soft edges, prominent pointed chins, etc. Halflings are all rounded with a top heavy build.

Do they? I've seen so little art of gnomes in 5E that I can even think of that I wouldn't have thought of that.

I always preferred the Gnome lore/art from 4E. At least they didn't look so similar to halflings, despite both being the go to small folk race option.

 

[Charlaquin]

I always preferred the Gnome lore/art from 4E. At least they didn't look so similar to halflings, despite both being the go to small folk race option.

I like my gnomes with tufty ears and tails, personally.

 

[Weiley31]

Case in point: 4E Gnome art!

 

[mamba]

If you would mistake this character for a 5-year-old, I question if you’ve ever actually seen a child, or just heard them described.

it's probably more that it aligns better with '5 year old' than with 'Hobbit' to me

 

[Parmandur]

I always preferred the Gnome lore/art from 4E. At least they didn't look so similar to halflings, despite both being the go to small folk race option.

5E Halflongs and Gnomes look nothing alike, though? They can always be ide tidied easily on sight.

 

[Charlaquin]

it's probably more that it aligns better with '5 year old' than with 'Hobbit' to me

Well, she is neither a hobbit nor a 5-year-old, so I’d say it’s appropriate that she doesn’t look like either of those things.

 

[mamba]

Well, she is neither a hobbit nor a 5-year-old, so I’d say it’s appropriate that she doesn’t look like either of those things.

Halfling is just the name for Hobbit that the Tolkien Estate cannot sue over…

 

[Azzy]

Background: Child Soldier

Wait... Is this a Gundam adaption?

 

[Kurotowa]

Wait... Is this a Gundam adaption?

Hmm. How would you translate a Gundam protagonist into a D&D context? It's not easy. Gundam is an odd juxtaposition of a "chosen one" hero gifted greater power with a war setting where death is easy and inherent power is scarce. Both ends of which are poor fits for D&D.

Probably you'd have better success by not stealing the plot arc but the character archetype. "Gifted child soldier dealing with the trauma of being pressed into a war they don't entirely believe in." It might work if you frame that as about 10 years in the past and the campaign is starting in at least early Tier 2. It'd be a different take, but you have to be fairly liberal when you're translating ideas from other media to D&D.