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Re: No Gnomes?

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All be ware this gnome talk will start a gnomagetting. By causing the Kender to come to rifts and utterly destoying it.
The Clones are coming you shall all be replaced, but who is to say you have not been replaced already.

Master of Type-O and the obvios.

Soon my army oc clones and winged-monkies will rule the world but first, must .......

I may debate canon and RAW, but the games I run are highly house ruled. So I am not debating for how I play but about how the system works as written.
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Blue_Lion wrote:All be ware this gnome talk will start a gnomagetting. By causing the Kender to come to rifts and utterly destoying it.

No one was ever to mention the kinder on a palladium board....sign of the apocalypse!
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Oh gnome. You guys don't gnome how bad this will get.

Life gets very short.

...and it has a bulbous red nose too.
There's a reason...and a very good one...that I have certain people in this forum blocked both here and on Facebook.

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Subjugator wrote:Oh gnome. You guys don't gnome how bad this will get.

Life gets very short.

...and it has a bulbous red nose too.


Not 'short'. 'Personal Altitude Challenged'.
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Zamion138 wrote:
Blue_Lion wrote:All be ware this gnome talk will start a gnomagetting. By causing the Kender to come to rifts and utterly destoying it.

No one was ever to mention the kinder on a palladium board....sign of the apocalypse!

Realy I find it hard to belive.
The Clones are coming you shall all be replaced, but who is to say you have not been replaced already.

Master of Type-O and the obvios.

Soon my army oc clones and winged-monkies will rule the world but first, must .......

I may debate canon and RAW, but the games I run are highly house ruled. So I am not debating for how I play but about how the system works as written.
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Zamion138 wrote:
Blue_Lion wrote:All be ware this gnome talk will start a gnomagetting. By causing the Kender to come to rifts and utterly destoying it.

No one was ever to mention the kinder on a palladium board....sign of the apocalypse!


I kinder figured as much..
And if... somone whipped out a mini gun. We run and hide. lol.

Now.. some guys won't... and you can say nice things at their funeral. "He was a brave soul.... if stupid.. he didn't take cover when the guy whipped out the mini gun on us that day.. but his blood-fountaining corpse did give us a chance to sneak around and clonk the machine gunner on the head with a rock. Rest in Pieces.... Swiss Cheese Man.....

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Blue_Lion wrote:
Zamion138 wrote:
Blue_Lion wrote:All be ware this gnome talk will start a gnomagetting. By causing the Kender to come to rifts and utterly destoying it.

No one was ever to mention the kinder on a palladium board....sign of the apocalypse!

Realy I find it hard to belive.

Gnome matter what you belive there is no reason to be "short" with me lets try to keep this a kinder gentler broad.
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Umm gnome one has was ever to say child on the board? Kinder is german for child. Now if you replace the I with a E you get a highly feared race. That makes people want to kill it, and may lead to the great gmomageding that even rifts can not servive. (I think even greater demons fear a world of kender.)
The Clones are coming you shall all be replaced, but who is to say you have not been replaced already.

Master of Type-O and the obvios.

Soon my army oc clones and winged-monkies will rule the world but first, must .......

I may debate canon and RAW, but the games I run are highly house ruled. So I am not debating for how I play but about how the system works as written.
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Blue_Lion wrote:Umm gnome one has was ever to say child on the board? Kinder is german for child. Now if you replace the I with a E you get a highly feared race. That makes people want to kill it, and may lead to the great gmomageding that even rifts can not servive. (I think even greater demons fear a world of kender.)

I am only replying in kender to you aobut my kinder post as you gnomaged to include a gnome in there......but yeah a typeo
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They see me Gnomin!
They hatin!
They Trollin and tryin to catch me ridin Shorty!
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Panomas wrote:What did I start?-- :nh:

Ah well... :mrgreen:

"Read my lips, gnome, new taxes!"



Just two little punctuation marks and we now have a a tax revolt by the undertrodden.... :D
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Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"

--------Rudyard Kipling
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epictechgeek wrote:
taalismn wrote:
epictechgeek wrote:I'm tossing together (for the hell of it - a backup char) a Technowizard Tinker Gnome. I know, bad WoW memories for some, but I just love the idea of rolling into town in a massive TW'd out Giant Robot vehicle and the door opens and a 2 foot gnome hops out. LOL!!!!



Better yet...disguise his control station UNDER a regularly-sized(but nonfunctional) cockpit setup. Anybody who tries to hijack the 'bot while the gnome-owner's inside finds out the hard way that they ain't going anywhere...

I'm actually using this idea. Already cleared by the GM because he had my current character (A Grack) kidnapped to be tortured by Pestilence (The Horseman Demon). I realized immediately that I needed that "Backup" Character. So, yeah. Story goes he rifted from Paladium to Rifts earth into Russia when he was young, like 20 or 30, and spent all too long bounced around in the war torn Russian landscape being abused by warlords and picking up what he could to survive until Romanov territory proved a much less hostile land that he was able to grow as a TW. Anyway, he's Bald with a beard and wears a fur collared calf length coat. StereoTypical Russian style.
Anyway, I'm having the upper cockpit be on a switch so I can set it to function if I (as a TW) switch it to large mode. That way I can let someone else drive it if I want.


Another good reason to check the glove compartment. CAREFULLY.
"Check the glove compartment. May the owner of this thing left maps or money."
"Oka-"
:badbad: :badbad: :thwak: "YAAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!" :thwak: :badbad: :badbad:
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"

--------Rudyard Kipling
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Re: No Gnomes?

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Mech-Viper Prime wrote:gnomes on rifts earth are in the employment of the coalition states
They must have learned something from how their buddies down in Cordoba harness the Dwarven labour force.
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Tor wrote:
Mech-Viper Prime wrote:gnomes on rifts earth are in the employment of the coalition states
They must have learned something from how their buddies down in Cordoba harness the Dwarven labour force.


Well, they are easier to conceal and no shop owner in their right mind would have them working behind the counter(UNDER it, maybe, but not behind it).
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For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"

--------Rudyard Kipling
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This mention of gnome servants working under merchants' counters just sent my imagination in a wholly wrong direction...

I always figured these species were superior beings. They eat so much less food, take up so much less space, yet have pretty impressive comparative strength and speed considering the size differential. Not to mention equal intelligence and ability to contribute magically.
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Then there's the Atlantis(Splugorth-approved) merchant selling gnomes out of vending machines as 'minions on demand'. Just put in the coins, make a selection, and out pops your fresh plastic-wrapped gnome slave. Of course, early franchises of the machines had problems, as some of the owner/operators forgot you have to regularly FEED the gnomes in the machine, otherwise they go bad(as in stale, dried up, mummified*, as opposed to evil....though some just went insane).

*Not that this stopped some of the affected machines in making a profit, as some monsters LIKE dried gnome jerky, and necromancers appreciated being able to assemble small armies of zombie-gnomes on a budget.
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"

--------Rudyard Kipling
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