Editing Gnome (section)

==Appearance==
The classic gnome appearance in D&D is essentially a [[dwarf]] with a dash of [[elf]]; a small, squat humanoid who usually is described as both fairly homely and seeming to age quickly, giving them wrinkly faces and pronounced beards & mustaches. Unlike dwarves, they have no cultural attachment to their beards, and indeed often shave them into goatees or similarly small, neatly kept affairs to keep them out of their way. In AD&D, gnomes are most known for their prodigious noses. The elfin aspect mostly shines through in long, pointy ears.

The [[Feywild]] Gnome of 4th edition abandons the dwarfish elements; instead, they look like scaled-down [[eladrin]] with wild, spiky hair. They're surprisingly attractive compared to the gnomes of past editions, or at least to AD&D's. 

The [[Golarion]] Gnome of [[Pathfinder]] looks deliberately like a chibi anime character: weirdly-sized facial features that invoke either their iconic D&D look (oversized ears and noses) or the classic anime look (seemingly too small mouth, near-absent nose and huge eyes are actually canonical to their lore) and a vast variety of different and peculiar skin, hair and eye colors. This is intended to help emphasize their [[fey]], alien natures when compared to dwarves and halflings, and in fairness it actually works pretty well.