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	'''Tinker Gnomes''', or '''Minoi''' in their own tongue, are a subrace of the [[Gnome]] of [[Dungeons & Dragons]], one native to the world of Krynn - home of the [[Dragonlance]] setting. Like their distant cousin, the [[Svirfneblin]], Minoi are distinct enough from their more mainstream cousins to warrant their own article on 1d4chan.		'''Tinker Gnomes''', or '''Minoi''' in their own tongue, are a subrace of the [[Gnome]] of [[Dungeons & Dragons]], one native to the world of Krynn - home of the [[Dragonlance]] setting. Like their distant cousin, the [[Svirfneblin]], Minoi are distinct enough from their more mainstream cousins to warrant their own article on 1d4chan.

	Sadly for the Minoi, it's not exactly for the most glamorous of reasons; as a matter of fact, minoi are generally considered the second worst race to come out of Krynn, superior only to the notorious [[Kender]] (they would be third worst, if anyone remembered Gully Dwarves existed; frankly we don't blame them for forgetting).		Sadly for the Minoi, it's not exactly for the most glamorous of reasons; as a matter of fact, minoi are generally considered the second worst race to come out of Krynn, superior only to the notorious [[Kender]] (they would be third worst, if anyone remembered [[Gully Dwarf\|Gully Dwarves]] existed; frankly we don't blame them for forgetting).

	==History==		==History==

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	The minoi claim to be the the chosen children of [[Reorx]], Krynn's God of Creation, who were specially chosen by him in the mythical dawn of the world to embody all of his virtues and skills.		The minoi claim to be the the chosen children of [[Reorx]], Krynn's God of Creation, who were specially chosen by him in the mythical dawn of the world to embody all of his virtues and skills.

	Mind you, tinker gnomes also claim to be responsible for forging the Dragonlances, that they did battle against [[dragon]]s with armadas of flying warships, and that they singlehandedly were responsible for the defeat of [[Takhisis]] and her legions during the War of the Lance, with at most minimalistic help towards the end from the Companions of the Lance. Since all of these are ~~provably~~ false facts, most ignore the minoi's claims as to their origins.		Mind you, tinker gnomes also claim to be responsible for forging the Dragonlances, that they did battle against [[dragon]]s with armadas of flying warships, and that they singlehandedly were responsible for the defeat of [[Takhisis]] and her legions during the War of the Lance, with at most minimalistic help towards the end from the Companions of the Lance. Since all of these are probably false facts, most ignore the minoi's claims as to their origins.

	Between external disaster and internal incompetence, the gnomish history is pretty much a mystery. Well, technically it's not, as gnomish culture dictates the preservation of every individual gnome's life in a detailed diary - but wading through such material is the most incredibly boring task one can envision, with even intrepid scholars balking at the monumental process of wading through incalcuable tirades of trivial nonsense to find the few gleaming nuggets of significance.		Between external disaster and internal incompetence, the gnomish history is pretty much a mystery. Well, technically it's not, as gnomish culture dictates the preservation of every individual gnome's life in a detailed diary - but wading through such material is the most incredibly boring task one can envision, with even intrepid scholars balking at the monumental process of wading through incalcuable tirades of trivial nonsense to find the few gleaming nuggets of significance.

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	'''Tinker Gnomes''', or '''Minoi''' in their own tongue, are a subrace of the [[Gnome]] of [[Dungeons & Dragons]], one native to the world of Krynn - home of the [[Dragonlance]] setting. Like their distant cousin, the [[Svirfneblin]], Minoi are distinct enough from their more mainstream cousins to warrant their own article on 1d4chan.		'''Tinker Gnomes''', or '''Minoi''' in their own tongue, are a subrace of the [[Gnome]] of [[Dungeons & Dragons]], one native to the world of Krynn - home of the [[Dragonlance]] setting. Like their distant cousin, the [[Svirfneblin]], Minoi are distinct enough from their more mainstream cousins to warrant their own article on 1d4chan.

1d4chan>Agiletek at 07:01, 21 July 2020

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	3e, of course, simplified this by just making Mad Gnomes into a new gnomic subrace, with statblocks repeated in the ''Dragonlance Campaign Setting'' and ''Races of Krynn'' sourcebooks.		3e, of course, simplified this by just making Mad Gnomes into a new gnomic subrace, with statblocks repeated in the ''Dragonlance Campaign Setting'' and ''Races of Krynn'' sourcebooks.

	The [[Forgotten Realms]] had the Gnomes of Lantan (and the sizable human minority on the same islands) who would resemble Tinker Gnomes, except ''they're actually successful at science''. This means Lantan has roughly Renaissance level of technology, with them having pistols (standard equipment for those hailing from there), early printing presses, coaches (not carriages, but their far more weight efficient successor), replaceable parts, and far more science fiction level devices. Unfortunately, it's "Half-Mythical" to the rest of the world (who wrongly think it shuns magic) and few inventions have spread beyond it. Naturally, like everything else interesting about the setting, it was destroyed in the [[Spellplague]]. As part of its general undoing of everything 4E did that wasn’t removing OP NPCs, 5E retconned it so that Lantan was not destroyed (despite a Dragon article explaining Forgotten Realms [[Artificer]]s were diving to find its lost secrets), but rather made it so when continents from the planet Abeir were moved to Toril, Lantan was moved to Abeir in turn.		The [[Forgotten Realms]] had the Gnomes of [[Lantan]] (and the sizable human minority on the same islands) who would resemble Tinker Gnomes, except ''they're actually successful at science''. This means Lantan has roughly Renaissance level of technology, with them having pistols (standard equipment for those hailing from there), early printing presses, coaches (not carriages, but their far more weight efficient successor), replaceable parts, and far more science fiction level devices. Unfortunately, it's "Half-Mythical" to the rest of the world (who wrongly think it shuns magic) and few inventions have spread beyond it. Naturally, like everything else interesting about the setting, it was destroyed in the [[Spellplague]]. As part of its general undoing of everything 4E did that wasn’t removing OP NPCs, 5E retconned it so that Lantan was not destroyed (despite a Dragon article explaining Forgotten Realms [[Artificer]]s were diving to find its lost secrets), but rather made it so when continents from the planet Abeir were moved to Toril, Lantan was moved to Abeir in turn.

	'''Dragonlance Adventures Stats (AD&D1e):'''		'''Dragonlance Adventures Stats (AD&D1e):'''

1d4chan>Agiletek: /* Sane Tinkers? */

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Sane Tinkers?

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	3e, of course, simplified this by just making Mad Gnomes into a new gnomic subrace, with statblocks repeated in the ''Dragonlance Campaign Setting'' and ''Races of Krynn'' sourcebooks.		3e, of course, simplified this by just making Mad Gnomes into a new gnomic subrace, with statblocks repeated in the ''Dragonlance Campaign Setting'' and ''Races of Krynn'' sourcebooks.

	The [[Forgotten Realms]] had the Gnomes of Lantan (and the sizable human minority on the same islands) who would resemble Tinker Gnomes, except ''they're actually successful at science''. This means Lantan has roughly Renaissance level of technology, with them having pistols (standard equipment for those hailing from there), early printing presses, coaches (not carriages, but their far more weight efficient successor), replaceable parts, and far more science fiction level devices. Unfortunately, it's "Half-Mythical" to the rest of the world (who wrongly think it shuns magic) and few inventions have spread beyond it. Naturally, like everything else interesting about the setting, it was destroyed in the [[Spellplague]]. As part of its general undoing of everything 4E did that wasn’t removing OP NPCs, 5E retconned it so that Lantan was not destroyed (despite a Dragon article explaining Forgotten Realms [[~~Artificers~~]] were diving to find its lost secrets), but rather made it so when continents from the planet Abeir were moved to Toril, Lantan was moved to Abeir in turn.		The [[Forgotten Realms]] had the Gnomes of Lantan (and the sizable human minority on the same islands) who would resemble Tinker Gnomes, except ''they're actually successful at science''. This means Lantan has roughly Renaissance level of technology, with them having pistols (standard equipment for those hailing from there), early printing presses, coaches (not carriages, but their far more weight efficient successor), replaceable parts, and far more science fiction level devices. Unfortunately, it's "Half-Mythical" to the rest of the world (who wrongly think it shuns magic) and few inventions have spread beyond it. Naturally, like everything else interesting about the setting, it was destroyed in the [[Spellplague]]. As part of its general undoing of everything 4E did that wasn’t removing OP NPCs, 5E retconned it so that Lantan was not destroyed (despite a Dragon article explaining Forgotten Realms [[Artificer]]s were diving to find its lost secrets), but rather made it so when continents from the planet Abeir were moved to Toril, Lantan was moved to Abeir in turn.

	'''Dragonlance Adventures Stats (AD&D1e):'''		'''Dragonlance Adventures Stats (AD&D1e):'''

1d4chan>Agiletek: /* Sane Tinkers? */

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Sane Tinkers?

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	3e, of course, simplified this by just making Mad Gnomes into a new gnomic subrace, with statblocks repeated in the ''Dragonlance Campaign Setting'' and ''Races of Krynn'' sourcebooks.		3e, of course, simplified this by just making Mad Gnomes into a new gnomic subrace, with statblocks repeated in the ''Dragonlance Campaign Setting'' and ''Races of Krynn'' sourcebooks.

	The [[Forgotten Realms]] had the Gnomes of Lantan (and the sizable human minority on the same islands) who would resemble Tinker Gnomes, except ''they're actually successful at science''. This means Lantan has roughly Renaissance level of technology, with them having pistols (standard equipment for those hailing from there), early printing presses, coaches (not carriages, but their far more weight efficient successor), replaceable parts, and far more science fiction level devices. Unfortunately, it's "Half-Mythical" to the rest of the world (who wrongly think it shuns magic) and few inventions have spread beyond it. Naturally, like everything else interesting about the setting, it was destroyed in the [[Spellplague]].		The [[Forgotten Realms]] had the Gnomes of Lantan (and the sizable human minority on the same islands) who would resemble Tinker Gnomes, except ''they're actually successful at science''. This means Lantan has roughly Renaissance level of technology, with them having pistols (standard equipment for those hailing from there), early printing presses, coaches (not carriages, but their far more weight efficient successor), replaceable parts, and far more science fiction level devices. Unfortunately, it's "Half-Mythical" to the rest of the world (who wrongly think it shuns magic) and few inventions have spread beyond it. Naturally, like everything else interesting about the setting, it was destroyed in the [[Spellplague]]. As part of its general undoing of everything 4E did that wasn’t removing OP NPCs, 5E retconned it so that Lantan was not destroyed (despite a Dragon article explaining Forgotten Realms [[Artificers]] were diving to find its lost secrets), but rather made it so when continents from the planet Abeir were moved to Toril, Lantan was moved to Abeir in turn.

	'''Dragonlance Adventures Stats (AD&D1e):'''		'''Dragonlance Adventures Stats (AD&D1e):'''

1d4chan>Agiletek: /* Sane Tinkers? */

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Sane Tinkers?

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	Another source of "mad gnomes", in the more cross-over friendly AD&D edition at least, is [[gnome]]s from off-world who study from the minoi, learn the useful aspects of science, and then go off and work real science on their own without all of the unnecessary bells and whistles. In AD&D 1e, an off-world gnome had a 1% chance to turn into a "mad gnome", retaining their former abilities but gaining the ability to take levels in the Tinker class, and made this check each time they had spent at least 6 months interacting regularly with Krynnish tinker gnomes.		Another source of "mad gnomes", in the more cross-over friendly AD&D edition at least, is [[gnome]]s from off-world who study from the minoi, learn the useful aspects of science, and then go off and work real science on their own without all of the unnecessary bells and whistles. In AD&D 1e, an off-world gnome had a 1% chance to turn into a "mad gnome", retaining their former abilities but gaining the ability to take levels in the Tinker class, and made this check each time they had spent at least 6 months interacting regularly with Krynnish tinker gnomes.

	3e, of course, simplified this by just making Mad Gnomes into a new gnomic subrace, with statblocks repeated in the ''Dragonlance Campaign Setting'' and ''Races of Krynn'' sourcebooks.		3e, of course, simplified this by just making Mad Gnomes into a new gnomic subrace, with statblocks repeated in the ''Dragonlance Campaign Setting'' and ''Races of Krynn'' sourcebooks.

			The [[Forgotten Realms]] had the Gnomes of Lantan (and the sizable human minority on the same islands) who would resemble Tinker Gnomes, except ''they're actually successful at science''. This means Lantan has roughly Renaissance level of technology, with them having pistols (standard equipment for those hailing from there), early printing presses, coaches (not carriages, but their far more weight efficient successor), replaceable parts, and far more science fiction level devices. Unfortunately, it's "Half-Mythical" to the rest of the world (who wrongly think it shuns magic) and few inventions have spread beyond it. Naturally, like everything else interesting about the setting, it was destroyed in the [[Spellplague]].

	'''Dragonlance Adventures Stats (AD&D1e):'''		'''Dragonlance Adventures Stats (AD&D1e):'''

1d4chan>Piroko: /* Reorx's Curse */

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Reorx's Curse

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	The first glimmerings are seen in ''Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home'', the first sourcebook to really talk about Krynn's tinker gnomes. Here, the primary facets of the curse are described as a prioritizing of show over substance, confusing action with accomplishment, and considering the means as outweighing the end result - or, in a nutshell, minoi are seemingly incapable of viewing the merits of clean design, easy system and cost-effective program.		The first glimmerings are seen in ''Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home'', the first sourcebook to really talk about Krynn's tinker gnomes. Here, the primary facets of the curse are described as a prioritizing of show over substance, confusing action with accomplishment, and considering the means as outweighing the end result - or, in a nutshell, minoi are seemingly incapable of viewing the merits of clean design, easy system and cost-effective program.

	As such, when a gnome sets out to invent something, it's a good bet that, at least initially, [[Communism\|the device will be thirty times larger than necessary, make ten times as much noise]], will be crammed full of redundancies, and will fail miserably, if not disasterously. Further tinkering may improve some flaws, but will usually just compound the problem by cluttering it up with fail-safe devices, warning signals and redundant safety features, making it even bigger and often less reliable than it was before.		As such, when a gnome sets out to invent something, it's a good bet that, at least initially, [[Communism\|the device will be thirty times larger than necessary, make ten times as much noise]], will be crammed full of redundancies, and will fail miserably, if not [[3.6 Roentgen\|disasterously]]. Further tinkering may improve some flaws, but will usually just compound the problem by cluttering it up with fail-safe devices, warning signals and redundant safety features, making it even bigger and often less reliable than it was before.

	Compounding the problem, minoi and "organized research" are practically contradictory terms. Every tinker gnome is off working on his or her own little project, indifferent to the advances of science and technology from other sources, and often redesigning the whole project from scratch at any given point. Small wonder that minoi technology is locked into an endless cycle of "reinventing the wheel", as the saying goes.		Compounding the problem, minoi and "organized research" are practically contradictory terms. Every tinker gnome is off working on his or her own little project, indifferent to the advances of science and technology from other sources, and often redesigning the whole project from scratch at any given point. Small wonder that minoi technology is locked into an endless cycle of "reinventing the wheel", as the saying goes.