Character Codex - Round 14 - Gnome Sorcerer and Gnome Wizard

May 28, 2014 Than Gibson

Greetings Chroniclers and welcome to the Character Codex!

We're stepping our way through all 77 race/class combinations in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. We're showing off the Gnome Sorcerer and Gnome Wizard today. If you've missed any previous entries you can catch up HERE!

We've finished up the gnomes this week! I hope you all have enjoyed a look at the most maligned race in the core rules. I've enjoyed drawing them and getting to show off some potentially interesting ideas with them.

Next week, we're moving on to halflings. Now, I know, I'm skipping ahead, but I have a reason that you will all see shortly. After halflings then we'll do half-elves, half-orcs, and finally humans,

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Okay, let's look at some gnomes!

First up is the Gnome Sorcerer. With the gnomes, I wanted to show how they could be more than just the annoying fey folk. They could be cool, tough, comical, and, yes, even sexy. This is our gnome fire dancer. I would imagine she's from the Choreography Division of the Bureau of Liberal Arts. They're all a bunch of reprobates down there.

This was my first real drawing with my new Surface Pro 2. Not too bad for my first go, but you'll see with the wizard that my line quality was still in transition here. I'm really loving the better sensitivity the Surface has in comparison to my old tablet. I can really tell a difference.

Next up is the Gnome Wizard. This guy is the head gnome. Chief Librarian of The Great Library and Director of the Gnomish Nation, Norminthallis of the Bureau of Magical Archival Studies. Norm is a venerable sage who seems to know everything. Many such sages retreat to isolated mountaintops but he chooses to continue his work in the Great Library where he is accessible to any gnome with a question. He is often found walking through the stacks offering tidbits of advice to any researchers and looking over their designs. To him, this ensures that the Gnomish Nation moves forward.

Norm doesn't wear the robes of a wizard or sage. He prefers a more presentable three-piece suit (a new design from the Bureau of Fashion!). He does seem to always wear gloves, one of his quirks. Gnome wizards do not typically join the Brotherhood of the Threefold Path like wizards of other races. Gnomes believe that the Brotherhood is more of a political organization and less scholarly than their own bureaus.

That's it for the gnomes! Make sure to check back tomorrow for a new Chronicle strip! We'll see you next week with the Halfling Barbarian and Bard!

Character Codex Round 13 - Gnome Ranger and Rogue

May 21, 2014 Than Gibson

Welcome to Round 13 of the Chronicle Character Codex!

I'm drawing our way through all 77 race/class combinations in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. We're showing off the Gnome Fighter, Gnome Monk, and Gnome Paladin today. If you've missed any previous entries you can catch up HERE!

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We've rounded the bend on the gnomes and this week we're taking a look at the Gnome Ranger and Gnome Rogue.

First up is the Gnome Ranger. For this one, I wanted to mirror the naturalist version of the druid but a bit more combat oriented. So I went with the Trophy Hunter archetype from The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game - Ultimate Combat. This blended well with the notion that the gnomes of Chronicle are the main race to have have black powder and their innate drive to study a science. I can see this gnome being the kind of naturalist who fills a museum with taxidermy specimens for posterity's sake. Somewhere there's a gallery with a stuffed owlbear in it!

I gave her some magical gear, though the exact powers of that gear could be changed up, depending on what the player had in mind.

Next up is the Gnome Rogue. This one's a bit on the nose, but I went with the Trapsmith archetype from the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Advanced Player's Guide. I know that a tinker gnome being good at disabling traps isn't very original, but sometimes you have to draw the classics and this is my own version of it.

I gave him goggles because a proper gnome has to have a proper pair of goggles. They're most likely some for of Perception buff. I like to think the screwdriver is magical (maybe even sonic, eh?) and gives a disable device bonus.

Well, that's it for this week! Next week we finish up the gnomes with the Sorcerer and the Wizard. So, come back to see what I can come up with for a pair of mages!

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Character Codex Round 12 - Gnome Fighter, Monk, and Paladin

May 14, 2014 Than Gibson

Hey everyone! Welcome back to another round of the Character Codex! We're drawing our way through all 77 race/class combinations in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. We're showing off the Gnome Fighter, Gnome Monk, and Gnome Paladin today. If you've missed any previous entries you can catch up HERE!

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And now, bring on the gnomes!

First up is the Gnome Fighter. I wanted to do at least one of these based off of the classic "garden gnome." So, I came up with the elite fighters, the Red Caps (named after another fairy creature). The gnomes of Chronicle are the only ones who have figured gunpowder out, so they have access to renaissance era firearms. But, since the Codex (for now) is only covering the Core Classes the Pathfinder Gunslinger is not available. So, this guy is using his fighter feats to become a crack shot.

Next, we have the Gnome Monk. This monk is a Ki Mystic, meditating to study the truth of existence. I thought it would be interesting to give her a floating meditation cushion so that she could move about while still focusing her ki. She has an ioun stone of wisdom above her head and an ioun stone that negates her need for food and water on her headpiece.

Finally we have the Gnome Paladin. The patron god of gnomes is Gib, the god of knowledge and magic. So, I designed this guy to look like a knight who could cast a some magic as well. Stat-wise, I think he would resemble the Knights of the Sacred Flame from Forgotten Realms. They, too, are paladins of a god of magic.

The blue and purple are Gib's colors, representing knowledge and magic respectively.

That's it for this week! Next week, we'll have the gnome ranger and rogue. See you then!

Character Codex - Round 11 - Gnome Cleric and Gnome Druid

May 7, 2014 Than Gibson

Hey everyone! Welcome back to another round of the Character Codex! We're drawing our way through all 77 race/class combinations in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. We're showing off the Gnome Cleric and Gnome Druid today. If you've missed any you can catch up HERE!

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And now, bring on the gnomes!

Next up is the Gnome Druid. Gnomes in Chronicle are, generally speaking, scholars and scientists. When a gnome comes of age, they choose an area of knowledge to specialize in. With that in mind I had the idea that a gnome druid would be one of those naturalists that was really in tune with nature and lived among the animals like Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey. So that's what I went with.

She's wearing light safari-style clothes instead of a more traditional medieval fantasy style garment. That's fitting with the gnomes of Chronicle who are a little more advanced technologically. At the same time her hair's a slight mess and she does still have the pointy gnome shoes.

I almost drew her with apes, but I thought the inspiration would have been a bit ham-fisted. So, instead I give you a bird (phrasing!) and a new critter I came up with called a badgercoot.

First up is our Gnome Cleric. This little guy is a favorite of mine. He was a character in the original Chronicle comic books published back in 2000. This is Englund. He's a priest of chaos. Not a preist of a god of chaos, just chaos. Now when most people hear "priest of chaos" they think devastation, destruction, and mayhem. Englund is more of the random, stream of consciousness, unpredictable brand of chaotic. For example, what's going on with this duck? Is it a zombie duck and he's turning it or is he turning it into a zombie duck? Hard to say.

Englund started out as a player character in the original Chronicle D&D game and I'm pretty sure he was human, but over the years he's morphed down into what can only be called a gnome and I think it fits him well.

So, that's it for this week! Next week, we'll be looking at the Gnome Fighter, Gnome Monk, and if I can get to it, Gnome Paladin!

Character Codex Round 10 - Gnome Barbarian and Bard

April 30, 2014 Than Gibson

Welcome back to the Character Codex! We're working our way through all 77 core race and class combination in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. We just finished up the elves and this week we're beginning the invasion of the gnomes! That's 22 down! you can see them all in the Character Codex Gallery.

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And now, on with the gnomes!

First up, we have the Gnome Barbarian. Part caveman, part Celtic warrior, this little guy makes up for his size with his fury.

Gnomes in Chronicle tend to be very civilized and intellectual. So this guy is a great departure right off the bat. What's not to love about a feral gnome?!

Next up we have the gnome bard. This is more like the gnomes of Chronicle. Gnomes in Chronicle are sponges for knowledge. When they come of age, they devote themselves to a field of study and join that field's bureau. A gnome's bureau is its family. Gnomes are not interested in recording blood lineages, but rather pass down the great breakthroughs and discoveries of those in the bureau before them.

This particular gnome would be using the Archivist alternate class features.
I love the Naturalist ability for this alternate class. Basically, the bard carries around a Bestiary and looks up monsters then tells everyone how to beat it. I imagine that's what she's doing here - checking her notes on how to tame an owlbear maybe.

That's it this week! Next week, come back for the gnome cleric and the gnome druid. The gnome cleric is one of my all-time favorite Chronicle characters and fans of the original series will be happy to see his reappearance. So make sure to come back next week!