Gnomes are welcome everywhere as technicians, achemists, and inventors. Despite the demand for their skills, most gnomes prefer to remain among their own kind, linving in comfortable burrows, beneath rolling, wooden hills where animals abound.

Description
Gnomes stand about 3 to 3 1/2 feet tall and weigh 40 to 45 pounds. Their skin ranges from dark tan to woody brown, their hair is fair, and their eyes can be any shade of blue. Gnome males, prefer short, carefully trimmed beards. Gnomes generally wear leather or earth tones, and they decorate their clothes with intricate stitching or fine jewelry.


Sub-Races:

• Deep Gnomes: They dwell in cities deep underground. They are more dangerous than the common rock gnome.
  
• Rock Gnomes: They live in burrows beneath rolling, wooded hills. Friends to animals, rock gnomes have a racial ability that allows them to speak with burrowing animals.
  

Deep Gnomes:
The Deep Gnomes are the closest thing the gnome family has to a "black sheep." Many surface dwellers count the Deep Gnomes along with their evil neighbors, the Drow Elves and Grey Dwarves, believing them to be little more than dark reflections of the friendly rock gnomes with whom they are more familiar to.
Deep Gnomes are gnarled and callused folk, with little fat at all on their bodies. Their skin is the color of the rocks among which they live, almost as if the sprang directly from the stones themselves. They have dark gray eyes, tending towards black. Their hair is of a similar color, although it is only seen on the woman, as the men are entirely bald and beardless.
While the Deep Gnomes may not be particularly devout as a group, they do favor Callarduran Smoothhands (the Master of Stone) is their most popular deitie.

RACIAL TRAITS
Ability Changes: -2 Strength, +2 Dexterity, +2 Wisdom, -4 Charisma.

Small Gnomes are smaller than their cousins and gain a +1 on Defense.

Darkvision out to to 120 feet.

Stonecunning: This ability grants the Deep Gnome to notice unusual stonework, such as sliding walls, stonework traps, new construction (even when built to match the old), unsafe stone surfaces, shaky stone ceilings, and the like. Something that isn’t stone but that is disguised as stone also counts as unusual stonework. A Deep Gnome who merely comes within 10 feet of unusual stonework can find stonework traps. A Deep Gnome can also intuit depth, sensing his approximate depth underground as naturally as a human can sense which way is up. Deep Gnomes have a sixth sense about stonework, an innate ability that they get plenty of opportunity to practice and hone in their underground homes.

Weapon Familiarity: Deep Gnomes favor Hooked hammers.

Racial Enemies: +1 racial bonus on attack rolls against Kobolds, Goblins, hobgoblins and bugbears. +4 dodge bonus to Defense against creatures of the giant type (such as ogres, trolls, and hill giants).

Immunity: Illusions

Automatic Languages: Common, Gnome, UnderCommon.
Special Languages: Draconic, Dwarven, Elven and Terran.

Rock Gnomes:
Rock Gnomes are the gnomes that most people are familiar with, so much so that when someone says "a gnome," he or she is most likely speaking of a rock gnome. Unlike their reclusive cousins, the deep gnomes, the rock gnomes are an inquisitive and loquacious people.
Rock Gnomes stand about 3 to 3 1/2 feet tall and weigh 40 to 45 pounds. Their skin comes in many different shades of brown, but is unaffected by exposure to the sun. The hair of young gnomes can very greatly in color, but in adulthood they all tend to towards gray or white. Gnome males wear their beards neatly trimmed.
Rock Gnomes are not particular devout in practice, although they are forever talking about their gods in conversation. Garl Glittergold is the patriach of the gnome gods and patron of the rock gnomes in particular.

RACIAL TRAITS
Ability Changes: +2 Constitution, -2 Strength

Small Gnomes are smaller than their cousins and gain a +1 on Defense.

Low-light vision out to to 60 feet.

Weapon Familiarity: Gnomes favor Hooked hammers.

Racial Enemies: +1 racial bonus on attack rolls against Kobolds, Goblins, hobgoblins and bugbears. +4 dodge bonus to Defense against creatures of the giant type (such as ogres, trolls, and hill giants).

Immunity: Illusions

Automatic Languages: Common, Gnome.
Special Languages: Draconic, Dwarven, Goblin and Terran.