How many people would mind if we all woke up tomorrow and gnomes weren’t a thing …rhetorical question btw, I already know the answer is no one, well except for people with a gnome character but their opinion doesn’t count.
There are only two actually creepy races in the game.
Undead is the OG creepy race, obviously, since some of them are literally in a decayed state with their skin barely hanging on, bones protruding in multiple places, and half their faces missing in some cases.
A very close second is the Mechagnome. They are the personification of creepy (apologies to my mech friends but it’s true). I have actually felt physically nauseous looking closely at a Mechagnome. They’re creepy AF. And mark my words, those wobbly little terminators are going to go full blown Borg one day when their inner programming is triggered and they annihilate all of us.
Gnomes, however, are not creepy. They’re a delight.
I saw in YT people playing as Gnomes, or Goblins, that scene in which you enter the Maw for the first time. Really, for those races, it looks like a bad joke.
The Ebon Blade fall, and start combat, the epic music. Then the giant aberration shows up and someone fall and stomps it. But when it shows who it is, that gnome/goblin shows up.
Really, stuff like that happens in movies like Police Squad and Police Academy.