Gnome
A playable race in the D&D 5th edition System Reference Document.
Gnome at a glance
- Size
- Small
- Speed
- 25 ft.
- Ability bonuses
- INT +2
- Traits
- Darkvision, Gnome Cunning
- Subraces
- Rock Gnome
Age
Gnomes mature at the same rate humans do, and most are expected to settle down into an adult life by around age 40. They can live 350 to almost 500 years.
Alignment
Gnomes are most often good. Those who tend toward law are sages, engineers, researchers, scholars, investigators, or inventors. Those who tend toward chaos are minstrels, tricksters, wanderers, or fanciful jewelers. Gnomes are good-hearted, and even the tricksters among them are more playful than vicious.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Gnomish. The Gnomish language, which uses the Dwarvish script, is renowned for its technical treatises and its catalogs of knowledge about the natural world.
Game facts from the System Reference Document 5.1 by Wizards of the Coast LLC, licensed under CC-BY-4.0.