Gnome (Deep Gnome)

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Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 2 & your Dexterity score increases by 1.

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. Deep gnomes are short-lived for gnomes. They mature at the same rate humans do and are considered full-grown adults by 25. They live 200 to 250 years, although hard toil and the dangers of the Underdark often claim them before their time.

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. Deep gnomes believe that survival depends on avoiding entanglements with other creatures and not making enemies, so they favor neutral alignments. They rarely wish others ill, and they are unlikely to take risks on behalf of others.

Size

Gnomes are between 3 and 4 feet tall and average about 40 pounds. Your size is Small. A typical deep gnome stands about 3 to 3½ feet tall and weighs 80 to 120 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Superior Darkvision

Your darkvision has a radius of 120 feet.

Gnome Cunning

You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against magic.

Stone Camouflage

You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide in rocky terrain.

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. You can speak, read, and write Common, Gnomish, and Undercommon. The deep gnome dialect is more guttural than surface Gnomish, and most svirfneblin know only a little bit of Common, but those who deal with outsiders (and that includes you as an adventurer) pick up enough Common to get by in other lands.

Languages. Common, Gnomish, Undercommon.