What is the difference between a gnome and a hobbit?

What is the difference between a gnome and a hobbit?

Gnomes are faggots.

>Halflings/Hobbits are tiny humans, with some extra hair.
They typically get a DEX Bonus and CON Penalty.

Halflings are boring as fuck.

>Gnomes have funny voices and big heads, and play with tech and magic a lot. They blow things up, build machines, keep badgers as pets, have the ability to talk to burrowing mammals as though they were people, and hang out with dwarves/coexist with dwarves in dwarven kingdoms.
They get a CON Bonus and STR penalty.

Gnomes are amusing, but also kindof obnoxious.

You might as well be comparing humans and orcs. Aside from a size similarity, there are basically no commonalities.

If I allow either one when I GM, it's Gnomes.

Hobbits have hairy feet. Gnomes have illusions.

> CON Penalty.

Why? I thought the point of Tolkien's Hobbits was they're deceptively hardy.

Wouldn't an Int penalty make sense since they're not particularly worldly or knowledgeable about stuff that doesn't involve cooking?

I still have yet to hear a good reason for their only being one small race allowed when there are about a half-dozen strictly human heighted races allowed by default with no grumbling whatsoever.

I take default race lists as more of a menu than a "You must include these races in your game".

Halflings are food-loving bros that are deceptively courageous despite their size and lifestyle tendencies.

Gnomes are lying, murderous scum of the earth.

Koboldfag, we're not buying into your propaganda. We're onto you.
Seriously though, I like Kobolds and Gnomes, I like to include both as playable races, and have both think the other race's creator god royally fucked them. Good times.

I see your argument. IIRC their deceptive hardiness was handled as them being unusually lucky when it comes to saving their own skin, and they get a racial luck bonus on all their saves.

So their CON is low in general, but when it comes to FORT saves it's the same as a human. But their DEX and Will are higher than normal.

One is a garden decoration. The other is a gnome.