Gnomes are the least worthwhile race ever to have been created.
Gnomes are terrible, no-good troublemakers with no value whatsoever. Quite frankly, I fail to see how any self-respecting person could even consider playing as a filthy little gnome. They're terrible little turnip-munchers who'd have no issue immolating an entire city of it served their stupid little interests. Gnomes are only worthwhile as football substitutes, and anyone who thinks otherwise should leave.
Gnome apologists stay out. Go fap to garden statuary.
The only good gnomes are 4E's fey Vietnamese peasants who fled to the material plane to get away from the battles between the Eladrin and Formorians that kept destroying their homes, and built an entire culture around not being seen and avoiding attention so they would be left alone.
Noah Cooper
Speaking from personal experience is there any midget race at all that doesn't make you cringe a bit when someone shows up and asks to play one? I have never seen one played in a manner that wasn't an irritating joke that went on and on and on.