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We remember the clock gnomes from The Unsleeping City, but I feel like there isn’t enough cosplay representation for them. So I created my own clock gnome character and here they are.

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Among my many, many homebrew plans is to revise both the Oath of Orderliness and Clock Gnomes.

The former was written nearly two years ago, and I think I can better express the concept and story of that sacred oath today given what I’ve learned since. An Orderliness paladin should be the ultimate “teamwork” paladin. It already does that okay, but I want to make its features work together more effectively, simultaneously reinforcing the class option’s central theme. I also want to give it more “clockpunk” flavor. The one thing I feel I really nailed the first time ‘round is the “Tenets of Orderliness”, and I’d like the class option as a whole to better embody those tenets.

The latter was written earlier this year, but it’s still very much in first draft form. A lot of my first drafts have a throw-spaghetti-on-the-wall quality. I chucked almost everything I could think up there. Now it’s time to see what sticks. For one thing, I think I’ll make them they’re own race, rather than a variant or subrace. They’re still gnomes, though. But they’re gnomes who’ve spent so much time on Mechanus that nearly every organic part of them has been replaced by clockwork. They’re the living embodiment of Theseus's paradox: Is a gnome still a gnome when none of their original gnome parts remain?

I also think of them kind of like the Borg on Star Trek, only more adorable and less evil-unstoppable-juggernaut. When I play a clock gnome, they will totally be a Seven of Nine-type character, separated from their collective and exploring their individuality for the first time. When I first playtested the Oath of Orderliness, Sir Ticholas Toctavius XIII was exactly that. I’d love to reimagine him as a clock gnome in a future campaign.