Gnome!

But when I discovered that all DnD gnomes were basically like Jan, it seemed a bit, well, lame.

Err... all DnD gnomes aren't like Jan. That's a trait that's peculiar to the Jansen family, more or less, I think. (Did we do any non-Jansens like this, too? I can't remember now.) I just don't think we had very many gnome characters, period.

At any rate, the DA races are pretty broad in their character. Not a lot of steretyping going on, though I guess they do have their common archetypes... but playing against archetype sometimes is the fun part.

Hey, we don't even have a female elf as a romance this time.