#but I can and will continue to make my little gnome worldbuilding thoughts everyone else's problem regardless

[blujayonthewing]

casting the cantrip Minor Illusion in dnd requires a bit of fleece, in a cheeky reference to the real-world idiom 'pulling the wool over [someone's] eyes' -> proficiency with Minor Illusion is common enough amongst forest gnomes that at the very least all player character gnomes have it automatically, indicating that wool is trivially common in their communities -> forest gnome communities in particular are described as typically somewhat hidden and secluded, pointing to a high likelihood that shepherding and/or goatherding are traditionally common for gnomes themselves, rather than wool being a resource they have to trade for -> 'pulling the wool over [someone's] eyes' is an idiom that means 'to deceive or trick' in reference to the cantrip Minor Illusion, which is cast using a bit of fleece and which gnomes use to deceive and trick people ten times a day