How do you like your halflings best?

[Erywin]

Darn, Roasted isnt an option...

 

[Sejs]

Somewhere right between Frivolous and Whimsical and Fey and Dangerous.

 

[Roadkill101]

I prefer mine to be more Tolkinesque only because Tolkien was my first and only inspiration for small peoples until Dragonlance came along. Kender are great for fictional characters but a pain for a GM if role played correctly IMHO. I have no experience with Dark Sun and my experiences with them for 3.x makes them too munchkiney for my tastes. I've yet to see them portrayed as Mckiernans Waerlinga, except perhaps as the wandering gypsy type hafling.
If they have the handle-bar ears, they must have a flattened skull on top for my stein.

 

[jonesy]

The only setting where I tolerate halflings is Mystara. So Tolkien-like is the way to go.

But kender are still a lot more usefull, and yes practical, than they are.

An army of halflings would make me laugh out loud, an army of kender would be scary as hell.

 

[robberbaron]

Oiled and waiting in the catapult basket.

 

[Tonguez]

impaled & screaming for mercy

 

[Drowbane]

Other: Extinct.

Thats my prefered form of gnome.
Gnomes: Dark Sun got them right!!

 

[Aeric]

Other: nonexistent.

If I wanted to play MERP, I'd play MERP.

 

[Someone]

Mocked. They are perfect for short jokes.

 

[hopeless]

A Question of Halflings

Or, "Hairfoot flogs a dead horse/riding dog/Bree pony".

As far as I'm concerned Halflings aren't kleptomaniacs, I loathe what 3.5 has done especially with their choice of deities (Not everything is Forgotten Realms inspired!), I think Eberron is a nice touch but it work better if they didn't keep downplaying the original version!