Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
The problem is, you’re treating it as self-evident that this makes them ill-suited to being a PC race, and most of us just don’t see it. Who cares if halfling adventurers are all exceptions to their cultural tendencies? All adventurers are exceptions to their culture’s tendencies. And being particularly disinclined towards adventurous behavior gives halflings a unique niche compared to other races. That’s a good thing.You are fundamentaly misunderstanding my point.
I am not saying that a halfling cannot have their own individuality.
I am saying that a halfling has to mostly abandon the priorities and ideals of their racial culture in order to be an adventurer. A halfling has to sacrifice a great deal their halflingness to adventure. This is because the race mostly converges to a few simplistic archetypes and the race is known for its lack of ambition, vainglory, showiness, and industriousness.
You’re showing us two points:Not a bad race but it is written like NPCs. So a PC halfling has to be a weirdo or tragedy to justify itself
a.) Halfling PCs have to be exceptional among their people to narratively justify their reasons for adventuring
and
b.) Halflings are written like NPCs
and failing to draw a line connecting them. I understand that you think a leads to b, but I don’t see how it does and you have done nothing to demonstrate it. You just keep stating that it does and expecting everyone to see it.