Since you don't read books well, it seems that you are unaware that one guy runs the whole place and dictates what goes on.
Again with accusations that I lack the ability to read. All because you want to make a claim that "the Mad Mage" has barred even unintelligent unthinking creatures from venturing to the surface for the common good.
Yea. Sure.
I didn't claim, that. It's the lore that states it.
Still your claim.
There are no small towns near the halfling villages. That's what living in an out of the way place means.
Ah, so we are back to leaving so far away from other civilizations that they can't trade or take things to market. Funny, we were in Cormyr there for a while, and when I look at that map I posted, most of the settlements in there are only a day or two apart, so what? Halflings live further than two days away from anything in there? How? There isn't that much space to be that far out of the way and still be in the kingdom.
You do understand that countries are really big and have lots and lots of open space that isn't near a town, right?
You do understand that many countries are not that big, and even the biggest countries get settled to the point that there isn't a lot of open space right? I mean, clearly not, because you some how thing there are thousands (plural) or miles of empty space inside of a country, far removed from anything else.
I mean, France, the entire country, is less than a thousand miles across. You want an empty space the size of FRANCE inside of a Kingdom. That is bonkers.
They have one. It kicks in when things come to their town.
Oh, once in 60 to 100 years, compared to humans dealing with it... once every 3 to 5 years. Same with dwarves, tieflings, Goliaths actually seek out trouble every year, dwarves... It really gets tiring to list these out every time. I'm just going to start saying "everyone else" because it is quite literally every single race except halflings.
As I said, YOU can run your necromancers as morons. I'm not going to.
Continuing to call people morons with no evidence or reasoning except that it makes you seem smart. Classy.
There are these things called roads in-between towns and cities. Even the undead would use them.
And then you say stupid things like this. Yes, I'm sure the mindless dead stop and consider that they should follow the roads. That's why when the survivors in The Walking Dead are in the forest they are completely safe, everyone knows zombies follow the roads like good citizens.
Cormyr is about 32,000 square miles. That's plenty of space for a small village or ten of halflings to live in out of the way places.
Wuh? Did you even bother to look at Cormyr? Yes, in square miles they can cover 32,000, since that is less than 180 miles by 180 miles. That is a country smaller than the State of Indiana (35,870 miles)
And that area is filled with cities and towns and villages. All of which the halflings have to be more than two days away from to be so far out of the way that anything happening to the town doesn't effect them. To put this inperspective for you. Two days travel is 48 miles, we'll round to 50 since we need to be further. That is nearly 1/3 of the country away from every other town and city in the country. To have 10 villages that far away from each other an everything else, you would need to triple the size of the country in question.
This doesn't work. Even a single village that far out of the way of everything strains credibility.
They have unlimited questions. What does it matter if the halfling satisfies his curiosity about flies?
Then come up with something else the halfling is curious about. That's the point which you are missing.
No, you are missing the point. You are treating halflings as though they are eternal children, except worse. Exactly like Kender are treated. Nothing matters to them in that portrayal. They are just like the Fey, or an insane person.
Because it didn't matter. No matter how much population math you show, halflings have many more adventurers than half-elves. This is a 5e fact. There's no population math you can show that can change that fact.
"No amount of evidence can prove anything, because I am right". I should have known better, but I got my hopes up. If evidence is meaningless to you, then discussing with you is meaningless.