D&D 5E (+) Halfling Appreciation and Development Thread

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

You know one food the Elves might produce that’s no one can touch?

Maple syrup.

I've actually done something similar to that.

In my Eberron, in the forests of Aerenal where the Elves grow their magical trees (like the one that's lighter than air, the one that's hard as bronze, etc), there's another type of tree that has tree-sap that turns into Amber after a minute of being exposed to oxygen. The trees are coated in this thick, hard shell of solidified Ambersap (which is the name of the substance) that they gradually excrete. The stuff is so rare and is both expensive and extremely difficult to extract that the elves only export about 1,000 bottles of it each year in total, and each potion-bottle-sized bottle costs 1,000 gold pieces. (It's typically used as a high-grade adhesive, and the biggest buyers of it are the Dragonmarked Houses, but some renown artists also use the stuff in their work).

 

[Oofta]

You know one food the Elves might produce that’s no one can touch?

Maple syrup.

Elves are Canadian?

 

[Shadowdweller00]

You know one food the Elves might produce that’s no one can touch?

Maple syrup.

Kinda feels like more of a halfling thing to me personally (going purely from my gut) but ymmv. Not sure why - I suppose part of the melange of anachronistic, ahistorical influences that make up my personal view of "halflingess" includes a touch of early New England colonist, minus the religion. Though tapping maple trees actually comes from the indigenous populations that lived there previously IIRC.

Wait, isn't this the HALFLING development thread anyway?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Elves are Canadian?

I could see it

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Elves are Canadian?

Ayup!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Kinda feels like more of a halfling thing to me personally (going purely from my gut) but ymmv. Not sure why - I suppose part of the melange of anachronistic, ahistorical influences that make up my personal view of "halflingess" includes a touch of early New England colonist, minus the religion. Though tapping maple trees actually comes from the indigenous populations that lived there previously IIRC.

Wait, isn't this the HALFLING development thread anyway?

But the elves have the trees.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I could see it

Someone right now is starting up an Elven Bard named Shoresey.

 

[Shadowdweller00]

But the elves have the trees.

But not a cartel / monopoly. In most game worlds.

* cue Brooklyn accent * "So you taught you could j'st help yuhself ta one o' OUR trees?"

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

But not a cartel / monopoly. In most game worlds.

* cue Brooklyn accent * "So you taught you could j'st help yuhself ta one o' OUR trees?"

Well-tamed shire vs forested cities?

Advantage elves.

 

[Hussar]

I can think of sone other ways they could earn that name…

Hrrrm, if halflings raise sheep, the whole "wood for sheep" thing takes on ALL sorts of interesting meanings.

Sees discussion of maple syrup and spurs enough interest to see if maple syrup actually would be anachronistic

According to Wikipedia, maple syrup was made by First Nations people long before Europeans showed up, so, it would make sense that if you have maple trees, you could have maple syrup.

Making halflings Canadian would make much more sense. Elves are too full of themselves and haughty. Canadians are halflings to a T. Unassuming, polite, love a good meal and neighbors to really big, noisy folks next door.