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Onding, as in the Scottish word for a heavy snowfall. Learned a new word today! Very cool! An avalanche of yeti also seems appropriate.

Not in 5e, sadly. Check out their dainty little footsies in the PHB. Actually, this is the big problem with halfling lore! I demand WotC bring back big, hairy halfling feet!

This is the next 160+ page thread, you heard it here first! The only relevant question now is will it eventually overtake the halfling thread?

Agreed! You’re about the twentieth person in this thread to say something like this, but the badwrongfun crew have really dug their heels in! “You can like them if you want, but just know that there’s a big problem with them that needs to be addressed! You see Halfling lore is ‘bad’, precisely...

It strikes me that PF2 hews somewhat closely to the hypothetical opposite OSR that you’ve described: Comprehensive ruleset? PF2 really tries to flesh out the rules for all modes of play, not just combat. Rules vs. Rulings? PF2’s got fewer gaps in the rules, which presumably minimizes the need...

Yes, this sounds totally plausible and reasonable! Jefferson would absolutely care about sinking comic book sales and Star Wars canon changes! That sounds right up his alley!

I don't have anything to add, I just wanted to say I thoroughly agree with your post. And I'm the type to fetishize sandboxes/open-ended games heavy on player agency.

I think of "railroading" as a bit of a moving target: what constitutes an unacceptable restriction on player choice will vary from table to table, and from player to player. There are a few best practice principles that I think can be useful no matter where you fall on the railroading continuum...

It’s been a slice folks! As of today, I’m back at work so I will no longer be able to obsessively check in on this thread. Enjoy yourselves! I’m out!

This is a really dumb tangent, but look again: the dwarf is standing at a significantly lower elevation than the halfling (and so is the human/half-elf? on closer examination), and also positioned slighlty in the background. You can extrapolate from that that the halfling is about chin height on...

Well, this entire tangent is really beside the point, and I question why you need to argue over this, but the halfling in that painting does have an oversized head; her head is the same size as the human despite being half her height. Her proportions are much closer to that halfling bard than...

Indeed! “Nope, our opinions were really that uncontroversial all along!” proceeds to say a bunch of controversial and highly disputed stuff

So do you think the portrayal of Halflings in the PHB is a problem or don’t you? Because it sure seems like you do, and that appears to be the contentious issue for most people. Being ok with future lore expansion is not the same as having a problem with the PHB Halfling. Seems the kumbayas may...

Oh come now! Being amenable to more pages in future splats≠Whinging about how halflings are treated in the PHB. That might have been one of your(plural) points, but it wasn’t the totality of what you(plural) were saying.

Yeah, if all @Chaosmancer is saying is that they’d like to see halflings get more pages devoted to them in future splat books, I don’t think there are too many who have a problem with that. It’s all the other stuff about how halflings are “broken” because “design principles” and “realism” that...

So you never said the phb lore is inadequate? Cause I’m pretty sure you did...

Let me phrase it like this: do I find your arguments persuasive? Not really, because you’re basing them in concepts like “realism” that don’t particularly resonate with me and which are not particularly important for creating an engaging and entertaining fantasy game. I don’t see how your...

Read the PHB my friend. You’re just going to say it’s too bare-bones or boring or whatever to count, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

Alright, so on what specific “principles of good design” are you basing your critique? What specific “principles of good design” does the PHB halfling violate? And where are you getting your principles from?

There have been a few reasons offered, but honestly? It’s not important. Divining the answer to this question is immensely important to you, I get it, but it’s just not that important to most of us (or to the designers, it would seem). We don’t need every last narrative trope justified within...