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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    Ehh I think "Squashed Human" would be more accurate.
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    Some people always will. However for a long time the online version of games have been pdfs. And PDFs are a terrible way to organise game material. It's possible to do a lot better.
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    Really the hardback model is redundant in this day and age. There are some things where having a book form makes sense, such as setting material, but for player's rules. There much better in some kind of linked format. Eg, see this homebrew Star Wars hack for 5e.
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    Sounds like they're getting what D&D's about then.
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    So Bob, what's the hook for your characcter? He's a halfling ranger, battle scarred and grizzled with a thousand yard stare. His favoured enemy is gnolls. He's the last of his people, perhaps the very last halfling in the whole world and he has one mission left in life, revenge against the...
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    Slings are plenty deadly in 5e. A PC that has managed to narrowly dodge and avoid the worst blows of a Greatsword repeatedly can suddenly be taken out with a single hit from a sling. Or in other words, making conclusions about the physics of a D&D world on the basis of its combat system is...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dwarves Could Use A Rethink

    I think all but 1 of those Warhammer Dwarves is as ridiculous as the 4e ones. (The one of the Dwarf in renaissance clothing is not exactly great, but not ridiciulous.
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    It has nothing to do with anything. It's throwing things at the wall in the hope that something will stick.
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    Hey. Bungo. You need to take the sheep out again today. But Dad it's so boring all they do is sit around and eat grass. Well practice your slinging then. It will come in handy if any wolves come stalking, plus if you hit a pheasant we can cook it for dinner. Ok Dad
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    Laminate bows don't do well in humid environments, which is why they never really caught on Europe.
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    If there is a distortion in the data it's more likely, I think, to be that the DnDBeyond users represent a more hardcore fanbase than the average user. They are after all willing to pay money for something that can very easily be done with pencil and paper. This would possibly tend to bias the...
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    That is supposed to be controlled for by only counting data for characters that are levelled up over time and whose hit point totals change. Whether that is successful or not I have no particular opinion.
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    D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

    What on earth is this argument about? If you don't believe that halflings can stand up to gnoll raids, then for god's sake don't put them in the part of your setting where the gnolls are. I don't know. A lot of this thread is people dumping anvil's on their feet and and going "It hurts when...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dwarves Could Use A Rethink

    A cool little thing you could do with Dwarves is have them turn to stone when they die. I imagine old dwarves, nearing death start to stiffen up naturally, so more then worrying about last words, they worry about their death pose, and the message they will thereby send to their descendants...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos No Subclasses Confirmed by James Crawford

    That's not really the purpose of playtesting. The time between release and survey is far too short. It's basically market testing.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dwarves Could Use A Rethink

    Yes. But put Dwarves into a google image search and see what you get. Part of the difficulty of dwarves is it's hard to shift people's ideas of dwarves because they're so entrenched in popular culture.
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    D&D General Why defend railroading?

    Certainly, railroad techniques, or "GM Force" are more justified in some circumstances than others. I will force things quite aggressively in a one shot, because I need it to get somewhere and be over and done with in one night. So I will step in if the whole thing slows down and everyone...
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    D&D General Why defend railroading?

    You were accusing ,e, (rather ridiculously I might add) me of trying to enforce the discussion. On the basis of that it seems pretty clear you are trying to continue an argument with me without even remembering where this interaction even began.
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    D&D General Why defend railroading?

    I mean the example you are telling me is a better formulation of the underlying issue is the one that I originally gave.
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