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<blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 3969914" data-attributes="member: 18832">Because it fits better into what Dungeons &amp; Dragons is now. I also firmly believe that hobbits never worked in D&amp;D right from the start, which is why we've spent thirty-four years getting the Hell away from them - and that includes twenty-five years under TSR, before you start blaming Wizards of the Coast's nine-year ownership of D&amp;D for the changes.Hobbits simply don't work in D&amp;D the same way dwarves do. That's why every setting beyond the traditionalist Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms has eventually changed the way halflings work, from the kender of Dragonlance through the cannibals of Dark Sun and the shadow-tainted halflings of Birthright to the dinosaur-riders and crime lords of Eberron. Hell, they weren't even really included in Spelljammer or Planescape, and their presence in Ravenloft is minimal. Even Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms have never really treated halflings as hobbits, even if they were kind of hobbit-like.Meanwhile, except in wacky settings like Dark Sun, dwarves are pretty much the same all over. Even in Eberron, which treats every other race quite differently from &quot;core assumptions&quot;, they're the most similar to their counterparts in other settings. That's because dwarves work in D&amp;D in a way which hobbits simply don't. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="mhacdebhandia, post: 3969914, member: 18832"] Because it fits better into what [i]Dungeons & Dragons[/i] is now. I also firmly believe that hobbits never worked in [i]D&D[/i] right from the start, which is why we've spent thirty-four years getting the Hell away from them - and that includes twenty-five years under TSR, before you start blaming Wizards of the Coast's nine-year ownership of [i]D&D[/i] for the changes. Hobbits simply don't work in [i]D&D[/i] the same way dwarves do. That's why every setting beyond the traditionalist Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms has eventually changed the way halflings work, from the kender of Dragonlance through the cannibals of Dark Sun and the shadow-tainted halflings of Birthright to the dinosaur-riders and crime lords of Eberron. Hell, they weren't even really included in Spelljammer or Planescape, and their presence in Ravenloft is minimal. Even Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms have never really treated halflings as hobbits, even if they were kind of hobbit-like. Meanwhile, except in wacky settings like Dark Sun, dwarves are pretty much the same all over. Even in Eberron, which treats every other race quite differently from "core assumptions", they're the most similar to their counterparts in other settings. That's because dwarves [b]work[/b] in [i]D&D[/i] in a way which hobbits simply don't. :) [/QUOTE]

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