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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8119860" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Yeah, I didn’t care for the halfling art in the PHB either. Back during the 5e playtest, there was an ongoing article series on the mothership where they would show art of a particular creature from across various editions, and a few concept pieces for possible directions they might take for the creature in the new edition, and poll people for opinions about the different concepts. One of the subjects that came up was halfling proportions - should they be proportioned just like humans, as they were in 3e (in which case reference objects would be needed in the art to indicate their size), or should they be proportioned in a distinctly non-human way that would indicate their small size? The latter was the more popular option, and the concept art they showed for this approach, while somewhat divisive, did poll pretty well. It also, in my opinion, looked much better than any of the PHB halfling art ended up looking. I was one of the people who loved the concept art, but I don’t think the direction translated very well to other artists’ styles.EDIT: Here are some examples of the early concept art, which whether you like it or not, I think most people will at least agree looks like it has a more cohesive direction than the PHB halfling art.[spoiler][ATTACH=full]128220[/ATTACH][/spoiler][spoiler][ATTACH=full]128221[/ATTACH][/spoiler][spoiler][ATTACH=full]128222[/ATTACH][/spoiler][spoiler][ATTACH=full]128223[/ATTACH][/spoiler][spoiler][ATTACH=full]128224[/ATTACH][/spoiler]</blockquote>

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