Are halflings hobbits in your game?

[pogre]

Halflings=Hobbits until Tolkein estate sues - just ask GG

I pretty much ignore the 3e take on them.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Here we go again...

The hobbit community Tolkien portrayed had been peaceful and unthreatened for generations. Like any race, comfort makes Shire hobbits complacent and insular.

This has been picked up as representing the attitude of hobbits under any circumstance. But if you put those same halflings in a borderland or warzone, they'd be as dynamic as a human population.

The end of the Return of the King is a good example.

 

[Aus_Snow]

There's only one type of halfling in one of my campaigns, and none in any others. That's the Ghostwise variety (from the Realms), albeit somewhat revamped (OK, a lot).

 

[Vymair]

In my last campaign, they were Hobbits.

 

[WmRAllen67]

IMC they haven't made an appearance, but there are unconfirmed rumors from VOC sailors that on the island of Sumatra there are small, hairy men that live in the jungles...

The Sumatrans call them "Orang-Pendek" or "Sedapa", and on the island of Borneo they're the "Batutut."

(Since the campaign is a real-world analogue, the recent discoveries on Flores, whatever the anthropologists and archaeologists decide, were even cooler, especially since I found the reference to the "orang-pendek" name about five years ago...)

 

[Nyaricus]

Halflings=Hobbits until Tolkein estate sues - just ask GG

I pretty much ignore the 3e take on them.

'atta boy! Strongly -and yet wisely- put

 

[the Jester]

In my campaign world, some halflings are hobbits (specifically, those of the hairfoot subrace).

 

[diaglo]

diaglo, that actually sounds like a solid concept - is there anyway you could extrapolate on your world?

get a copy of Chainmail (1971), Outdoor Survival by Avalon Hill, and the OD&D(1974) boxed set.

 

[Corinth]

Halfling = Hobbit, now and forever.

 

[Nyaricus]

get a copy of Chainmail (1971), Outdoor Survival by Avalon Hill, and the OD&D(1974) boxed set.

You are one tough cookie, mang.