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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clavis" data-source="post: 3947253" data-attributes="member: 31898">One of the things my players seem to think is very cool is my take on Halflings. Since Tolkien intended Hobbits as an ode to English country folk, I make my halflings into a parody of American rednecks. Just like in Tolkien, they eat too much pork fat, go around barefoot, and are suspicious of outsiders. They also make moonshine, steal from everybody, have sex with their  relatives (the inbreeding is how they got so short), and tend to live in squalid shacks. The men wear mullets and big belt buckles, and tend to work as carnies (when they work at all). The women wear too much makeup, and try to hook up with males from taller races. (Hence Tallfellows and Stouts!)Halfling religion revolves around charismatic preachers who hold revival meetings in large tents. These meetings feature singing and dancing, faith healing, speaking in tongues, snake handling, and testimonials about how attendees were saved from lives of sin and cheese eating. Above all the Gospel of Jerebus is preached, although no two preachers seem to agree what that Gospel exactly says.Needless to say, you do not want to be caught trespassing into a Halfling Shire. Then you are likely to be trapped by the fat Halfling Sheriff, rambling on and on about a "failure to communicate", and how you will "respect his authori-tie". You'll probably end up on a chain gang. Attractive females may be brought to his ramshackle office. He doesn't bring them  there "to eat his chicken", though!</blockquote>

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