Design & Development: Halflings [merged]

[Shroomy]

Charisma seems to be the key stat for the 4e warlock.

 

[Rpgraccoon]

Don't forget this sentence: instilling in these small folk a love of water and nature, as well as an innate wanderlust and stealth

This could mean a stealth boost and a nature boost. +2 Stealth +2 Nature

 

[Sonny]

It was suspected, but with the change of their origin, there's no doubt that Obad-Hai's out.

 

[Stormtalon]

Pfft, one of my players played a halfling rogue who had an NPC half-orc.... sidekick. With benefits.... (not my idea -- the gal took the character concept and went in really bizarre directions....)

 

[Novem5er]

Two concerns:

1. If all the racial fluff was going to be given out free on Design & Development articles, then should I have paid for the Races & Classes book? Taking information out of a book I've already purchased and putting that same information (if not exact) on the Web dilutes both formats.

2. What are we going to see in the Player's Handbook? Seriously, will the Halfling entry be yet ANOTHER description of plucky, river travelers? I understand that previews will include the inevitable spoiler, but the R&C book promised to expand upon the information presented in the PHB. This latest "design" article feels like a copy&paste job of the PHB race entry.

I feel that we shouldn't be too picky about free preview material, but when it closely matches material that I've already PAID for, I get a little irritated.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Why, oh, why does this give me the image of a Halfling Warlock skipping through the forest, hugging the animals... then setting them aflame?

I want one!

 

[pukunui]

Isn't this just taken more or less word for word from Races and Classes?

I too am sad panda.

More or less. Except that Obad-Hai's been replaced by Melora as one of the halfling creator deities ... which suggests that he's no longer in the core d&d pantheon.

As much as I'm all gung-ho for 4e, I do have to say that WotC is going about their previews in a very strange way. Still, I suppose they don't expect that everyone's bought and/or read Races & Classes, so this fluff will be new to some.

 

[Voss]

Very yawn worthy fluff.

And the thieving gypsy boat...people... have a charisma bonus... because..?

Hey, WotC can we have an update? And not a five second cut and paste job?

 

[Hussar]

It's new to me.

BTW, Cha for warlocks makes sense if warlocks have ganked binders.

 

[The Little Raven]

Charisma seems to be the key stat for the 4e warlock.

As the class is about making deals with powerful entities, that makes a lot of sense.