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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3050166" data-attributes="member: 11760">Well, 2E was post-Dragonlance, but halflings were still hobbits. Unfortunately, in the 3E redesign process, someone (who didn't play halflings) decided hobbits weren't cool and so out they went, and in came kender with the serial numbers filed off, complete with a fear resistance (making them Age of Mortals kender rather than the ADD original flavor).As someone who loved the old halflings and, in fact, ran an all-halfling campaign set in the Five Shires, I don't for a minute find the current incarnation of halflings to remotely resemble hobbits, unless there are some very different Untold Tales JRRT left laying around for eventual publication.If you want to play a tobacco farmer who likes to sit on his front porch and blow smoke rings at the sky and have elaborate birthday parties, it's not going to be a 3E halfling that will fit that role. It'll be a gnome.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 3050166, member: 11760"] Well, 2E was post-Dragonlance, but halflings were still hobbits. Unfortunately, in the 3E redesign process, someone (who didn't play halflings) decided hobbits weren't cool and so out they went, and in came kender with the serial numbers filed off, complete with a fear resistance (making them Age of Mortals kender rather than the ADD original flavor). As someone who loved the old halflings and, in fact, ran an all-halfling campaign set in the Five Shires, I don't for a minute find the current incarnation of halflings to remotely resemble hobbits, unless there are some very different Untold Tales JRRT left laying around for eventual publication. If you want to play a tobacco farmer who likes to sit on his front porch and blow smoke rings at the sky and have elaborate birthday parties, it's not going to be a 3E halfling that will fit that role. It'll be a gnome. [/QUOTE]

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