Got Hobbits?

[The_Gneech]

I'm running a Greyhawk game, where they're treated basically as hobbits (and in fact, that's what they call themselves, though outsiders generally call them halflings). Some are thin, some are stout, pretty much all speak with English coontry accents, squah!

-The Gneech

 

[Breakdaddy]

no disrespect to those who play 3e, ive just got problems with it. for instance the 1/2 cover, 3/4 cover, and what not...youre either covered or not.

Gotta set you right here, BR. The D&D Rules Cyclopedia, Chapter 8, Page 108 has a target cover table that lists 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, and full cover as valid levels of cover with appropriate modifiers. This is not a 3.x idea, this goes all the way back to BECM D&D and maybe before.

 

[Desdichado]

I'm actually not that conservative in my gaming, or at least not the same way as everyone else. If I want Tolkienesque; I'll pull out my copy of Decipher's Lord of the Rings roleplaying and play that instead. Otherwise, I want my fantasy gaming to go somewhere a little different.

Although, I end up being even more conservative than Tolkien even, in some ways, going back to older works by Robert E Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs and H.P. Lovecraft as more inspirational to my gaming these days...

But yeah, I'd rather have the "modern" halflings than hobbits, I guess. Frankly, I'd rather axe them both, though, and have man-apes or serpent people or something instead.

I also like innovative PC races like the Eberron races; those are much more interesting to me than hobbits, too.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

the new halflings are kender descendents. not hobbits.

+2 vs fear.
35lbs.
top knot wearing rogues... with sling staff... hoopaks.

This is silly. They're 35 pounds because the rules assumes they're not overweight. They don't wear topknots and don't carry hoopaks.

Besides, halflings have never been given the right weight in any edition of DnD.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Still keeping things hobbity on my end. One player tried to do a new style halfling, but ended up self-destructing the character because he just couldn't get behind the new identity.

I don't mind kenders that much, but kenders should be kenders and halflings, er, hobbits.

 

[painandgreed]

They're in my 3.5 homebrew. They live is small isolated ethinic towns and villages and are concerned mostly with agriculture and crafts while stayng out of politics beyond their own lands. A large city might have a few shop keepers or a small farming suburb of halflings. All of this mostly exists so that any PC that wants to play one can, in which case they can be more like the 3.x version of the halfling which won't fit in too well with their race although there is always an undercurrent of interest and wonder with such peoples. Any halfling adventurer entering a halfling bar and boasting about their adventures would quickly find themselves scolded for living such a life by a town elder. The same elder, after making sure he had a full beer, would then hush the rest of the tavern so he could hear the rest of the adventurer's story, "...just to be polite you understand".

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

(wonders how The Hobbit would have turned out, if Lidda had replaced Bilbo )

 

[Mercule]

I ditched hobbits/halflings 15 years ago. They never really impressed me. 3.x doesn't inspire me to re-include them.

 

[Dragonbait]

I've always liked the old hair-footed hobbits. It gave them some phsyical identifiers besides for their height. I'm usually the GM, however, and one of my players loves the new halflings. He always makes them Irish, too. We tend to not oficially declare one design or another. For us, it depends on the player and what they want to play. NPCs are the same way. Kind of like two different sub-races (hairfoot and tallfellows, for instance).

And I liked the gnomes with big noses and pointed ears. Not the big eyes and wild eyebrows.

Edit: I'm tempted to drop both in the next campaign or use forest gnomes as the standard gnome (and not a 'standard' PC race), and something of a mix between gnomes and halflings for the standard 'little guy' just to move away from the controversy.

 

[werk]

since we're voicing opinion...

I don't know what kenderkrieg is, and it doesn't seem to translate well...

I usually run forgotten realms and use halflings as printed. We call them Hin, halfling is a derrogatory term. I always preferred the darksun halflings to hobbits, so had switched to that description a long time ago. How can you explain 8 different types of hobbits...maybe one type of halfling looks like hobbits, but hobbits don't lend themselves to variation IMHO.

Hobbits just seem silly to me. I'm well over being hung up on Tolkein/old school imagery.

"In my day halflings were gluttonous, bumbling, doofuses...and we liked it!" pheh!