While true, remember the gnomes and elves aren’t just out there living in communes. They have civilizations of their own. And having halflings get top billing for agricultural achievements seems odd in worlds where many artists and DMs have those other races bending nature to their will with things like tree cities and the like.
Depends on what you define as a "giant". If you go by D&D terms, with the Giant creature type, yep, that went to dwarves. However, if you do something like the Dwarves from Alagaësia where they consider "giants" to be any race of people that's bigger than them, that could let this work without stepping on the dwarves' toes.Nice!
…but in D&D, that shtick went to dwarves.
Elves (in default settings) have never struck me as notably good farmers. Horticulturalists, yes, and elves can definitely do better than halflings at e.g. growing rare orchids. But elves tend to have large land areas, low population density, and low birth rates and can defend their lands better than most. They just have neither the need nor the interest in competing for growing large amounts of food. Give them an apocalypse and 50 years to develop their skills, and sure. And gnomes have always struck me as mostly too mercurial to make good farmers.
But they shouldn’t call them Giants. That confusing*. What about…”big’uns”?
If you have big cities, kingdoms or empires, you NEED lots of food.
Yep. Never stopped real world people. IMO, it would be fairly realistic for Halflings to call Humans and taller races "Giants". They could call creatures of the Giant creature type "Titans".
You do - but you don't necessarily have to use the land to its best effect for farming. Especially when everyone lives in a fruit-bearing tree.
Or on them. I've always had my Forest Gnomes live inside carved-out trees and Wood Elves use magic to create huge tree-houses on giant trees (kinda like Ewoks do on Endor's Moon).
Not so sure the trees they’re usually depicted in are fruit bearing.
