D&D 4E Halflings are greater in 4e ?

[Aloïsius]

They look like women. You may have heard of them... they don't have their own stat block, but they are in the game.

Those women seems to be only 4 feet high. Look the elven wizard and the dwarf fighter on the 2nd picture. I know some girls can be very small, but, if they are human women, they are depicted the way pharao's spouses were : only half as high as their male counterpart.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I'll probably end up banning anything shorter than 5'

Sizeist!

 

[Kae'Yoss]

If they are halfling, the plus side is that -2 STR looks more realistic. The 3e halfling is smaller than most human children (-4 STR IMHO).
But, as you said, with halfling as high as dwarves, the "small size" is dubious : those two are even greater than a 3e gnome !

4e dwarves will probably be small, too. I mean, it's one of the first words you think of if you hear "dwarf".

 

[Li Shenron]

Look the blond girl in the first pi... 1st is a human and the second is a tiefling.

 

[S'mon]

I've always thought halflings should be bigger, ca 4' - like in the LOTR movies (maybe more like 4'6" there!). My baby son was 2' long/tall and 11 lbs at 2 months old, he'll be 3' and ca 25 lbs - halfling size - within a few months. People don't seem to realise just how small 3' really is. Real-world pygmies are usually close to 5'.

 

[S'mon]

Also, I'll probably end up banning anything shorter than 5', so whether halflings get taller or not isn't a big deal for me.

I generally only allow medium-size PCs IMC (human, dwarf, elf, half-elf - not that any 3e player ever plays a half-elf). BTW Hong I've just ordered Iron Heroes, only 2 years since you told me to get it! I thought I fancied a low-magic high-powered tactical combat game.

 

[Gundark]

Look the blond girl in the first picture, and the redhair one in the second. They seems realy small for a human beeing. But, for a halfling, they are realy big !

I think they are humans. It's just how they were drawn.

 

[hopeless]

Halflings

If they are halflings then they're about the right size since they're supposed to be easily mistaken as children and those images are far too small as are the size for elves.

That is if you take Tolkien for granted and avoid the obvious law suit.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Look the blond girl in the first picture, and the redhair one in the second. They seems realy small for a human beeing.

The first one seems about right to me. Put her and the guy with the sword on a flat surface, and while she'd be shorter, she'd be about average for a human, which is what I assumed her to be. The second I assumed was a 4e version of Lidda. This case seems to be an issue with perspective - I didn't assume the blonde elf in the back was a foot or more taller than the fighter in the front, for example.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I hope to see realistically sized halflings - i.e. equivalent to 10 year old children rather than 2 year old children in size and weight!