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

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

The poses in both of the images make it hard to tell exactly how tall they are. Well, the pose and the backdrop.

To me, they look like humans, though the blonde woman is simply standing back a bit(and short) from the fighter in front who's being all big and fightery. In the second, the red haired woman isn't really that short at all...just crouched a bit.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

i didn't like 3e halfings. They just seemed like shorter humans. essentially they were just scaled down. their proportions didn't seem to change other then they were smaller. well other then they had some strange alien bran case in the back of their skull.

Just like dwarves are unieq in their anatomy, so should halflings be.

 

[hong]

What, you want their alien bran case in the FRONT of their skull? You wacky moon-lancers!

 

[Branduil]

3e halflings looked ridiculous. They just drew people and scaled them to half-size.

 

[Hairfoot]

3e halflings looked ridiculous. They just drew people and scaled them to half-size.

I agree, but I'd have said they were tiny elves.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

What, you want their alien bran case in the FRONT of their skull? You wacky moon-lancers!

no, i mean the brain case is too big, and thier head is too flatt. They need to have more child like proportions.

 

[Jakar]

Will they become 3/4lings?

 

[ColonelHardisson]

3e halflings looked ridiculous. They just drew people and scaled them to half-size.

That's not that bad, actually. This is essentially what was done in the Lord of the Rings movies, which I felt portrayed them well in this regard. The pictures I've seen that Tolkien did of hobbits seem to indicate that he envisioned hobbits as, naturally enough, half-sized humans. The main problem I had with the visual representation of halflings in 3e was, as others have mentioned, the fact that they seemed more like tiny elves.

 

[Kerrick]

The first one's a halfling. The face is too round for elf or human, and if you look at some of the old art (2E), she looks more like halflings than other races.

The second one's probably a tiefling.