Halflings in full plate

[Uder]

Ever since I got some perspective on just how small and light a halfing is (having two kids), I just can't take the little things seriously any more. At least LotR hobbits had some heft to them. Something that small in plate just can't have the muscle mass to move full plate around. I know, I know, dragons couldn't fly and giants would shatter their ankles at every step. Ahhhh... reality bites.

 

[Stormonu]

And there there are the kobold Stormesheizen brigades...

Hmm... a "world war II" variant with halflings as the Americans, Gnomes as the British, Kobolds as the Germans, Goblins as the Japanese...<edit> and Dwarves as the Russians.

 

[Piratecat]

You will never see halflings in full plate. Too hard to eat tiffin inside all that steel; the crumbs are awful.

 

[ProfessorCirno]

"It was horrible! They were everywhere, and unlike normal midgets who are usually bright and clever and fun to be around, these midget pirates with their beady little eyes and sharp teeth bore down on us like fierce sharks in a feeding frenzy of blood! Slashing at us with their swords, gutting our bellies, poking our bums, slipping our knees! We knew not what to do! For the captain was no where to be found! Where was the captain? Where was the captain?? WHERE WAS THE CAPTAIN!?!"

 

[Reynard]

The harpies flitted from skull to skull, their wings a-beating faster than the eye could see, and their dancing too fast for the old sasquatch's swipes as their long tube-tongues rolled out to drink the last of the eye jelly from red sockets. And all the while they sang their song of doom and dread, which rolled through the wood like a poison fog or maybe a cloud of bees, and even the dryads, who loved all musical things, had to shut their eyes to the sound.

 

[Diamond Cross]

Yeah, try having midget bowling with a halfling in full plate with shoulder spikes.

 

[ArmoredSaint]

Something that small in plate just can't have the muscle mass to move full plate around.

Nonsense.
A well-made, custom-fitted full plate harness wouldn't encumber a halfling any more than an adult human sized armour encumbers an adult human.

For centuries, the sons of knights began training at a young age to accustom themselves to wearing armour, and a fair number of child armours survive to the present day. If a human child can move around in full plate, then so can a full-grown halfling. There were also a few armours made for this or that ruler's "court dwarf/midget."

Giant & Child's Armour pictures from united kingdom photos on webshots

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/113/286074125_e7314d4ad2.jpg

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Yeah, try having midget bowling with a halfling in full plate with shoulder spikes.

You don't use them for bowling, you use them for darts...like those Velcro® Dart Ball games.

 

[RedShirtNo5.1]

How did Edena hack into Reynard's account?

 

[TarionzCousin]

Then the rains began, the sky opening up in solid sheets of water, soaking the living and the dead. It carried away the blood and the guts, slowly at first, then more and more rapidly in rivulets, streams, and even rivers. The detritus of war swept downhill to collect in clumps, leaving little eddies of red-tinted rusty water swirling against piles of bodies and equipment. But the stain would not wash out.