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<blockquote data-quote="lutecius" data-source="post: 6468850" data-attributes="member: 60332"><p>Sorry, the implementation in the PHB may be worse but the concept art was already awful (enormous heads and ridiculously tiny feet) and many people said as much in the comments at the time. Why WotC kept going with it remains a mystery.</p><p></p><p>If that was the goal, they failed because on several pictures the only sure way to tell the gnomes from the halflings is the pointy ears. There was no need to make either race hideous for that.</p><p></p><p>Not sure why they had to "escape the hobbit chasm" (after so many years of shameless imitation, especially now that there are immensely popular movies far more likely to attract new halfling players than the pictures in the PHB).</p><p></p><p>If it's some brand identity or copyright issue (again, why now?), covering the iconic hairy feet should be more than enough to differentiate them visually. Slightly larger extremities are just a common cue for fantasy little people in illustration, independently of Tolkien.</p><p>If you're going with a big head, also having larger hands and feet simply looks more balanced and is less reminiscent of some creepy toddler.</p><p></p><p>As for "small humans", they aren't my preference but I don't see why a fantasy race couldn't look exactly like a small, well-proportioned human (and thus require another object as a size reference) either. It's a perfectly valid concept in itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lutecius, post: 6468850, member: 60332"] Sorry, the implementation in the PHB may be worse but the concept art was already awful (enormous heads and ridiculously tiny feet) and many people said as much in the comments at the time. Why WotC kept going with it remains a mystery. If that was the goal, they failed because on several pictures the only sure way to tell the gnomes from the halflings is the pointy ears. There was no need to make either race hideous for that. Not sure why they had to "escape the hobbit chasm" (after so many years of shameless imitation, especially now that there are immensely popular movies far more likely to attract new halfling players than the pictures in the PHB). If it's some brand identity or copyright issue (again, why now?), covering the iconic hairy feet should be more than enough to differentiate them visually. Slightly larger extremities are just a common cue for fantasy little people in illustration, independently of Tolkien. If you're going with a big head, also having larger hands and feet simply looks more balanced and is less reminiscent of some creepy toddler. As for "small humans", they aren't my preference but I don't see why a fantasy race couldn't look exactly like a small, well-proportioned human (and thus require another object as a size reference) either. It's a perfectly valid concept in itself. [/QUOTE]
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