Halflings or Hobbits?


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Not much difference.

As stated above, "halfling" is essentially their human name.

Most hobbits aren't adventurers, and are pretty similar to the sedentary rural folk seen in the Lord of the Rings series. I wouldn't expect hobbit rogues to be common. (Then again, you could say the exact same thing about humans; most aren't larcenous combatants either.) However, there's nothing preventing some hobbits (especially the skinnier Took-like hobbits) from living in human-dominated lands, getting jobs as bartenders, rogues, and what have you.

WotC can't use the term hobbit, however. I think it's copyrighted.

I'm a little miffed by their evolution. I don't care if WotC only shows fit adventurers, they generally don't show plump noncombatant elves either. But I don't understand why they're supposed to live near water now. That just came out of nowhere. I ignore that, an easy task as I'm running Dark Sun.
 
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Halflings. I actually started playing D&D before I was familiar with Tolkien, so they've always been halflings for me.
 



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