Halflings -- should they die?

[Jürgen Hubert]

I think we should get rid of humans. I mean the only reason anyone plays a human is to get that extra feat at first level and the extra skill point, it is just so munchkiny. And if a player plays a human, is that really a stretch for roleplaying? And in most worlds they are nothing but an environmental scourge; displacing the "elder races," breeding like rabbits, not able to live in harmony with their natural environment. Get rid of them all!

Talislanta did exactly that. Of course, it also got rid of elves, dwarves, halflings, orcs...

 

[Meadred]

In my current campaign, the halflings are like gutter slugs, ravenous little bums living in squalid corners. nasty little things.

Gully dwarves?

Anyway, I'm all for a return to the weed-smoking, jovial halflings of old. The new 3rd Ed. versions are way too bony for my taste.

Cheers,
Meadred

 

[Algolei]

I hate the new 3E style halfling. In fact, all their artwork these days is so completely biased against fat people! Everyone's so dang skinny!

Skinny hobbits is just the ultimate expression of their bigotry.

goto one of my favorite site.

www.hothalflings.com

Dude, I'm totally a member there. (Didn't I tell you about it?)

 

[MonsterMash]

I hate the new 3E style halfling. In fact, all their artwork these days is so completely biased against fat people! Everyone's so dang skinny!

Skinny hobbits is just the ultimate expression of their bigotry.


Dude, I'm totally a member there. (Didn't I tell you about it?)

In my Wilderlands campaign I still have them as proper Hobbits, after all you want somebody short and slender then its a gnome not a halfling.

 

[diaglo]

Dude, I'm totally a member there. (Didn't I tell you about it?)

it was in my profile on the WotC site for years as a joke. our friends Cog and shanks... rolled it into their site. i didn't even know it worked as a legit link until much later.


either you or Binky told me it worked. i can't remember.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

I won't use a drug reference directly here, but that pic of Lidda with the backfiring wand . . . it looks like she'd be the popular woman at a Phish show . . .

I know many people she'd be popular with...for both reasons.

 

[reanjr]

OK, now Tolkien even said that hobbits smoked tobacco. But everyone interprets the stuff as marijuana. I think it's a wonderful interpretation and use it with my Lidda-esque halflings often.

Lidda is by far the coolest halfling D&D has ever had.

 

[Astalanya]

My like or dislike for halflings and gnomes depends entirely on the campaign setting. They need a niche that isn't occupied by another race, frankly.

My most recent take on halflings is as a nomadic, gypsy-esque people with bits of culture adapted from the Native American tribes of the Great Plains. Sure, it's probably not the most original concept for them, but it greatly improved the playability of the race in the setting in use. The race's favoured class switched to bard, but that was really the only major tweak necessary.

Gnomes I don't particularly like personally because one too many people tried to adopt the raving tinker-gnome approach from Dragonlance. With all due respect to Dragonlance and its fans, it worked for the books and whatnot. It doesn't work for every other setting out there, and the mile-a-minute speech laden with techno-gizmo-terms drives me up a wall. :\ I'd much prefer another stereotype be taken on, if at all.

Gnomes deserve a place other than as the technophile mad-inventors of the world, just as halflings need to be more than placid hobbits or kleptomaniac kender. Some settings have done a fantastic job of incorporating these races in different means, and I think Races of Stone provided some promising ideas for gnomes, at the least.

 

[Mercule]

Lidda is by far the coolest halfling D&D has ever had.

That's because she's the first one that looks good in leather.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

That's because she's the first one that looks good in leather.

I just had a mental flash of Frodo and Sam in Dom/Sub gear and I blame you.