How about a survey on the 3E halfling?

[HellHound]

Once again, the "it's tradition" call is being raised regarding the dislike of the 3e halfling.

The fact is, in the older books, halflings weren't all hobbit-esque. To me, calling for "traditional" halflings would call for the old halflings as mentioned earlier in this thread... the ones by Jeff Dee and Willingham were not very "hobit" like, and were much more in line with the 3e halfling than with the 1e / 2e halflings.

Tradition doesn't enter into it. Traditionally, halflings were a confused lot, different in style from module to sourcebook.

 

[Theuderic]

I was wondering something. What do the original halflings have to say about this?

 

[Ravellion]

It is really the shoes that throw me as well. I have nothing against the new stats and always figured that the adventuring halflings were slimmer than their more stay at home counter-parts (Tolkien says as much about Frodo). But to just throw shoes on them...

That would be like taking away the pointy ears of the elves or shaving all the beards off of the dwarves. There was no reason for it.

They did shave off the Dwarves their beards! Look at the line up! Look at the female Dwarf! An outrage I tell you, an outrage!

Rav

 

[Dinkeldog]

I would recommend just saying that in your campaign, hobbits don't wear shoes (has the bonus of keeping all of those boots of speed and boots of striding and springing away from those unbalanced halfling characters, too).

I would, that is, but I know what happens when you change flavor things like that. You know, just this weekend in my campaign-on-the-side, my monk's player was thinking that maybe she could be able to multiclass freely, and next thing we knew, someone broke down the doors and stormed into their dining room. There were guns out, people in riot gear, tear gas thrown into the bathroom upstairs (an improvement, trust me).

Next thing I know the monk's player is flat on the floor with two huge guys holding her down with no fewer than three M-16s pointed at her while another three or four guys kept the rest of us covered. Well, you can bet I calmed down that situation by reassuring the Rules Police that I would definitely not allow the monk to multiclass freely.

And that would have been the end of it if the monk's player's husband hadn't mumbled something about the Forgotten Realms. He had to take the teeth that got knocked out by a butt stroke to his dentist to get them put back into his head. I think the blood stains are out of her carpet now, though.

 

[Zappo]

I somehow missed the poll, but I'm 22 and like the 3e halflings. I've never had any player who wanted to play a halfling, back in 2e, while I've had a couple and even played one in 3e.

 

[novyet]

Kender rule! All my friends will tell you that I'm more kender than I'm human....Just ask them.
My favorite Kender was a ranger named Sprocket. He doesn't even remember his own name anymore because his friends the Tinker Gnomes keep having to revive him after he destroys one of their experiments.
Sort of like Dee Dee from Dexters Lab.

That's awesome! Glad to see there is some love for the kender afterall.

 

[Dark Helmet]

... it's that they're make believe. Fairies.

Oops, that's elves.



Halfling leather <--> elven chain! You can tell it's real halfling by the toes poking out, just like you can tell it's real elf by the ears!



True, not after they've been turned into leather.

Great. First you give us a town where everything is made out of chicken, now you give us one where everybody is wearing clothing made out of halfling.

I can sleep better now.

 

[Theuderic]

Dark Helmet that is sooo funny! LOL