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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9719432" data-attributes="member: 6790260">For my own homebrew stuff, if I ever ran a (slightly) more traditional D&D-type setting, I would merge gnomes and halflings into the hinnfolk, fey beings of the land. Lightfoot (forest gnome/lightfoot halfling), tree-guardians and forest-keepers; Stoutheart, plains-wandering and flock-tending; Cragstep (rock gnome + more settled halflings), earth-dwellers and tinkerers; and Ghostwise (that halfling type + svirfneblin), depth-delvers and mystics. Those that more overtly express the "fey" nature might be seen as "gnomes", while those that are outwardly more human-like might be called "halflings", but all of them are hinnfolk.This dovetails with my general effort to give each heritage or kin (my preferred terms, rather than "species") four variations; for hinnfolk, their nature is determined in part by where they are born, rather than only who they are born to; a clan of Lightfoot hinn that emigrate to the Underearth will tend to slowly become Ghostwise over several generations, for example. The only heritage I just could not produce four variations of was human; I could only come up with three. Standard humans, which would cover all Earth humans and essentially all other humans; dual-heritage/dual-blooded, where you get a blend of human and a second non-human heritage (e.g. half-elf, half-orc, etc.); and Starbound, which is for all humans Weirded™ by exposure to fantasy outer space (so slann/elan, lower-power Kryptonian-equivalents, non-immortal Gallifreyans, Betazoids/El-Aurians, etc.)</blockquote>

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