D&D 5E Love the Halfling art

[fireinthedust]

(snip)...but I really dislike the new gnomes.

YESSSssssss!!!

I thought we'd moved past gnomes as little old men/half-dwarves? Why bother, when you can just have dwarven wizards now?

And we had the 4e Gnome's "I have a lair!" cartoon. And they were cute!

Oh well. If I have to invent a race of "Sprites" or whatever, I will.

 

[steeldragons]

YESSSssssss!!!

I thought we'd moved past gnomes as little old men/half-dwarves? Why bother, when you can just have dwarven wizards now?

And we had the 4e Gnome's "I have a lair!" cartoon. And they were cute!

Oh well. If I have to invent a race of "Sprites" or whatever, I will.

No need to "invent" anything. Aren't "Forest Gnomes" a sub-race? Make those 4e-style gnomes your forest gnomes...or, hell, it's your world, make them what all gnomes [except svirfs, I imagine] are like.

{EDIT: That should be 'subrace' not subclass...silly 'Dragon. Fixed now. That's what I get for posting before my first coffee. /EDIT]

 

[Mark CMG]

Hildebrandt Brothers "Halflngs" are still what I think of most readily.

 

[steeldragons]

Hildebrandt Brothers "Halflngs" are still what I think of most readily.

Yup. Also good. I tend to go more "bushy/totally covering hair" on the tops of the feet than this, like the Rankin/Bass depictions. But either way, note how their feet and legs actually have a shape and size that look capable of supporting their frames...I'll just leave the "no shoes" thing alone as an obvious given, which is also ignored/avoided by the current atrocious design.

 

[Sacrosanct]

+1 on the Hildabrant versions. Then again, I admit my bias, and some of the first books I read in this genre that got me hooked were the Shannara books with Hildabrant art. So I have nostalgia there.

 

[DMZ2112]

Sorry to stir this up, but I love, love, LOVE the halfling art for 5e.

Well, everyone's opinion is their opinion, I guess. But you can't be my friend anymore.

I know the proportions are getting to some people, but they're a) close to standard proportions for hobbits in art before LOTR movies, and b) the 5e is an attempt to go "old school" as they move forward.

There's nothing old school or in any way proportional about the new halfling.

I'm not a huge fan of the reversion of gnomes to bearded old guys, especially after 4e gave the pixy-gnome such support, which imho influenced the PHB2 *and* Pathfinder to make the gnome as awesome as they could.

Where are the bearded old male gnomes? There are three gnomes I know of in the PHB and all three are women and appear relatively youthful (and fae, for that matter).

for the standard halfing I appreciate the movement towards Tolkien.

Towards, past, and deep into the void beyond reckoning, where the unspeakable dwells.

The halfling design is terrible and we should all feel terrible about it.

Well and succinctly stated.

 

[MarkB]

http://www.conceptopolis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/FR_characters_zoom2.jpg

Best example of the art (naturally it's been posted online... ah, the internet).

Hmm, the body proportions I can stand, but wow, that halfling lady's face looks like she's seriously OD'd on Botox.

 

[Rune]

I like the art too. BUT....the female halfling strumming a lyre or whatever is an odd looking picture.

It's her waist. It's way too long. It makes her look like the top half of a human attached to a halfling's legs. I like the other halflings, though.

 

[GX.Sigma]

What is this "little bearded guy" gnome that people are talking about? Unless I'm missing something, there's only one picture of a gnome in the whole book, and it doesn't have a beard. It does look disturbing as all hell, but that's another matter.

 

[parcival42]

I feel very strongly about the halfling art: I HATE it. I want to rip those pages out of my PH just so I don't have to see that appalling art. The proportions are so bad that they don't even look possible; they're creepy. I don't mind that they wanted to change the paradigm of how halflings look, but I just don't understand the choice they made.

My favorite halfling pic is from the original red box. And also the animation from the Rankin and Bass Hobbit movie.