So your dislike of halflings stems from the fact that your a crap/lazy DM...
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Right. Insults. Those are so convincing!
Try another thread. You are done in this one.
So your dislike of halflings stems from the fact that your a crap/lazy DM...
it is h=H but H/=h halflings should just get merged back in with humans and it would be fine.If your argument is A=A, the task should work in either direction. It doesn't.
...aaand now I'm lostit is h=H but H/=h halflings should just get merged back in with humans and it would be fine.
we may never know.I don't know why TSR and WotC don't fill in the blanks in the Forgotten Realms. Based on the 2e and 3.X publishing schedule I thought that filling in the blanks was the whole point of the Realms?
big H is human, little h is halfling....aaand now I'm lost
And it was shown that H=/=h.big H is human, little h is halfling.
big H is human, little h is halfling.
Saying that something could be done doesn't mean that it has been done. (I think @Hussar said the same thing upthread.)If all you need is a description of being "magical" and "otherworldly", they can be added in basically anywhere in the halfling description without changing the substance of the description one iota.
"Magical" and "otherworldly" are meaningless descriptors beyond lazy writer code for "you should be impressed."
That doesn't seem a very controversial assumption! (Assuming us means humans in all their variety.)The problem here is we assumePHB humans are the same as us
What I'm trying to say is that the PHB has a very specific description of humans, and if we are saying that the PHB description of a race has to emcompass all that that race is, then well, the description of human and halfling don't match well at all for the argument that halflings are just small humans to workThat doesn't seem a very controversial assumption! (Assuming us means humans in all their variety.)
Fair enough. I think it's to be expected, though, that players will bring their own conception of humanity to the conception of humans in the game; whereas for fictional beings they are more likely to be looking for authorial guidance.What I'm trying to say is that the PHB has a very specific description of humans, and if we are saying that the PHB description of a race has to emcompass all that that race is, then well, the description of human and halfling don't match well at all for the argument that halflings are just small humans to work
yeah the problem with that is simply humans are what we all know so they can only be defined as us otherwise they stop being the function they were made for.What I'm trying to say is that the PHB has a very specific description of humans, and if we are saying that the PHB description of a race has to emcompass all that that race is, then well, the description of human and halfling don't match well at all for the argument that halflings are just small humans to work
Yeah if halflings can't take the place of humans in their description on the PHB... PHB humans can't take the place of the halflings. The problem here is we assumePHB humans are the same as us, so if we see ourselves in halflings we see PHB humans
I don’t see a problem holding the PHB to its descriptions of races that don’t exist in real life, yet accepting that humans, which exist in real life, conform to my experience with humans.What I'm trying to say is that the PHB has a very specific description of humans, and if we are saying that the PHB description of a race has to emcompass all that that race is, then well, the description of human and halfling don't match well at all for the argument that halflings are just small humans to work
I've played dozens of halflings. The idea that there's no story to them is disproven by the millions of stories told with them
What you are missing is that different people play for different reasons. No race is going to work for everyone.
The races you like don't do much for me. Which is fine. There are plenty of options for everyone.
There are no elven farmboys. That would require an elf to:
A. Work
B. Get dirty
And do that for decades..at a minimum..
No F-ing way.
Heh, for me, Elves.Dont.Farm.
The High Elves live in homes among the branches of magically cultivated trees, and eat from tree products like leaves, bark, fruits, and berries.
The Wild Elf are nomads who hunt and gather.
The Uda Drow eat mushrooms but have slaves do the farming for it.
The Alfar are sunlight. Sunlight doesnt eat. When Alfar manifest in a humanlike form, they tend to hunt and gather, and can prepare marvelous meals from this.