D&D General My Problem(s) With Halflings, and How To Create Engaging/Interesting Fantasy Races

[FrozenNorth]

I feel the halflings are way less tied to Britishness than dwarves are to being Nordic (with Scottish accents.)

When I hear Nordic, I think Scandinavia, not Edimburgh.

 

[Yora]

Now I feel almost motivated to create a big multicultural halfling society with a long history.

 

[Cadence]

Now I feel almost motivated to create a big multicultural halfling society with a long history.

If it was elves or dwarves you already would have. (Halflings ability to be unregarded is so strong it leaks into the real world!!)

 

[Yora]

Nah, I just don't really care for Fantasyland settings.
I think dwarves are even duller than halflings. There's much more material, but it's all just more detail on a boring concept.

 

[Minigiant]

But that's what was done with the elves, dwarves and orcs too...

Also, woolies sound cool.

The argument is that Halfling lack the racial items, interracial relationships, various cultures, pantheon relationship, civilization history, pantheon lore, famous character, and the rest humans, dwarves, and elves have.

Some want them add. Some don't.

 

[carkl3000]

It is pretty weird that undead can still be frightened since Turn Undead seems to go out of its way to frighten without frightening.

It seems like it's designed with the opposite intent. More than half of undead creatures are immune to the frightened condition, but they are still susceptible to being turned.

 

[Oofta]

When it comes to turning undead, where does it say the affected creatures are under any sort of fear effect? It just says they're compelled to leave if they don't save. Fear isn't part of the description.

 

[Neonchameleon]

If the Tiefling and Dragonborn would be more popular than the Elf (including Half Elf), that would be painful to me.

It depends what you mean by elves. Tieflings and Dragonborn are both more popular than dwarves. Elves on the other hand remain more popular but only when you include both high elves and wood elves together and tieflings and dragonborn are more popular than either individually.

 

[Cadence]

It depends what you mean by elves. Tieflings and Dragonborn are both more popular than dwarves. Elves on the other hand remain more popular but only when you include both high elves and wood elves together and tieflings and dragonborn are more popular than either individually.

For Dragonborn, is that counting all of the different colors together? and for Tieflings all of the different origins used?

 

[Crimson Longinus]

When I hear Nordic, I think Scandinavia, not Edimburgh.

Yes, me too, because that's what it means (well not exactly, but close enough.) The Scottish accent was noted as an exception to the Nordicness, and it is a trope because English speakers don't think that Scandinavian accents sound cool.

Point being that dwarves are super thematically and visually tied to Nordicness (and to lesser decree to Northern Europe) and will feel super out of place in non-European style setting. You can of course remove the Nordic and European elements, but they become pretty unrecognisable then.

I feel it would be easier to remove Britishness from halflings without making them completely unrecognisable.