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

[Mind of tempest]

Halflings are the corgi of PHB races... WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL CORGIS?

spite, hatred of my government thus hurting the head of states pets would work, also they are cattle driver dogs which means a lot more than the mini labrador that is the halfling.

Tolkien obviously loved his Hobbits, and apparently self-identified with them as British folk.

But making the British "people" endearing and innocent, while the other peoples of Humanity are somewhat more Evil, to various degrees, is still kinda racist.

ah I could say it better but my naked hatred of my own kin is unpleasant, also he more exactly meant the people of Warwickshire which I know well.

The idealized, pastoral Brits, not the ones who are responsible for more “Independence Day” celebrations around the world than any other country.

the pastoral one only came about because of the other more monstrous type, before the empire we were just the mutt of Europe with a side order of commonly conquered.

 

[Minigiant]

I don't want halflings to be a subrace of Humans.

I want halflingss to look like a race designed for D&D with lore that caters to D&D's themes and not LOTR's themes.

So in my worlds, halflings explicitly trade food for goods and services of the bigger races. They are the middlemen race. And because they aren't greedy, the exchange rates are shockingly low.

 

[Yaarel]

As for elves and agriculture... wild farming is a thing. Elves would totally engage in that. Humans and others might not even realize they're in an elven farm.

I wasnt familiar with the term, but yes, that is it. Elves do wild-farming, albeit magically.

 

[bedir than]

an you please define what is so likeable about halflings with bullet points please so we at least know what they are liked for?

no. because the last time I did this you ignored my words and claimed that it was impossible for me to have created the characters I've played.

 

[Mind of tempest]

no. because the last time I did this you ignored my words and claimed that it was impossible for me to have created the characters I've played.

I was not speaking to you I believe.

 

[Faolyn]

can you please define what is so likeable about halflings with bullet points please so we at least know what they are liked for?

You realize that (a) that's all been gone over multiple times in the past 180+ pages; (b) what people like is very subjective; and (c) what people like has nothing to do with their mechanics, which are quite different than that of humans.

 

[Mind of tempest]

You realize that (a) that's all been gone over multiple times in the past 180+ pages; (b) what people like is very subjective; and (c) what people like has nothing to do with their mechanics, which are quite different than that of humans.

mechanics is not the problem the things that get you to care however are.

 

[bedir than]

I was not speaking to you I believe.

Comments 6,8,9,19,53,56

 

[Mind of tempest]

Comments 6,8,9,19,53,56

on this variation of the question.

 

[Yaarel]

@Faolyn

In British folkbelief, when humans saw a place that was unusually fertile, naturally producing much greenery, trees, flowers, fruits, and vegetables, that in itself was evidence that Elves lived there.

The modern concept of wildfarming parallels that folkbelief well.