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<blockquote data-quote="Mind of tempest" data-source="post: 9291587" data-attributes="member: 7029233">well given we have at least three presently viable settings with halflings as well as endless homebrew I do not think they would be worried if we had a few more oddball settings where some bit are not included strategically, maybe also three settings.yeah that is hard for world-building they do not do anything, a world of nothing but halflings is strangely too sane and dull for a setting idea, the other old big names want to build things of size and importance and will happily do stuff for good or ill.a setting needs things happening and an endless cheery small village seems unworkable as a setting for dnd,(fantasy harvest moon or animal crossing they would be great for).the halfling has nothing to do with being uncool it is a semi-literal metaphor of the small folk of the world(those who are not normally noted in history) and the concept of merry England (a now very dead idea), they were designed to be unimportant on the large macro scale as a deliberate point and it is not something you can lift from Tolkien without a lot of setting baggage.so just Thrall from warcraft?we could just merge dwarf, gnome and halfling as subraces of something?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mind of tempest, post: 9291587, member: 7029233"] well given we have at least three presently viable settings with halflings as well as endless homebrew I do not think they would be worried if we had a few more oddball settings where some bit are not included strategically, maybe also three settings. yeah that is hard for world-building they do not do anything, a world of nothing but halflings is strangely too sane and dull for a setting idea, the other old big names want to build things of size and importance and will happily do stuff for good or ill. a setting needs things happening and an endless cheery small village seems unworkable as a setting for dnd,(fantasy harvest moon or animal crossing they would be great for). the halfling has nothing to do with being uncool it is a semi-literal metaphor of the small folk of the world(those who are not normally noted in history) and the concept of merry England (a now very dead idea), they were designed to be unimportant on the large macro scale as a deliberate point and it is not something you can lift from Tolkien without a lot of setting baggage. so just Thrall from warcraft? we could just merge dwarf, gnome and halfling as subraces of something? [/QUOTE]

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