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Message: <blockquote data-quote="broghammerj" data-source="post: 4006598" data-attributes="member: 1869">I struggle with this whole thread a bit and the new incarnation of 4E halflings and here's why:1.  People want halfings to look different than humans.  Well, the old hobbits were short, rotund, big heads, and hairy feet.....check!  Now it's the Tasselhoffs that look human and become the problem.2. Hobbit culture is not prone to adventuring....well no wonder in this POL setting where the wilderness is dangerous and holds evil things.  No ones culture should want to adventure because it's not safe, but then again hasn't DnD been about the forces of evil driving the ordinary man to action.3.  What was wrong with living in the hillside?  No one else lived there unless you count hill dwarfs.  But then again we are dumping all the subraces and I think most of us would think of dwarfs as mountain dwellers.4. The new swamp dweller motif.  Name a successful group of people that live in swamps.  The Cajuns don't count because they don't technically live on swamp land.  The culture grew up on the banks of the Mississippi and near the ocean.  Swamps carry disease, insects, have little in the way of agriculture, etc.  Very inhospitable.  Why would a short, mobile, non tree living race choose a swamp as their land.  Talk about drowning.4. IMHO, players view gnomes and halflings similarly.  By that I mean both are rarely played but the few players who like them seem to be big advocates.  The rest of us seem to play them once and a while for a change of pace and move on to something else.  It seems to me you could have flipped a coin and replaced halfling with the word gnome to have the new reinvisioning of the gnome.</blockquote>

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