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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8690137" data-attributes="member: 6779196">The PHB halfling art was a result of wanting to update halfling visual design so that they could be clearly distinguished from humans without another creature or object in the picture for scale reference. During the open playtest, there were a number of creatures that got design updates, where they showed off several concept arts and held polls to help decide which would be the new look going forward, and halflings were among those creatures. The winning halfling concepts had distorted proportions to help communicate their size, and they looked pretty good in the style of the artist who drew them, but I don’t think the new proportions translated well to other artists’ styles. It was also a controversial decision even at the time - the winning design was by a narrow margin and a lot of folks who didn’t vote for it disliked it very strongly.Here are some examples of the concepts. You can see how the PHB halfling art is using the same proportions, but it just doesn’t work as well there.[spoiler][ATTACH=full]253456[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]253457[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]253458[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]253469[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]253468[/ATTACH][/spoiler]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8690137, member: 6779196"] The PHB halfling art was a result of wanting to update halfling visual design so that they could be clearly distinguished from humans without another creature or object in the picture for scale reference. During the open playtest, there were a number of creatures that got design updates, where they showed off several concept arts and held polls to help decide which would be the new look going forward, and halflings were among those creatures. The winning halfling concepts had distorted proportions to help communicate their size, and they looked pretty good [I]in the style of the artist who drew them[/I], but I don’t think the new proportions translated well to other artists’ styles. It was also a controversial decision even at the time - the winning design was by a narrow margin and a lot of folks who didn’t vote for it disliked it very strongly. Here are some examples of the concepts. You can see how the PHB halfling art is using the same proportions, but it just doesn’t work as well there. [spoiler] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1657651419527.jpeg"]253456[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1657651439221.jpeg"]253457[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1657651468871.jpeg"]253458[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]253469[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]253468[/ATTACH] [/spoiler] [/QUOTE]

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