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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8697038" data-attributes="member: 6915329">But just like high level games, some people do play halflings. And a lot of people do play both high-level games and halflings. When I go on r/dndnext, I frequently see people talking about how they played a character from level 1 all the way to 20 in addition to all the people who make level 20 characters for 1-shots. And likewise, I see people talking about their halflings. Maybe not gigantically vast numbers, but a lot of people.But honestly, you can't have it both ways. You can't say that there's no support and nobody plays halflings if they're literally in every single setting and supplement. That in and off itself proves that they're used in the game. And they are: they're about as common as dwarfs.Shoulda been MToF: Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes.Well, so what? People can imagine that halflings look anything they want them to look like. It doesn't actually mean anything about the race. I mean, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=elf+art+-site:pinterest.*&amp;client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;sxsrf=ALiCzsYpSl9CyAgmgrPcyBGo53x9-KreSw:1658201420398&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjuyoPVgYT5AhX1r4QIHYoeCGIQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=586&amp;dpr=1.5" target="_blank">people drew, and continue to draw</a>, elves with very long, nearly-perpendicular anime-style ears instead of the smaller, more Vulcan-like ears that <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/avatars/thumbnails/7/639/420/618/636287075350739045.png" target="_blank">WotC commonly paints them with</a>. That doesn't mean that people are only playing head-cannon elves. D&amp;D isn't an unmoddable video game where you're stuck with the appearance they give you. You can make your character look like anything.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8697038, member: 6915329"] But just like high level games, some people do play halflings. And a lot of people [I]do [/I]play both high-level games and halflings. When I go on r/dndnext, I frequently see people talking about how they played a character from level 1 all the way to 20 in addition to all the people who make level 20 characters for 1-shots. And likewise, I see people talking about their halflings. Maybe not gigantically vast numbers, but a lot of people. But honestly, you can't have it both ways. You can't say that there's no support and nobody plays halflings if they're literally in every single setting and supplement. That in and off itself [I]proves [/I]that they're used in the game. And they are: they're about as common as dwarfs. Shoulda been MToF: Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. Well, so what? People can imagine that halflings look anything they want them to look like. It doesn't actually mean anything about the race. I mean, [URL='https://www.google.com/search?q=elf+art+-site:pinterest.*&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ALiCzsYpSl9CyAgmgrPcyBGo53x9-KreSw:1658201420398&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjuyoPVgYT5AhX1r4QIHYoeCGIQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1280&bih=586&dpr=1.5']people drew, and continue to draw[/URL], elves with very long, nearly-perpendicular anime-style ears instead of the smaller, more Vulcan-like ears that [URL='https://www.dndbeyond.com/avatars/thumbnails/7/639/420/618/636287075350739045.png']WotC commonly paints them with[/URL]. That doesn't mean that people are only playing head-cannon elves. D&D isn't an unmoddable video game where you're stuck with the appearance they give you. You can make your character look like anything. [/QUOTE]

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