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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8697050" data-attributes="member: 22779">And, hey, I frequently see lots of posts on Reddit about playing all sorts of other races.&nbsp; Guess what, confirmation bias works both ways.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; But, again, you're not quite reading what I'm writing.&nbsp; I never said that there was no support.&nbsp; Nor did I say that no one plays halflings.&nbsp; both statements are easily disproven.&nbsp; What I DID say was that so few people play halflings that they could be removed and it would make virtually no difference to the broader hobby because the broader hobby doesn't play halflings.&nbsp; But, because halflings are in the Core and especially in the SRD, every single supplement has to include a bone or two for halfling players because those are supposed to be one of the most commonly played races -that's why they are the Core 4 SRD races.&nbsp; But they aren't. Which is why I'm saying that it's time (and frankly long past time) that the PHB actually reflects what is being played.&nbsp; Which means opening up the PHB to some new ideas and see if they might gain a bit more traction with players in the same way that Tieflings and Dragonborn have.&nbsp; Which might mean that a couple of iterations down the line, the PHB line up of player races might be entirely different than it is now, or it might be very similar to what it is now, or it might be somewhere in between.But, staying the course just makes the PHB less and less relevant as time goes on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 8697050, member: 22779"] And, hey, I frequently see lots of posts on Reddit about playing all sorts of other races. Guess what, confirmation bias works both ways. :D But, again, you're not quite reading what I'm writing. I never said that there was no support. Nor did I say that no one plays halflings. both statements are easily disproven. What I DID say was that so few people play halflings that they could be removed and it would make virtually no difference to the broader hobby because the broader hobby doesn't play halflings. But, because halflings are in the Core and especially in the SRD, every single supplement has to include a bone or two for halfling players because those are supposed to be one of the most commonly played races -that's why they are the Core 4 SRD races. But they aren't. Which is why I'm saying that it's time (and frankly long past time) that the PHB actually reflects what is being played. Which means opening up the PHB to some new ideas and see if they might gain a bit more traction with players in the same way that Tieflings and Dragonborn have. Which might mean that a couple of iterations down the line, the PHB line up of player races might be entirely different than it is now, or it might be very similar to what it is now, or it might be somewhere in between. But, staying the course just makes the PHB less and less relevant as time goes on. [/QUOTE]

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